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The 2008 Deseret General Election was the 20th quadrennial general election. There were notable changes with this election compared with other elections of the Republic of Deseret. The collapse of the Zion Curtain and the disintegration of the Union of American Republics the previous year brought a flood of issues for the new state to address both in the quickly called constitutional convention and the general election. Once the government had gotten it's feet together, the old People's and Liberal parties agreed to unite into a single joint party of People's Liberal. A once suppressed far right party known as the Deseret Nationalists emerged and exploded in popularity for disgruntled party officials and the expanded general voting population of nearly ten million, a third of the total state's population.

The government would be established under an English model thanks to the large heritage groups with anglo origins that hoped for speedy diplomatic recognition as an independent state if a british like model of governance would be adopted as the political system. While those on the DN argued for something "Uniquely Deseretian", the agreement was reached to establish the position of Prime Minister, Dual tickets for a political party and grant 3 members from the capital.

At the Deseret National party nomination, two main front runners for the position appeared as attractive candidates:
William "Mitt" Romney
Orrin Hatch
The Hatch supporters decided to caucus with the Romney delegates to the convention and formally nominated Romney as the official DN nominee for Prime Minister on the second balloting by a narrow majority.
Deseret National First Ballot
Romney: 62/122
Hatch: 60/122
Second Ballot
Romney: 70/122
Hatch: 52/122​

Hatch was placed on the ballot as the joint nominee with Romney for the Dual Ticket to fuse the two parties together.

Chaos reigned within the Communist Worker's nomination halls, with hardliners wanting a 21st term for the long serving Hinckley were met with the younger guard that pressed for "young blood" to revolutionize the party's aging and shrinking demographically targets. They argued there would be loads of new voters that would be unfamiliar with Hinckley's stances on issues, and that a newer face of the CWP needed to be their primary concern.

There were rumors of legalizing same sex marriage, but this proposed platform was swiftly withdrawn from consideration by the liberal branch of the party over outrage by the staunchly hardline members and the moderates, both of which could shoot down the proposed amendment to the platform with a voice vote.
Communist Worker's First Ballot
Gordon B. Hinckley: 207/400
Dieter F. Uchdorf: 152/400
Neil L. Anderson: 41/400​
Nominee Uchdorf made a backroom deal with Hinckley to promise a rigged party leadership election in the octogenarian's favor if Uchdorf would withdraw from the ballot to ensure Hinckley the nomination as the candidate for Prime Minister. He would agree to this, but only if Anderson failed to get more than 50 delegates to support him on the second ballot.
Communist Worker's Second Ballot
Gordon B. Hinckley: 193/400
Dieter F. Uchdorf: 160/400
Neil L. Anderson: 47/400​
Uchdorf kept his word and officially withdrew his name from consideration as a political candidate. 50 of the Uchdorf Delegates, now left with two choices, decided to instead walk out of the convention. The Nomination went to Hinckley because of Anderson's poor showing in the third and final ballot.
Communist Worker's Third Ballot
Gordon B. Hinckley: 350/400
Neil L. Anderson: 50/400

People's Liberal First Ballot
John Huntsman 63/63​
The combination of the two former political parties, a necessity if vote splitting was to be avoided, happened to have the smoothest nomination process for the Joint ticket. Former Mayor of Salt Lake City John Huntsman, was an incredibly popular choice for the delegates, and won nomination on the first ballot with a unanimous vote of 63.

General Debate​
The First, three hour long Prime Minister debate held on August 23rd, 2008 was the most watched event in Deseretian history, with an estimated 19.2 million people tuning in on the television, while the radio broadcast nabbed a respectful 5.9 million listeners during the debate and newspaper presses printed out a total of 4.5 million papers with each quote in the entire debate being listed (That edition of Revolutionary Morning had over 304 pages in the newspaper, 4 devoted to various front page gossip and 300 to the debates and each line of dialogue.)
Memorable lines from the First Debate:​
  • Romney: "Our national defense must be kept up so that our armed forces can be entrusted with the safety of the nation. I know trying new things is difficult, Prime Minister, but we have to get over our fears of losing and just try our best! That'll be my new campaign slogan, Try our Best."
  • Huntsman: "I have nothing against people that live different lifestyles with me, we'll have to shop with them, eat with them and live with them. The LGBT community has had a silenced voice in Deseret for too long, and if I am elected Prime Minister, their voices shall no longer be silenced."
  • Hinckley: "I am the most experienced Politician here-"
  • Romney: "You're also ninety-eight years old, Prime Minister. The People seek new blood in the waters for us to test out, and if you're in the way of progress-"
  • Hinckley: "I'm not in the way of progress, I can try new things, In fact, I'll attempt to eat my shoe, that's new! I'm rhyming too, what a flu!"
  • Hinckley proceeds to put his shoe in his mouth before spitting it out.
  • Hinckley: "I guess I can't."

