WI: Bill Bradley waits until 2004 to run for President

I don't think he'd go anywhere to be honest. He seemed pretty irrelevant at that point. TBH, '92 or '88 would've been better election years for Bradley to run for President.
 
Even though they weren't all that ideologically similar, I suspect he takes some of Howard Dean's thunder. Those are both campaigns about outside voices. I can imagine a significant through-narrative would talk up the idea of third-party moderate issues shared by Bradley and McCain '00 supporters, but then such narratives are always around and no one pays them much attention.

In the end, he doesn't give the Democrats what they want: a person regularly to the left of Bush on everything who can't be called a coward (though the Republicans sure did spend a lot of time calling Kerry a coward anyway).
 
Don't think it would effect the 2000 election at all, except maybe a few votes here and there.

In 2004, He splits the liberal vote with Howard Dean, and Kerry's victory becomes apparent earlier on. Bradley might get consideration as a running mate of Kerry's, but probably not.
 
If he had stayed in the Senate and voted against the Iraq War, NCLB, and the Bush tax cuts, then I could see Dean choosing to sit 2004 out and endorse Bradley. In that case, I could see Bradley winning the Democratic nomination.
 
Don't think it would effect the 2000 election at all, except maybe a few votes here and there.

In 2004, He splits the liberal vote with Howard Dean, and Kerry's victory becomes apparent earlier on. Bradley might get consideration as a running mate of Kerry's, but probably not.
In this situation, a more secure Kerry leading to a general election victory is a unique and interesting way of doing it.
 
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