us politics

I’m very curious on this because I’ve wondered about how having a liberal southerner being the one to implement the new deal without caring of budget deficits would change how US politics would look like. How much support would he have in congress? if he tried to court pack would southern dems...

I'm sure there has been a thread or two about this already but I've always wondered what if somebody found out who was running the smear campaign against John McCain and if that would have changed the course of the primaries and election. In the OTL, an unknown party had viciously defamed...

I know there have already been several threads about this already but I wanted to explore what would happen if John Hinckley Jr. successfully killed Ronald Reagan in 1981. I think it's interesting to imagine exactly how a newly sworn-in President Bush would hit the ground running and how events...

I’m curious because i feel like alternate 1960 presidential candidates is under explored/talked about and an election between these two in 1960 seems really interesting but I’m not very knowledgeable of what the political environment was like to have a solid idea on what a presidential race...

As the title states, give the USA the most amount of female Presidents - I have posted this in after 1900 for obvious reasons, but if somehow you can have one be pre-1900 that would for sure be allowed too (a successful Victoria Woodhull campaign, perhaps?) Regardless, Good Luck!

In OTL Birch Bayh ran for President in 1976 but dropped out early in the primaries. What if he had won the democratic nomination and the presidency that year? What would he have done differently than Carter as President? Would he have been re-elected in 1980? What impact would his presidency...

The first PoD in my scenrio is the earlier War on Terror- instead of 9/11 the 1993 WTC bombing succeeds and Clinton invades Sudan (which hosted the AQ at the time), while intevening more in Somalia and Rwanda. Dur to the Rally around the Flag effect, there is no Republican revolution in 1994...

On November 20th, 1950, the US backed South Korea beat the communist north. In just a few months the tide of the war had completely reversed. North Korea alone couldn't stand up to the UN, and China had decided to stay out of war Truman's approval rating spiked, and this combined with a...

Governor Mario Cuomo of New York considered running for President in 1992, but finally decided not to run. Let's say he runs and wins the Democratic nomination. How well would he do in the general election against Bush? Would he do worse or better than Clinton? Who would be his running mate?

BAYH-CELLER AMENDMENT PASSED -- ELECTORAL COLLEGE ABOLISHED -New York Times, September 30th, 1970 In September 1970, the Bayh-Celler amendment was passed. Due to how Nixon nearly lost the popular vote but would have still won the electoral vote, interest in abolishing the electoral college rose...

On November 7th, 2000, John McCain beat Al Gore, becoming the 43rd president of the United States and the first president from Arizona. He had faced a tough primary against John Kasich, and an even more difficult campaign in the general election, but ultimately prevailed despite a good economy...

So in this scenario, a Christian Socialist movement led by Father Stalin takes over Russia instead of the Bolsheviks. After WWII, America and the Christian Soviets get into the Cold War as usual. The Reds win the Greek civil war and bring Greece into the Warsaw Pact, having gained a decisive...

So your challenge here is with a PoD after 1939, come up with a way where the Communist Party USA instead of basically becoming irrelevant even compared to the rest of the extremely marginalized American Far Left ends up growing to the point where it's comparable to the OTL Libertarian Party...

Part I Chapter 1 Dear Jodie Evening of March 29, 1981 Washington, D.C. There’s a run-down watering hole on 18th Street, a couple of blocks away from the White House. Capitol staffers, assistants, interns, and that sort of folk frequent it sometimes; booze is cheap, so that’s good. In comes Ted...

Basically, the 1993 WTC bombing succeeds and ''War on Terror'' starts 8 years earlier. First of all, the ''rally around the flag'' would prevent the 1994 republican gains in Congress. The 1996 election would pretty much resemble the IRL 2004 election with it's focus on security. Would the...

On December 16th 2002 Former Vice President Al Gore appeared on 60 Minutes saying that he was still unsure about a 2004 Presidential run and he and his wife Tipper would think about it and make a decision early next year. In March 2003 Gore would start a presidential exploratory committee to...

In 1946 Republicans made great gains taking the house and senate under Truman. So how could fortunes reverse for the democrats where they actually gain a significant amount of seats adding to their super-majority in 1946

So, Harold Stassen, the famous liberal Republican politician turned joke perennial candidate from the 1952 presidential election onward, we all know him. But what if he made a comeback in 1958? That year, he tried to become the GOP gubernatorial candidate in Pennsylvania, but he was defeated in...

Hi Everyone,this is basically going to be sort of a roleplay game thing where you can post the events of U.S Election Cycles from 2000 Onward. If you are interested in joining we will start with the 2000 Election.With candidate announcements and such From November 1st 1999

June 5, 1968: Senator Robert F. Kennedy is on his way to address a crowd of supporters for the second time that night when his bodyguard William Barry tells him that his plans have changed and that he will instead be holding a press conference. Kennedy, however, is determined to speak to his...