# What If: Republicans win fourth term in 1992

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Would the party of Jesse Helms in a sense in the eyes of a lot of people who observe the GOP, allow a black conservative like Colin Powell to win the '96 GOP nomination?

Five terms of the GOP: 1980-1996 would be damaging to the Democrats’ image.  
Gore probably would have been the '96 Democratic favorite.

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