Well, there’s goes my prediction about Dale Bumpers! Either way, he’d be a strong contender for Jackson’s VP. Jackson, though, would need to pick him sometime before the end of 1979 to help blunt Carter’s primary challenge and give AR Dems time to choose a new Senate nominee before 1980.
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My hunch is that Humphrey’s going to choose Sen. Dale Bumpers to replace Carter. Like Carter, Bumper’s a southerner, but he’s also more of a New Dealer than Carter.
I wonder if there's any way for Shimon Peres to become Israeli PM ITTL in 1987 so he can implement the London Agreement, which would've have given the West Bank to Jordan in exchange for peace? I'm not sure if anything ITTL would lead to a left bloc victory in the 1984 Israeli election, but...
This is great! Thank you so much for making this!
My only questions is why isn’t Frank Church an option for the Presidency? Given that Church won five primaries and was the other “Anybody But Carter” candidate besides Jerry Brown, I don’t think the possibility of him getting elected President...
I’m reserving judgment on the ending until I see the next episode. My hunch is that DPRK most likely got to Mars after the U.S. and USSR and there’s something about the mission that the Soviets or possibly the Chinese haven’t told us about yet (perhaps it links back to the Margo subplot?).
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The issue isn’t just that fossil fuel jobs are disappearing. It’s that NASA seems to be sitting on billions of dollars and the Speaker wants to redirect some of that money towards domestic needs.
My hunch, though, is that Ellen will only serve one term because she’ll get outed and her party (and perhaps her own VP) will turn against her, so there would be a one-term Democratic President between Ellen and McCain.
Here’s one plausible answer for Hart’s VP:
Hart picks Joe Biden as his VP in 1984 to shore up his weakness with blue-collar voters while doubling-down on his message of generational change. Joe Biden has an aneurysm in Feb. 1988 (which he did in OTL) and decides not to run for VP again. Hart...
Based on what the show’s creator said in the official FAM podcast, they’re really leaning into the “social progress has progressed faster ITTL” angle, so I don’t think it’s out of the question that Ellen could win in 1992 since she’d be TTL’s first woman President. That being said, I’m not sure...