What If The Other Guy Won: A Live Timeline

Obama should win Pennsylvania in your scenario.

How are we organizing this TL? It seems clusterf**kish at the moment.

Let's say he would win it at last by 550 votes:D And Romney won't ask for a recount. It's quite surprising to find out that in the real election, Pennsylvania is even more competitive than in Wisconsin, NH and Iowa.
 
Let's say he would win it at last by 550 votes:D And Romney won't ask for a recount. It's quite surprising to find out that in the real election, Pennsylvania is even more competitive than in Wisconsin, NH and Iowa.

Is there a basis in it being that close, though? Obama won it 52% to 46%.
 
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http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/11/07/romneys_transition_site.html#051365a

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Would it be possible to get a more properly organized timeline? This is all very clusterf**ky as I said previous. Or have we not really even started yet?
 
Any serious Romney victory timeline could result in interesting down-ballot coattails. Do McMahon and Brown still lose, for example? With Virginia and Florida on the move, do Allen and Mack still lose?
 
Can I offer my scenario and map built here as a point of divergence?
That would be nice. It really makes sense for Romney to carry Pennsylvania if he wins by a margin of over 2.5%. (A narrow popular vote victory would only give Obama the election, and so could not justify the criteria for a Romney victory.)

Is there a basis in it being that close, though? Obama won it 52% to 46%.
OOC: It's not a 52-46 margin, but a 52-47 margin. In Pennsylvania in OTL, Obama got 2,907,448 votes (52%), Romney got 2,619,583 votes (46.8%), while other candidates got 69,468 votes (1.2%) combined. Please show me how you could round off 46.8% to become 46%:D That means, a swing of 2.6% would give Romney the state of Pennsylvania.

In OTL, Obama carried Iowa by a 52.1-46.5 margin, New Hampshire by a 52.2-46.4 margin, Wisconsin by a 52.8-46.1 margin and Nevada by an even wider margin. That means, the race in PA in OTL 2012 is closer than that in IA, NH, WI and NV.

By suggesting that Romney wins by a 50.6-47.9 popular vote margin nationally in my map, it means that there is a 2.7 to 2.8% swing from the 47.8-50.6 popular vote margin in OTL. Therefore, I would say it is justified to put PA that close.

(Sources of percentage of votes rounded off to 1 d.p.: Huffington Post)
 
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With a less harsh Versailles treaty, the Weimar Republic survived and German engineering pushed the development of passenger airliners earlier further.

Ah, no, unfortunately it is just an A321 which the Lufthansa painted retro-style to celebrate the 50th anniversary of her re-birth.
 
Oh, I should never have two AH-windows open at the same time. This should have gone to : Things that look like AH but aren't.
 
*Bump*

This did seem to peter out. Perhaps the idea needs to be taken and rebooted in a new thread, even at this early point. It's been almost a month since the election, so we can get enough baring for at least one update (covering things like the Petreus scandal; maybe Fox gets flustered initially, claiming he was forced to resign because Obama was so mad at losing and he was taking it out on a Republican). Or perhaps it would be best to wait some time longer, perhaps even up to January when Romney would be sworn in in this parallel universe. Certainly an Obama about to leave office come next year would have differences from one who is assured 4 more years, but I don't know if there'd be enough of a difference.
 
Just one question, how would the GOP have done in the Senate? I would tend to think that Denny Rehberg would unseat Jon Tester, while Rick Berg would defeat Heidi Heitkamp in the ND open seat, but no other changes. That means, not even a single gain for the GOP even if Romney wins, it just doesn't lose seats like in OTL. Perhaps it would also be seen as a blow, or some would begin to blame the Tea Party for ousting Richard Lugar and the nomination of Todd Akin?
 
I will pull this sucker ahead whether it likes it or not.

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President Obama greets President-Elect Romney in the Oval Office/Former President Obama greets President Mitt Romney.

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