I said everything else would stay the same. There's no way Cleveland wins with 15% unemployment.
He does according to my map.
How come? Cleveland was so unpopular in 1896 in RL that his own party refused to renominate him or even nominate someone with like-minded views. McKinley would easily crush Cleveland.
Cleveland refused to run; he wasn't that unpopular.
If he wasn't unpopular, the Dems would have nominated someone who supported the gold standard and not the silver standard. BTW, even though approval rating polls didn't exist back then, it isn't hard to tell that Cleveland would have become unpopular since unemployment was 3% in 1892 and 15% in 1896.
Uh, no. The Dems had had internal strife between the two wings for years. When Cleveland refused to run, the Silverites managed to seize control of the party for that year.
