Just a thought, maybe the timeline could stretch back to 2008. Have Mitt Romney win the Republican Party presidential nomination (the most common POD for this is Romney winning the New Hampshire Republican primary). Romney loses by a crushing defeat in November and both him and John McCain do not return in 2012. Per TTL, Jeb Bush, Mike Huckabee, Mitch Daniels, and possibly Bobby Jindal, Chris Christie, and/or Romney's VP nominee (I was thinking Governor Matt Blunt of Missouri) throw their hats into ATL's race. Nowadays candidates do not primary challenge a sitting president, so that part may have to be reconsidered.Time to start a new timeline.
As OTL, Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Rick Perry, Jon Huntsman, Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, and Tim Pawlenty run.
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