You wouldn’t get nominated. But if we assume it happened somehow, I think supporting the Assault Weapons Ban, national Medicare coverage, and the living wage would make you noncompetitive in most conservative states. So would your position on troop withdrawals, I think. Your position on abortion would be a major obstacle in more liberal states, and the school voucher thing would probably leave you with little support from teachers’ unions- a major Democratic constituency. In the grand scheme you’re probably a moderate, but as a candidate, some of your positions would make you unpalatable to very big chunks of both parties. Maybe it’d be different if we assume you’re running against a Republican whose views also don’t fit neatly into the Democratic or Republican side.
How would you do that? Those soldiers are stationed there as the result of treaties. To get them out, you’d have to get the European countries to agree to it. I’m not saying Europe needs to be full of U.S. soldiers, but this is not something you can do just by signing an executive order. (Oh, and Mexico probably wouldn’t be thrilled about it either.) Of course, a candidate can say anything he wants and then just ignore it later, but I’m guessing you think you could do this.
This is more implausible than the Rio Grande thing. The U.S. does not run Iraq, much less Turkey, and they do not want to do this. The Iraqi government does not want to split up the country, and Turkey is vehemently opposed to Kurdish independence. I can understand supporting this - although the idea of splitting Iraq made a lot more sense a few years ago - but again, the President of the U.S. can’t just make this happen. Even when the U.S. fully occupied Iraq and really ran the show, this woudl not have happened and Turkey would never ever go along with it.
HOW? Threat of war? Sanctions?
I wouldn’t be surprised if this happened. The nuclear program is largely a joke so they can extort more aid out of developed countries. It’s not a guarantee but it could happen. But that’s mostly up to China.
See above. I’m not defending Iran, but I have no idea how you expect to make this happen. The U.S. has no relationship with Iran, so it doesn’t have much leverage to make Iran do anything.
This is by far the most impossible thing on your list. I can’t understand how you think you can get China to do it. I want to see China stop doing what it’s doing in Tibet and I don’t enjoy seeing Taiwan get threatened either. But unless you can convince the U.S. and much of the rest of the world to live without trade with China, you can’t do anything there. And I don’t know how Macau and Hong Kong got on this list. No way is China giving them up. I’m not sure why they should. They’re definitely part of China geographically; they were just run by other countries until recently. And it’s not like China stole them. Portugal and the U.K. agreed to hand them over.