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Brundlefly

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'Return to normalcy', Hungarian style, in Paper Doves in Flight.

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Nice, I was working on some info boxes in which Fidesz remains a liberal party, and Orbán instead takes over the FKGP. Might put it up when it's finished.

What happened to the SzDSz here? Are they part of Fidesz?
 

Heat

Brundlefly said:
Nice, I was working on some info boxes in which Fidesz remains a liberal party, and Orbán instead takes over the FKGP. Might put it up when it's finished.

What happened to the SzDSz here? Are they part of Fidesz?
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Ah, I think I saw your list of prime ministers! Pretty interesting idea.

I explain the fate of the SzDSz in the linked update, but basically they became so unpopular that they lost all their seats, so I decided not to put them in the infobox.
 
That Jersey Guy

That Jersey Guy

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Wait, I just saw this.

I can't believe you passed up an opportunity for Kean vs Kaine.
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I wasn't even thinking about that.

Besides, Kaine isn't even all that exciting, and with the progressive wing of the Democrats growing, I thought a Booker/Bustos ticket would conform to all the wings of the party (Besides the Blue Dogs, which are pretty much nonexistant besides a few Representatives).

EDIT: Also, why wouldn't you want both major party candidates to be from the same state? (Unless it's the current year 2016 and you have Clinton and Trump)
 

Tayya

That Jersey Guy said:
I wasn't even thinking about that.

Besides, Kaine isn't even all that exciting, and with the progressive wing of the Democrats growing, I thought a Booker/Bustos ticket would conform to all the wings of the party (Besides the Blue Dogs, which are pretty much nonexistant besides a few Representatives).

EDIT: Also, why wouldn't you want both major party candidates to be from the same state? (Unless it's the current year 2016 and you have Clinton and Trump)
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Booker is close to Wall Street and Bustos seems like a run-of-the-mill Democrat. They occupy roughly the same ideological spot as Kaine.
 
That Jersey Guy

That Jersey Guy

Tayya said:
Booker is close to Wall Street and Bustos seems like a run-of-the-mill Democrat. They occupy roughly the same ideological spot as Kaine.
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Booker is close to wall street, which conforms to the Establishment, More Moderate wing of the party. Bustos seems to appeal to more progressive and left-wing members of the party, even though she does take up some (but not all!) "run-of-the-mill" democratic positions. Also, Kaine just seems too "old" (not in age sense but in Appeal to voters sense) for the party and that the party would probably want to move on from democrats like Kaine and Clinton.
 

Tayya

That Jersey Guy said:
Booker is close to wall street, which conforms to the Establishment, More Moderate wing of the party. Bustos seems to appeal to more progressive and left-wing members of the party, even though she does take up some (but not all!) "run-of-the-mill" democratic positions. Also, Kaine just seems too "old" (not in age sense but in Appeal to voters sense) for the party and that the party would probably want to move on from democrats like Kaine and Clinton.
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There is something called the DW-NOMINATE score, which tries to rank all American Congresscritters in history on a "left-right scale" and does a surprisingly good job at it. According to that meter, with her score of -0.201, Cheri Bustos was the second most moderate Democratic Illinois Representative in the 113th Congress, barely beating the socially conservative Dan Lipinski in the 3rd.
Then again, if Tulsi Gabbard can pretend to be a Sandernista with a quite hawkish record, I guess Bustos can shift to the left. Odder things have happened. But it doesn't follow from the current state of affairs.
 

rpryor03

Tayya said:
There is something called the DW-NOMINATE score, which tries to rank all American Congresscritters in history on a "left-right scale" and does a surprisingly good job at it. According to that meter, with her score of -0.201, Cheri Bustos was the second most moderate Democratic Illinois Representative in the 113th Congress, barely beating the socially conservative Dan Lipinski in the 3rd.
Then again, if Tulsi Gabbard can pretend to be a Sandernista with a quite hawkish record, I guess Bustos can shift to the left. Odder things have happened. But it doesn't follow from the current state of affairs.
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I mean, if Kristen Gillibrand could have gone from a Blue Dog to a pretty solid liberal, anything can happen.
 
