Let's say in 1988, a huge appeal for the repeal of the 22nd amendment began. Republicans and Democrats alike support repeal and its repealed the next year. History goes as otherwise, with Clinton running in 1992 and 1996 and winning, and in 2000 he runs against George W. Bush
1) How does the election map look?
2) If he wins, what does his third term look like? How does he respond to events like 9/11 and Katrina?
3) Who is the Democratic nominee in 2004?
I think 911 still happens. He would have gotten slammed for being "weak on defense" as every Democratic president does... except Obama after he shot Bin Laden in the face. He invades Afghanistan and gets Bin Laden at Torra Borra because he's focused and not thinking about ginning up a war against Iraq. He doesn't get much credit for it because the Republicans don't have a W Bush to compare him to. They think anything Clinton does must be easy.
We probably get some kind of substantial diplomatic break through with Iran because he doesn't make W's idiotic axis of evil speech. Iranian moderates who were in power at the time of 911 actually expressed their condolences to the United States and reached out to us. W Bush instead called them part of an axis of evil. Ahmadinejad never becomes president of Iran. Clinton basically brings Iran in from the cold the way W Bush brought Libya in from the cold.
In short 600,000 more Iraqis live to see another day. Iran is disarming and coming in from the cold. No tax cuts for the rich or a pointless war. The Afgahnistan adventure is cut short by years by the targeted killing of Bin Laden. The national debt is trillions of dollars less.
A young black junior Senator from Illionis is slowly trudging his way up through the Senatorial ranks, because the country is doing kinda ok and nobody is desperate enough to even think of electing a black guy as president. The end.
Oh, there is still a massive housing crash after Clintons 3rd term. And of course the tech wreck happens as well regardless of who is in the White House.
