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My prediction for how the Senate Races will end up in this time line:

D in real life, R in this:

North Dakota
Montana
Indiana (Mourdock not nominated)

D in real life, hard to guess in this:

New Mexico
Wisconsin
Ohio
Virginia
Massachusetts

D in real life, still D in this:

Everything else

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My prediction for how the Senate Races will end up in this time line:

D in real life, R in this:

North Dakota
Montana
Indiana (Mourdock not nominated)

D in real life, hard to guess in this:

New Mexico
Wisconsin
Ohio
Virginia
Massachusetts

D in real life, still D in this:

Everything else

Wait until you see what the Senate candidates will be , because many of the Senate Nominees wont be the same as OTL.

Still, I feel reasonably confidant that your timeline will not feature Democrats losing any of these states, in Red on this map (I decided that maybe you will have Republicans winning Pennsylvania in your timeline after the post):

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List of Senate Races with potential to flip :

Candidate from Incumbent Party is bolded

Florida: Jeb Bush(R) vs Ben Nelson(D); Chance of Flipping: 52%

Maine: Charlie Summers(R) vs Cynthia Dill(D) vs Angus King(I); Chance of Flipping: 85%(to the Independent)

Massachusetts: Scott Brown(R) vs Elizabeth Warren(D) ; Chance of Flipping: 52%

Missouri : Jim Talent (R) vs Claire MaCaskill(D) ; Chance of Flipping: 73%

Montana : Danny Rehberg(R) vs Jon Tester(D) ; Chance of Flipping : 83%

Nebraska: Deb Fischer(R) vs Bob Kerrey ; Chance of Flipping: 93%

Nevada: Dean Heller(R) vs Shelley Berkley(D) ; Chance of Flipping: 37%

New Mexico: Heather Wilson(R) vs Martin Heinrich(D) ; Chance of Flipping: 47%

North Dakota : Rick Berg(R) vs Heidi Heitkamp(D) ; Chance of Flipping: 90%

Ohio : Josh Mandel(R) vs Sherrod Brown(D) ; Chance of Flipping : 56%

Pennsylvania: Tom Smith(R) vs Bob Casey(D) ; Chance of Flipping: 43%

Virginia: Bob McDonnell(R) vs Tim Kaine(D) ; Chance of Flipping: 60%

Wisconsin: Tommy Thompson(R) vs Tammy Baldwin(D) : Chance of Flipping : 50%

This list is overly generous to having Republicans nominating strong candidates (mainly in Florida and Missouri, where Jeb Bush and Jim Talent running in 2012 is unrealistic, while Connie Mack and Todd Akin were essentially inevitable nominees from the start).

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Why is Massachusetts unmarked.

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When is the special election to replace Portman in this timeline?

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Trump is going to lose big.

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You have the party affiliation of candidates in Montana backwards.

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Senate also passes a Higher Education Reform Bill and House Agrees to pass Senate version of Bill


Summary of the Affordable Higher Education Act of 2014:

- Giving Students who finish in the Top 20% in their graduating class a choice between receiving a  full ride scholarship to any university in their state, or a Scholarship which covers half the student's total costs to attend a college which is outside their own state.

- Increases Tuition Deduction Tax Deduction to $7,500 a year

- Requiring all public universities to be fully transparent about career prospects of each of their degree programs

- Waiving requirements to take certain classes in obtaining the degree if someone gained equivalent knowledge through internships or jobs

- Increasing funding to trade schools while reducing funding to degree programs that don't have good career prospects

I hope that any Democrat who (voted for this bill/decided to not filibuster this bill in the Senate) with this outright indefensible segment intact gets primaried.

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I am actually quite intelligent.

The issue with a provision like that is that it fails to deal with any of the problems with colleges today. Due to flaws in how the US Education system is set up, higher performing students are usually among those that come from more successful, and wealthier families. These families are generally the families that already have the money to finance the college expenses of their children without help from the government. Meaning, the people who can already afford college are now getting it for free, and the people who cannot afford college are still unable to afford it. This results in an increase of income inequality.

In addition, the use of a percentile or rank instead of a raw measure as a qualification discourages students from helping each other when another student is struggling, and rewards students who engage in activity that disrupts the learning environment for other students.

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There is no way Hagan or Shaheen would lose in a Republican midterm.

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This is a great TL as well quite similar to the one by UWS with Rubio. The Differences in the two TL's are actually quite small.

Portman though probably won't be running in 2020 (too old IMO). Let's see if President Romney can elect a Republican Successor like Reagan did with GHWB in 1988 assuming he beats Hillary or Biden in 2016.

The differences in realism and formatting are pretty huge between this TL and yours, imho. This one is favourable to Romney, of course (just like other TLs are favourable to other politicians), but in a far more subtle and elegant way.

Why don't you go over to your TL instead of polluting others? And btw, the other TL isn't mine. UWS granted me permission to write a Posting in there.

Well you are his sockpuppet.

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Why are all of my updates being ignored?

Because you were posting them on someone elses timeline without their permission.

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Why are all of my updates being ignored?

um are you talking about your timeline or this :

If its yours than its because you havent really posted anything that has been different from OTL yet. I would suggest you skip to Gore say winning Florida and start from there as that will be the beginning point where things change from OTL.


If its this timeline,  its because I didnt give you permission to write any updates on it .

I have been reporting all of his posts like that on this thread to the moderators whenever I see them by the way.

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Trump would probably attempt to primary a president Romney.

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What a dystopia.

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What a dystopia.

Why even from a Democratic perspective it’s not as bad as it is currently in OTL under Trump .

At this point, with such an expanded US involvement in the Middle East, it is worse.

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You somehow managed to make this timelines Romney policy positions/accomplishments even worse than real life Trumps.

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Predicted 2016 Senate Race results in this time line:

R Gain: NV
D Gain: IL

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Kasich in New York?

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If Bernie tried to pull a 3rd party run in any circumstance, he would not be winning any states, he would not be polling double digits, and he would guarantee himself a loss to a primary challenge in 2018. This is getting really unrealistic.

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I thought you said earlier in the timeline that things would get much worse for the Republicans soon after 2016.

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So I literally had a dream a few days ago where this timeline was reality...

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You made so many typos in your list of closest Senate Races. Especially the replacement of "West Virginia" with "Red" that makes absolutely no sense at all lol.

Sorry for being late but I literally just noticed this.

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lol at Trump's speech. Any chance his actual net worth is leaked in this TL?*

*I remember reading on a TL on AH.com his tax returns were leaked and he wasn't a billionaire at all.

Trump has definitely lied about numerous topics but I do not see a reason to suspect his personal wealth is among those topics.

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I understand that Ohio seems to be Safe R because Portman is from there but how in the world is Colorado Safe R?