Destiny Fulfilled: The Presidency of Hillary Rodham Clinton

PVM: George W. Bush was less than five years away from being a private citizen when he declared his candidacy in 1999. Besides, she's a NY Dynasticrat. They don't go for the full-term thing. ;)
Being First Lady is different than being a private citizen. After serving a full term in the Senate, she looks less like she was using her marriage as a path to power.
 
His cousin Teddy was a Republican and didn't support FDR's politics.

That's weird. Last time I checked, F.D.R. and T.R. were pretty close in terms of policy matters, if F.D.R. was simply a bit more liberal than his cousin. Just because T.R. was a Republican doesn't mean that he was that starkly different from F.D.R., who was a Democrat. In that day and age, both parties had conservative and progressive wings, the latter of which both F.D.R. and T.R. represented in their respective parties.

Also, very much subscribed, Historico. I love the comparisons. Really hoping to see Dick Gephardt do a bit better than IOTL. :D
 
hey guys...Yeah I don't know If I mentioned if but this TL as well as my Nixon is offically onhold due to Writer's Block and Personal Renewed intrest to try to finish my OTB Timeline.
 
OK, Historico has asked me to take over this project. I'll be doing so as soon as I finish Duty, Honor, Country- so in about 10 days or so. It is my duty as the Dynastocracy's Court Chronicler.
 
My first post, and on a subject that I know a fair bit about from real life. It would not have been possible to declare for the presidency that late for the 2004 cycle because of (a) delegate slating and candidate filing requirements and (b) the fact that the Iowa caucuses were on January 15 and require more organizational work than just showing up.

As an example, the filing deadline for the New Hamshire primary was November 21 and there were a number of other filing deadlines for petitions that fell in early January and required a great deal of effort due to complex election laws (OH, NY and IL are examples).

Moreover, by December, Dean had locked up some big name endorsements (i.e. Gore).

It's a great idea and thoruoghly plausible, but the start date needs to be pushed back to reflect the realities of setting up a presidential campaign. If you need help with the actual filing deadlines, send me a PM and I can provide them to you, as I worked the 2004 cycle and have all of the data at hand.
 
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