Results​
The Results of the election came in two entire months after the only debate. Incredibly early exit polls from generally safe CW dual tickets encouraged predictions of a sweeping Communist Worker's victory. This overconfidence seeped into the media, with the Deseret People's News, a state owned corporation boasting/predicting only "9 counties to go to Romney and 1 to defect to Huntsman." The DPN's actual numbers were off by 47 more than expected for Romney and 30 more than thought could go to the People's-Liberal nominee.

With the devastating defeat of nearly 177 members of the Communist Worker's Party, Prime Minister Gordon B. Hinckley delivered his letter of resignation to the Deseretian Parliament, who accepted it unanimously. Many of those hardline CW members that shut out the young guard from the convention in favor of the aging candidate were horrified at the prospect of electing some one younger, and so rushed to find a replacement in the age range of 70 to 80 years old that had good habits to ensure a long life span.

The previous deal of leadership alteration was leaked to the public, with many CW members howling for someone to blame for the defeat. Hinckley became an immense subject of hatred for the CW membership and the state owned media, who, now under the control of Dieter F. Uchdorf, became merciless at Hinckley's long term of office, bringing up the thousands of illegal activities the Hinckley branch of the political arm had done in the 80 years of power that they had enjoyed.

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Newne76

Charlie950 said:
Hinckley was born in 1910, became the Communist Party Leader at the age of 20, and stayed as PM (consecutively?) for 78 years?
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Deseret was run as a one party state from 1928 to 2007 and Hinckley was assisted along by older members of the Communist Party until 1942, when he officially took control of the party at thirty years old. He ruled as de jure leader from 1930 until 1942, when he was declared de facto leader.
 

Ferguson97

True Grit said:
Usually I’m against the whole “Hillary Rodham X” trope, but to be fair this one at least makes some sense from an OTL standpoint seeing as they worked together during Nixon’s impeachment.
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Do you still consider it a trope if she's just Hillary Rodham (i.e., not directed by her husband's political career)?
 

Ferguson97

How recent is recent politics? Like I'm assuming anything from now and the future? Would 2014 midterms infoboxes be allowed? 2016 election?
 
Glide08

Glide08

AidanM said:
How recent is recent politics? Like I'm assuming anything from now and the future? Would 2014 midterms infoboxes be allowed? 2016 election?
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Depends on the country and its length of the electoral cycle.

Basically, the rule is if it deals with the most two recent electoral cycles in a way that's reasonably similar to OTL, or if it has incumbents, it's current politics.

For example: Here in Israel, the 2015 and 2013 elections are out of the question (most recent electoral cycle), and so does the 2009 election (incumbent Prime Minister), so the most recent non-recent politics Israel election is the 2006 one.
 
Steve Brinson

Steve Brinson

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The University of the United States - Klamath Falls Campus is a public research university under the aegis of the University of the United States, although seven of the fifteen members of the Board of Trustees are appointed by the Oregon Government. Established in 1947 under the terms of the Higher Education Act, it was originally planned for the state capital of Salem, but the intervention of Senator Harry Boivin moved it to its current site northwest of Klamath Falls, Oregon.
It currently has the highest enrollment of any individual university campus in Oregon, although the Oregon University System as a whole has approximately 15,000 more students.
 
ETGalaxy

ETGalaxy

Kanan said:
Yes* but No** but Kinda*** but not really****
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Well now I'm even more interested! @Zyxoriv said that this was connected to your Thomas Jefferson wiki box from earlier and I get the feeling that this is right (after all, it seems like the US loses the Revolution in both timelines). Is this true?
 
