1. George Wallace ran as a Democrat in 1968 instead of independent, and won.

2. Nixon still wins 1968, but gave into party pressure to select George Romney (Mitt’s father) as his VP instead of staying with Agnew. Agnew had to resign due to controversies, and was replaced with Ford, who became president after Watergate. In this scenario, Romney would have become President following Nixon’s resignation.

3. Al Gore wins Florida in 2000, becomes President.

4. JFK was not successfully assassinated

5. Reagan was successfully assassinated

If Al Gore won we would have been several steps into world peace.

Gore wouldn’t have gotten us into Iraq, so that much is true. Would’ve taken climate change more seriously as well.

If Gore win in 2000, you would have had probably McCain run against him in 04. I think the 9/11 rally around the flag would have kept Gore in office, for the rare “4 terms under the same party”. But a Democrat would really struggle in 2008. HRC probably would’ve gotten the nomination based on the Gore connection, but lost to Romney in the general. Then Obama vs Romney 2012, but in this alternate history Romney would be an incumbent President. Wonder how that would’ve turned out

If Al Gore won we would've taken ManBearPig a bit more seriously...

if gore won, i think stem cell research would be way ahead of where we're at now

There’s a whole YouTube channel dedicated to this type of stuff OP you may wanna check it out

Link

m.youtube.com/user/AlternateHistoryHub

Thanks for sharing my dude

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Anybody else feel like we'd actually be worse off in terms of climate change policy if Gore was elected instead of Bush?

I say this not because of the policies that Gore would have enacted (which would surely be better than what Bush did), but because he may have not made An Inconvenient Truth. Imo that was the biggest catalyst for getting the general public serious and informed about the issue of Climate Change. Without that, politicians would have had a difficult time getting people onboard, since it's more costly.

I find the first scenario too unrealistic, no way the Democrats would nominate Wallace after the Civil Rights and Voting Rights acts and with Johnson gaining 94% of the black vote in '64 which was up over 30% from Kennedy in 1960

Well, in 1972 Wallace came in 3rd in the dem primary with 23.5% of the vote, compared to the winner McGovern who caught 25.3% of the vote. This was with him being shot and paralyzed during the campaign, and this was without the south being included in the primary process (weren’t included until 76).

In 1968, he ran independent and carried the south (last 3rd party to win EC votes), and debatably swung the election to Nixon.

So in this scenario, let’s say the south is included in the primary process 8 years earlier, and the assassination attempt completely fails and misses. If that were to happen, Wallace would have handily been able to take the lead.

Hmm

You might be right

Yeah but Wallace was "reformed" in 1972 and didn't run on a neo-Confederate, segregationist platform like he did 4 years prior.

Hey wait a second

Shabazz

Half a brick from KTT1?

okay but what if Huey Long wasn't assassinated and became president

What do you think?

US would be a completely different country, completely unrecognizable from the current trajectory of post-FDR. it probably can't be stated enough how drastically different a Long presidency would have been. In fact it's not just the US would be different, the entire world would have been completely different because the entire scope of global relations in the 30s and 40s would have been completely changed. He 100% would have won the election he was going to run in. it's actually insane how much of history was changed by him getting killed.

I’m from Louisiana and we have streets and such named after him but idk all that much about his actual politics. Gonna read more into it

one of the most unique politicians in american history simultaneously for the better and for the worse

With Lieberman as VP, the Middle East situation wouldn't have been much different from under Bush.