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This is my first time, so please be gentle. :) The basic POD is this: Lee Harvey Oswald's gun malfunctions, causing a jam when he tries to assassinate JFK. He quickly fixes the problem, but Kennedy is now too far ahead to get a clear shot. Oswald instead falls back to plan B: He assassinates Vice President Lyndon B Johnson instead.

(EDIT: Somehow forgot to specify: with Johnson dead, JFK chooses his brother/attorney general Robert Kennedy as his VP.)

This causes a few cracks in the time line: As Vice President, Robert Kennedy has secret service protection when running for President in 1968, and therefore he survives the assassination attempt (or maybe it doesn't even occur.)

But after the Kennedys, there is never another Democrat elected to office (at least until 2008). The elections go as follows: (President-Vice President)

1964: JFK - RFK
1968: RFK - Edmund Muskie
1972: RFK - Edmund Muskie
1976: Gerald Ford - Bob Dole
1980: Gerald Ford - Bob Dole
1984: Ronald Reagan - George HW Bush
1988: Ronald Reagan - George HW Bush
1992: George HW Bush - Pat Buchanan
1996: George HW Bush - Pat Buchanan
2000: Pat Buchanan - Dick Cheney
2004: Pat Buchanan - Dick Cheney
2008: Dick Cheney - John McCain

So...the challenge here: What does the world look like now, in 2008? What major events went differently? And why the heck hasn't a democrat won in 32 years?
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