HawkAussie

HawkAussie

Wikiboxes + maps in Alt World Football TL
Football at the 1924 Summer Olympics
1924 Indianapolis 500
1925 Five Nations Championship
1926 FIFA World Cup
1929 Monaco Grand Prix
1930 FIFA World Cup
1934 FIFA World Cup knockout draw
1935 EuroBasket
1938 FIFA World Cup
1938 World Ice Hockey Championship
1939 VFA season
1947 South American Championship
1948 FIFA Youth Tournament
1949 World Ice Hockey Championships
1950 FIFA World Cup
1950 Monaco Grand Prix
1954 Rugby World Cup
World Map of 1954
1954 FIFA World Cup
1955-56 European Cup

With the World Cup final coming up I thought I might share my long series which has covered four wiki box threads and in some way is becoming a tradition now. So the timeline is up to June 1958 which is just the start of the 1958 World Cup in Switzerland which will be the 11th FIFA World Cup to be played and has seen eight different winners with Italy and Uruguay winning two titles while England, Denmark, Belgium, Netherlands, Sweden and Hungary all recording one.

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The 1958 FIFA World Cup will see the debut of Canada who got pass an easy group of Costa Rica, Curacao and Nicaragua while Egypt will be making a return to the World Cup for the first time since 1930 after winning in the AFC/CAF group. One team that won't be there will be Romania after they were outscored by the Soviet Union to lose out on goal difference.
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Hubert Humphrey Fan 1968

Hubert Humphrey Fan 1968

Before we get into this, I'd just like to address this post's continuity with regards to this one. This post is both based off of that one and is a continuation of that one, but this one isn't exactly a sequel. Think of it sort of like fan faction that just so happens to be written by the original author (I know, I know, that's a contradiction in terms, but you get the idea).

Also, is it just me or does Lawrence Cannon look a lot like John Turner?
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The 2012 Canadian Election would go down in history as one of the most influential, important, and notable in the nation's history. Not only were the Liberals unseated from power after almost 20 years in office, but the election marked the re-birth of the PCs as a serious national party. Throughout the 1990s, close to or over 90% of the party's caucus came from the province of Quebec. This would, overtime, lead to problems of legitimacy for the party, as people began to see them as a Quebec party. As time went on, even Quebec wasn't enough to keep the party strong seat wise. The 3 elections held in the 1990s each marked stronger Liberal performances in Quebec and weaker PC performances in Quebec then the last. And of course, in the 2004 election, in the midst of Paul Martin's landslide, the PCs were unable to win even their heartland, falling far behind the Liberals in Quebec, with the seat count being 18 Progressive Conservatives to 57 Liberals, the sort of margin formerly enjoyed by the PCs in the 1980s and early 1990s. The PCs would then elect as their leader the former Quebec MNA Lawrence Cannon. He was faced with the difficult task of rebuilding his party from its sorry state. He would lead the party to a decent result in 2008, but the PCs still finished third behind the Brian Pallister-led Reform, the Liberals won another majority, and they still were very much Quebec centered. Still, 43 was a very good improvement over the party's 2004 result, and Cannon faced no serious calls for his removal.

Cut to 4 years later. The Liberals had been in power for just shy of 2 decades, and the Canadian economy, while no doubt very much recovered and recovering from the 2008 crash, was still quite sluggish. The PCs it seemed, had finally transcended their perception of being a "Quebec Party", as they had been polling competitively with the Liberals since Autumn 2010, and had been polling ahead, albeit only narrowly, by late Spring 2011.

Still, absolutely no one was counting the Liberals out. They could well run on their strong economic record, and Paul Martin was fairly popular. Not to mention, polling is polling, but if the PCs wanted to really break through, it would be another thing altogether. With all of this as the background, and the customary 4 years having passed, on March 10, 2012, Prime Minister Paul Martin called for an election.

Right out of the gates, Cannon knew if he and his party were to win, they would have to break through in Ontario. In any close election, Quebec would already be locked up for the party, and the West was never going to vote for the PCs, making Ontario the only competitive and populous province. Thus, Cannon's path (or anyone else's path, for that matter) to 24 Sussex ran through Ontario.

