How John McCain could Win '08[POD: February '92]

[Kingpoleon]

In 1992, Tsongas and Brown quickly coalesce together. Rather than a drawn-out fight, they pull delegates together to narrowly edge out Clinton in April.
President: Jerry Brown(D-CA)
Vice President: Paul Simon(D-IL)

Secretary of the Treasury: Paul Tsongas(D-MA)
Chairman of the Federal Reserve: Pat Choate(I-IL)
Secretary of Labor: Howard Dean(D-VT)
Secretary of Commerce: Hiram Ross Perot, Jr.(I-TX)
U. S. Trade Representative: Alice Rivlin(D-PA)

George W. Bush wins a more contested primary fight:
Vice President: Colin Powell(R-VA)

Secretary of the Treasury: Henry Paulson(R-NJ)
Chairman of the Federal Reserve: John Kasich(R-OH)
Secretary of Labor: Elizabeth Dole(R-NC)
Secretary of Commerce: Dennis Michael Lynch(R-NY)
U. S. Trade Rep. : Susan Schwab(R-MD)

The budget stays balanced, and a 2001-2002 recession followed by a 2005-2007 one occur. McCain pledges to serve only one term and chooses Joe Lieberman as his running-mate.

286: Sen. John McCain(R-AZ)/Sen. Joseph Lieberman(R-CT) - 50.2%
252: Sen. Barack Obama(D-IL)/Chairman & Fmr Gov. Howard Dean(D-VT) - 48.7%
Other: 1.0%

[I support Sanders]

McCain/Lieberman would be a good, bipartisan ticket, and the GOP base would be less extreme in this timeline, since Clinton's moving the Democratic Party to the right was the reason the Republicans ran even more to the right. Presumably, the GOP base in 2008, had Jerry Brown won election in '92, would have remained where it was in the '80s: a conservative Party that was able to compromise and govern in the style of Eisenhower, Nixon, Reagan, and the Presidents Bush.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

I dont think Obama would have picked Dean as VP.

[Kingpoleon]

I dont think Obama would have picked Dean as VP.

Dean would have been a pretty good choice. While not as strong presidential material as Biden, he has more charisma than Obama.

Who do you think he would have picked besides Biden and Bayh? Al Gore? Bill Richardson? Sam Nunn?

[Maxwell]

I dont think Obama would have picked Dean as VP.

Dean would have been a pretty good choice. While not as strong presidential material as Biden, he has more charisma than Obama.

Who do you think he would have picked besides Biden and Bayh? Al Gore? Bill Richardson? Sam Nunn?

[Coolface Sock #42069]

I dont think Obama would have picked Dean as VP.

Dean would have been a pretty good choice. While not as strong presidential material as Biden, he has more charisma than Obama.

Who do you think he would have picked besides Biden and Bayh? Al Gore? Bill Richardson? Sam Nunn?

Yeah, no, he doesn't.

[Kingpoleon]

I dont think Obama would have picked Dean as VP.

Dean would have been a pretty good choice. While not as strong presidential material as Biden, he has more charisma than Obama.

Who do you think he would have picked besides Biden and Bayh? Al Gore? Bill Richardson? Sam Nunn?

... Ovama was a front runner because of campaigning. Dean soared into speeches.

[Maxwell]

I dont think Obama would have picked Dean as VP.

Dean would have been a pretty good choice. While not as strong presidential material as Biden, he has more charisma than Obama.

Who do you think he would have picked besides Biden and Bayh? Al Gore? Bill Richardson? Sam Nunn?

... Ovama was a front runner because of campaigning. Dean soared into speeches.

That's even less true.