I remeber the outcome of the 2009 Israeli elections... If we didn't repeal direct electiosn for the PM, Livni might've won back then.
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The West Wing presidential election 2006
I did a version of this before, but I didn't like it. Here's an updated version. This one is an altered version of the show with different characters, names, and stories. Let's say Sorkin stayed.
Season 5: Backstory
The Hoynes scandal is not written into the show as Sorkin is not leaving and doesn't want to write the "Speaker becomes President" story. In the Zoey Bartlet kidnapping crisis, Hoynes becomes Acting President. Just like in the real show, Zoey is recovered and the President resumes his duties. Season 5 has some different stories but nothing major happens. There is no replacing of the Vice President. As such, Will doesn't leave the West Wing to work for the Vice President. The real changes start at the end of season with the Gaza story. Fitzwallace doesn't die in the explosion but he is hospitalized for his severe injuries. The President does not fire Leo, instead, Leo has an unprompted heart attack, forcing him to leave his job. Josh becomes Acting Chief of Staff but he is clearly too distracted to do the job because of Donna. He recommends Senate Minority Leader Wendell Tripplehorn (Geoff Pierson, real character) to do the job. Tripplehorn is experienced, a good candidate, and was planning on retiring from the Senate soon. Plus, this gets Tripplehorn out of the 2006 race, as he was planning to challenge Hoynes. Tripplehorn accepts. Pierson joins the starring cast. C.J. stays as the Press Secretary so there is no Annabeth Schott introduced here and no Toby as the Press Secretary. The Santos character is never created. The election story begins in mid-season 6.
Season 6: The Primaries
At the start of a Christmas episode, Hoynes asks Josh to come run his campaign. Josh is hesitant to leave the White House and says he'll have a response later. When the president has an MS episode before an important meeting, the Vice President steps in to do the job and saves the whatever all by himself. Josh decides that Hoynes is the right man for the job and at the end of the episode and agrees to run his campaign. In the next episode, Josh tells the president he's leaving and formally resigns. Ed and Larry become the new Deputies. Josh asks Toby to come with him, but Toby doesn't think Hoynes is liberal enough. Dismayed, Josh leaves for New Hampshire without him, accompanied instead by Will. Although Josh and Hoynes expect an easy primary, Senator Ricky Rafferty (Mel Harris) challenges him from the left, with the help of her campaign manager Amy Gardner. The two campaigns clash bitterly after Rafferty has a series of surprising Super Tuesday victories. Josh eventually deduces that Rafferty's campaign is being advised by Toby. Ultimately Hoynes secures enough delegates and Rafferty drops out, but the Democratic platform has successfully been moved left and Toby accomplishes his real goal, moving Hoynes away from the center.
The final scene of the season's penultimate episode is the Hoynes team gaming out potential running mates. Josh says he only has one name in mind and the episode ends there. In the cold open of the finale, Josh goes to a house. He knocks on the door and a woman lets him in. She takes Josh to her husband and Josh asks him if he wants to be the next Vice President of the United States. The man is Admiral Fitzwallace. Roll credits. In the White House plot, there is no space shuttle leak. Instead, in the finale, the President is informed that the Sultan of Qumar has just been overthrown and executed by the military. This will replace the leak story and Kazakhstan in season 7. The remainder of the episode is dedicated to the Democratic and Republican conventions. Hoynes and Fitzwallace are nominated by the Democrats, while the Republicans nominate Senator Arnold Vinick of Texas. Vinick served in the Senate with Hoynes for many years and is his close personal friend. They are very close on the political spectrum as well. The Democrats wonder if they can really beat him. Vinick, a moderate, selects Senator Bob Russell (Gary Cole) of Alabama, a deep red conservative, as his running mate to balance the ticket and keep the base.
Season 7: The Election
Season 7 is very similar to the real show, except with the alternate candidates. There is a plot where a white cop shoots an unarmed black teenager in Dallas, similar to OTL's "Undecideds". Hoynes struggles with a proper response and gets into a fight with Fitzwallace about it. This plays into a deeper subplot when Fitzwallace accuses Hoynes of only picking him because of his race. Hoynes rejects and resents the accusation and Fitzwallace challenges him to prove it in his response to the shooting. Vinick gets into hot water when he tells a crowd of black people that they should do better at policing themselves. This blunder combined with a passionate speech from Hoynes puts the Hoynes campaign up in the polls. However, their bump is short lived after tabloids begin publishing rumors about an affair Hoynes had many years ago. Hoynes puts the story to rest by going on television with his wife (Teri Polo) and apologizing. Nevertheless, Hoynes is down in the polls again.
