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  1. "Hipster" PMs and Presidents Thread

    Campbell is an interesting figure. He was pretty similar to other southern Republicans in his views, and had a pretty long career in the House and Governorship. I think bad timing played a part in his lack of ever running for President. Dole was the clear front-runner in 1996, and by 2000...

  2. WI: Hillary Clinton Won 2008

    That's possible. However, Al Gore ran largely as a "power to the people" populist in 2000, but it didn't stop the Bush campaign for slamming his environmental and gun control records. Just because she wasn't emphasizing those views in 2008 (quite the contrary on gun control, as you noted)...

  3. WI: Hillary Clinton Won 2008

    Thanks for the support guys. The thought of restarting "Madam President" has definitely crossed my mind, and I may do so sometime in the future (I'd like to see some of her cabinet picks IOTL and her first 100 days to get a better idea of her governing style). Building on my previous post...

  4. WI: Hillary Clinton Won 2008

    I see her picking Vilsack. Choosing Bayh would cost the Dems a much needed Senate seat in Indiana without bringing in any voters which Vilsack wouldn't appeal to anyway (i.e. moderates in both parties and indies). As for governing: The key question is whether Hillary has a Supermajority in the...

  5. Chuck Robb still in the US Senate?

    I can see him chairing the Foreign Relations Committee after Kerry steps down, or the Budget Committee before that (he was on both during his tenure in the Senate). He would certainly be one of the more moderate-to-conservative Democrats in the Senate, particularly on fiscal issues (he voted for...

  6. Nixon wins in 1960 - whom do the Dems nominate in 1964?

    Humphrey would be a strong candidate.

  7. No Paul Volcker- US economy

    Another POD is Gerald Ford winning reelection. There's a good chance that he appoints Alan Greenspan as Fed Chair instead of Volcker. He'd probably take an equally hawkish monetary policy while supporting deregulation.

  8. Rocky stays with his first wife

    As an aside, Geoffrey Kabaservice posits in "Rule and Ruin" (a history of moderate Republicans since Ike) that Rockefeller was a net negative for the progressive/moderate wing of the GOP. He kept running for President in fits and starts, and spending an awful lot of money in the process. This...

  9. WI: John Connally as a Democrat

    I don't think his political career goes much further than the Texas State House if he remains a Democrat. Maybe he gets a job in the Carter Administration, but he was too conservative to win a Presidential primary and seemed to have little interest in serving in Congress.

  10. WI Liberal 1970's (Domestic Policy)

    A couple of helpful PODs.... -The October Surprise: LBJ reveals that Nixon tried to hinder Paris peace talks. Humphrey wins by a decent margin, and is able to expand upon the Great Society/War on Poverty (UHC, a stronger version of Humphrey-Hawkins, federalizing welfare, etc.) -No...

  11. UK adopts PR in 1917?

    Well, all alternate history is purely speculative. Predicting STV may be a bit more difficult, but it's still a fun thought experiment. I imagine that the 1918 governing coalition would be pretty similar to OTL (Coalition Conservatives, Coalition Liberals, Coalition National Democratic, and...

  12. UK adopts PR in 1917?

    Based on my relatively thin knowledge of UK history, I imagine it would benefit the Liberal Party. Obviously there were several factors that contributed to their decline (WWI, Lloyd-George v. Aisquith, the somewhat inevitable rise of Labour support among the working class), but FPTP really hurt...

  13. WI: Bentsen in '88

    Bentsen was much too conservative to win the nomination in 1988.

  14. Nixon's Second Term without Watergate

    I can see Birch Bayh or Mo Udall winning the '76 Democratic nomination in this scenario. Neither were particularly offensive to any major factions of the party. Bayh is my pick, as he checked all the necessary boxes, had a lot of support with labor, and had red-state (blue back then) appeal...

  15. 1980 AET: Ford Wins 76

    I'm actually working on a timeline that deals with this scenario.

  16. William McKinley Evades Assassination

    Fairbanks seems like a solid candidate from what little I know about him. He was the 1896 keynote speaker and went on to head-up the platform committee in 1916.

  17. William McKinley Evades Assassination

    Who do you think would have succeeded McKinley in 1904? (I'm genuinely interested in this period of American political history and know far too little about it.)

  18. Make Teddy Kennedy President after 1969

    I agree with this analysis. There's a revisionist approach that claims there's no way that Ted Kennedy could be nominated. I disagree, and polling throughout the 1970s and early 1980s shows that Kennedy was by far the most popular Democrat in America. Chappaquiddick certainly hurt Kennedy's...

  19. WI: Mitterrand won in 1974?

    Can't say I'm that knowledgeable about French politics, but I'd look to the "Common Program" for starters on policy ideas. It's likely he would have to rely on the Communists more than during his actual presidency, and that he'd be in tough shape in 1981 due to a lot of factors.

  20. Conservatism without Reagan

    While it may be a bit surprising today, Ted Kennedy was supported by many of the hawks within the Democratic Party in 1980. This was due in large part to his support for Israel and his frequent meetings with the Soviet 'Refuseniks.' While he was to the left of Carter on many important issues...
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