The General "What-if?" Game

[Barnes]

I'm guessing Wallace still runs...

Johnson makes a few gains in the South, but causes Wallace to win Tennessee because of more Democratic defections, the Chicago machine is able to narrowly deliver Illinois, but Johnson is squarely defeated in the Northeast where the hippies and Anti-War faction protest his candidacy en masse by abstaining.

Nixon/Agnew: 347
Johnson/Humphrey: 135
Wallace/LeMay: 56

What if: Hubert Humphrey was the Democratic nominee in 1960 against Nelson Rockerfeller?

[wilji1090]

I think that there would be some level of fatigue against the Republicans despite Ike's popularity as the outgoing president. Assuming that Humphrey chooses Kennedy as his running mate will also provide ample ground as well. Harry Byrd for whatever reason abstains.

Hubert Humphrey/John F. Kennedy 333 Electoral Votes
Nelson Rockefeller/Raymond P. Shafer 204 Electoral Votes


What if the hostages were released in time before Election Day of 1980?

[CatoMinor]

Narrower Reagan win.

What if in 2000 Pataki/Jim Jeffords vs Gore/John Breaux

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

2000 Pataki/Jim Jeffords vs Gore/John Breaux

280-258
2000 Tommy Thompson v Bill Bradley?

["'Oeps!' De blunders van Rick Perry Indicted"]

Narrow Thompson win:

WI: Gephardt vs. Bush '88

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

What if-1996-Quayle/Powell vs Clinton/Gore vs Perot/Buchanan

[sentinel]

Clinton v. Quayle/Powell v. Perot/Buchanan

Clinton: 448
Quayle: 78
Perot: 20

Perot/Buchanan splits the conservative/Republican vote giving a larger Clinton victory. People run from Quayle to Perot due to his incompetence as well as the VP outshining the Presidential candidate by any standard. Surprisingly enough, Quayle manages to hold onto a few states by a slim margin.

What if Abraham Lincoln is not shot and faces Horatio Seymour in the general for a third term in office.

[wilji1090]

Abraham Lincoln/Ulysses S. Grant = 147 Electoral Votes

Horatio Seymour/Francis P. Blair = 144 Electoral Votes.

While Lincoln drops Johnson and picks popular war hero Ulysses S. Grant to be his running mate; several factors play into the election namely the way Lincoln handled the war and the unpopular aspect of a third term president. However, Lincoln barely squeaks by against Seymour due to some bitterness remaining from the Civil War.

What if... Barack Obama had decided to drop Biden and replace him with Hillary Clinton in response to John McCain choosing Sarah Palin as his running mate?

[sentinel]

What if... Barack Obama had chosen Hillary Clinton as his running mate to counter John McCain picking Sarah Palin as his running mate in 2008?

Question of elaboration. Because the DNC was first, do you mean to say that Obama picked Biden, then dropped him after Sarah Palin was announced and picked up Hillary instead?

[wilji1090]

What if... Barack Obama had chosen Hillary Clinton as his running mate to counter John McCain picking Sarah Palin as his running mate in 2008?

Question of elaboration. Because the DNC was first, do you mean to say that Obama picked Biden, then dropped him after Sarah Palin was announced and picked up Hillary instead?

Yes, my apologies for not elaborating

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Not much.

What if the 2008 election was McCain/Pawlenty vs. Feingold/Manchin?

[NHI]

Feingold.

D: 274
R: 264

Romney vs. Kennedy 1964

[Yelnoc]

Jack or Bobbie?

[RogueBeaver]

Presumably Jack. In any case, with a badly divided Republican Party, a popular, charismatic incumbent and a booming economy that wouldn't be seen again until the mid-'80s, ATL 1964 should look a lot like OTL 1996.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

I'll do the map. Wallace runs due to Romney being a pro-CR (I think) liberal.

What if Harry Truman won the Democratic nomination in 1952?

[#CriminalizeSobriety]

To the post above me, Barnett is a far more likely candidate than Wallace.

Anyway, curbstompage:

This, assuming no third party/unpledgies.

Ah sh**t, I forgot a scenario. Alright.

2000: Bush vs Bradley, any takers?

[sentinel]

Bush: 317
Bradley: 221

I just think Bush would have wiped the floor with him.

What if Alexander Hamilton v. Thomas Jefferson in 1804. (No Burr/Hamilton duel).

[tpfkaw]

Jefferson elected unanimously.  (Hamilton was a very unpopular figure)

2008:

R: Tom Tancredo/Duncan Hunter
D: Dennis Kucinich/Barney Frank
I: David Koch/Charles Koch
I: Warren Buffett/George Soros

The independent tickets declare their candidacies in late 2006, so that only nobodies compete for the major party nominations, the billionaire tickets each spend $3 billion on their campaigns.