Turquoise Blue

Turquoise Blue

The 1996 election in SUFA.
The 1968 election (constant)
The 1972 elections in Gauntlet and SUFA, the 1976 election in Gauntlet.
The 1976 elections in Liberty and SUFA.
The 1980 elections in Gauntlet, Liberty and SUFA.
The 1984 elections in Gauntlet, Liberty, World and SUFA.
The 1988 elections in Gauntlet, Liberty, World and SUFA.
The 1992 elections in Gauntlet, Liberty, World and SUFA. (THIS POST)

Your daily AIPverse infoboxes! :D

This time, we're looking at four versions of 1992, which seems to be consistently an anti-AIP one.

First, here's To Toss the Gauntlet Before the Feet of Tyranny, which has President Rummy... (Actually a bit of a liberal in the AIPverse.)
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(Also, this TL now is using color pictures.)

@Komodo's write-up.
Ultimately, it was too much for the American Independent Party to bear. They could have handled a recession, or a costly foreign war, or perhaps even the dumping of their incumbent ticket for an angry anti-administration one, but not all three, and certainly not all at once. In the end, the Republican Party coasted to victory and the Democrats had one of their best results in nearly a decade.
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To the delight of many, the people of With Liberty and Justice for All's America has decided to re-elect Handsome Joe, but it was close.
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(Bradley's pic was grayscaled because I wanted infoboxes to be either all-black and white or all-color.)

Kom's write-up.
Going into the 1992 election, the pollster had initially predicted a landslide victory for President Biden. However, mass protests in South Africa shortly before the election, as well as surprisingly well-coordinated campaigns by both former Secretary of State Rousselot and former Senator Bradley, ate into Biden's lead. He was re-elected, but only by a slim margin - for the first time since the AIP's founding, American came close to a brokered election.
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In The Whole World is Watching, Rummy wins again in 1992, but in quite different circumstances...
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And Bob Dornan breaks the long streak of no facial hair for Presidents!

Kom's write-up.
Ultimately, as the long summer of 1992 dragged on, President Dornan's chances of winning a term of his own rapidly dwindled. The arrival of American troops to support the embattled South African government triggered protests both in the United States and abroad. In many American cities, such protests would turn into riots, as was the case in Los Angeles and Baltimore. What was truly surprising, however, was the man that the Republican Party had chosen to be the standard-bearer of their resurgence.

Donald Rumsfeld was truly a dark-horse candidate. To fully understand how he came to return the Republican Party to the White House after 12 years in the wilderness, one must remember that when the primary season for 1992 had started, President Jesse Helms was President and presiding over a nation that was at peace at home and mopping up the last remnants of an insurgency abroad. Though still a large player in Republican Party politics, few suspected that the former Defense Secretary over a decade removed from his last government posting would be anything more than a sacrificial lamb. By the time President Helms died, Rumsfeld was already the GOP front-runner, and by the time South Africa began to implode he had been announced the victor in the Republican primaries over an eccentric businessman, a Massachusetts Senator, and a policy-wonk Congressman from New York.
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And Stand Up For America has done the unbelievable, elect Eugene McCarthy in an AIPverse game! :eek:
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Also, there's that thing with the AIP candidate being black and Catholic... 1992 was weird here.

Kom's write-up.
Ultimately, too many things went right for Eugene McCarthy, and too many wrong for Alan Keyes, for the latter to unseat the former. Eugene McCarthy may not have been the President that Americans were expecting when they voted for Al Gore in 1988, but he had a generous sympathy boost and was able to campaign on preserving the legacy of the late President in the chaotic of his assassination. Much like the President that McCarthy had helped topple in 1968, McCarthy was able to use his position as a respected elder statesman filling in for a young, tragically-slain up-and-comer to advance his party's agenda. Beyond sympathy, McCarthy also secured reelection as a result of the ongoing economic growth (things aren't booming, exactly, but the growth is there) and his efforts to tackle unemployment and underemployment. The winding down of the Cold War, economic recovery, and innovative jobs programs all contributed to winning McCarthy a term of his own.

