List of Alternate Presidents 2.0.

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Our Long National Nightmare
Ford Defeats Carter Timeline from 2018 (Unfinished)

List of Presidents

38. Gerald R. Ford / Robert J. Dole  (Republican): 1974-1981
Def. 1976: Jimmy Carter / Walter F. Mondale (Democratic),

39. Edward M. Kennedy / Henry M. Jackson (Democratic): 1981-1983 [1]
     Edward M. Kennedy / Vacant: 1983
     Edward M. Kennedy / Lloyd M. Bentsen: 1983-1989 [2]
Def. 1980: John B. Anderson / Paul D. Laxalt (Republican)
Def. 1984: John J. Heinz III / Jack F. Kemp (Republican)

40. Patrick J. Buchanan / Caspar W. Weinberger (Republican): 1989 [3] [4]
Def. 1988: Lloyd M. Bentsen / Michael S. Dukakis (Democratic), Pete B. Wilson / John Ashcroft (Independent Republican)

41. Caspar W. Weinberger / Vacant (Republican): 1989
     Caspar W. Weinberger / Steve D. Symms: 1989-1997 [5]
Def. 1992 Jesse L. Jackson / Thomas A. Daschle (Democratic), Henry Ross Perot / Steve Forbes (Independent)

42. Ann W. Richards / Mario M. Cuomo (Democratic): 1997-2005 [6] [7]
Def. 1996 Steve D. Symms / Tommy G. Thompson (Republican), Arlen Specter / Richard G. Lugar (Reform League)
Def. 2000 Newton L. Gingrich / Phil P. Gramm (Republican), John S. McCain / Frank Murkowski (Reform League)

43. Russ D. Feingold / Carol M. Braun (Democratic): 2005 [8]
Def. 2004 Willard M. Romney / Orrin Hatch (Republican-Reform)

44. Richard B. Cheney / Vacant (Republican): 2005 [9]
     Richard B. Cheney / Paul D. Wolfowitz: 2005-2013 [10] [11] [12]
Def. 2008 Wesley K. Clark, Sr. / Joseph R. Biden (Democratic)

45. Bernard Sanders / Elizabeth A. Warren (Progressive Alliance): 2013-2021 [13]
Def. 2012 Michael D. Huckabee / Duncan Hunter (Republican), Evan Bayh / Edward T. O'Donnell (Liberal Democratic)
Def. 2016 Charles E. Roemer / John R. Kasich (Republican), Rahm I. Emanuel / Michael Bloomberg (Liberal Democratic)

[1] = Vice Pres. Henry "Scoop" Jackson died in office in 1983.
[2] = Pres. Ted Kennedy is re-elected in 1984, yet only wins 47% of the Popular Vote (Down from 50.9% in 1980).
[3] = Gov. Pat Buchanan wins the Electoral Vote, loses the Popular Vote by 1.3% to Vice Pres. Lloyd Bentsen.
[4] = Pres. Pat Buchanan is assassinated 62 days into his term.
[5] = Pres. Cap Weinberger is impeached in 1994 for charges related to funding anti-Communist rebel operatives in Ukrainian SSR. The Senate acquits.
[6] = Gov. Ann Richards wins an electoral landslide in 1996; the greatest Democratic performance since 1964.
[7] = Vice Pres. Mario Cuomo briefly serves as Acting President as Pres. Richards undergoes chemotherapy treatment from December 2004 to January 2005.
[8] = Pres. Russ Feingold and Vice Pres. Carol Braun are killed in a terrorist attack on Inauguration Day.
[9] = House Speaker Richard "Dick" Cheney is sworn in as President in 2005. Declares War on Terror.
[10] = Pres. Cheney loses Popular Vote by 4.3%. He is the disputed winner of Texas' 34 Electoral Votes.
[11] = Economic collapse in 2007-2008 lingers as Pres. Cheney vetoes stimulus legislation passed by Democratic Congress.
[12] = Vice Pres. Paul Wolfowitz briefly serves as Acting President as Pres. Cheney undergoes heart transplant surgery in March of 2012.
[13] = Sen. Bernard Sanders wins 3-way race with a plurality in the Popular Vote as the Democratic Party splinters. He wins a Popular Vote majority in 2016.

