Ross Perot wins on a Republican/Reform fusion ticket in 1996, what happens next?
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  Ross Perot wins on a Republican/Reform fusion ticket in 1996, what happens next?
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« on: February 16, 2022, 01:47:53 PM »

The alternate 1996 map:

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« Reply #1 on: February 16, 2022, 01:57:35 PM »

The alternate 1996 map:


I think WV would stay with Clinton.
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« Reply #2 on: February 16, 2022, 04:36:19 PM »

Sort of like if William Jennings Bryan won in 1896 on both the Democratic and Populist tickets.
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« Reply #3 on: February 16, 2022, 09:33:26 PM »


President Ross Perot (R-TX) / Vice President Jack Kemp (R-NY) ✓
Senator John Kerry (D-MA) / Congressman Dick Gephardt (D-MO)

Republican-Reform probably just becomes Republican in the intervening years. The GOP makes a few concessions toward this, probably adding a Balanced Budget Amendment, toughness on immigration, and opposition to NAFTA to the platform, but probably not electoral or campaign finance reform. Meanwhile, if Clinton screwed up (corruption scandal?), Gore probably isn't running. Not really sure what happens with the Rust Belt. Things probably go well enough under Perot for him to win it again, but Democrats make a decent play for it by going back to their pre-Clinton roots. Like Trump in 2020, Perot looks a lot more traditionally conservative by 2000 and probably doesn't lose the South.
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