He and Vinick are neck and neck throughout the campaign as Josh grows increasingly frustrated trying to balance the left and center parts of the party. Vinick is leading the polls again thanks to stealing away moderate voters from the Democrats, putting several key states in play. Bruno continues to go for his 50 state strategy. Vinick's campaign eventually takes a hit with the nuclear incident, just like the real show. The White House plot, as mentioned before, is dominated by the civil war in Qumar. Ultimately President Bartlet decides to commit American troops to a UN peacekeeping force. Leo is heavily involved in this plot as the key to negotiations with other UN members trying to convince them to join the coalition. In the episode before the election, "Welcome to Wherever You Are", the President joins the Vice President on a campaign tour throughout the northeast, ending in New Hampshire. At the end of the night, before the President leaves for Washington, Josh expresses his doubt that they will win, but the President says he is confident in their victory.
On Election Night, the results coming in are inconclusive throughout the night. New Hampshire is called for Hoynes and the President asserts that it was his doing. It all comes down to Texas and Nevada. The first episode ends with Texas being called for Vinick. With Nevada exit polls favoring Vinick, Hoynes prepares to concede. The episode ends like the real one, with Leo being discovered passed out in his room. In the second episode, Leo is confirmed dead. The somber mood is interrupted by Nevada surprisingly being called for Hoynes, thus giving him 271 electoral votes and the victory. The last episodes focus on the transition. Josh puts together a staff consisting of Sam Seaborn as Deputy Chief of Staff, Will Bailey as Director of Communications, and Annabeth Schott (who was the campaign Press Secretary) as Press Secretary. Toby decides he will retire from politics to spend time with his children and write books. C.J. goes to do non-profit stuff like in the real show. There is no Speaker vote or search for a vice president, but some cabinet picks draw ire and create trouble for an administration that hasn't even started yet. The series finale is largely the same, only with John Hoynes being sworn in as the 44th President.
Main cast additions: Tim Matheson (season 6), Geoff Pierson (season 6), Alan Alda (season 7)
Bonus: John Hoynes presidential portrait
I did a version of this before, but I didn't like it. Here's an updated version. This one is an altered version of the show with different characters, names, and stories. Let's say Sorkin stayed.
Season 5: Backstory
The Hoynes scandal is not written into the show as Sorkin is not leaving and doesn't want to write the "Speaker becomes President" story. In the Zoey Bartlet kidnapping crisis, Hoynes becomes Acting President. Just like in the real show, Zoey is recovered and the President resumes his duties. Season 5 has some different stories but nothing major happens. There is no replacing of the Vice President. As such, Will doesn't leave the West Wing to work for the Vice President. The real changes start at the end of season with the Gaza story. Fitzwallace doesn't die in the explosion but he is hospitalized for his severe injuries. The President does not fire Leo, instead, Leo has an unprompted heart attack, forcing him to leave his job. Josh becomes Acting Chief of Staff but he is clearly too distracted to do the job because of Donna. He recommends Senate Minority Leader Wendell Tripplehorn (Geoff Pierson, real character) to do the job. Tripplehorn is experienced, a good candidate, and was planning on retiring from the Senate soon. Plus, this gets Tripplehorn out of the 2006 race, as he was planning to challenge Hoynes. Tripplehorn accepts. Pierson joins the starring cast. C.J. stays as the Press Secretary so there is no Annabeth Schott introduced here and no Toby as the Press Secretary. The Santos character is never created. The election story begins in mid-season 6.
