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IOTL, Henry Wallace was personally picked by FDR as his new running mate in 1940. A presidential nominee picking his own running mate was considered unprecedented and do set that precedent moving forward, so this could’ve easily not happened. Instead, FDR goes with someone his aides were...

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...

Let's say the war is lost under the Republican's watch along with a financial panic that follows when it becomes clear the Union is going to lose. How could the Republican Party reform themselves to stay viable in elections? With the loss of its Southern base, how would've the Northern...

Obviously a little ASB but I was thinking about ways if the dust bowl was compacted to during Hoover years how much that would change things to the American political landscape and economy. But in particular how much more it would hurt republicans and if democrats would do even better in 1932...

Obviously a successful democratic 1980s is a scenario that is interesting to me and a lot of people on the site. Realistically for it to happen the POD is a Republican whether it’s Ford or Reagan wins in 1976 and their term is a disaster where the economy is in the tank by election time ( for...

Who would the Democratic nominee be in 1892 if Cleveland didn't run again and would he win against Harrison?

Despite his unpopularity at the time of the election, and Harrison's comfortable victory in the electoral college and popular vote, Martin Van Buren came very close to winning Maine, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey. Had he won those five states, he would've gotten 153 votes in...

It always puzzled me how Fascism couldn't gain traction in America during the Great Depression, since it was one of the most affected countries by it and especially in the Democratic Party, plagued by isolationists and racists. Your challenge is to have the Democratic President elected in 1932...

Since this is the turn of the 19th to 20th centuries I'll put the WI here. In 1896, decades after the end of Reconstruction, the state of North Carolina elected Daniel Lindsay Russell, a Republican, to the governorship by a margin of less than ten thousand votes. Russell, who had a majority in...

Per the title, what's the best POD to get one of America's most corrupt politicians in the White House? What would his Presidency look like? Would we get Watergate 100 years earlier?

In OTL the Democratic party experienced a pretty dominant period in the USA following the election of FDR, holding the presidency for 20 straight years starting in 1933 and holding the house for all but 4 years from 1931 to 1995. While it might seem like this was destined to come to an end, I...

So working off of this idea (it may or may not be plausible): If the 1784 Land Ordinance, banning slavery in new US territories, passes it somewhat likely means that states like Kentucky, and Tennessee (along with Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri etc.) enter into the Union as free states. This...

The US famously really only has two parties that matter the most in politics, and that’s the Democrats and Republicans. But in the last 4 years or so, we’ve really seen diverging ideas within those political parties. Many of these ideologies would have their own parties if they weren’t part in...

The Smoking Fish: A Wikibox TL An alternate history of Venezuela, the United States and the world in the 21st century Prologue "When an English voter wants a change in the politics of the conservative government in office, all they have to do is vote for the Labor candidate. The differences...

Samuel Tilden is best remembered as the Democratic candidate in the 1876 presidential election and for losing narrowly to Rutherford B Hayes. Prior to this, he had been a disciple of Martin Van Buren and was part of the 1848 free soil faction. Tilden returned to the Democrats while many free...

This is inspired by a legendary thread by @Nightingale about a Democratic Party revolution in the 1980s. The basic premise is that Ford wins in 1976, leading the Democrats to win the White House four years later and theoretically oversee the '80s economic recovery. The thread can be viewed here...

In 1991, New York Governor Mario Cuomo famously dithered over whether or not to run for President in the upcoming Democratic primaries. Ultimately he decided not to run, claiming that New York's budget problems were too much of a distraction, and Bill Clinton was nominated instead. Had Cuomo...

With the results of the 2016 presidential election in showing the 22nd consecutive Democratic win in a Presidential election, one starts to wonder if this was an inevitable path for American politics. Democrats have continuously held the presidency since 1932, and, with only a few exceptions...

(Note: the following is an exploration of how John Tyler could have won the election of 1844, and some of the results of what might have happened afterwards, it is not wholly realistic, and is in fact inspired by a game of President Infinity that I played as Tyler and managed to just barely win...

Your challenge is to have a Democratic presidential candidate win Texas in the electoral college after 1976, with a POD no earlier than that year.