WI: JFK Jr. elected to U.S. Senate from N.Y. in 2000?

How will people refer to John F. Kennedy Jr when he's president? JFK Jr is a bit of a mouthful. I guess President Kennedy would be quite easy when he's in office, since he's the incumbent POTUS and his surname is Kennedy, but what about after his term ends?
 
How will people refer to John F. Kennedy Jr when he's president? JFK Jr is a bit of a mouthful. I guess President Kennedy would be quite easy when he's in office, since he's the incumbent POTUS and his surname is Kennedy, but what about after his term ends?

Perhaps they would be referred to as "Kennedy 44" and "Kennedy 35"...
 
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With all due respect, I prefer my suggestion. I've always referred to JFK Jr personally as Jacky, since he's got his mother's hair.
 
How will people refer to John F. Kennedy Jr when he's president? JFK Jr is a bit of a mouthful. I guess President Kennedy would be quite easy when he's in office, since he's the incumbent POTUS and his surname is Kennedy, but what about after his term ends?

John-John was a political "empty suit", who, had he lived would not now nor ever be POTUS.
 
John-John was a political "empty suit", who, had he lived would not now nor ever be POTUS.

As I recall, that was what many political contemporaries of the original JFK in Washington D.C. thought about him in the late 1950s. His two strongest rivals for the 1960 nomination, Stevenson and LBJ, both thought JFK was a young lightwieght, but he won the Democratic nomination and the White House nonetheless.

President Obama was probably the least experienced candidate in the 2008 Democratic field, as a freshman Senator only mid-way into his 6 year term. He was compared to Jimmy Carter (and not in a flattering way). President George W. Bush was thought to lack sufficent gravitas when he ran in 2000, after serving 5+ years as Governor of Texas (a "weak-governor" state). The choice of Joe Biden and Dick Cheney, old Washingon hands, as their respective running mates was to help alleviate those concerns.

IMHO, a 2nd-term Senator JFK Jr. in 2008 would have been no less qualified that the last two presidents we have actually elected in OTL.
 
The Democratic ticket of JFK Jr. and Hillary Clinton defeat the Republican ticket of McCain-Palin, winning over 300 electoral votes. Senator Joe Biden is named Secretary of State.
 
How about..he declines to run against Hilary in 2000 but instead runs for.NY gov against pataki in 2002. Gets reelected in 06 and for.prez in 08. He cant run with hilary on the ticket so picks obama as vp
 
He'd have some problems. My feel's that he'd lose; it's not quite impossible that he'd the primary, if Hillary didn't run, but he faced decidedly better Republican opponents, whom would've beaten him easily. Sorry!

Problems:

You have to be GOOD to win a Senate seat. And he struck me as a total lamer. And, his magazine was mediocre and losing money, a bad sign on talent, so it's not just me.

The nation's tired of Kennedies by then. It defeated another, IMHO better candidate in Maryland at a similar timeframe.

We Democrats are at best divided to anti about dynasties like the Kennedies.
 
The Democratic ticket of JFK Jr. and Hillary Clinton defeat the Republican ticket of McCain-Palin, winning over 300 electoral votes. Senator Joe Biden is named Secretary of State.

That would be fun; I'd like to see him tell Medvedev that Start II was "a big fucking deal".

Was Biden's goofy public persona known before he was selected as VP in OTL? If so, maybe John Kerry would have been picked as SecState in this scenario.
 
Though he may at some point in time during the past 10/12 years to enter politics, JFKjr most certainly did not have "a political fire burning in his belly", which is essential if one is going to be elected to the US Senate or Governor of NY and certainly if one aspires to become POTUS.
 
The nation's tired of Kennedies by then. It defeated another, IMHO better candidate in Maryland at a similar timeframe.

Not to dispute the central premise of your argument, but (being from Maryland), my impression is that Kathleen Kennedy Townsend has some of the worst political instincts I've ever seen. Keep in mind that she's never won a race on her own; she lost in '86 to Helen Delich Bentley (by 20 points!), was considered a drag on Parris Glendening in '94, and then somehow managed to lose her only statewide race (for Governor) in 2002 in what was a fairly neutral environment.

In other words: I would not pin Kathleen Kennedy Townsend losing on "Kennedy fatigue," I would pin it on "Kathleen Kennedy Townsend is a terrible candidate."
 
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