List of Alternate Presidents and PMs II

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1964 George Brown/Jeremy Thorpe
Brown won the Labour leadership election in 1963. Thorpe unexpectedly became Liberal leader in March 1964 The '64 election was a pitched battle between Brown and Douglas-Home. It resulted in a hung parliament with Labour as the largest party with 313 seats to the Tories 311. The Liberals under Thorpe had won 10 seats. Coalition talks between the Tories and Liberals collapsed due to the issue of PR
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Brown personally didn't like Thorpe (his Christian beliefs clashing with Thorpe's homosexuality) but the thought of not being PM overrode his beliefs The Labour/Liberal government had an 8 seat majority.

Brown called a snap election in '67 and won a 4 seat overall majority

Thorpe was leading a secret homosexual life, at a time when all such activity was illegal in the United Kingdom, and subject to heavy penalties; exposure would have ended his political prospects instantly.

If it was publicly known, which it wasn't until after 1971, I doubt Brown would have be supported by his MPs to form a coalition with him.
 
Another Carter wins 1980 Scenario:

39. Jimmy Carter / Walter Mondale (Democratic): 1977-1985
Def. 1976: Gerald Ford / Bob Dole (Republican)
Def. 1980: Ronald Reagan / George Bush (Republican), John Anderson / Patrick Lucy (Independent)

40. Howard Baker / Paul Laxalt (Republican): 1985-1993
Def. 1984: Walter Mondale / Diane Feinstein (Democratic)
Def. 1988: Gary Hart / Sam Nunn (Democratic)

41. Mario Cuomo / Bob Graham (Democratic): 1993-2001
Def. 1992: Paul Laxalt / Carroll Campbell (Republican)
Def. 1996: Bob Dole / Richard Lugar (Republican)

42. Donald Trump / Pat Buchanan (Independent): 2001-2005
Def. 2000: Bob Graham / Paul Wellstone (Democratic), Newt Gingrich / Dan Quayle (Republican)
43. George Allen / Tommy Thompson (Republican): 2005-2009
Def. 2004: Bill Clinton / Joe Lieberman (Democratic), Donald Trump / Pat Buchanan (Independent)
44. Joe Biden / Bill Richardson (Democratic): 2009-2017
Def. 2008: George Allen / Tommy Thompson (Republican), Donald Trump / Jesse Ventura (Independent)
Def. 2012: Mitch Daniels / John Cornyn (Republican)

45. Marco Rubio / Chris Christie* (Republican): 2017-2018
Def. 2016: Bill Richardson / Jay Inslee (Democratic)
45. Marco Rubio / Vacant (Republican): 2018
45. Marco Rubio / Paul Ryan (Republican): 2019-2025
Def. 2020: Al Franken / Cory Booker (Democratic)
46. Kirsten Gillibrand / Gavin Newsome (Democratic): 2025- Incumbent
Def. 2024: Paul Ryan / Tom Cotton (Republican)

*= Resigned due to Scandal
 

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Has anyone ever done a list where each president is replaced by another politician or figure who looks a lot like them? Because I have a rough concept born of the two fellows below but am not sure where to look for the rest. If I can find doppelgangers for all of them (some will be harder than others) I'd want to write up an account of how this world could happen and what it would look like.

26. 1901 - 1909: James W. C. "Webb" Hayes (Rep-OH)
27. 1909 - 1913: David J. Hill (Rep-PA)
 
A quick little Watergate avoided thing

37. 1969-1977: Richard Nixon (Republican)
38. 1977-1981: John Connally (Republican)
39. 1981-1989: Hugh Carey (Democratic)
40. 1989-1997: Reubin Askew (Democratic)
41. 1997-2005: Arlen Specter (Republican)
42. 2005-2013: John Kerry (Democratic)
43. 2013-incumbent: Christine Todd Whitman (Republican)
 
I read the Stand while I was in Kenya, alright?

Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
1990-1997: John Major (Conservative)

1992 (Majority) def. Neil Kinnock (Labour), Paddy Ashdown (Liberal Democrats), David Trimble (UUP)
1997-2001: Tony Blair (Labour)
1997 (Majority) def. John Major (Conservative), Paddy Ashdown (Liberal Democrats), David Trimble (UUP)
2001: Margaret Beckett (Labour)
2001: Jack Straw (Labour)
2001: Geoff Hoon (Labour leading National Government)

Presidents of the Scottish Independent Republic
2001-: Jim Sillars (New Scotland)

Chief Secretaries of the United Republic of the New Society
2001-: Royston Flude (One People)

Prime Ministers of the Reconstructed United Kingdom of Great Britain (Liverpool Zone)
2001-: Mike Watson (Unity)

2002 (Coalition with New Democracy and Trust) def. Edwina Currie (New Democracy), Susan Penhaligon (Trust)

