WI: Alan Keyes wins the 2000 primary

As some of you may know, the 2000 Republican primary elections were held with Bush winning and then competing against Al Gore. How in this alternate scenario you can get Alan Keyes to win and what would happen with him going against Gore? What would American policy be and how would the world change?
 
President Gore. Smaller cars. Slightly more expensive gasoline and slightly more expensive utility bills with no fracking to spur lots and lots of extra natural gas. Maybe just a scooch less ferocity for California's still awful fires. Airliners with the louder propfan engines consume a third less fuel and Al Gore assures America that the extra noise is worth it...

Imagine everything Obama wanted, but with a nice decade-plus head start.


An absolutely interesting prospect is that with much of the Clinton national security team intact, folks with eyes on Al Qaeda just might just just might notice intelligence indicating a potential plot of diabolical proportions involving some Saudi expats real interested in learning to fly a jetliner without much emphasis on perfecting landings or takeoffs. At the very least, we don't invade Iraq. At the very least, New Orleans does not get infamously uneven treatment after Katrina.

The birth of the "Go Fuck Yourself" wing of the Republican party is stillborn!


The GOP sees an uptick in African-Americans participating in their ranks, getting elected under their banner, et cetera, et cetera.
 
He loses badly to Gore in the general election. Gore wins Missouri, Tennessee, Florida, West Virginia, and Arkansas and runs away in a landslide.

Keyes as a politician always had a group of devoted backers but he struggled mightily to expand beyond them. Bush was able to reinvigorate the Republican coalition that had been moribund in 1996 by adding social conservatives from the growing Born Again denominations, as well as to reach out and gain a large portion of the homeowning lower middle class with targeted appeals to both. Keyes would do well with people who thought that they were being taxed too much, and might be able to peel off a few more African American votes, but that is about it.
 
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