senator john f. kennedy j.r

1. In 1992, new york senate seat becomes vacent. john f. kennedy j.r. makes the dreams of many kennedy fans cometrue when he is elected to the newyork senate in a landslide. in 2004 and 08 many people john f. kennedy passed on running for president. president obama has won relection in a close election, and the democrats are likely to win in 2016. jeb bush has said he is going to run in 2016. john f. kennedy j.r. the last kennedy to serve in public office has told a news magazine , although he loves serving in the senate if the voters want him to run in 2016 he will do so. If bush and kennedy run against each other in 2016 it will be a dynastic war to end all wars.
 
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in 2000 j.f.k j.r. defeated hilary clinton to win the new york senate seat . his uncle bobby once held. many people speculate senator john f. kennedy may run for president in 2016. vanity fair showed a photo spreadf of kennedys wife with thier daughter candace and thier son david. will there be another kennedy presidency?the g.o.p wants jeb to run in 2016 we may seea dynastic war soon.

Is this a WI of a Challenge? What is your POD for this? It would need to be one that occurs around 1990 or so in order to be plausable.
 
JFK,Jr. needs to have passed the bar exam earlier (there were lots of taunts about him flunking it several times).

He needed to have gotten into politics after 88 instead of publishing. Best chance for that would've been after the 88 convention. Even if he didn't hold any office but served under some politicos, he might've been able to run for senator in 2000.

If that happened, and he won, he probably would've run for president in 08 and won if events still played out the same way and Bush, Jr. wasn't president (9-11, Iraq War, recession), given how Bush was nearly hounded out of office, I doubt the electorate would've been in the mood to elect another son of a president.
 
The original post is a bit disjointed, but JFK, Jr. would have had to get a start in politics sometime during the 1990s in order to run for the Senate in 2000. The major problem is that he never seemed particularly interested in doing so. If you can figure out a way past that, there was a plausible opening for him to replace Congressman Ted Weiss who died in the fall of 1992 and was replaced OTL by Jerry Nadler. This southern Manhattan district would have been a decent launch pad for a 2000 Senate race and, if he had been an existing officeholder with an interest in the Senate, Hillary wouldn't have likely tried to run for the Senate from New York. This, in turn, makes him a thoroughly credible candidate for POTUS in 2008, a race in which he would have likely been the frontrunner, assuming no missteps, scandals or other problems. However, as noted, the problem with such a scenario is constructing a plausible reason for him to develop an interest in elective office at a young age, something he never seemed to have.

And not failing the NYS bar exam several times would have helped. One of my very minor claims to fame is passing one of the exams he flunked.
 
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