Plausibility check: former President runs for Governor

Let me think...

As others have stated, in a Timeline where Clinton loses narrowly to Colin Powell (or someone equally as popular) in 1996, he might use his old job as a springboard to the presidency in 2000/4.

I can see Nixon, in a TL where Ike dies early in his presidency, run for another office after leaving the WH in 1961, though I think that's more likely to be the Senate.

I wonder what RFK would do post 1977 in a scenario where he's elected in 1968? There have been a couple of TL's on here where he runs for the Senate again, but is a Governership atall possible?

I agree with those who say that Brown would most likely run for Governer in a scenario where he is elected President in either 1976 or 1980, or even 1992.
 
I can't not read that without "California Uber Alles" playing in my head.

I think "not" shouldn't be in that sentence, but yeah, agreed.

CALIFORNIA! UBER ALLES!
CALIFORNIA! UBER ALLES!
UBER ALLES! CALIFORNIA!
UBER ALLES! CALIFORNIA!

His aura smiles and never frowns, man.
 
Senator for Illinois, sure, Governor of Illinois, no fucking way. The Illinois statehouse is a hive of corruption that has sent every Governor in the last 40 years to jail. No man self conscious enough to be elected President would ever stoop to becoming the Governor of Illinois.

Governor of Hawaii, then?
 
Has Obama lived in Hawaii for 5 consecutive years? The only other qualifications are being 30, and not having another paid job. Other then residence he can conceivably become Governor there.
Yes, as a teenager. Arrived back from Indonesia aged 10, went to college in California aged 18.

...In fact, if Obama wanted to he could run for Governor of Hawaii in the 2018 election (as the current Governor, who's in his first term now, is term-limited.)
 
According to Edmund Morris' Colonel Roosevelt, TR was urged to run for governor of New York in 1918. He declined, saying (I paraphrase) that he had only one more fight left in him: Morris states that he was thinking ahead to 1920's presidential election. So...got a near miss and from a decidedly big name at that.
 
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