Meanwhile, while the Democrats rallied around a President that few had expected (or originally wanted), the American Independent Party found itself internally divided. It wasn't just that Keyes was a bit on the younger side at 42, and only had 3.5 years in the Senate, and wasn't entirely a great speaker (but then again, the press gave neither McCarthy nor Keyes nor Weld any major points for charisma this time around) and it certainly had nothing to do with race or religion, but the base was not as energized as it could have been. As a long-time and outspoken foe of the evils of abortion and "alternative lifestyles," Keyes won the Family Values voters, but even some of them were a bit concerned about his VP's desire to outlaw alcohol. And while the John Birch anticommunists were pleased with Keyes, this was not a foreign policy election, and his nomination had deeply angered the AIP's paleoconservative wing. In the end, Keyes was simply too divisive of a candidate for the American Independent electorate, and his opponent too entrenched.

Meanwhile, the GOP had run to the center, both in its primaries and the General Election. Largely eschewing the libertarian and traditional conservative wings, the Republicans had nominated two moderates. Weld and Kassebaum did their best to unite the party and attract new voters, but ultimately, their base was simply too small, confined to New England Rockefeller Republicans, western conservatives and libertarians, and college students. Though Weld campaigned against both the right-wing extremism of the AIP and left-wing radicalism of President McCarthy, many were unconvinced; fiscal moderates and gun-owners were not exactly shunned in the Democratic Party, and of course those really opposed to government spending or interference had the AIP. And while the doves still stood firm with the GOP (mostly), this was, once again, not a foreign policy election.
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Thanks for reading! Tomorrow might not have the 1996 infoboxes due to plans for a busy day.
 
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machinekng

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The League for a Just Reconstruction was founded in 2037 as a platform for North Korean small businessmen and community leaders to express their concerns with the ongoing reunification of Korea. The new Federal constitution and end of military rule in the North had legalized the formation of new political organizations in North Korea, and the League was the first to gain any real relevance. While most of the new North Korean parties were either hollow callbacks to Juche or puppets for Southern business interests, the League had the appearance of an authentic democratic politic. Indeed, the League forcefully represented Northern interests, using its position in local and federal government to fight for both further autonomy and reconstruction funds. Today, the League is the 4th largest party in Korea and the largest party in the Northern provinces. Critics from the Right remain disgusted by the party's appropriation of DPRK symbolism and socialist rhetoric, and many Southern nationalists see the party as communist subversives. Critics from the Left focus on the party's lip service to its ideals, decrying the League for its cronyism and corruption. The Northern League tends to be willing to caucus with any party willing to vote to extend reconstruction funds giving it disproportionate influence in the National Assembly and Senate. The League also tends to be pro-China, giving the Nationalists just another reason to hate it. Internationally, the Northern League is affiliated with the Asian-Pacific regionalist bloc, and sends observers to the Congress for a Social Alternative.
 
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Archangel Michael

Archangel Michael

Jake Dupree made a name for himself as deficit hawk as a U.S. Senator. He supported budget cuts and tax cuts, and helped spearhead welfare reform in the mid 2120s that saw Medicaid funding turned into annual block grants to the states. He was also a proponent of privatizing Social Security, but he'd never had enough support in the Senate to push it through. While he supported military spending, including the introduction of the U.S. Space Force's two-power standard, he also shepherded arms control treaties through Congress to effectively codify the two-power standard and American military dominance.

The Thurman campaign painted Dupree as the most right-wing Republican to win the nomination in some time, though he's pretty close to the Republican center. His platform supported mandatory eugenics and family planning that put him (and the rest of the Republican establishment) at odds with the Moral Majority and evangelical Christians. He was also a strong supporter of efficiency and neo-Taylorism. With advances in automation and artificial intelligence, large segments of government bureaucracy (and private middle managers) could be cut out and replaced with computers to create a faster, leaner and more efficient government. Advanced analytics would be used to determine the efficiency of workers, and inefficient workers would be reassigned. Workers would have more time for leisure and community service.