The origins are unknown, some have rumoured it to be a secret project by the army while others took to blaming the EU, but for some reason or another, a violent mutated strain of the Foot-and-Mouth disease caught the British government off guard in early 2001. Blair, already somewhat stressed at having to deal with the culling of sheep and cattle, was livid at the news that thousands of people living in rural areas across the country were infected. And some of those people, unbeknownst to Blair, had been in London, infecting who knows how many there. Quickly, flights were cancelled, roads monitored, but it was to no avail. The government introduced emergency measures such as "detention" for journalists who published on the failure to control the disease and mass deposal of bodies once people began dying. Authority quickly diminished as local councils attempted to take control of the situation, with predictably limited success. Blair himself was infected while flying out to Cumbria and the torch had to be passed to Beckett, who surpassed Canning as the shortest serving prime minister when she dropped dead two days later. Jack Straw wouldn't fare much better, and the barely known Geoff Hoon cobbled together a National Government as the Royals hunkered down in Canada, having already lost Andrew. Hoon was trying to patch things together when he made the unfortunate decision to shake hands with a flustered looking ex-farmer. Anarchy quickly overtook Great Britain, and for one man, this was news most great. Royston Flude, a simple businessman, quickly became known as the Walkin' Bloke and struck a menacing figure in his tweed overcoat and pipe. Operating out of the ruins of Manchester, he cobbled together a surprisingly workable new society, with him as the figurehead. Some figured him for the Antichrist, but he sure got the bins collected. Meanwhile, survivors of the virus who weren't on Flude's side set up camp in Liverpool, hoping to gather enough resources to put him to pasture as reports of old-style Hung, Drawn, and Quarterings going on reached Merseyside. Futhermore, up north, the remnants of the SNP pulled for a UDI and as the government essentially collapsed, were met with little opposition. There appears to be some trouble with oil and removal of bodies, but things are going somewhat swimmingly in comparison with England. Flude's ambitions are growing, and it appears his desire for a spar with the forces of the Liverpool Zone will come to fruition...
 
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Here’s something I just came up with for fun.
You Can’t Keep A Good Man Down (or, The Comeback King)
Robert Taft/Harold Stassen 1949-1953 (dies in office)
Harold Stassen/vacant 1953-1957

Adlai Stevenson/Estes Kefauver 1957-1965
Hubert Humphrey/Al Gore, Sr. 1965-1969

Richard Nixon/Harold Stassen 1969-1971 (resigned)
Harold Stassen/vacant 1971-1973

Birch Bayh/Jimmy Carter 1973-1977
Jack Kemp/Harold Stassen 1977-1979 (assassinated)
Harold Stassen/vacant 1979-1981
Harold Stassen/Bob Dole 1981-1985

Lloyd Bentsen/Gary Hart 1985-1993
Jerry Brown/Paul Tsongas 1993-1997

Colin Powell/Newt Gingrich 1997(killed in terrorist attack)
Harold Stassen/vacant 1997-1998
Harold Stassen/Jeb Bush 1998-2001
Jeb Bush/Lincoln Chafee 2001-2005

Dick Gephardt/Edward Kennedy 2005-2009
Bill Weld/Buddy Roemer 2009-2013
Dick Gephardt/Harold Ford, Jr. 2013-2017
Kay Bailey Hutchison/Scott Brown 2017-
 
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I… I think we should be concerned about the number of times Stassen is ascending to the office…

he was only elected twice, the other times were due to him ascending the presidency, all 6 terms (complete and uncomplete) in office are completely constitutional (I think, hope and believe)
 
Harold and Kumar Go to Washington

2001–2009: George W. Bush/Dick Cheney (Republican)
2000 def. Al Gore/Joe Lieberman (Democratic)
2004 def. John Kerry/John Edwards (Democratic)

2009–2013: Arnold Schwarzenegger/Elizabeth Dole (Republican)
2008 def. Bill Richardson/Evan Bayh (Democratic)
2013–present: Kal Penn/John Cho (Democratic)
2012 def. Arnold Schwarzenegger/Elizabeth Dole (Republican)
2016 def. Scott Walker/Peter King (Republican)


The big POD here is that the Equal Opportunity to Govern Amendment is passed, therefore allowing Arnie to run for the Presidency in 2008 and paving the way for Kal Penn and John Cho (a native of South Korea) to run for the Presidency, legalize weed, and make White Castle the national food.
 
he was only elected twice, the other times were due to him ascending the presidency, all 6 terms (complete and uncomplete) in office are completely constitutional (I think, hope and believe)
I was thinking more in the conspiratorial sense of "is Stassen murdering all these people?"
 
Jar Jar Binks - 2017-2025

>military veteran
>member of an ethnic minority that has faced historical discrimination
>endearing to children


Huh. Maybe Jar-Jar actually is an appealing presidential ca-

>one of the most incompetent military commanders ever
>previously exiled from his home for being a clumsy dipshit
>can be tricked into bringing about the end of democracy by anyone with a room-temperature IQ


Okay, never mind.

Let's be honest, this would have been better than either Trump or Hillary.

You're going to be eating those words when Trump addresses the "cembers of Mongress" at his next State of the Union.
 
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