If you could reverse the result of 1 of these elections, which would you choose?
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Question: Which election would you reverse the result of?
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2000		  
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2008		  
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« Reply #25 on: March 15, 2019, 06:14:26 PM »
2012 with 2004 a close second.
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« Reply #26 on: March 15, 2019, 06:54:32 PM »
1992 -giving President George Bush a second term.  We all would have been better off for it. 
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« Reply #27 on: March 15, 2019, 07:24:27 PM »
2000 easily. So much would be different, and probably for the better, if Gore managed to be elected.
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« Reply #28 on: March 17, 2019, 03:42:11 AM »
2012. Was so mad that Obama won again.
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« Reply #29 on: March 17, 2019, 09:43:30 PM »
Quote from: dw93 on March 14, 2019, 06:51:29 PM
1992 with 2000 at a close second. Bush 41 winning a second term means no Republican Revolution, a better end to Somalia,  a better handling of Russia, and a more (well slightly) moderate face on the GOP through the 1990s. 2000 is for obvious reasons.
Quote from: Frodo on March 15, 2019, 06:54:32 PM
1992 -giving President George Bush a second term.  We all would have been better off for it. 
Considering the color of your avatars, wouldn't reversing 1988 be a better way to achieve these things?
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« Reply #30 on: March 17, 2019, 11:43:41 PM »
The 1992 election instigated a general decline in the (already low) moral standard to which we hold political figures. I am hopeful that we are currently experiencing a reversal of that long trend.
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« Reply #31 on: March 17, 2019, 11:44:17 PM »
2000
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« Reply #32 on: March 18, 2019, 01:01:20 AM »
1992 to burn out reaganism and ensure we get mario cuomo or some other center-left and not awful "centrist" dem in '96
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« Reply #33 on: March 18, 2019, 03:45:44 PM »
1988 to make sure a real Liberal was President and to stop the awful Crime Bill and Welfare Reform.
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« Reply #34 on: March 18, 2019, 09:59:24 PM »
Quote from: Ishan on March 18, 2019, 03:45:44 PM
1988 to make sure a real Liberal was President and to stop the awful Crime Bill and Welfare Reform.
you realize given the recession of the late 80s that we would have gotten a reaganite in '92, right?

you think our crime bill/welfare reform were bad imagine reagan 2.0
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« Reply #35 on: March 18, 2019, 10:24:37 PM »
« Edited: March 19, 2019, 01:58:14 AM by darklordoftech »
Quote from: penttilinkolafan on March 18, 2019, 09:59:24 PM
Quote from: Ishan on March 18, 2019, 03:45:44 PM
1988 to make sure a real Liberal was President and to stop the awful Crime Bill and Welfare Reform.
you realize given the recession of the late 80s that we would have gotten a reaganite in '92, right?

you think our crime bill/welfare reform were bad imagine reagan 2.0
If Dukakis won, the lesson politicians would learn is that being "soft on crime" is ok. Also, Cheney would never be Secretary of Defense (and therefore would never be trusted with foreign policy), a Democrat would appoint Thurgood Marshall's replacement, and there wouldn't be a Bush-Hussein rivalry.
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« Reply #36 on: March 19, 2019, 12:17:19 AM »
Out of these years, probably 2000; my hope is that we would avoid both the Iraq War and the Bush tax cuts, if not 9/11. Though if I can also flip the Senate, then maybe 2016.

Out of all post-WW2 years, 1976. No Carter presidency hopefully means no Reagan presidency.
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« Reply #37 on: March 20, 2019, 12:47:38 AM »
2000 to get rid of the son of a previous president becoming president.
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« Reply #38 on: March 22, 2019, 09:51:22 AM »
2012
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« Reply #39 on: July 01, 2019, 05:11:18 AM »
Tough choice, things could be a lot better if Bush Sr won in 1992 and then a more left-wing Democrat than Clinton won in 1996, but that is too much of a hypothetical to be sure it doesn't end up with the third way failures being delayed a few years. 2000 on the other hand is very likely to lead to the 21st century going much better, Bush was a terrible President and due to the high stakes he did so much damage in so many important areas, paving the way for further problems and the anti-establishment surge that led to Trump's win.
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« Reply #40 on: July 01, 2019, 05:24:10 AM »
2000
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« Reply #41 on: July 01, 2019, 02:11:30 PM »
2016, so that Evan McMullin wins.
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« Reply #42 on: July 01, 2019, 02:36:00 PM »
Quote from: RoboWop on March 17, 2019, 11:43:41 PM
The 1992 election instigated a general decline in the (already low) moral standard to which we hold political figures. I am hopeful that we are currently experiencing a reversal of that long trend.

Yeah, we definitely are. not like there's a self-declared pussy grabber in the White House right now or anything...
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« Reply #43 on: July 01, 2019, 02:57:44 PM »
2000 definitely.

2004 is a close second.
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