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Well, didn't the Anti-Masonic Party once field a presidential candidate who was a freemason? ;)
It's even more ridiculous than that, that was the only time they fielded a presidential candidate (rather than endorsing somebody else's). And he won electoral votes, too. Most bizarre of all, it was through this nomination that the convention system for selecting presidential candidates first appeared and went on to be copied by the major parties. Can you imagine a single-issue third party being that influential nowadays?
 
It's even more ridiculous than that, that was the only time they fielded a presidential candidate (rather than endorsing somebody else's). And he won electoral votes, too. Most bizarre of all, it was through this nomination that the convention system for selecting presidential candidates first appeared and went on to be copied by the major parties. Can you imagine a single-issue third party being that influential nowadays?
Wasn't Perot's campaign essentially anti-NAFTA?
 
The great founding father of Quebec, the sainted Father Abélard Sauvageau, was born in Quebec during the Francophone insurrection that briefly established the First Québécois Republic under the French tricolour, prior to that insurrection being put down by Lord Melville. In 1821, at the age of 12, Abélard received a vision of the then recently departed Pope Benedict XV, telling him it was his assignment in life to become a priest and preach to the Québécois in defiance of British attempts to make the Catholic Church more loyalist in tone to the imperial government in London. Studying at the seminary of Quebec, Abélard soon became a modest parish priest in his hometown of Trois-Riviers, and on the side edited a newspaper calling for greater Québécois home rule, and eventually, independence. For this he frequently got in troubles with the British authorities, and his role in the Québécois Rising of 1849 made the London government put a bounty on his head. Abélard fled to the United States, and lived in exile for many years in New York City, where he continued to publish an anti-British French language newspaper. When the Québécois Revolution of 1860 started, despite urging from friends and colleagues in New York, he wasted no time in going back to his home country. In Montréal he was given a hero's welcome back, which he modestly accepted while proclaiming that the real heros had been the revolutionaries who had taken Montréal while he slept comfortably down in NYC. Still, many of the revolutionaries considered him their source of inspiration, and when Louis Lafontaine, the chair of the provisional government of Quebec stepped down so that his hero could take the helm, he found himself with no option but to graciously accept the position as provisional head of state for the Québécois Republic. Lord Salisbury over in Britain of course detested the man, and it can only be speculated how events would have turned out in Québécois-British relations (if the Second Republic even would have survived) had it not been for events taking place elsewhere in North America. The revolutionaries in Quebec had taken their opportunity to rebel after ███████████ had invaded British North America, and originally had been sympathetic and even supported by the ██████ government in ██████████. Still, as events on the continent grew ever more difficult for the British, in particular after the fall of █████, Lord Salisbury, as the good pragmatist he was, decided that it was better to lose only Quebec to become its own irrelevant republic than to risk losing all of British North America to an emerging superpower in the form of the ██████████████. Thus, in 186█, using the French government as an intermediary, Salisbury's government secretly contacted Sauvageau's, and offered him to recognize Québécois independence provided they aligned themselves with the British by means of a formal military alliance against the coalition under ███████████. After some haggling, the two governments reached an understanding, and in 186█, the Treaty of St. John was signed, in which Britain recognized the Québécois Republic and its borders were agreed upon, and where the Québécois committed themselves against the ██████████████. Following the "defeat" (if that is the right way to describe it) of ███████████ in Honduras in 1866, the Republic of the Québécois took its place among the nations by being represented as a sovereign state at the Congress of Havana. The constitution of the newborn nation was modelled after the original constitution of the United States (which would of course cause problems in the future), and Sauvageau won the first presidential election in a landslide.

Though latter-day revisionists have attempted to paint Sauvageau as a slimy opportunist, the assessment G. W. Von Fersen gave of the man in his five volume work on the █████ian War of an honourable albeit pragmatic statesman who took the courageous decision to make peace with his old enemy in face of an even greater evil continues to stand, not the least in Quebec itself, where he has become the patron saint of the nation.

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OK, this infobox requires a lot of context, since it is set in a fictional world.

There was once a Safirian Empire covering three continents. A large and multiethnical, multiracial empire with the House of Assembly and Senate providing a check on the Emperor's vast powers. It was an empire of splendour, a rainbow empire of all colors.

Nine hundred years ago (1000s), the last island of that Empire fell. For the last century of its existence, it was struggling to keep the Empire united as Emperors grew complacent, the House of Assembly and Senate were increasingly dismissed from their business by the Emperors and regionalist agitation grew.

The last Emperor, Paĉjo IX "the Silent" of the House of Ĉielarko, disappeared mysteriously as the invaders finally landed on the island. Nobody knows where he ended up. After the island fell, the continents of former Safiria entered in a new era. Technology advanced, wars fought and people born.

However, thoughts of the old Empire and the Safiraj Paco (Safirian Peace) continued. As the forces of conservatism emerged, the "Imperial Question" split it into two. One, the coronalists, advocated a restoration of the Empire in some limited context. Over time, they became internationalist and moderate. The other, the nationalists, advocated keeping to the status quo and celebrating the centuries of tradition. They opposed a restoration. Over time, they became populistic, racialistic and traditionalist.

Too was the force of liberalism shaped by the Imperial Question. The old Empire was remarkably liberal in its attitudes (it had to be in order to maintain such a huge empire) and in a bizarre way, it was liberals (now picking up the label "federalist") who looked to the Imperial past more than conservatives. However, they covered their talk of a new Empire in liberal rhetoric, a "family of nations, united in diversity". The Solidarist rebellions against needless war in the 1770s gave them a radical twist and working-class appeal.