Cannon promised greater fiscal restraint, a better economy, tax cuts, and of course, a change from Paul Martin's Government. Reform promised to "get tough" on the deficit to create jobs, whereas the NDP, led by former Premier of BC Carole James, promised the opposite, approach of "investing in people", to jump start the stagnant economy. The Liberals, as any incumbent party does, ran on experience. Unfortunately for the Liberals however, Martin showed his age during the campaign. He was 72 (indeed, some wondered if he would retire during his mandate, but he ultimately decided to fight one more campaign), had been Prime Minister for close to a decade, and had already achieved most of major goals. One can hardly blame Martin in this context for running a somewhat weak and "tired" campaign. Regardless of his guilt, this still hurt the Liberals, and the PCs expanded their lead from a few points to somewhere in the 5-6 range. But there was still time left in the campaign to turn it around, right? Besides, even if that was the final margin, the Liberals had been in power for 19 years, and losing by 5 points after that is respectable.

Then came the debates. 2 held, one in French, the other in English, and Cannon triumphed in both. He calmly responded to both moderator questions and the attacks from the other leaders. Martin, while a good debater, seemed a bit uncomfortable, and Pallister and James both had distinctively average performances. After the debates, the PCs took a significant lead of 8-9 points, and this would ultimately be the final result.

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The Federal States, the Executive Premiers, and Afro-American Federal Americans
In The Great American Divide

Richard Cordray is a major Federal States politician and the 7th Head-Premier of the Federal States of America. Elected in the contentious 2014 Election, he became the first member of the Social Labor party to win in the Federal States, after being in a constant minority status due to the disgraced Epton Government. Cordray, aged 59, was already known on the national stage for his passionate crusades against the late Santorum governments banking deregulation efforts. Richard a graduate of Michigan State and Brasenose mostly kept a low profile during the Revolutionary period saying later in his life that he actively formed himself as a member of the progressive resistance, becoming a member of the Coalition for Greater Freedom early in his life. Following Epton's death, he became active in politics forming the wave of political newcomers who came to occupy the now many vacant offices throughout the land. Running on an anti-corruption message that plagued the still new Ernie Fars mayorship (who himself ran in the first mayor's election after the revolution under the anti-corruption philosophy) he was able to become Mayor of Cleveland.

He would keep true on his message cleaning up the city hall firing all former Fars-era associates, while also being able to rebuild much of the city's infrastructure, much of it damaged from the Revolution, most specifically the Battle of Cleveland. However, his time in the Mayoral seat would be short as he took the position as a stepping stone, taking an easy council-seat from the controversial and embattled George Voinovich, with his deputy Dennis Kucinich taking his former seat in Cleveland. In the Senate, at first, he proved a key ally for Head-Premier Ralph Nader, who was a member of the CGF, providing a key vote for massive infrastructure projects and environmental preservation efforts. But, Nader's successor Rick Santorum would not hold such friendly relations, in-fact Cordray opening saying in 2009 that Santorum was the "puppet of the corporate class". His long fillibusters helped bring attention to many of the banking deregulation and welfare cutting the administration did enact, regardless of the fact most of it easily passing the Popular Front lead congress. In Socialist Labor circles, yet, he proved a saint and one of the parties brightest prospects going into the 2014 general. When he announced his candidacy he easily crushed party opposition and won the primary winning 59% of the vote to his runner-up New Yorker Bernard Sanders who proved the left opposition to the mainstream progressivism Cordray brought.

Polling showed he was the strongest Social Labor had ever been during this new republic too. Meanwhile, the Santorum administration was growing increasingly unpopular due to seemingly Orwellian actions regarding Homosexuals and a downturn in the economy, along with record high Social Labor turnout with strong Black support resulted in Cordray becoming the first Social Labor Head-Premier. His Vice-Premier Harry Johnson coincidentally also became the first Afro-American Federal American too hold as high an office since the Epton administration. However, most importantly the election brought a wave for the party bringing them a seeming supermajority in all congressional houses. His signature achievements up to this date include the Banking Reform Act removing many of the Santorum-era deregulations, a period of thawing against the Eurasian Union, and the Reform of Interest Representation Act removing politically motivated financial lobbying in all forms, a move considered too radical in some circles. These actions were able to rebound the economy, with unemployment dropping from 18.7% to 15.4%. To this day he remains popular with 56% approvals, looking strong against opposition candidate Kirsten Gillibrand and favored to keep his seat.

