AHC: Get George W. Bush reelected in a landslide in 2004
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Clark Kent
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« on: December 13, 2015, 06:14:58 PM »

Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to get George W. Bush reelected in a landslide in 2004 with a POD no later than his inauguration in January 2001. You can define a landslide however you like. However, at the very least, Bush must win the majority of the popular vote, and win the state of New York.
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« Reply #1 on: December 13, 2015, 06:36:23 PM »
« Edited: December 13, 2015, 07:22:53 PM by tara gilesbie »

After three calm yet divisive years, Bush is easily renominated by his party, while the Democratic Party runs Rhode Island governor Myrth York, who was elected in the 2002 wave which saw the Democratic Party retake Congress.

Then, on October 17, 2004 a major terrorist attack occurs that topples the World Trade Center by al-Queda. Both parties suspend their campaigns, and Bush's response is universally praised. With 57 percent of the popular vote, Bush carries 531 electoral votes 49 states, while just barely losing York's home state and Democratic bastion Rhode Island, and becoming the first Republican to hit twenty in DC since Nixon. York wins 41 percent of the popular vote, but only seven electoral votes and barely wins RI, while receiving a mere 18 percent in Utah.

The Democratic Party is humiliated at having yet another landslide loss. Al From, York's campaign manager, is blamed for not creating an effective response to the attacks. Fortunately for them, Bush's decision to invade Iraq in 2006 repolarizes the nation just in time for the 2008 economic crash.
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« Reply #2 on: December 13, 2015, 07:12:41 PM »

Somehow, I don't see any Republican winning DC under any circumstances.
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« Reply #3 on: December 13, 2015, 07:23:06 PM »

Somehow, I don't see any Republican winning DC under any circumstances.

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« Reply #4 on: December 15, 2015, 08:20:51 PM »

2001:
- Balanced Budget for fiscal year 2001-2002 passed; authored by Congressmen Henry Bonilla and Mike Ferguson, and Senators Gordon Smith and Don Nickles
- 9/11; attempted assassination attempt on Bush

2002:
- The Gang of Two and Ten* help author the 2002-2003 Balanced Budget Reform Act
- The Republicans do well in the Congressional races, losing the House by just three votes, and the Senate by one

2003:
- Balanced Budget passed
- Late December: Regulatory Reform & Economic Stimulus Act passed

2004:
- Balanced Budget passed
- Gang of Two and Ten endorse Bush at the Convention
- Just five days before the Convention, Cheney is assassinated
- Giuliani, the popular Governor of New York, is chosen as Bush's running-mate
- Harold Ford, Jr., introduces the keynote speaker, Gordon Smith
- Democrats nominate Dennis Kucinich and Al Sharpton
- Jesse Jackson, Jr., gives a faltering keynote speech
- Economic growth in August(3.7%), September(4.1%), and October(4.7%) is outstanding
- Unemployment drops below 3.5% on October 18

*(Senators: Gordon Smith, Joe Lieberman; Representatives Bonilla, Ferguson, Nancy Johnson, Harold Ford, Jr., Mike McIntyre, Ben Chandler, Frank LoBiondo, Amo Houghton, Steve LaTourette, & Rob Simmons)


535: Pres. George W. Bush(R-TX)/Gov. Rudy Giuliani(R-NY) - 58.4%
003: Rep. Dennis Kucinich(D-OH)/Activist Al Sharpton(D-DC) - 39.7%
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« Reply #5 on: December 17, 2015, 05:55:38 PM »

It might be best for the Democratic primary to be more divisive. Maybe Joementum turns into an actual thing and this occurs:

Howard Dean - 27.5%
John Kerry - 26.2%
Joe Lieberman - 17.0%
Wesley Clark - 15.8%
John Edwards - 9.9%

And a brokered convention occurs a few months later, with Kerry and Dean at each other's throats?
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« Reply #6 on: December 17, 2015, 06:43:51 PM »


2003-

A major New York City terrorist attack where Iraqi saboteurs gas Times Square occurs and kills around seven hundred people. Bush approvals soar to near eighty percent levels and the general U.S populous is for more action in Iraq. Around twenty percent of the nation opposes. With many potential democratic candidates not running for the democratic nomination, Dennis Kucinich wins closely against Braun and Sharpton. The DNC is divided, with pandamonium occuring at the convention, the delegates get to voice vote their vice president. Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders were in a rough fight, with Howard Dean also getting many votes. In the end, it was Sanders, Dean, and Biden, along with some scattered votes for Daschle. Howard Dean gave a fiery anti war convention speech. The RNC was very different. Dick Cheney, declining to run for a second term, is replaced by New York Governor George Pataki. Rudy Giuliani makes an emotional appeal, along with John McCain and Lindsey Graham. George W. Bush wins in a landslide.