Season 6: The Primaries
At the start of a Christmas episode, Hoynes asks Josh to come run his campaign. Josh is hesitant to leave the White House and says he'll have a response later. When the president has an MS episode before an important meeting, the Vice President steps in to do the job and saves the whatever all by himself. Josh decides that Hoynes is the right man for the job and at the end of the episode and agrees to run his campaign. In the next episode, Josh tells the president he's leaving and formally resigns. Ed and Larry become the new Deputies. Josh asks Toby to come with him, but Toby doesn't think Hoynes is liberal enough. Dismayed, Josh leaves for New Hampshire without him, accompanied instead by Will. Although Josh and Hoynes expect an easy primary, Senator Ricky Rafferty (Mel Harris) challenges him from the left, with the help of her campaign manager Amy Gardner. The two campaigns clash bitterly after Rafferty has a series of surprising Super Tuesday victories. Josh eventually deduces that Rafferty's campaign is being advised by Toby. Ultimately Hoynes secures enough delegates and Rafferty drops out, but the Democratic platform has successfully been moved left and Toby accomplishes his real goal, moving Hoynes away from the center.
The final scene of the season's penultimate episode is the Hoynes team gaming out potential running mates. Josh says he only has one name in mind and the episode ends there. In the cold open of the finale, Josh goes to a house. He knocks on the door and a woman lets him in. She takes Josh to her husband and Josh asks him if he wants to be the next Vice President of the United States. The man is Admiral Fitzwallace. Roll credits. In the White House plot, there is no space shuttle leak. Instead, in the finale, the President is informed that the Sultan of Qumar has just been overthrown and executed by the military. This will replace the leak story and Kazakhstan in season 7. The remainder of the episode is dedicated to the Democratic and Republican conventions. Hoynes and Fitzwallace are nominated by the Democrats, while the Republicans nominate Senator Arnold Vinick of Texas. Vinick served in the Senate with Hoynes for many years and is his close personal friend. They are very close on the political spectrum as well. The Democrats wonder if they can really beat him. Vinick, a moderate, selects Senator Bob Russell (Gary Cole) of Alabama, a deep red conservative, as his running mate to balance the ticket and keep the base.
Season 7: The Election
Season 7 is very similar to the real show, except with the alternate candidates. There is a plot where a white cop shoots an unarmed black teenager in Dallas, similar to OTL's "Undecideds". Hoynes struggles with a proper response and gets into a fight with Fitzwallace about it. This plays into a deeper subplot when Fitzwallace accuses Hoynes of only picking him because of his race. Hoynes rejects and resents the accusation and Fitzwallace challenges him to prove it in his response to the shooting. Vinick gets into hot water when he tells a crowd of black people that they should do better at policing themselves. This blunder combined with a passionate speech from Hoynes puts the Hoynes campaign up in the polls. However, their bump is short lived after tabloids begin publishing rumors about an affair Hoynes had many years ago. Hoynes puts the story to rest by going on television with his wife (Teri Polo) and apologizing. Nevertheless, Hoynes is down in the polls again.
He and Vinick are neck and neck throughout the campaign as Josh grows increasingly frustrated trying to balance the left and center parts of the party. Vinick is leading the polls again thanks to stealing away moderate voters from the Democrats, putting several key states in play. Bruno continues to go for his 50 state strategy. Vinick's campaign eventually takes a hit with the nuclear incident, just like the real show. The White House plot, as mentioned before, is dominated by the civil war in Qumar. Ultimately President Bartlet decides to commit American troops to a UN peacekeeping force. Leo is heavily involved in this plot as the key to negotiations with other UN members trying to convince them to join the coalition. In the episode before the election, "Welcome to Wherever You Are", the President joins the Vice President on a campaign tour throughout the northeast, ending in New Hampshire. At the end of the night, before the President leaves for Washington, Josh expresses his doubt that they will win, but the President says he is confident in their victory.
On Election Night, the results coming in are inconclusive throughout the night. New Hampshire is called for Hoynes and the President asserts that it was his doing. It all comes down to Texas and Nevada. The first episode ends with Texas being called for Vinick. With Nevada exit polls favoring Vinick, Hoynes prepares to concede. The episode ends like the real one, with Leo being discovered passed out in his room. In the second episode, Leo is confirmed dead. The somber mood is interrupted by Nevada surprisingly being called for Hoynes, thus giving him 271 electoral votes and the victory. The last episodes focus on the transition. Josh puts together a staff consisting of Sam Seaborn as Deputy Chief of Staff, Will Bailey as Director of Communications, and Annabeth Schott (who was the campaign Press Secretary) as Press Secretary. Toby decides he will retire from politics to spend time with his children and write books. C.J. goes to do non-profit stuff like in the real show. There is no Speaker vote or search for a vice president, but some cabinet picks draw ire and create trouble for an administration that hasn't even started yet. The series finale is largely the same, only with John Hoynes being sworn in as the 44th President.
