DBWI: Obama Victory?

Obviously, with the McCain/Lieberman election victory, threads like this are going to be quite common, so sorry if sombody's already come up with one.

With a POD after Biden and Lieberman had been chosen, is it possible to see a (plausible) Obama victory?
 
Obama never stood a chance.

Israel saw that the McCain had an advantage, but they weren't sure of the McCain administration would tolerate them interfering in the Middle East. The September air strike against Irani facilities and the bombing of Syrian terrorist camps were the first shots fired in what is today known as the Middle Eastern War.
Iran replied with biologic weapons, killing 3,000 people in Tel Aviv. After this, the IDF released one 30kT weapon in Teheran. With US forces dragged in the conflict after being attacked by a barrage of short range ballistic missiles and the Israeli tanks rolling towards Damascus in mid October, the Middle East was engulfed in a growing conflict.

This pretty much terminated Obama's chances to get elected. The American people voted for the one guy that had a military backgroung. Change was there allright, one after one nuclear mushrooms rose over Iran.
 
Of course there is some evidence that Syria and Iran provoked the crisis, thinking that Obama was going to win and would not be as inclined to oppose them as GW Bush.
 
Obama never stood a chance.

Israel saw that the McCain had an advantage, but they weren't sure of the McCain administration would tolerate them interfering in the Middle East. The September air strike against Irani facilities and the bombing of Syrian terrorist camps were the first shots fired in what is today known as the Middle Eastern War.
Iran replied with biologic weapons, killing 3,000 people in Tel Aviv. After this, the IDF released one 30kT weapon in Teheran. With US forces dragged in the conflict after being attacked by a barrage of short range ballistic missiles and the Israeli tanks rolling towards Damascus in mid October, the Middle East was engulfed in a growing conflict.

This pretty much terminated Obama's chances to get elected. The American people voted for the one guy that had a military backgroung. Change was there allright, one after one nuclear mushrooms rose over Iran.
OOC: These "Well, as you remember Bob, things went this way..." posts really ruin DBWI's. Great job! ;)
 
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I don't see how it ever was inevitable--just the totally bizarre October surprise needs to play out differently.

Think about what would have happened if the Subprime mortgages had caused a general crisis instead of being adjusted into "High Risk" loans in 2003? Could it have made economics a critical issue?

Indeed, Dark October was the wrong kind of Surprise for Obama to win it...

You need to cause the world to be at least neutral and the economic weakness of 2007 intensify instead of lightening up. None of this is ASB, heck, you could make FDR get crushed by Herbert Hoover in 1932 with the right background adjustments.
 
Obama never stood a chance.

Israel saw that the McCain had an advantage, but they weren't sure of the McCain administration would tolerate them interfering in the Middle East. The September air strike against Irani facilities and the bombing of Syrian terrorist camps were the first shots fired in what is today known as the Middle Eastern War.
Iran replied with biologic weapons, killing 3,000 people in Tel Aviv. After this, the IDF released one 30kT weapon in Teheran. With US forces dragged in the conflict after being attacked by a barrage of short range ballistic missiles and the Israeli tanks rolling towards Damascus in mid October, the Middle East was engulfed in a growing conflict.

This pretty much terminated Obama's chances to get elected. The American people voted for the one guy that had a military backgroung. Change was there allright, one after one nuclear mushrooms rose over Iran.

OOC: Why is every freakin DBWI twisted like this?
 
@ Markus: OOC means Out Of Character. As a DBWI (as I undestand it, I am also new to this) is kind of a roleplaying game, where the posters assume the roles of people living in an alternate timeline doing a What If, where the content of said WI resembles OTL. If someone posts something OOC he post that as himself, while if he posts something In Character (IC) then he plays his assumed role.

Hope that helps. I can explain that better in German. :eek:

Kind regards,
G.
 
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