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POD: 2004. About 60,000 Ohio voters cast their votes differently, Kerry narrowly wins the state by a few thousand votes, and becomes POTUS.

Effects:

SCOTUS: Major move to the left. After 2 Kerry appointments, liberal-conservative-moderate balance on the court shifts from 4-3-2, to 6-2-1.

Iraq: No surge in this TL. Instead, when Shia-Sunni violence explodes in 2006, Kerry decides war is a lost cause and commits to withdrawing all combat troops on timeline similar to that proposed by Dems in OTL. Completion of US withdrawal is followed by outbreak of all-out sectarian war. with casualties in hundreds of thousands. Massive sectarian cleansing turns Baghdad into 99% Shia city, Iraq breaks apart into 3 pieces.

Congress: Remains in GOP control, GOP makes gains in both 2006 and 2008 elections.

Housing bubble still bursts in 2007, and in 2008 Kerry/Edwards are defeated for re-election by GOP ticket of Senator George Allen and Gov. Bobby Jindal.

Possible Edwards sex scandal in this TL too, altho if so it is probably with someone other than R. Hunter.
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