I’m planning to have EMK run in 1976 for President. The Chappaquiddick Incident can be easily butterflied away. I assume that Kennedy beats Carter in the primaries and defeats Ford in the elections. So now we have a President Edward Kennedy who is inaugerated in 1977. Who would be his VP? I assume a more conservative Democrat in order to balance the ticket a bit, I’m thinking of Henry “Scoop” Jackson or even Jimmy Carter.
So how would a Kennedy Administration tackle the problems of the late 1970s? I assume that Kennedy would be defeated by Ronald Reagan but it would be a election of epic proportions, the conservative Reagan versus the liberal Kennedy.