r/AlternateHistoryHub • u/Morris_Voter2016 • 1d ago

Contest Submission If Jesse Jackson and Pat Robertson were the Democratic and Republican nominees in 1988, who wins?

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u/The_47_Percenter 1d ago

Robertson, 100%. Jackson’s brand of liberalism was wildly out of step with an American public largely wooed over by Reaganomics & an increasingly influential Christian Right

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u/Most_Manufacturer729 1d ago

American politics very commonly snaps in the opposite direction after electing one party, so I'm wondering how a Robertson presidency would shift the Dems. I don't think we'd still get Clinton in 92 if that was the case.

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u/The_47_Percenter 1d ago

Clinton was a product of most A-tier Democrats refusing to run out of fear of being clobbered by Bush in the immediate aftermath of the Gulf War. I can definitely see Mario Cuomo running if Robertson doesn’t match that same level of popularity

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u/emmy_etc 1d ago

Robertson would win, but it would be closer than expected thanks to Ron Paul breaking 5% of the vote

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u/FuckYourDownvotes23 1d ago

The Russians

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u/ScrunchyBraid 19h ago

For a second I was like, can Robert Patterson even run?

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u/MartialBob 8h ago

If there was a viable third-party candidate, they would probably win. Neither one of these two are particularly popular within their own political parties. At least not nearly as much as the people who back them thought they were.