If Obama's last name was Osama

[IceSpear]

Results for:

2004 IL Senate race
2008 Democratic primary
2008 general
2012 general

Discuss with maps.

[RR1997]

This is trolling taken to an extreme level, but I'll still play along. Also remember that Obama's middle name is Hussien.

2004 Illinois Senatorial Election:
Remember that Alan Keyes is a lunatic, so Barack Osama still wins, but very narrowly. The percentages would probably be somewhere between 50-48 to 55-43

2008 Democratic Primary

Hillary Clinton: 38 States+D.C. & P.R., 3,602 Delegates
John Edwards: 12 States, 505 Delegates

Barack Osama drops out after Iowa due to a terrible performance in Iowa, but he wasn't even considered to be a serious contender in the first place.

2008 Presidential Election:

Let's just say that in this scenario, Osama wins the primary, which is extremely unlikely. Normally, it would be a landslide for Mccain, but the 2008 financial crisis and the two wars keep it relatively close.

The Green Party candidate Ralph Nader performs strongly because he wins voters who were tired of the conservatives that were ruining this country, but were scared of Osama's last name.

John McCain: 48%, 325 EV's
Barack Osama: 43.8%, 213 EV's
Ralph Nader: 5%, 0 EV's

2012 Presidential Election:
I assume that Osama was already elected president in 2008 in this scenario. Well then his win in 2008 must of been extremely narrow, and he probably only won in 08 because of the financial crisis. Since the recovery has been slow, with the addition of Osama's last name, Romney wins.

Mitt Romney: 50.7%, 215 EV's
Barack Osama: 47.4%, 223 EV's

[cbannon5]

He isn't given the DNC keynote address in '04 and thereby, even if he is elected to the senate, he is not a serious 2008 contender. 

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

The people who wouldn't have voted for him for those reasons didn't vote for him anyway.

[NewYorkExpress]

Honestly, I think Keyes would have won that Senate race.... and then been primaried in 2010 for being a nutjob.

[NHLiberal]

Honestly, I think Keyes would have won that Senate race.... and then easily won renomination in 2010 for being a nut job.

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[NewYorkExpress]

Honestly, I think Keyes would have won that Senate race.... and then easily won renomination in 2010 for being a nut job.

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Really? There are your standard Republican crazy people, and there's Alan Keyes... He's in a league of his own when it comes to crazy.

[NHLiberal]

Honestly, I think Keyes would have won that Senate race.... and then easily won renomination in 2010 for being a nut job.

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Really? There are your standard Republican crazy people, and there's Alan Keyes... He's in a league of his own when it comes to crazy.

If Christie O'Donnell can beat Michael Castle in an open seat primary in Delaware, there's no way an incumbent Republican is losing his primary to a challenger from the left in 2010, even in Illinois.