The agrarian movement has always been a constant in Safiria. The old Farmistoj faction in the Imperial Congress were influential, and even after the Fall, agrarianism remained strong, even if often on the fringes. Regarding the idea of restoring the Empire, they were sceptical, seeing it as consolidating power into urban areas and not paying agrarian concerns enough. Also, the fact that such an Empire was advocated by federalist liberals and moderate coronalists made it unappealing to southern agrarianists who often profited off the back of slaves. The Northern base was intensely nationalist and distrusted the "urban elite" as well.

The movement built off the anger and determination of the working class, the populists, distrusted the idea of a restored Empire because of two reasons. 1) Their base, despite being radical enough to back the Populists, still were loyal to their nation and didn't want it to be absorbed. 2) They were concerned that it would cement the system of monedism (capitalism) and prevent any genuine reform from happening.

The last force to rise was the most scary. The Communalists, due to the Nationalists sucking away the regionalist right-wing support, were intensely pro-Empire and saw such a restoration as restoring Safiria's golden past. Their de facto leader, Luisina Herrera, was a charismatic populist who had millions in awe (and often shock). They were a concerning development.

In 1919, a new "Imperial Conference" was held, like the last one twenty years before (and the one before that, etcetra), and it was expected to turn out the same way, with no satisfactory conclusion. But Herrera, despite being a unpleasant extremist, could inspire people. Her speech on the Golden Past (she was a historian before being a politician) led many to tears and her appeal to unity won over many. By a 3/5 margin, the Conference voted to restore the Empire.

They worked out a parliamentary structure for the House of Assembly based on how the vast majority did their elections, and an appointed Senate to assure the regionalists and nationalists. When it came to the Constitution, a majority backed the banning of slavery, which led to most Southerners walking out.

This development was concerning and threatened to disrupt the restoration attempt. Nikki Rosenberg, Professor at Paradizo University, called in a person shrouded in the darkest of blue robes, his/her head covered by a thick hood. She said three words. "Bring her in".

When the robed figure returned, it was holding the hand of a peasant girl about 11 years old or so. Hands clearly only just washed for the first time in a long while, clothes clearly new and ill-fitting and hair a total mess. She said "I'm sorry for interrupting your important meeting. The man said I had to be here for some reason". The accent was clearly lower-class. Many around the table quizzed why Professor Rosenberg wanted someone like her in the room.

The Professor stood up and went over to the peasant girl. To all who sat at the table, she said "This is your Empress, the rightful heir to the Sapphire Crown".

To any doubters, the man in the robes held out a clearly detailed family tree tracking the descent from Emperor Paĉjo IX to this girl.

There was a period of uncomfortable silence before a bearded Nordish man said "If that girl is our Empress, what is her name?"

The girl said "Miela. It's an unusual family name." Miela. The name of the last Emperor's consort. It was undeniable, that this girl was the heir.

After the rest of the Conference, even Herrera, grew accustomed to the idea of enthroning her when Rosenberg reminded them of the far less powers she would have compared to her predecessors, the rest of the Conference went ahead somewhat smoothly.

In the end, by the middle of 1920, the Empire was to be restored. Due to logistical problems, the first election to the House of Assembly was in August 1921.

After that, the new House of Assembly voted to bring the South into the Imperial fold by declaring war. The areas that remained at the Conference outmatched the South in terms of industry and technology, if not by people. By 1924, the South was free and incorporated.

After that, the Empire had a glorious coronation for now the Empire was back. The coronation of Empress Miela IV was well-attended.

The 1921 election, the first election to the House of Assembly, is below.

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People usually do it on their own sandboxes on Wikipedia, use a screenshot extension on their browser to get it into image form, and do any editing afterwards in Paint.

Ah cool, just can't seem to get the it right. When I do screen shot them on the wiki page is to small so when I resize the word go all pixelated. Any advice?
 
Ah cool, just can't seem to get the it right. When I do screen shot them on the wiki page is to small so when I resize the word go all pixelated. Any advice?

Do NOT adjust the size of the page or wikiboxes if that's what you're doing. Keep the webpage at normal size and use a screenshot extension that can take screenshots of areas outside the area that you can actually see on the page. I recommend Nimbus if you use Firefox.
 
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Do NOT adjust the size of the page or wikiboxes if that's what you're doing. Keep the webpage at normal size and use a screenshot extension that can take screenshots of areas off what you currently see. I recommend Nimbus if you use Firefox.

Or you could take a bunch of screenshots or snips and reassemble it in Paint.
 
Look, I made a House of Cards thing. The map is based on campaign snippets we've seen from the show. The names you don't recognize are not-so-clever anagrams devised by yours truly.

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Look, I made a House of Cards thing. The map is based on campaign snippets we've seen from the show and the names you don't recognize are not-so-clever anagrams devised by yours truly. The popular votes are the same as our 2012 election, just consider that a parallel universe coincidence.

Interesting, though for some reason I remember them mentioning Walker succeeding a Republican (Although I don't see someone as insipid as Walker defeating an incumbent).

My personal headcanon is that the US House of Cards takes place in the same universe as SLCer's A Bridge to the 21st century. I'll explain how if anyone's interested.

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Just a note, House of Cards says the President before Walker was apparently Obama, from some sources I read.

I'm fairly certain that the last OTL President they mention in the series is Clinton.
 
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Interesting, though for some reason I remember them mentioning Walker succeeding a Republican (Although I don't see someone as insipid as Walker defeating an incumbent).

My personal headcanon is that the US House of Cards takes place in the same universe as SLCer's A Bridge to the 21st century. I'll explain how if anyone's interested.

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I'm fairly certain that the last OTL President they mention in the series is Clinton.

Yes please.
 
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Who cares about spoilers:p. Now, I did leave one or two things out from the final peace here, but there were separate treaties for those, which I am not covering currently.
 
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