Nothing Can Stop a Bull Moose: A Timeline

I actually do need to do more research onto who would be a worse Democratic candidate. Clark was more or less a last second place holder. I can assure you that the Prohibition Party win was a very close win and that it is a one time thing.

About the weakest would probably be Oscar Underwood.

However, it doesn't really matter, as even the poorest so far, Alton B Parker in 1904, still garnered nearly 38% of the vote, and none of the 1912 Dem hopefuls is remotely likely to go lower than that. The party is "on a roll" and the choice of candidate is likely to be only worth a couple of percentage points one way or the other. So the Democrats walk away with it, pretty much regardless of whom they nominate.

They are in essentially the same position as the Republicans will be in 1920. The other side is so weak that they could nominate unpledged Electors and the people would vote for them and let them choose whoever they want for POTUS. It was one of those years when the out party could nominate a dead dog and still win.
 
I don't really know much about Democrats of that era but is there a Catholic like Al Smith and basically that could weaken the Democrats enough to loose
 
I don't really know much about Democrats of that era but is there a Catholic like Al Smith and basically that could weaken the Democrats enough to loose

Sorry - No Catholic was even remotely in the running that year, or for more than a decade after.

Even when Al Smith did get the nod, in 1928, this was mainly because the Dems stood no chance, and so it didn't really matter whom they chose. Had the election appeared winnable, they would never have risked snatching defeat from the jaws of victory by nominating a Catholic.
 
But what is extreme. This sounds more like historical wish fulfillment than it does actual alternative history.
If it were a wish fulfillment, I would have Teddy Roosevelt declare himself as the emperor of the US, with there eventually only being the US, Brazil, Japan, Australia, Ethiopia, Ghana, South Africa, Germany, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales in the world. I'll probably publish the scenerio that I had later.
 
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