2008: Dennis Kucinich vs Ron Paul

[Thunderbird is the word]

What would a Kucinich vs Paul election be like?

[Sumner 1868]

Kuchinich would win, but it would be a very polarized electorate.

[Thunderbird is the word]

Kuchinich would win, but it would be a very polarized electorate.

They'd agree on foreign policy and civil liberties so the debates would revolve almost entirely around the economy. I'm thinking that for this to happen you'd have to have Bush be even more unpopular then OTL and the Iraq War regarded as a failure so universally that the GOP would be desperate to distance themselves from anything remotely similar to Bush.

[Stand With Israel. Crush Hamas]

Bloomberg was gearing up to run in the case of an election of two weak candidates, and his popularity was at a high at this point. He would have swamped these two.

[Thunderbird is the word]

Bloomberg was gearing up to run in the case of an election of two weak candidates, and his popularity was at a high at this point. He would have swamped these two.

Presuming the financial collapse happens the same time as OTL I really don't think that a Billionaire from New York would have been very popular.

[Vega]

It would be funny to see them in a foreign policy debate. Even though they are completely different on domestic issues they agree almost all the way on foreign issues.

[NeverAgain]

After a tight election, I think it would be a Kucinich victory.

[Jerseyrules]

Ron Paul would win easily, just because there are more independents that support libertarian ideas than progressive ideas. This was also right after Paul predicted the crash. It would be a beautiful election. I love Kucinich

Paul would be tainted with his party (and no, his clashes with Bush won't change that) and the fact that even less economic oversight is not an especially popular position in general, especially in a economic crisis.

I feel like his clashes with Bush

would

change that; the chief opposition to Bush in 2008 was the Iraq War before the market crash, and with Paul essentially running against Bush, he'd make a pretty effective case about not being involved with it.

The thing that'd be super interesting to me is how clean a campaign it would probably be.  Kucinich and Paul like each other and have never spoken ill of one another from what I've seen.  It'd be pretty refreshing to have two candidates speaking in-depth about policy issues rather than just name-calling and bringing up non-issues from each other's personal lives.