1996: Dan Quayle the GOP nominee (no Perot)

[Sir Mohamed]

How (badly) do you estimate it would have ended in 1996 with Mr. Potatoe as the GOP challenger to Clinton? Say Perot isn't in the race.

[Ragnaroni]

How (badly) do you estimate it would have ended in 1996 with Mr. Potatoe as the GOP challenger to Clinton? Say Perot isn't in the race.

He would lose suburban women for his spelling mistake alone.

[BigVic]

Would lose badly

[TheElectoralBoobyPrize]

It's probably not too different from the actual result due to polarization and low turnout. I assume Quayle gets the same last-minute surge Dole did.

While Quayle does have plenty of weaknesses, one strength he would have is that he's not as easy to tie to the Republican Congress as Dole was. I do wonder if the Northeast would've still swung D as much as it did, but Quayle probably does worse than Dole in the West.

[Zedonathin2020]

An extremely unpopular former VP of a President who had just lost reelection four years earlier going up against the incumbent President with a 58% approval rating with OUT the man who was described as a spoiler that took away votes from Republicans?


Clinton crushes Potatoe of course, flipping most if not all states that f voted under 5% in OTL, with the possible exception of Texas