Who would challenge Gore in 2004?

Is there a possibility of a Gore-Hillary ticket in 04' or maybe an agreement like Obama had to appoint her to a high cabinet position if her base supported him?

Hillary was having a fine time in the Senate, and Gore wouldn't want a Clinton so close to the Oval Office. Besides, 2008 was beckoning.
 
Democratic Candidates

  • President Al Gore
  • Vice President Joseph Lieberman (off):confused:
  • Senator Bill Bradley (off):confused:
  • Reverend Jesse Jackson:p
  • Representative Dennis Kucinich:rolleyes:
Forget the Democratic primaries, unless things are going so horrifically for Gore that you are giving the election to the GOP. When an Incumbent POTUS is seriously primaried, he's dead meat. Even if he still gets the nomination. Ala 1912, 1968, 1976, 1980, and 1992.:(

Republican Candidates

  • Senator John McCain (MY TURN you whippersnappers!)
  • Senator Fred Thompson*bonk-bonk*
  • Mayor Rudy Guiliani (off) (Noun, verb, 9/11, and goodbye...)
  • Governor George W Bush (off) I've got Fox News on my side! But...(1976-2004:DDole/Bush/Bush/Bush/Bush/Dole/Bush/Bush:eek:) EIGHT straight elections with these two families? Hey, Republicans, there are other people you know! Bush IOTL was running for RE-election in 2004. 15000 votes go the other way in SW Ohio and its POTUS Kerry).
  • Governor Jeb Bush (?) See above. Wait for '08
  • Senator Rick Santorum {Hey! Where's the (Tea) Party?}
  • Ambassador Alan Keyes:rolleyes:
  • Senator George Allen (VP bait)
  • Press Magnate Steve Forbes (off) Mr. Flat Tax, only Romney scores higher among the billionaire voters
  • Governor George Pataki (off) Z-z-z-z.....
  • CEO Hermain Cain (I'm still making $$$, and working on my best Clarence Thomas imitations:mad:)
  • Senator Sam Brownback (What do you MEAN I got zero votes!?)
  • Representative Tom Tancredo (Until I start talking)
  • Governor Tommy Thompson (I really should have gotten MORE votes, considering my record)
  • Governor Jim Gilmore (off) (Maybe if I hadn't been a one-termer):(
  • Governor Michael Huckabee (Until they see me eating squirrels)
  • Representative Ron Paul (won't be able to go far without Iraq)
 
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Is there a possibility of a Gore-Hillary ticket in 04' or maybe an agreement like Obama had to appoint her to a high cabinet position if her base supported him?

Gore would not dump Lieberman in 2004 except under the most extreme circumstances, so possible though extremely unlikely. Besides, as usertron2020 stated, "Gore wouldn't want a Clinton so close to the Oval Office." Why would Gore need to make such a deal w/the Clinton base in TTL's 2004?
 
Forget the Democratic primaries, unless things are going so horrifically for Gore that you are giving the election to the GOP. When an Incumbent POTUS is seriously primaried, he's dead meat. Even if he still gets the nomination. Ala 1912, 1968, 1976, 1980, and 1992.
This is being structured for a President Forever Scenario, so those are meant to be interesting options but only at the discretion of the player [otherwise switched off]. Also you do need at least one candidate for the President to properly play out early on.
 
Good points modelcitizen. I question whether or not he could gain the traction necessary to escape the "muck & mire" of his Y2K defeat, but perhaps.

Thank you!

If W. is able to put together "I Told You So" to any extent, that's his near-winning amount of support from 2000 plus a teeny bit more, I'd guess.
 
Current Field in my mod:

Republicans:
John McCain
George Pataki
Bill Frist
Lincoln Chafee
Mike Huckabee
Terry Branstad
Gary Johnson
Olympia Snowe (Off)

Democrats:
Al Gore
Dennis Kucinich (Off)

Third Parties:

No change
 
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