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Great infobox but that Wellstone picture feels very uncanny valley

This is a nice touch - it’s perfectly believable, and like TLs that have Hillary Clinton stay in Arkansas it’d make him feel like a much different type of politician.

Carol Browner, EPA Director throughout the Clinton administration, was in 2000 believed to be considering a political career in Florida, and throughout the 90s was seen as having solid political skills. Say she's elected to the Senate in 2000 or 2004, or, depending on the POD (Jeb gets elected...

Still more diverse than OTL, to be fair!

TIME Man of the Year, 1967-1977 1967: Patrice Lumumba 1968: Alfred Robens 1969: Kerim Kerimov 1970: Gus Grissom and Alexei Leonov 1971: Lyndon B. Johnson 1972: Lin Biao 1973: Enrico Berlinguer 1974: “The Young Radicals” (cover: Tariq Ali, Alice Becker-Ho, Gilles Duceppe, Gary Hart) 1975: Gough...

I feel like people forget that Van Jones, before becoming a CNN mainstay, was a member of the Obama administration. With the right butterflies, it's not hard to see him making the jump into electoral politics, either as a left-wing Democrat or as a Green - there was brief speculation, after all...

Though she never ran for office, former Secretary of Labor Alexis Herman was a prominent figure within the 90s/00s Democratic Party, seen as a lock for a White House gig had Gore or Kerry won (most often rumoured as a possible Chief of Staff or Secretary of Commerce) and initially viewed as a...

And the sequel:

Idea is that a slightly worse campaign causes Trump to lose Michigan and Pennsylvania to Clinton and Utah to McMullin, sending the election to Congress. Knowing a contingent election is inevitable, Republicans quickly devolve into infighting, with Washington Republicans openly lobbying Trump...

From a list I did over on the other place:

Yeah very dumb imo

Basic idea is that Tsongas wins in 1992 but keeps his declining health a secret throughout his term. His resignation in early 1996 shocks the country, raises allegations of a government coverup, and sparks intense voter concern about the health of their elected officials. This focus on...

Nice job - Diefenbaker trying to make a mid-70s comeback is a nice touch.

It wasn't super close to happening, but it's easy to imagine a scenario where they elect a few Quebec MPs in the 80s and, rather than forming the Bloc, nationalists instead rally behind the non-PC/Liberal option - doesn't seem super unrealistic considering how many of the party's 1988 candidates...

Great stuff, I always love timelines where the NDP takes off in Quebec and ends up morphing into the Bloc as a result

Baker’s a nice choice - definitely someone who would’ve had a prominent role had 2018 not been a blowout.

A drunk dude accidentally broke into Justin Trudeau’s house in 2014 because the door had been left unlocked and he mistook it for a friend’s house. The guy thought about stealing a bunch of kitchen knives before deciding against it, writing a note to say they should lock their doors, and...

Around 2002/2003 there was a pretty widespread belief that Tom Daschle was going to run for President. It made sense – there was no obvious Democratic front-runner, he had the name recognition and fundraising skills to do well, and being from South Dakota would have given him an immediate...

Hatch was really reluctant to retire IOTL, even once it became clear that just about every establishment Republican wanted him to step aside in favour of Romney - wonder if there might be a similar dynamic here. I imagine he’d still retire, if only to make sure a Republican replaces him, but if...

Quebec Premier Jean Lesage, who led the province during the Quiet Revolution of the 1960s, doesn't get enough attention, especially since he was Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson's preferred successor before unexpectedly losing re-election in 1966. But this post isn't about him - it's about...