What if the 2008 Election Came down Between Republican Ron Paul and Democrat John Edwards? Who wins?
I can see Edwards being the Democratic nominee in the event that Hillary, Obama sit the 2008 election out and Al Gore still choses not to run. I must ask how in the hell does Ron Paul win the GOP nomination without a POD taking place five or six decades ago?
I can see Edwards being the Democratic nominee in the event that Hillary, Obama sit the 2008 election out and Al Gore still choses not to run.
I can see Edwards being the Democratic nominee in the event that Hillary, Obama sit the 2008 election out and Al Gore still choses not to run. I must ask how in the hell does Ron Paul win the GOP nomination without a POD taking place five or six decades ago?
It becomes more realistic once you butterfly it away, which is not ASB.In 2008 the Edwards campaign planned on leaking the news of his affair with Rielle Hunter if it ever looked like he was going to win the nomination, so it's very, very hard, bordering on impossible, to get Edwards as the nominee in 2008.
It becomes more realistic once you butterfly it away, which is not ASB.
Yes. Getting Paul to be R nominee is harder, but not ASB as well. But what PODs are necessary?I agree that without the affair, an Edwards nomination is at least conceivable, though I still think it's improbable unless *both* HRC and Obama decide not to run, which is pretty unlikely. But Ron Paul winning the GOP nomination is extraordinarily unlikely in 2008 (and in 2012--but at least in 2012 the GOP may have been a *bit* more open to unorthodox ideas than in 2008). In both of the two earliest contests (Iowa and NH) he finished *fifth.* He ended with 5.6% of the total Republican primary vote, compared with 46.7% for McCain, 20.1% for Huckabee, and 22.2% for Romney. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_presidential_primaries,_2008 As far as I can see, he didn't get into double digits in a single primary state (though he did so in some caucus states, where relatively small numbers of ideologically motivated people can make a difference).