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[hcallega]

Since I wrapped up my WWW tl, now I want YOU (YES YOU) to pick my next TL. Any Ideas?

[hcallega]

Wow, no clarity at all! I like it!

Well obviously I'm going to let this run for a while, but the biggest problem with some of these ideas follows:
1-Recent TLs are very short and thus have minimum butterflies.
2-Some PODs are really neat, but once you get past a certain point the TL looses it's point almot. Very few writers can pull this off (Historico, Kaljwet), and I probably can't.
3-Of course another issue is that my area of knowledge is strongest between post-WWII and now. I made a list of potential CSA presidents, but even then I had trouble in the begining.

Right now though, here are my personal ideas. Give me any feedback and keep giving me ideas.

1-South Wins Civil War BUT I don't start in 1865. Rather I profile a certain time. This could become a series, where I profile say, an election in the 1960s and then one in the 1980s

2-TR is the Republican in 1912. This is pretty sefl-explanitory, but the goal would be to have the Dems stay as conservative and the GOP as progressive, with perhaps a stronger Socialist party.
3-JFK Lives. I know I know, boring right. But I’ve always wanted to do it. There’s a strong possibility that I take some time off from the site (maybe in the spring or summer) and crank out a legit short novel about Kennedy’s second term, and then going into the future. Of course I would then publish weekly enstallments.

So there it is folks. Right now I’m leaning towards TR in ’12 as the GOP’s Bull Elephant.

[hcallega]

as far as Nixon in '60, my only issue is that I hate Nixon and love Kennedy, and therefore I feel that I would lack the inspiration to make it happen. As far as the differences with TR in 1912, there are some very epic butterflies that are possible, especially involving international politics which would be very fun indeed!

So right now I'm siding with TR, but I really want to be surrpised. Actualy I would perfer something out of my expertise now that I think about it, simply because I've done so many (RFK, Henry Wallace, JPK, WWW, Cuomo). So yeah, I'll probably get started on it this weekend as it's winter break. Of course I might be sick, so there may be an earlier begining.

[hcallega]

Hmm...It seems to me HC, that your bests TL's come out of something not only when you have ample time to write like this summer with the Wallace TL. I think it be cool, if you tackled one of the "seemingly" impossible Electoral Wins and turn them into a victory TL. I think a LaFollette wins in '24 is a cool idea or maybe Hughes wins in 1916 something along those lines. But that's the fun thing about researching timelines like this yourpracticing learning new stuff everyday.

I agree with your first point, and that's why I'm planning on doing most of this TL over break. I'll prolly start 2day. I'm going to go with TR in 1912, simply because it gives me a lot of flexibility and a lot of interesting elections to do.