Social Security would be privatized and replaced with "private retirement accounts". Every American would receive a PRA at the age of 18 with around $300,000 in it to cover healthcare and retirement. The money would be invested into stocks and bonds, and can be fed with additional payments from the account holder. Additionally, he called for a massive construction plan of orbitals, with plans to double the number of orbital habitats in orbit around Earth, quadruple the number around Venus and begin construction of orbital clusters around Mars and Jupiter. Individuals would be able to cash out of Social Security and purchase a plot of land on the new orbitals to use in their retirements. Additionally, the Department of Health and Human Services would revise the SAMI test (Social Amelioration and Health Insurance) to reduce the amount of money that's wasted on prolonging the suffering of low quality of life patients. Additional spending cuts would come from discretionary funding, a modification of means testing and Minutemen block grant spending.

Foreign policy-wise, Dupree also called for a new round of the Conventional Armed Forces on Earth Treaty (CAFE III) to limit the size of Terrestrial armed forces, and also for the terms of CAFE II to be extended to Luna, Venus and Mars. The terms would retain American military dominance, but making spending reliable and avoid arms races. He was opposed to detente with the Soviet Union, and looked towards the creation of an "American ocean" with a stronger emphasis on intervention to protect American business interests abroad. Dupree had little interest in expansion in the Outer System, and instead preferred to focus on the construction of new orbital habitats because they were more humane and ethical than settler imperialism.

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Stuyvesant

Stuyvesant

Archangel Michael said:
Jake Dupree made a name for himself as deficit hawk as a U.S. Senator. He supported budget cuts and tax cuts, and helped spearhead welfare reform in the mid 2120s that saw Medicaid funding turned into annual block grants to the states. He was also a proponent of privatizing Social Security, but he'd never had enough support in the Senate to push it through. While he supported military spending, including the introduction of the U.S. Space Force's two-power standard, he also shepherded arms control treaties through Congress to effectively codify the two-power standard and American military dominance.

The Thurman campaign painted Dupree as the most right-wing Republican to win the nomination in some time, though he's pretty close to the Republican center. His platform supported mandatory eugenics and family planning that put him (and the rest of the Republican establishment) at odds with the Moral Majority and evangelical Christians. He was also a strong supporter of efficiency and neo-Taylorism. With advances in automation and artificial intelligence, large segments of government bureaucracy (and private middle managers) could be cut out and replaced with computers to create a faster, leaner and more efficient government. Advanced analytics would be used to determine the efficiency of workers, and inefficient workers would be reassigned. Workers would have more time for leisure and community service.

Social Security would be privatized and replaced with "private retirement accounts". Every American would receive a PRA at the age of 18 with around $300,000 in it to cover healthcare and retirement. The money would be invested into stocks and bonds, and can be fed with additional payments from the account holder. Additionally, he called for a massive construction plan of orbitals, with plans to double the number of orbital habitats in orbit around Earth, quadruple the number around Venus and begin construction of orbital clusters around Mars and Jupiter. Individuals would be able to cash out of Social Security and purchase a plot of land on the new orbitals to use in their retirements. Additionally, the Department of Health and Human Services would revise the SAMI test (Social Amelioration and Health Insurance) to reduce the amount of money that's wasted on prolonging the suffering of low quality of life patients. Additional spending cuts would come from discretionary funding, a modification of means testing and Minutemen block grant spending.

Foreign policy-wise, Dupree also called for a new round of the Conventional Armed Forces on Earth Treaty (CAFE III) to limit the size of Terrestrial armed forces, and also for the terms of CAFE II to be extended to Luna, Venus and Mars. The terms would retain American military dominance, but making spending reliable and avoid arms races. He was opposed to detente with the Soviet Union, and looked towards the creation of an "American ocean" with a stronger emphasis on intervention to protect American business interests abroad. Dupree had little interest in expansion in the Outer System, and instead preferred to focus on the construction of new orbital habitats because they were more humane and ethical than settler imperialism.
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I was almost on board, but then, Eugenics.
 
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