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I know I listed in the OP, but since it'd be funny to watch two clowns go at it: 'Jeb Bush (2016) Vs. Michael Dukakis (1988)'. In which case, I believe The Goofy Governors would make a fitting TL name?

I must've had a brain fart, then. Again, though, I recall him stating support for gay equality and advocating a federal amendment to prohibit anti-gay discrimination. In which case, it doesn't really matter that he died before federalizing it took off... because he was saying those things years...

Sounds reasonable to me, though I have my reservations on Clinton doing as well as you'd think. Deregulation, strict border control, and tough-on-crime legislation would probably make him sound more like a Republican to modern Democrats. (Not to mention how his rhetoric would sound way "too...

"Monicka Lewinsky has entered the chat."

'Bill Clinton (1996) Vs. Gerald Ford (1976)'. As I said before, both are given two years to prepare and are trying to win over a modern electorate.

Understandable. Now what about Carter and the Democrats? Just spitballing right now, I think they’d haggle him over being “too far-right” on abortion, deregulation, and possibly gay marriage (depending on how well he can adapt his answer over avoid talking about it altogether, anyway). Never...

He also campaigned on ending foreign entanglements as Candidate Bush… only to renege on that completely as President Bush. That’s a big about-face he’ll be grilled on by the press and the public, though I suppose his excuse will be that 9/11 forced his other self to take “drastic action” that no...

Huh. Alright, then. ‘Jimmy Carter (1976) Vs. George W. Bush (2000)’. Again, I’m presuming a modern electorate here.

I suppose his opposition to the Civil Rights Act will tank his campaign, as well as his flirtation with using tactical nukes to win when conventional warfare can’t?

Fair, though I suppose I was running with the default assumption that it’s a modern electorate. (Which I should’ve clarified in my initial post, but whatever.)

'Barry Goldwater (1964) Vs. Walter Mondale (1984)'.

Not to mention how there's a larger "democratic-socialist" faction in the Democratic Party, too. Moreover, both candidates would have to revise and repackage their platforms for a twenty-first century electorate, as well as let the "already-settled" issues they argued passionately over in their...

I suppose McGovern running a terrible campaign and having poor judgement are significant factors here? For one, I recollect a case where he gave a televised speech way too early in the morning for voters to care, and he only learned that his running mate underwent electroshock therapy for his...

Actually, how about 'George McGovern (1972) Vs. Robert Taft (1952)'? The electorate is still modern and both candidates are given two years to prepare, just so they're not completely out of their element on the campaign trail.

Not that 300 is accurate, but I honestly wonder if Big Teddy is one of few non-Spartans that King Leonidas would have healthy respect for? :unsure: Anyhow, I assume we're dealing with a modern electorate again?

Knew about the incident, though not exactly when it happened. But thanks for reminding me. Teddy was a physical specimen to impress even the hardiest Spartan, for sure, and this failed attempt may be the best testament to that.

Can't predict how the race will go off the top of my head, but I feel like it depends on precisely when Roosevelt the Younger is from? For example, his 1944 self is in poor health for sure, and may not be in as great a shape for the job as his 1936 self (who still has four years of executive...

Joined by America’s ten or twenty “Vote blue, even if the who ends the world!” fanatics, too, of course! :p 😆

At that point, I actually wonder if Coolidge would win by downright Washingtonian levels! Besides Wilson loosing harder than the last century’s trifecta of greatest electoral losers—Alf Landon, George McGovern, and Walter Mondale—it’d be extra humiliation for Coolidge to win with maybe 90...

“Holy 1984-style GOP blowout, Batman!” Perhaps even an outright clean sweep for Silent Cal, in fact. If there’s anything that can turn DC red, even just this once, ‘Zombie Wilson Vs. Mummy-Hunter Coolidge’ must be it.