Pres. George W. Bush/Governor George Pataki Sad 469 Electoral Votes 56.1%
Rep. Dennis Kucinich/Rep. Bernie Sanders Sad 69 Electoral Votes 42.9%
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« Reply #7 on: December 17, 2015, 06:53:37 PM »

September 11th 2001: 9/11 occurs as in real life
October 16th 2002: Evidence of WMDs in Iraq shown to  Congress. Congress then approves air strikes to destroy the located bases with WMDs in Iraq.
December 1st 2002: The CIA, Mossad, and MI6 find, locate, and destroy a secret Iraqi Nuclear Reactor in Iraq. Iraq threatens war.
December 10th-15th 2002: The United Nations Security Council votes 5-0 to denounce Iraq officially for having WMDs, and for having an illegal nuclear reactor within it's borders. The Security Council also voted on a Chapter 7 motion, but that motion failed due to NAY votes from Russia and China. Days later the United States and the Russian Federation co-authored a resolution to place crippling sanctions on Iraq for it's belligerence; resolution passes 5-0 in the Security Council.
March 15th 2003: U.S. Forces in Afghanistan advance in a positive direction and have severely weakened the power and influence of the Taliban and Al Qaeda.
April 5th 2003: Saddam Hussein resigns as dictator of Iraq after months of violent protests and flees Baghdad into the countryside; The sanctions authored by the Americans and Russians have done their damage and the people of Iraq have revolted. The United Nations approves a Chapter 6 resolution for Iraq, to allow a smooth and peaceful transition form a dictatorship to Democracy. This was done also to prevent a violent civil war from brewing. The Chapter 6 will last until 2006.
April 25th 2003: Saddam Hussein had been in rural Iraq and had been arrested. He will be tried  by the ICC for crimes against his own people.
May 5th-30th 2003: Despite the U.N. Chapter 6, a civil war breaks out in Iraq. The Security Council approves a Chapter 7 soon after, allowing a joint U.N. team, headed by the United States and Russia, to secure peace and order in Iraq. 200,000 ground troops from a coalition of 15 countries have been placed in Baghdad.
September 15th 2003: The Chapter 7 Coalition forces fight off Islamic militants in Iraq, restoring order to the country. The United States-led coalition announces that elections will occur in Iraq between multiple secularist parties on February 5th 2004. An Interim President has been placed in charge of a Provisional Government in Iraq. This interim president will not be allowed to run in 2004.
October 15th 2003: The Chapter 6 is resumed and the Chapter 7's termination date has been set for January 1st 2004.
December 2003: George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin named TIME Person of the Year for their leadership in preventing a full-scale war in Iraq.

January 1st 2004:
Coalition forces leave Iraq.
Febuary 5th 2004: Centrist, Secularist "Future for Iraq" Party elected; takes control of Presidency and Parliament.
April 11th 2004: Osama bin Laden killed in Afghanistan by U.S. Navy SEALs.



Bush beats Dean in a landslide.
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« Reply #8 on: December 29, 2015, 12:40:54 AM »

April 2, 2003:
- Bill Bradley announces run

May 5, 2003:
- Howard Dean refuses to run; endorses Bill Bradley

June 6, 2003:
- Dennis Kucinich announces run; endorsed by Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and Ralph Nader

July 4, 2003:
- A task force of five thousand men invades a section of Iraq

July 22, 2003:
- Mustapha Hussein leads victorious charge after the death of his uncle and father

March 29, 2004:
- Official invasion of Iraq begins under General Petraeus

April 4, 2004:
- Dennis Kucinich to run third party "against the party machinery"
- George W. Bush appoints Zalimay Khalizad, Michael Hagee, Willie L. Williams, Bernard Berik, and John Brennan in charge of Operation Snake Head

September 11, 2004:
- Mass attack in Times Square by over forty terrorists; kills 5,000
- Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden captured

October 31, 2004:
- Mustapha Hussein, the new leader of his country, gains sanctuary in Syria, as does nearly twenty thousand men in his army alongside many civilian government officials
- Barzan Ibrahim Al-Tikitri, the temporary leader of the country, surrenders, but only after his elite police force wreaks havoc on American armed forces


538: Pres. George W. Bush(R-NY)/Sec. of Homeland Security Rudy Giuliani(R-NY) - 59.6%
000: Rep. Richard Gephardt(D-MO)/Fmr. Sen. Sam Nunn(D-GA) - 30.3%

Rep. Dennis Kucinich(Reform/I-OH)/Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton(Reform/I-DC) - 8.8%
Other: 0.3%
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« Reply #9 on: December 30, 2015, 08:03:49 PM »

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538 (50+DC): Pres. George W. Bush(R-NY)/Sec. of Homeland Security Rudy Giuliani(R-NY) - 59.6%
000 (0): Rep. Richard Gephardt(D-MO)/Fmr. Sen. Sam Nunn(D-GA) - 30.3%
I'm sorry, I just don't see a Republican winning DC under any circumstance.
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« Reply #10 on: December 30, 2015, 08:28:47 PM »

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538 (50+DC): Pres. George W. Bush(R-NY)/Sec. of Homeland Security Rudy Giuliani(R-NY) - 59.6%
000 (0): Rep. Richard Gephardt(D-MO)/Fmr. Sen. Sam Nunn(D-GA) - 30.3%
I'm sorry, I just don't see a Republican winning DC under any circumstance.
Kucinich got ~40%. Maybe I should make it 33.0% for Bush, 32.9% for Kucinich, and 31.3% for Gephardt.
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« Reply #11 on: January 19, 2016, 04:03:57 PM »

Basically a timely late fall terrorist attack secures Bush a landslide. Someone should create a thread for how Obama would lose in 2008
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« Reply #12 on: January 19, 2016, 06:34:33 PM »

All you have to do for Bush to win NY is put a D next to his name and he's got it.
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