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counterfactual poll: how would history have been different if Reagan had not survived the assassination attempt?

Posted by moles (aka chris) Mar 30 '11, 11:22

is George H.W. Bush still a one-termer? 1984 still comes down to the economy, i'm guessing. who knows if Bush has the executive stuff to get the tax cuts from Tip's Congress that Reagan did??

presumably without Lee Atwater to Willie Horton Mondale?

i think he would have still been as hardline against Russia as Ronny though

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Great, now I get to have songs from Assassins running through my head the rest of the day. Thanks. -- nm - znufrii Mar 30, 11:59
/flaps wings - Butterfly Mar 30, 11:44
no different. indiana still would have crushed north carolina....nm - x Mar 30, 11:27 1
- you always take the long view of history -- nm - moles Mar 30, 11:28
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ST would be less fun -- nm - marcel Mar 30, 11:26
Bush 41 wins in 84 (Mondale was a bad candidate overall) - Will Hunting Mar 30, 11:25 4
- Do you think W still happens if HW is in office for effectively 8 years? (nm) - musubi Mar 30, 11:32 1
  - I think W still has a chance; his dad still had the contacts and such....and woulda probably left office before the economic issue of 1990... - Will Hunting Mar 30, 11:37
- as we saw in 88, Bush was horrible in his own way. maybe Teddy senses more weakness in him and tries for the nomination one more time -- nm - moles Mar 30, 11:30 1
  - Bush managed to win rather easily....given the toughness of years 9-12...(see Gore), that's impressive enough. - Will Hunting Mar 30, 11:39
I think HW would have done fine with Russia (he was a diplomat). And Reagan would be a bigger mythological figure than he is now. -- nm - loosilu Mar 30, 11:25 2
- Reagan wouldn't be that much bigger, he woulda been William Henry Harrison, part 2. - Will Hunting Mar 30, 11:27 1
  - I keep forgetting he had just started. -- nm - loosilu Mar 30, 11:27
Iran/Contra might have gone differently? -- nm - Remlik Mar 30, 11:25 4
- it would have been interesting to see if Cheney and the other neocons had taken control of foreign policy 20 years earlier - moles Mar 30, 11:27 2
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  - Afghanistan would still have happened the way it did over the pat 30 years I suspect -- nm - Remlik Mar 30, 11:29
- I was thinking that the things going down in that arena might have spilled over and redefined al queda and altered 9/11 -- nm - Beryllium Mar 30, 11:26
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- I get elected, what? -- nm - znufrii Mar 30, 11:47
- I demand a Kegusus! -- nm - Amy Mar 30, 11:26 1
  - leave it to Preakenss to even more a joke. -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 30, 11:27
- Of course, the unicorn would be provided by the CIA for citizen surveillance purposes. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 30, 11:25

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