Main cast additions: Tim Matheson (season 6), Geoff Pierson (season 6), Alan Alda (season 7)
Bonus: John Hoynes presidential portrait
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Like Minnesota, Dakota and Alaska, here's Wisconsin-in-Canada!
The fallout from the Doyle years had resulted in the Liberals' fortunes dipping, being replaced by the New Democratic Party (NDP) as the main opposition to the Reform Conservatives. The NDP had been one of the most powerful provincial NDP affiliates and frequently been in government between the party's formation in 1961 and the shakeup of the provincial political scene in 1992, which sent the NDP into a malaise. Revitalized at the expense of the Liberals, the party dusted off long-dormant ties to the provinces' farming community who had felt annoyed at what they felt was the Johnson government's management of the provincial marketing board and the cut in reimbursement for dairy.
Johnson, like his government itself, had very polarized approval and disapproval ratings, which complicated the party's plan to keep swing voters who had voted for the Reform Conservatives in 2013 in the fold. The Liberal leader, Mary Burke, had succeeded in keeping her party from completely falling apart post-Doyle but largely failed in persuading anti-Johnson voters to vote for the Liberals outside of party strongholds in Milwaukee and Liverpool [OTL Madison]. Meanwhile, the NDP's return to third place on the federal level resulted in good fortune for their Wisconsin affiliate. Ron Kind, who had been in the NDP shadow cabinet and been angling for a cabinet position if the party had won the 2015 federal election, instead announced his candidacy for the provincial NDP leadership election in 2016. Kind easily won and quickly emerged as the main opponent to Johnson in the campaign, with the election being referred to as the "Which Ron Wins?" contest.
The RC campaign, in spite of the long odds, performed admirably and kept supporters buoyed despite the otherwise troubling signs for a government seeking re-election, with the split in the anti-RC vote between the NDP and the Liberals allowed the somewhat unpopular Johnson to keep his party neck-and-neck throughout the campaign despite Kind and Burke having higher net approval ratings.
The results mirrored the polls, with the NDP barely winning the popular vote and winning only four more seats than the RCs. The NDP's outreach to rural voters paid dividends, resulting in over a dozen seats being picked up on a small increase in their popular vote share. The Liberals also increased both their seat total and overall vote share, getting a majority of ridings in major urban areas, including sweeping Kenosha's ridings.
The NDP and the new Kind government are still in their honeymoon period, and have so far been able to rely on Liberal support for most of their platform. Even so, given historical trends, a premature election is likely to be held in 2019 or 2020 as the goodwill engendered by the government's election victory fades and opposition to the NDP program among RC and Liberal MLAs will likely increase.
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The 2017 Wisconsin general election was the 40th general election in Wisconsin's history. The incumbent government of Premier Ron Johnson's Reform Conservatives sought a second consecutive majority government and third straight electoral victory. Johnson's government had proven to be one of the most controversial both in recent Wisconsin history and in Canada during the 2010s. Having, unusually for a provincial party, been a merger between the old Progressive Conservatives and provincial Reform, like the federal Conservatives, the party was taken over by former Reformers during the term of Johnson's predecessor Jim Doyle's Liberal government. As such, the government's severe cuts to provincial programs, including public schools and generous tax cuts to businesses provoked a polarized reaction among Wisconsinites, which in part explained the strong showing for the federal Liberals in the most recent (2015) federal election in comparison to previous contests.
The fallout from the Doyle years had resulted in the Liberals' fortunes dipping, being replaced by the New Democratic Party (NDP) as the main opposition to the Reform Conservatives. The NDP had been one of the most powerful provincial NDP affiliates and frequently been in government between the party's formation in 1961 and the shakeup of the provincial political scene in 1992, which sent the NDP into a malaise. Revitalized at the expense of the Liberals, the party dusted off long-dormant ties to the provinces' farming community who had felt annoyed at what they felt was the Johnson government's management of the provincial marketing board and the cut in reimbursement for dairy.
