Firstly it just wouldn’t happen, one of the primary candidates would win out or Hillary or Gore would be the unity candidate, anyway…
Polarisation wins Mondale states he’d never hope to win on his own. It would probably be a fairly genteel race so perhaps no “Zell on Earth” at the RNC… but who knows
Bush/ Cheney (REP) – 300 EV, 51% PV.
Mondale/ Edwards (DEM) – 238 EV, 47% PV.
Just for fun…
Gore vs Bush 2004… this time its presidential!
Gore/ Edwards* (DEM) – 272 EV, 49%**
Bush/ Cheney (REP) – 266 EV, 49%
*Almost any winning candidate in the climate that prevailed back in the early summer of 2004 would probably have picked Edwards, Gephardt probably would have, Kerry did, Clark might have gone for someone more experienced same with Dean but both would have given him serious consideration.
**Very close as it was but I reckon that Gore would have enjoyed far more broad based support (as he did in 2000) than Kerry did in reality, though the country would have been more polarised than in 2000 as it was last fall.
