Why are we on the internet?p)
Because some one over at MIT got the memo about Ike's super-highway system, but thought it said information super-highway.Why are we on the internet?p)
Why are we on the internet?p)
Why are we on the internet?p)
More seriously, where is Vice-President Gerald Ford? Is he safe?
More seriously, where is Vice-President Gerald Ford? Is he safe?
I suspect Rep. Ford's perfectly safe, but Vice President? Did the bastards get Vice President Lodge as well?
(OOC: judging by the date scifiguy specified, the POD is Nixon beating Kennedy, in which case Henry Cabot Lodge would have been VP.)
If Nixon dies then we are screwed. Ford has been Vice President for less than a year! I'm really wishing Henry Cabot Lodge hadn't resigned in March. I didn't really like him much, but at least he knew what he was doing. I still don't understand why Ford got appointed VP to begin with.
OOC: I'm guessing you just didn't bother to look up who Nixon's running mate was in 1960.
EDIT: Never mind, dilbert719 already covered it.
I have two new additions to my ignore list. I guess neither of you realize that the only thing we know is that the POD is earlier than November 1960, or that Ford was on Nixon's short list, or understand how not to contradict things that have already been stated in a DBWI that aren't ASB.
I thought it was fairly obvious that the POD was the 1960 Election, but you don't have to get all pissy about it.
If being "pissy" means placing on ignore for a little while those who ignore basic rules of DBWI and sendin the direction of people who know more about a situation than they do, then so be it.
Lodge was widely considered to be an awful VP pick. Since Nixon wins the 1960 election, you obviously have to have some sort of POD that allows him to win; you can't magically transfer votes.
Gerald Ford was, along with Lodge, Cooper, and a few others, on Nixon's "short list" for the Vice Presidency. Nixon also needed around 50 electoral votes to win. Kennedy carried Michigan and other Midwestern states by a few percentage points; it's not too much of a stretch to assume that a Nixon-Ford ticket could have resulted in a Nixon win.
I think it's fairly easy to move around votes, as the three closest states were a little over .45 percent for Kennedy. Make Nixon do something as small as a simple speech, and it could be enough to win him a few states with that close of a race.
Illinois was only .18 percent over Nixon, for Kennedy. Missouri was about .40, and New Jersey was only around .80 percent for Kennedy. Giving the 1960 Election to Richard Nixon would be like giving Gore the 2000 election. Easy.
I have two new additions to my ignore list. I guess neither of you realize that the only thing we know is that the POD is earlier than November 1960, or that Ford was on Nixon's short list, or understand how not to contradict things that have already been stated in a DBWI that aren't ASB.
And one of the "minor" ways to do that would be by having Gerald Ford picked VP.![]()