Johnson, like his government itself, had very polarized approval and disapproval ratings, which complicated the party's plan to keep swing voters who had voted for the Reform Conservatives in 2013 in the fold. The Liberal leader, Mary Burke, had succeeded in keeping her party from completely falling apart post-Doyle but largely failed in persuading anti-Johnson voters to vote for the Liberals outside of party strongholds in Milwaukee and Liverpool [OTL Madison]. Meanwhile, the NDP's return to third place on the federal level resulted in good fortune for their Wisconsin affiliate. Ron Kind, who had been in the NDP shadow cabinet and been angling for a cabinet position if the party had won the 2015 federal election, instead announced his candidacy for the provincial NDP leadership election in 2016. Kind easily won and quickly emerged as the main opponent to Johnson in the campaign, with the election being referred to as the "Which Ron Wins?" contest.
The RC campaign, in spite of the long odds, performed admirably and kept supporters buoyed despite the otherwise troubling signs for a government seeking re-election, with the split in the anti-RC vote between the NDP and the Liberals allowed the somewhat unpopular Johnson to keep his party neck-and-neck throughout the campaign despite Kind and Burke having higher net approval ratings.
The results mirrored the polls, with the NDP barely winning the popular vote and winning only four more seats than the RCs. The NDP's outreach to rural voters paid dividends, resulting in over a dozen seats being picked up on a small increase in their popular vote share. The Liberals also increased both their seat total and overall vote share, getting a majority of ridings in major urban areas, including sweeping Kenosha's ridings.
The NDP and the new Kind government are still in their honeymoon period, and have so far been able to rely on Liberal support for most of their platform. Even so, given historical trends, a premature election is likely to be held in 2019 or 2020 as the goodwill engendered by the government's election victory fades and opposition to the NDP program among RC and Liberal MLAs will likely increase.
I still find it weird that the FA didn't use something like Faversham's for the England team OTL, I mean why blue lions?
You shouldn't love this installment- after all, I just gave Canada a province whose residents' diet consists of cheese and lots of alcohol.
I'm glad you're still Minnesotan enough to shittalk Wisconsin in the comment responses even if not in the update itself.
I'm only trying to warn @CanadianTory about what horror I've actually inflicted on his country.
Hey I can acknowledge the fact you're destroying conservatism and still praise your maps and writing abilities.
G-D it, now I'm wishing I knew enough about sports to posit the various species of football evolving differently.
Culver's isn't bad. It's one of the more palatable things to come out of Wisconsin.
You're just mad that TTL Andrew Scheer lost the leadership election to the other Ayn Rand fanboy with terrible healthcare policies who ran.
fashbasher
Banned
A couple of fictional CIA dirty tricks aimed at secretly weakening major business partners/competitors of the US. Operation Tansu (named after a Japanese traditional chest) involves smuggling large crates of undetectable guns to areas with strict gun laws with the aim of weakening social cohesion and possibly increasing the ease of assassinations while solidifying organized crime's influence in the West. Bird Dog aims to recreate the historic tension between Americans and police, including race riots, by offering large sums of money to the families of Europeans who get shot by police (essentially, a reward for suicide by cop). The result is that the *Mark Duggan riots happen in 2008 and it's revealed that *Duggan had been contacted by Bird Dog agents and encouraged to act aggressively whenever he saw cops.
You gave Wisconsin the UP. That's A OK in my books
It's not an insult. We proudly wear our cheese and beer badges. If that makes us the worst drunk driving state in the nation so be it.
OK this is how you insult Wisconsin
First of all how dare you
But why? What on earth does the United States stand to gain from ruining its closest allies?
A couple of fictional CIA dirty tricks aimed at secretly weakening major business partners/competitors of the US. Operation Tansu (named after a Japanese traditional chest) involves smuggling large crates of undetectable guns to areas with strict gun laws with the aim of weakening social cohesion and possibly increasing the ease of assassinations while solidifying organized crime's influence in the West. Bird Dog aims to recreate the historic tension between Americans and police, including race riots, by offering large sums of money to the families of Europeans who get shot by police (essentially, a reward for suicide by cop). The result is that the *Mark Duggan riots happen in 2008 and it's revealed that *Duggan had been contacted by Bird Dog agents and encouraged to act aggressively whenever he saw cops.
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