WI: President Howard Dean

I was recently playing the 2004 campaign on President Forever with Howard Dean. I actually did good in this game, and won the nomination after a hard battle against Kerry, Edwards and Lieberman. (For those who are interested: I sadly lost the general election, although I had 500.000 votes more than Bush :mad:)

Seriously though, what if Dean secured to win the nomination and then the presidency?

P.S.: Please, no Dean scream-jokes. Thank you!
 
A few things:
1. There would still be a 50-state strategy to win the election.
2. US troops would be out of Iraq by now.
3. Dean would attempt to introduce a more robust public option.
4. There would be criminal charges against Bush administration officials.
5. Hillary Clinton would still be in the Senate. (So would Obama.)
 
Maybe some of the outragous practices in Finance would have been challenged. If not Dean gets the blame for the economic crash and loses the 2008 election. (Unless he can show he tried and Republicans blocked him.)
 
2. US troops would be out of Iraq by now.
3. Dean would attempt to introduce a more robust public option.
4. There would be criminal charges against Bush administration officials.

Even though I would've liked to have seen Dean win, I disagree with you about these here. No doubt Dean would try all of the above, but with the hard right propaganda networks and the GOP not as weakened by Bush's blunders after 2004, conservatives will be in an even stronger position than IOTL.

You would see an absolutely hysterical campaign against holding officials accountable for their lawbreaking, and it would bog down Dean's efforts elsewhere. The troops would be getting out of Iraq right about now, just barely, after a hard fought four year effort.

I'm also sure there would be some in the opposition and the media who would carry out the most vindictive efforts to undermine Dean much like they did Clinton, though I don't know of any area where Dean himself would be vulnerable. But keep in mind that under Clinton, they even went so far as to go after a cabinet member who'd only gotten free tickets to a game, and got him to resign.
 
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