What if Al Gore is re-elected in 2004?

[Ol'GarryBoldwater]

What if Al Gore is re-elected in 2004?
Who would the Republican candidates be in 2008 assuming Gore beat McCain in 2004.
Would the global economy still collapse?
Would the US pull out of Iraq?
Basically what would happen if Al Gore was president from 2000 to 2008.

 

[THE OBSERVER]

Basing this of off Decision Points?

 

[Ol'GarryBoldwater]

Not exactly, I was thinking of making a TL about the 2008 Elections with President Gore. Maybe I could replace McCain with Guilliani in 2004.

 

[DTanza]

Not exactly, I was thinking of making a TL about the 2008 Elections with President Gore. Maybe I could replace McCain with Guilliani in 2004.

Rudy would have gotten his ass kicked in the primaries. He had no idea how to run a Presidential campaign.

 

[Duke 4]

I doubt if the US would have invaded Iraq. If 9/11 had happened under Gore's watch then a bigger stronger military presence would have been in Afghanistan. But Gore might have paid a lot more attention to the reports that came up pre 9/11 than President Bush did. Since Gore would not have done the diasterous trickle down economics of the Bush years there may not been has bad a recession. If at all. The housing bubble may still have happened though. You would have seen seen a huge push to green up the countries power scources. The Supreme Court would have been different which means Citizens United would not be the law of the land. In 04 Bush may have ran in a rematch and could have won. American very rarely votes the same party in the Presidency 4 terms in a row. The last time was FDR and HST 32-48 5 terms. For the GOP was 96-08, McKinley, TR, Taft.

 

[modelcitizen]

Rudy would have gotten his ass kicked in the primaries. He had no idea how to run a Presidential campaign.

With butterflies, Giuliani might have attracted a campaign operative who knew his ass from a hole in the ground and was convincing enough to spare Giuliani from his own inexpertise.

 

[modelcitizen]

I doubt if the US would have invaded Iraq. If 9/11 had happened under Gore's watch then a bigger stronger military presence would have been in Afghanistan. But Gore might have paid a lot more attention to the reports that came up pre 9/11 than President Bush did. Since Gore would not have done the diasterous trickle down economics of the Bush years there may not been has bad a recession. If at all. The housing bubble may still have happened though. You would have seen seen a huge push to green up the countries power scources. The Supreme Court would have been different which means Citizens United would not be the law of the land. In 04 Bush may have ran in a rematch and could have won. American very rarely votes the same party in the Presidency 4 terms in a row. The last time was FDR and HST 32-48 5 terms. For the GOP was 96-08, McKinley, TR, Taft.

Gore might even have been pedantically nagging folks to look for signs of a potential AQ attack, making the difference between dismissive neglect and dragging something out into the open for scrutiny.

Moussaoui himself would not likely have unveiled info about 9/11, but pursuit of potentially like-minded similar persons of interest could have derailed the plan.

 

[Andrew T]

If Gore is elected in 2000 and re-elected in 2004, you'll have 16 consecutive years of a Democratic White House, mostly with a Democratic Congress to boot. That means the Republican Party will be doing a lot of soul-searching from 2004 onwards, just as the Democratic Party did with the DLC in '84.

The question is: who can become TTL's Republican Party equivalent of Bill Clinton; a Third Way Republican to declare "the era of small-government conservatism is over!"

John McCain is an obvious choice, given his chameleonic political nature, but he may be insufficiently moderate in this world. Arlen Specter will have the bona fides, but he's also severely lacking in the charisma department. Maybe Christie Todd Whitman?

Best case scenario: Gore (inexplicably) keeps Lieberman on the ticket in 2004, and as the nominee, Lieberman loses to the New Republican ticket of Whitman/Specter:

Joseph I. Lieberman/Russell D. Feingold (Democratic) -- 246 EV
Christine Todd Whitman/Arlen J. Specter (Republican) -- 292 EV

 

[JVM]

We talking Gore being elevated to the presidency rightfully in 2000, then being re-elected as an incumbent in 2004, or just using "re-elect" for fun since he technically is the popular vote winner in 2000?