Paul V McNutt
Banned
I think Carter gets a better energy program passed. Solar energy and gasahol are standard now.
I think Carter gets a better energy program passed. Solar energy and gasahol are standard now.
Kentucky: Walter Huddleston – Democratic Hold
Minnesota: Joan Growe – Democratic Gain
New York: Jack Kemp – Republican Gain
North Carolina: Jim Hunt – Democratic Gain
Texas: Lloyd Doggett – Democratic Gain
West Virginia: Clyde M. See Jr. - Democratic Gain
Indiana - Wayne Townshead - Democratic Gain
Several Republican races in the Senate were so very narrow, that I doubt a Carter wins scenario ends up with a Republican Senate.
Why would Mike Castle be the Indiana Governor? He was the Lt. Governor of Delaware at that time.
I' think George HW Bush would get the nomination. He would have been the Republican crown prince and he ran a good campaign OTL in 1988.
I thought the same at the start, but think about it a little more carefully. An ambassadorship or two, CIA director, two terms in the House well over a decade earlier, and a failed VP bid. What exactly does he bring to the table?
If my understanding of things has been corrected, the economy was on the verge of collapse for years before Carter took office and was already staring to go down under Ford - and it probably would've happened under Nixon if he hadn't excised his economic controls.There are those of us who remember how petty and authoritarian Jimmy Carter was. He was directly responsible for the economic collapse that took part during his administration.
This is obviously some kind of joke post, but I wanted to point out the Torrijos–Carter Treaties were signed in 1977.The economy gets worse and worse. The Soviet Union expands it's influence in Central America, and Pakistan. Iraq receives massive Soviet aid and Iran goes communist. The oil supply from the Middle East is cut off and Europe is pludged into an economic depression that makes them ripe for appeasement.
Carter would try and put a brave face on things, but ultimately blame the American people's unrealistic expectations and tell them that we should get used to living with less. Gas rationing in the U.S. would become a way of life. Unemployment would reach 20 percent, and inflation would make the U.S. dollar valueless.
The Panama Canal giveaway would take place much earlier, and be handed over to a pro-Soviet government. Any dissent in the U.S. would be dismissed as "wanting a nuclear war."
Whoever the Republicans nominate in 1984 would have a huge advantage, although Vice President Mondale would call them "warmongers". Mondale might face a challenge from a number of Democrats, or might get the nomination because whoever got it would look like a sure loser.
Whoever the President is in 1985 would face a huge number of challenges both at home and abroad.
Indeed; so soon we forget "Whip Inflation Now".If my understanding of things has been corrected, the economy was on the verge of collapse for years before Carter took office and was already staring to go down under Ford
The economy gets worse and worse. The Soviet Union expands it's influence in Central America, and Pakistan. Iraq receives massive Soviet aid and Iran goes communist. The oil supply from the Middle East is cut off and Europe is pludged into an economic depression that makes them ripe for appeasement.
Carter would try and put a brave face on things, but ultimately blame the American people's unrealistic expectations and tell them that we should get used to living with less. Gas rationing in the U.S. would become a way of life. Unemployment would reach 20 percent, and inflation would make the U.S. dollar valueless.
The Panama Canal giveaway would take place much earlier, and be handed over to a pro-Soviet government. Any dissent in the U.S. would be dismissed as "wanting a nuclear war."
Whoever the Republicans nominate in 1984 would have a huge advantage, although Vice President Mondale would call them "warmongers". Mondale might face a challenge from a number of Democrats, or might get the nomination because whoever got it would look like a sure loser.
Whoever the President is in 1985 would face a huge number of challenges both at home and abroad.
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A Republican gets elected in '84, though by a narrow margin, over Mondale. If not Bush then I think Jack Kemp or Howard Baker. Baker would be a sure winner given he could appeal to a lot of voters, while Kemp would basically be a young Reagan; he would have that same appeal to conservatives with additional charisma, but was atrocious at debates.