WI: Florida Man elected as POTUS

Same as title. As we all know the fact that there has never had a President from Florida is a national travesty. Figure out a way to fix this crisis
 

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Same as title. As we all know the fact that there has never had a President from Florida is a national travesty. Figure out a way to fix this crisis
I'm disappointed, you should've had as your title "WI: Florida Man elected to Presidency"
 
Simple: Bob Graham runs in 1992. Then, during the Gennifer Flowers scandal, the Juanita Broaddrick story is revealed and it's bye, bye, Clinton (regardless of its accuracy or not) and Graham is the best of the remaining field. He goes on to beat Bush in 1992...
 
Simple: Bob Graham runs in 1992. Then, during the Gennifer Flowers scandal, the Juanita Broaddrick story is revealed and it's bye, bye, Clinton (regardless of its accuracy or not) and Graham is the best of the remaining field. He goes on to beat Bush in 1992...

This or simply Rubio winning in 2016 seems like the most reasonable options.
 
Kennedy picks George Smathers as VP in 1960. Smathers becomes President in November 1963, and wins election in 1964.
 

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FDR selects then-Senator Claude Pepper as his 1944 running mate...
Oh boy, a Soviet sympathizer as President in the first crucial 5 years of the cold war. BTW back then, Presidents didn't pick their running mates. Senator Harry Truman had trouble getting the White House to return his phone calls.
 
Oh boy, a Soviet sympathizer as President in the first crucial 5 years of the cold war. BTW back then, Presidents didn't pick their running mates. Senator Harry Truman had trouble getting the White House to return his phone calls.

FDR actually picked Truman, via his letter to Bob Hannegan (the other option was Bill Douglas). While Truman may have had trouble getting calls returned, the record is pretty clear that FDR selected Truman. But, yes, Pepper was pretty sympathetic to the Soviet Union, which makes it an interesting what-if.
 

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FDR actually picked Truman, via his letter to Bob Hannegan (the other option was Bill Douglas). While Truman may have had trouble getting calls returned, the record is pretty clear that FDR selected Truman. But, yes, Pepper was pretty sympathetic to the Soviet Union, which makes it an interesting what-if.
Pepper was a staunch anti-communist by the time he returned to congress in 1962. So I'm guessing he'd see the light at least by the Korean War.
 
Have a certain current president not run in 2016 and have Marco Rubio/JEB! win the primaries and the general
I don’t think Rubio or especially Jeb would actually win in 2016 though. They would be seen as too mainstream and a lot of republican strategist types thought trump was being stupid campaigning in the Midwest.
 
Kennedy picks George Smathers as VP in 1960. Smathers becomes President in November 1963, and wins election in 1964.

Once and for all, JFK was never going to choose Smathers, he was a friend but on nobody's list as VP, JFK is not going to sacrifice African American and liberal votes in such very closely contested and electoral-vote rich states as Illinois, Missouri, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and California (all of which he ended up carrying except California) by choosing a running mate who signed the Southern Manifesto. If LBJ declines, there are still southerners less toxic than Smathers in the North, like Albert Gore of Tennessee (which incidentally had more electoral votes in 1960 than Florida!). JFK's about as likely to choose Smathers as Nixon is to choose Bebe Rebozo (his friend--whom he met btw through Smathers...)

Even if JFK wants a Floridian, Leroy Collins is a slightly more likely (but still quite improbable) choice.
 
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Most obviously, Jeb Bush wins the governorship in 1994 (and is re-elected in 1998), then the "Poppy and Barb" primary in 1999, and the GOP nomination and the presidency in 2000.
 
Clinton chooses Bob Graham rather than Al Gore as his running mate in 1992. Then in 2000 Graham wins the Democratic presidential nomination and the election.
 
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