WI: 2008 Election completely different?

Zioneer

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Is there any single PoD that could cause Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Mitt Romney, and Mike Huckabee to all not seek the presidency in 2008?

And if none of them run, who are the big names in '08?
 
They all get high and drunk at a part one night and decide to have an orgy in the middle of Times Square? :p

They all pile in a car and hen run over some guy on a road and dump him off a pier rather than checking to see if he's really dead in the fall of 2007... now it's 2008 and Huckabee just turned up dead! :eek:
 
John Kerry wins the 2004 election

Iraq generally goes to shit, but he doesn't do the surge, so things still suck in 2008; plus Katrina; plus the housing bubble pops

George W Bush reseeks the republican nomination

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Is there any single PoD that could cause Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Mitt Romney, and Mike Huckabee to all not seek the presidency in 2008?

This is pretty simple: Gore wins in 2000, and wins against McCain in 2004. Huckabee runs for the nomination in 2004 also and loses to McCain; as per OTL he racks up a stack of commercial interests and so doesn't run in 2008. Paul Cellucci stays on as Massachusetts governor, and subsequent butterflies mean Mitt Romney never becomes governor there. 2008 becomes a race between Joe Lieberman and Jeb Bush. Bush wins of course.
 
Hillary: Have Moynihan run for 1 last term.

Obama: Have Mike Ditka run in place of Jack Ryan and win in a close race.

Huckabee: Have Jim Guy Tucker not convicted of Fraud or have Huck lose in 1998.

McCain: Stroke?

Idk about Romney.
 
Dick Cheney suffers worse health in 2003, and Bush accepts his offer of letting someone take his place on the 2004 ticket. Bush picks Rice. Butterfly reactions give the 2004 Democratic Keynote to someone else. Rice polls well enough that Clinton decides to wait it out until 2012.
 
Hmm... Dick Cheney runs for President in 2008 and uses the Bush machine to discourage the rest of the Republican field from joining up? That's all I can think of for the GOP. For the Democrats... Obama's wife talks him out of a run by threatening divorce... and Bill Clinton is revealed to have had an affair with someone else, which causes so much embarrassment for Hillary that she decides to stay out.

Under this scenario, Dick Cheney would have the GOP in his pocket... and we'd probably see John Edwards as the Democratic nominee, seeing as how he was doing so well in the primaries before. Unless of course, John Kerry decides to see if his party would give him a second chance...

If Edwards becomes the nominee, Cheney would beat him in a close matchup after the scandal with Rielle Hunter hits the news. If it's Kerry, landslide Democratic win.
 

Thande

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Re removing Obama, the classic POD is to have Star Trek Voyager cancelled early. Without Jeri Ryan's need to be in California putting a strain on the marriage, there'd be no Jack Ryan scandal and Obama would still be an obscure figure.
 
Re removing Obama, the classic POD is to have Star Trek Voyager cancelled early. Without Jeri Ryan's need to be in California putting a strain on the marriage, there'd be no Jack Ryan scandal and Obama would still be an obscure figure.

My favorite Obama removals are ones that involve a Senator Ditka.
 
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