...as a POD for abolition(or at least defanging) of the Electoral College in the USA?
1. Perot selects a more sensible/sane vp nominee in 1992 and does not briefly drop out of the presidential race. He goes on to win a few states and sufficient electoral votes to throw the election to the house (a stretch, I know). The Democratic majority opts for Clinton, but his legitimacy is tenuous at best.
2. Kerry wins Ohio and thus the electoral vote in 2004. Obviously, this is an all too eerie echo of the OTL 2000 election.; 2 presidents in as many elections who failed to win even a plurality of the vote.
I know modifying the EC would mean a constitutional amendment, and all the difficulties that entails.
1. Perot selects a more sensible/sane vp nominee in 1992 and does not briefly drop out of the presidential race. He goes on to win a few states and sufficient electoral votes to throw the election to the house (a stretch, I know). The Democratic majority opts for Clinton, but his legitimacy is tenuous at best.
2. Kerry wins Ohio and thus the electoral vote in 2004. Obviously, this is an all too eerie echo of the OTL 2000 election.; 2 presidents in as many elections who failed to win even a plurality of the vote.
I know modifying the EC would mean a constitutional amendment, and all the difficulties that entails.