republican party

Theodore Roosevelt's original plan to make a presidential comeback was to not run in 1912, but then run as a Republican in 1916. However, under pressure from left wing Republicans and compelled by his own sense of duty, Roosevelt challenged Taft in 1912 before making an unusually successful...

Throughout much of the 2012 campaign Obama's approvals were down and he was neck and neck with Romney in the polls. It looked like Romney's election to lose and that he did: the former MA Governor made a series of gaffes about the "47%" and "binders full of women" that doomed his candidacy...

In 1964, former Vice-Presidential candidate Henry Cabot Lodge stunned the nation when he won the New Hampshire Republican primary as a write-in candidate. For a time, it seemed that if Lodge officially entered the race he could beat Rockefeller and Goldwater in future primaries and clinch the...

While serving two terms as US President, Ronald Reagan became one of the most monumental as well as controversial leaders of his generation. However, this almost wasn't the case. Reagan was nearly killed in an assassination attempt when a deranged gunman named John Hinckley Jr shot him in the...

Barry Goldwater, the architect of the GOP's turn to the far right, was first elected to the Senate in 1952 by a relatively slim margin. Had 2% been shifted to his opponent, Senate Majority Leader Ernest McFarland, Goldwater would have lost. The next chance he'd have at the Senate is in 1956...

When discussing a scenario where the Democrats are in power in the early 2000's, the emphasis seems to be placed on Gore beating Bush in 2000. However there's no guarantee that Gore would even make it beyond one term. A Republican could just as well win in 2004, and make the same choices as Bush...

If longtime Republican NY Governor Nelson Rockefeller, the leader of the GOP's moderates, had avoided his 1963 marital scandal he no doubt would have been the party's standard bearer in 1964 instead of Goldwater. He would have lost that year, but like Dewey in 1948 he would stand a good chance...

If Richard Nixon loses the 1968 election to a Democrat (either Humphrey or Kennedy), who would most likely have been the Republican nominee for president in 1972?

As the tin says, your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to keep California a Republican state and explain the effects of it staying as such. Extra points if after 1992, and if you can get a GOP Californian elected President after 1992.

I came up with the idea of Bush being re-elected in '92 a while ago and after working on it for a while I've decided to give it it's own thread. There'll be maps, infoboxes and written pieces in this thread. IOTL, after Perot had re-entered the race and was included in the debates, support for...

Using any POD you want after 1900, try to keep the Republican Party from becoming conservative, and make it a Progressive-Liberal party. Basically make both parties the inverse of what they are IOTL.

Exactly what it says in the title: in the 20th century, were the Democrats or the Republicans more likely to collapse? Obviously, the collapse of a major political party is difficult to achieve and whichever one falls will be succeeded by a new party with a similar outlook, but how could each...

(CREATOR'S NOTE: This certainly is not a new idea but I want to play this out and take this forward. I plan to be pretty in depth and start with...) CHAPTER ONE - For the Love of Dallas President John F. Kennedy is wanting to seek reelection in 1964 but most of his New Frontier Agenda is...

This might sound a bit like an odd scenario, but hear me out: what sort of conditions would be required for a moderate Republican like Arlen Specter to win a GOP primary post-Reagan? In real life he ran in 1996 but knew the overwhelming number of social conservatives in the party would prevent...

Let's assume that the party bosses get their way on who Harding's running mate would be and that Harding's Presidency goes more or less as per OTL with him dying in 1923, leaving Irvine Lenroot as the 30th President of the United States. How does the Lenroot administration go? What does the...

What is this? My first attempt at a TL after having largely been active on just SW. It'll be based off of a PI observer game I ran through a few months ago on my own with modifications to make some of the election results slightly more realistic. This will only apply for the first election after...

Man, I'm note entertained if there are only conserva-wanks and liberal-wanks out there. Time for some hybrid wanks :)D), so... After searching and asking possibilities on threads on this site about a socially conservative and economically liberal (with some caveats in some areas) America, and...

With a POD no earlier than 1950, have both the Democrats and Republicans stay sexually conservative but liberal on race and women's opportunities (wages, jobs, education), immigration and drug decriminalization (but still illegal), but stay conservative in issues such as gay rights and abortion...

"November 4, 2008 Hillary Clinton Campaign Headquarters Arlington, Virginia 11:45 PM "Yes we will! Yes we will!" Hilllary Clinton's supporters keep their chants wide and loud as their candidate arrives onstage to deliver her victory speech. The President-Elect waves her arms and stretches her...

Hello everyone! Some of you may remember that a while back, I posted a thread about Joshua Chamberlain becoming president. After extensive research on Chamberlain and the politics of the early 1880s, this timeline is the result of some of the ideas from that thread. Technically our POD here is...