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You Can't Shoot An Idea
Dewey Wins the Election of 1948 (An Unfinished TL from 2016)

34. Thomas E. Dewey / Earl Warren (Republican): 1949-1953
       Thomas E. Dewey / Richard M. Nixon (Republican): 1953-1957 [1]
Def. 1948: Harry S. Truman / Benjamin T. Laney (Democratic), Henry A. Wallace / Claude Pepper (Progressive)
Def. 1952: Richard Russell, Jr. / W. Averell Harriman (Democratic), Estes Kefauver / Hubert Humphrey (New Democratic)

35. Nelson Rockefeller / Everett Dirksen (Republican): 1957-1960 [2] [3]
       Nelson Rockefeller / Vacant (Republican): 1960-1961
Def. 1956: William Kerr Scott / Ezekiel C. Gathings (Democratic), Estes Kefauver / Adlai Stevenson II (New Democratic)

36. John W. McCormack / Edmund "Pat" Brown (New Democratic): 1961-1962 [4] [5]
Def. 1960: Nelson Rockefeller / Raymond P. Shafer (Republican), Harry Flood Byrd, Sr. / Roy Cohn (Conservative)

37. Edmund "Pat" Brown / Vacant (New Democratic): 1962-1965

38. Nelson Rockefeller / Charles H. Percy (Republican): 1965-1969 [6] [7] [8]
Def. 1964: Edmund "Pat" Brown / FDR, Jr. (New Democratic), Ezra Taft Benson / Robert Lee Sikes (Conservative)

39. George McGovern / John Fitzgerald Kennedy (New Democratic): 1969-1977 [9] [10] [11]
Def. 1968: Charles H. Percy / John V. Lindsay (Republican), Thomas J. Anderson / John Tower (Conservative)
Def. 1972: Prescott S. Bush / Mark Hatfield (Republican), Robert C. Byrd / Larry McDonald (Conservative)

40. John Fitzgerald Kennedy / Albert Gore, Sr. (New Democratic): 1977-1981 [12] [13]
Def. 1976: Gerald R. Ford / Robert Taft Jr. (Republican), Ronald W. Reagan / John M. Ashbrook (Conservative)

[1] = Vice Pres. Warren is tarnished by an infidelity scandal and chooses not to seek VP nomination. Nixon is unanimously selected VP at the 1952 RNC.
[2] = Interior Sec. Nelson Rockefeller, a dark horse candidate, is chosen by the deadlocked 1956 RNC. He wins the general election in a near-landslide.
[3] = Pres. Rockefeller forces the resignation of Vice Pres. Dirksen once the latter sabotages a minimum wage law extension in the U.S. Senate.
[4] = Prevailing over Pres. Rockefeller and the Byrd-Cohn ticket, liberal Gov. John McCormack is elected president by an EV plurality.
[5] = Pres. McCormack is assassinated via automobile assault by a member of Freedom Charge, a far-right militant group. Founder Robert Welch denies involvement.
[6] = Amid a series of foreign policy blunders, Pres. Brown is defeated by Fmr Pres. Rockefeller. The 1964 Election has the highest turnout in twenty years.
[7] = With public support for U.S. military presence in the Australia-Indonesian War wearing thin, a rejuvenated isolationist wing takes root in the GOP.
[8] = Vice Pres. Percy is nominated by the RNC following a grueling primary against isolationist Sen. William Knowland. Riots break out outside the convention.
[9] = Taking advantage of a divided Republican Party and domestic unrest, Gov. McGovern attracts a new voter coalition and secures victory at the polls.
[10] = Pres. McGovern's successful drawdown of U.S. forces from Indonesia coupled with passage of a bolstered Civil Rights bill results in a landslide victory in 1972.
[11] = Republicans sweep the congressional midterm elections of 1974, hindering Pres. McGovern's ability to address an ongoing recession.
[12] = The Election of 1976 is decided by the House of Representatives. Vice Pres. Kennedy is selected on the first ballot.
[13] = Citing debilitating migraines, Pres. Kennedy chooses not to seek re-election.