Sanders doesn't quite cut it; he's a presidential candidate of his specific time and place OTL. Also, socialist, so where you get "moderate" from I have no idea. Clinton took her shot in '08 and lost to Guiliani thanks to handwavium butterflies. She returned to the Senate and stayed there. Obama... not sure. I could see him going for the brass ring in '12, but I could also see him holding off until '16 if the winds don't seem to favor his campaign.
Broadly speaking the anti-Fen bloc in American politics holds until '14, whoever gets elected would have to at minimum mouth that party line and not object to or veto anti-Fen legislation. Since the repeal hits during the '14 midterms they'd also have to be flexible. I'm actually warming to the idea of Andrew Cuomo in the role: he's enough of an opportunist that he'd run on a "tough on Fen" platform and then whip right around and promise reconciliation. He'd be a one-termer like Guiliani ("STOP. ELECTING. NEW YORKERS>"), replaced for the '17-'21 term by Obama or candidate-to-be-named-later as part of the general handwavium thaw process.
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Broadly speaking the anti-Fen bloc in American politics holds until '14, whoever gets elected would have to at minimum mouth that party line and not object to or veto anti-Fen legislation. Since the repeal hits during the '14 midterms they'd also have to be flexible. I'm actually warming to the idea of Andrew Cuomo in the role: he's enough of an opportunist that he'd run on a "tough on Fen" platform and then whip right around and promise reconciliation. He'd be a one-termer like Guiliani ("STOP. ELECTING. NEW YORKERS>"), replaced for the '17-'21 term by Obama or candidate-to-be-named-later as part of the general handwavium thaw process.
Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery
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"I. Drink. Your. NERDRAGE!"