Or Ottawa, it appears, though since the Feds decamped down the Rideau around the same time the Sens were formed IOTL, that tracks, and despite Kingston hosting the first recorded hockey game in Canada it's probably still too small to warrant a pro hockey team.
It's Agnew. He'll be the one lighting the fuse, and his past actions will only make for a bigger boom (oh hey, Lester Matz, I didn't see you over there) .
I'd suspect this is due to Republicans tacking toward the centre rather than the evangelicals and social conservatives (as @BowOfOrion notes in the update where McCain recruits Powell), coupled by strong, popular GOP candidates (the aforementioned McCain and Powell) and a rally-around-the-flag...
Eat your heart out, Chuck Lindbergh. Got beat out by more than a decade by the late Admiral Juan Franco's fair-haired boy (which might rehabilitate Franky's image a tad after his dear old pop led Spain to its worst naval defeat since Trafalgar, if not the Armada).
Unfortunately, those who advocated for "fuck around" were eaten by one or more ouroboroses (ourobori?), either Tillman's or the Red Scarves', and won't be around for the "find out" stage. Pity, that.