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    Who would the 1932 Democratic presidential nominee be if FDR had lost his bid for governor of New York?

    I really don’t see how it would be Smith. In 1928 the Democrats were so obviously doomed that Smith’s opponents decided to stand back and give him a chance to fall flat on face. We remember that tactic for all the times it massively backfires, except in 1928 it worked exactly as intended...
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    Who would the 1932 Democratic presidential nominee be if FDR had lost his bid for governor of New York?

    Ritchie's been a popular choice going back to Fight and Be Right, but he falls directly into the "well why not" trap of there being a Senator or Governor from X random Democratic state in the South that had a chunk of delegates, why couldn't he get nominated? He would have come into office but...
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    WI Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, King of Hannover dies in the Revolutionary wars

    Queen Victoria took strong but not particularly lasting political stands - I could easily see her keeping Peel in office and kicking Melbourne out, rather than vice versa, but sustaining an ultra Tory government committed to the Corn Laws (which I not very informedly think is what you’d need for...
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    WI Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, King of Hannover dies in the Revolutionary wars

    I like this POD, but I just don’t think we can make a tenable case for twenty-year-old Sussex thinking “hang on, one of my five older brothers has died, I should really keep an eye on the Hanoverian succession”. No Lady Murray and a marriage in his forties, maybe. I’ve noodled on some stuff in...
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    AH Run-downs, summaries and general gubbins

    [WHAT IF THE NFL-AFL MERGER INSTEAD CREATED A PROMOTION AND RELEGATION SYSTEM BETWEEN THEM] The end result is fairly wikiboxy, but I think the logic behind making this is interesting enough as to deserve a general gubbin - at first I did this by hand for the 1970 season, realized that approach...
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    the zaffre zone: title cards, joaos, and other oddities

    I've been looking through it, and I think the best compromise between logic & my ability to calculate stuff is the three worst teams in the NFL in 1969 getting relegated down to the AFL for the 1970 merger - so two leagues of 13 teams - and a subsequent two promotions & two relegations per year...
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    Long May They Reign - How Long?

    Credit to @Beata Beatrix for inspiring this genuinely nuts option: Edward IV takes a minor wound at Towton that festers and ultimately becomes a major wound. He dies a matter of weeks after his coronation, leaving the Yorkists & Warwick with no better option than to crown his 11 year old...
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    How possible is it for FDR to lose in 1944?

    1944 wasn’t much of a landslide, but I’d say the chances of FDR losing it are pretty near zero. No matter how well or how poorly WWII is going, it makes the election a wartime choice between the longest-serving president in American history & a Republican bench with no military credibility...
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    Alternate History General Discussion

    Honestly I think most funny lists do flow out of the opposing tendency the format has to get just a bit too po-faced. Huh, don’t know why I quoted this
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    Long May They Reign - How Long?

    Very simple but hopefully interesting question - what's the longest possible rule? If you only count sovereign states (and I do for the purposes of this, since otherwise the possibilities become near infinite) then in OTL the record of 72+ years set by Louis XIV is on track to hold pretty much...
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    AHC: The UK stays out of WWI - but the US gets in

    As simple as the title, really. A lot of no-WWI mythologizing rests on the twin pillars of (1) the British Empire remaining gloriously apart and unconcerned, and (2) the US never dipping its toe into the politics on the other side of the Atlantic. The two go virtually hand in hand in AH...
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    The Time is Out of Joint: AH Chronology

    A fun but (very) broad question that I always like to chat about - what times lend themself to good AH? What decades feel the most counterfactual? The least? A good POD really can be anywhere and anywhen, but I hope I’m not going too far out on a limb when I say that things feel especially in...
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