1976 election

Whenever someone mentions the Presidential Election of 1976, many like to say that it would be a “poisoned chalice” as events such as the energy crisis and the Iranian Revolution would hurt any President, whether Dem or Repub, who wins. However is this exactly true? Is it possible for an...

As the tin says, what if President Gerald Ford decides (for one reason or another) to sit out the 1976 Presidential Election? The obvious assumption is that Ronald Reagan, who very nearly defeated Ford in the Republican Primary for that cycle, would wind up becoming the GOP nominee. But if Ford...

4 ways to Washington we go: The Democratic Primary [Part 1] “The United States presidential election of 1976 was the 48th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 2, 1976. Democratic candidate Congressman Robert Sargent Shriver of Maryland and his running mate Jimmy Carter...

If Ford had narrowly beaten Carter in 1976, how would he have handled stagflation, the Iranian Revolution, the push for the Equal Rights Amendment, and other issues that plagued Carter? What do the state of the economy and foreign affairs look like by 1980? And how does American history continue...

What if Senator Robert Kennedy stuck with his initial decision not to run in 1968? Would Sirhan Sirhan still try to assassinate him? If not, would he be a contender for the Presidency in 1972 or 1976? What do you think an RFK Presidency would look like in the mid to late 1970s? And how would...

IOTL, President Gerald Ford came very close to winning the election in 1976. Despite being associated with Richard Nixon and Watergate Ford had a strong showing in the election. What if the election had gone another way? Say that Ford doesn’t make that gaffe about Eastern Europe in the debates...

IOTL, Ronald Reagan nearly won the Republican nomination in 1976 for President. Had he won the nomination, could the smooth-talking Gipper have won the 1976 election, and what would his presidency have looked like? Who would succeed him?

Let’s say that Reagan does not name his running mate, and wins the nomination in 1976, but loses to Carter. George Bush wins the nomination in 1980 and defeats Carter. Who would be his running mate? And what would an early eighties Bush Presidency look like? How does this impact the 80’s and...

The 1976 election is a fascinating one for me. Almost as fascinating as the 1968 election, the Republican primaries had Ronald Reagan, a future president, narrowly lose to Gerald Ford, a current president. If Reagan had won that nomination, who would he have picked to be his Veep? Bush? Dole...

Similar to a thread I posted with the GOP winning in '76 (mostly involving moderate alternatives to Ford and Reagan), the purpose here is mainly to explore better Democratic alternatives to Carter. The POD is Rockefeller and Reagan succeed in denying Nixon the GOP nomination in 1968. Rocky goes...

Despite the unpopularity of President Johnson, the 1968 election was extremely close and could easily have gone the other way given a 3% shift to the Democrats in a few swing states. If the Democrats win in '68 (whether their candidate is Humphrey or RFK, the only two with a real chance,) they...

To make this possible changes against either are never found out or he never commits them in the first place. Would he have been successful with him winning the 1976 election. What would today look like with a Agnew seventies?

Hello, all--welcome to Watergate thread #9000. As I've read over other threads with a similar premise, I've wondered - if Nixon finishes his second term, without a Watergate cover up, who would be the GOP nominee in 1976? I'm skeptical that either Reagan or Connally would be shoe-ins, though I...

I presented a scenario like this some time ago in my Fringe Alternate Universe TL. Since I'm getting ready to post a revision of that TL, I thought I'd ask this question. If Richard Nixon had chosen to forgo surgery for his phlebitis in October 1974, and if he had subsequently died due to...

What if Gerald Ford had not pardoned Richard Nixon after Watergate-and instead let Nixon face a trial? One possible effect of it would be to benefit the GOP in the 1974 midterms, in The Invisible Bridge by Rick Perlstein "A New Jersey lawmaker estimated that Republican candidates had gained...

As simple as the title states. Make Senator Edward Brooke President of the United States sometime after his election to the Senate in 1966.

In the 1972 US Election, George McGovern lost to President Richard Nixon in one of the largest landslides in history. Among the reasons often cited for his loss are his outsider status, his apparent "far left" ideological stances, and of course the infamous "Amnesty, abortion, and acid" line...

For a story i'm currently writing, President Jimmy Carter is assassinated in a false flag terrorist attack orchestrated by the mob in order to put alternate-Vice President, James R. Hoffa, in the White House. So your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to come up with the specifics for...

1976 Democratic Nomination In big surprises Carter beat Udall in Iowa. In New Hampshire, Udall narrowly won over Carter. With Romney running unopposed in the Republican primary in Massachusetts, the whole focus was on the Democratic primary which saw an upset victory for George Wallace...

To help ensure his popularity and reelection, Romney moved to the left, approving a bailout for NYC, appointing a liberal to the Supreme Court, and signing a bill to create the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as well as The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). The straw...