Alternate Careers

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Bill Clinton
50th Attorney General of Arkansas 1977-1979
40th Governor of Arkansas 1979-1981
42nd Governor of Arkansas 1981-1992
42nd President Of The United States 1993-1998

Al Gore
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Tennessee's 4th district 1977-1983
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Tennessee's 6th district 1983-1985
US Senator from Tennessee 1985-1993
45th Vice President of The United States 1993-1998
43rd President of The United States 1998-2005

Joe Lieberman
21st Attorney General of Connecticut 1983-1989
US Senator from Connecticut 1989-1998
46th Vice President of The United States 1998-2005

Rick Santorum
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 18th district 1991-1995
US Senator from Pennsylvania 1995-2005
44th President of The United States 2005-2009

Sam Brownback
Secretary of Agriculture of Kansas 1986-1993
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Kansas's 2nd district 1995-1996
United States Senator from Kansas 1996-2005
47th Vice President Of The United States 2005-2009

Russ Feingold
Member of the Wisconsin Senate from the 27th district 1983-1993
US Senator from Wisconsin 1993-2009
45th President Of The United States 2009-2017

Mark Warner
Chair of the Democratic Party of Virginia 1993-1995
69th Governor of Virginia 2002-2006
48th Vice President of The United States 2009-2017

*Context*

Clinton resigns over the Lewinsky scandal, leaving Gore to become President. Gore still picks Lieberman as his VP (both for his denouncement of Clinton and Lieberman being a Conservative Democrat who could get confirmed by the Senate).

Bush is still the 2000 GOP nominee, but Gore's incumbency advantage pushes that close election over the top in his favor. He's ineligible to run in 2004, however, due to serving more than half of Clinton's 2nd term.

John McCain declines to run in 2004, deciding not to run against his friend Lieberman, who in turn gets defeated by the GOP nominee Santorum.

Russ Feingold runs for the 2008 Democratic nomination and wins; in contrast to Santorum's VP Brownback being someone in the mold of himself, the Progressive Feingold opts for a balanced ticket and picks the Centrist Warner as his running mate.

Feingold/Warner win the General Election, due to a combination of Feingold's bold, progressive agenda, Santorum's relative unpopularity (his social agenda, in particular, is viewed by many as that of an extremist), and a controversy that emerges in the final month of the election over a leak of Santorum and Brownback making negative comments about Feingold's Jewish heritage.