DBWI: Reagan loses the 1976 election?

1976 was a poisoned chalice, it was one of those years that who ever won it, who ever gained it would be obliterated as a party.

The republicans could have bounced back from watergate, they could have bounced back from Iran, from the oil crisis, from the recession and even stagflation but not all of them at once. It took decades for them to come back from that, if they had lost that year they would have at the minimum owned the 80s.
Hmmm...Wonder if they could have brought down the Soviet Union, like the Democrats did...
 
Oh yeah! Another major impact of Reagan losing: No 1/11 attacks. The Right-Wing Militia groups that committed 1/11, when giving testimony following their arrest, stated they did it because they felt "Real America" was being left behind in the era of Kennedy. Quite a few of them also voiced that idea that, with growing irreverence towards religion, America was becoming a "New Sodom". In a world where Carter won 1976? I imagine they'll be doing just fine.
 
Ted Kennedy never considered Bill Clinton who was only 34 in 1980 (born August 19, 1946). Nevertheless, I was surprised that he picked a Northeastern Catholic. I thought he would balance the ticket with a Southerner such as Bentsen, Bumpers, Nunn or Askew.
 
Ted Kennedy never considered Bill Clinton who was only 34 in 1980 (born August 19, 1946). Nevertheless, I was surprised that he picked a Northeastern Catholic. I thought he would balance the ticket with a Southerner such as Bentsen, Bumpers, Nunn or Askew.
Yeah, I was surprised too.
 
Ted Kennedy never considered Bill Clinton who was only 34 in 1980 (born August 19, 1946). Nevertheless, I was surprised that he picked a Northeastern Catholic. I thought he would balance the ticket with a Southerner such as Bentsen, Bumpers, Nunn or Askew.

It was because the Republicans had no chance in '80 and everyone knew it. With Watergate, the assassination of Ford, and then Reagan's consistently bad term, the Democrats could have nominated whoever they wanted to. Of course, Carey then did choose the southern Lawton Chiles to be his own VP. Of course, we almost had President Chiles after Carey's divorce scandal almost took him out.
 
It was because the Republicans had no chance in '80 and everyone knew it. With Watergate, the assassination of Ford, and then Reagan's consistently bad term, the Democrats could have nominated whoever they wanted to. Of course, Carey then did choose the southern Lawton Chiles to be his own VP. Of course, we almost had President Chiles after Carey's divorce scandal almost took him out.
Oh the '80s. Back when getting a divorce was a scandal.
 
Oh the '80s. Back when getting a divorce was a scandal.

The fact that the woman he was married to had already pissed off about every group possible and caused him a scandal as VP when they married, I think the fact that his divorce almost cost him the Presidency only 6 years later isn't that far-fetched.
 
The fact that the woman he was married to had already pissed off about every group possible and caused him a scandal as VP when they married, I think the fact that his divorce almost cost him the Presidency only 6 years later isn't that far-fetched.
True, true. As it turns out, nothing helps your approval rating like taking the Soviet Union. Not to mention Secretary Carter's deft handling of the Hong Kong crisis, which was followed up by the next administration's amazing handling of the Tiananmen Revolution, and the collapse of one of the last Communist nations on Earth. To this day, the "Big Three" of the US, EU, and China maintain order in the world. At least, even since the EU established a common currency back in 2007. Of course, as the Republicans will never let us forget, it was still they who unified the Koreas.
 
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