The Federal States of America is a federated political unit and a congressional republic holding lands considered the Northeast, Midwest, and Great Plains regions of the former United States. Forming following the Second American Revolution, it was a pet project of Bill Eptons, becoming the 'Peoples Republic of America' and allying itself with a now victorious Soviet Union and Communist China. Epton began a 10 year long period of 'terror' silencing opposition and cementing the Social Labor party as the sole leader of the country. Being a Black Nationalist, he held himself on a thin line in a mostly White country wanting to avoid racial war. Yet he became one of the most vocal advocates for the Oppression of Negro Americans in the Southern States openly calling the South 'Jim Crow' and 'White Supremacist' on more then one occasion, even if the Southern Government desperately tried to avoid such labels to attract foreign investment.

Thus he partook in a period of great Black migration from the South to the North to be known as the Third Great Migration and leaving many parts of the Black Delta seemingly avoiding of such Black populations as had seen before. Increasingly the Black Population from 14% to 29% at its peak, many White Americans thought this meant their demographic demise and Anti-Government White Supremacist groups became rampant going into the late 1980s. In fact, the Oklahoma State Government was taken over by the White Nationalist Oklahoma Freedom Party for a time, through the limited local elections allowed. Epton ordered the Government to be disbanded, with many of its members being openly killed. However, Oklahoma would never resort to the prior demographic white supermajority, with many Mississippi Delta residents fleeing to Tulsa and other Oklahoman city's meaning 41% of the population being AAFA by the middle 1990s. This period coincided with the assassination of Bill Epton and the resulting coup. Following a provisional government, in 1990 a Federal 'Congressional' Republic was declared, with the new nation self-proclaiming as the successor to the United States in all but name.

The war decimated the new nation and employment was up to 35% in many parts of the country up only until the middle 2000s. However, increasing economic prospects along with foreign investment have rebounded the country resulting it to a status of middle-power holding moderate to heavy influence in the World Stage. Its closest partner has proved to be the United Kingdom and surprisingly Eurasia, both helping aid the struggling country. In 2001, in a commitment to join itself in the international community, it joined NATO and the North American Partnership Zone. The war, yet, brought some lasting impacts to the nations psyche, with the highest percentage of self-reported atheists or non-believers in the Americas at almost 40%, rivaling the Western Confederation at 34%.

Harry Johnson is a major Federal States politician and the 11th Vice-Premier of the Federal States, becoming the first AAFA to hold such high office. Johnson, aged 38, was born in Tulsa from parents fleeing the South. Graduating from East Central, Oklahoma, and Columbia he took to political office early becoming 21 when he won in the newly created 13th district. He became an active voice for AAFA Oklahomans and was re-elected to his seat in a landslide. In 2006 he was able to oust incumbent Assembly Member David Boren at age 27, becoming the youngest Assembly Member to that date. He became a passionate voice for both infrastructure and the disenfranchised, also becoming a key leader of Social Labor at such a young age. When Cordray ran for President in 2014 thus he picked Johnson to both secure ideological support and hold AAFA support and turnout. Johnson is known for his passionate speeches and community outreach, often campaigning in many places regular politicians view as outliers, white or black.

Afro-American Federal Americans, AAFA, or Northern Black Americans are a key demographic group within the Federal States of America. Together with Caucasian Federal Americans, they form the bulk of the country's population, and as of 2016 hold 27.91% of the population. This is down from nearly 30% in 2010 due to better job prospects in the West or in Canada. Much of current AAFA's are first generation or second generation migrants from the Southern States, due to the Third Great Migration. They mostly settled in the Rural Southwest (Oklahoma, North Missouri, ext.) or in the many urban centers that the first or second migrations brought Blacks too, mainly New York City, Chicago, and new to the Washington D.C. - Richmond - Baltimore metro area. There they form demographic majority's and hold them in the states of Virginia, Delaware, and Maryland while holding majorities in NYC, Chicago, Washington D.C., Richmond, Baltimore, Albany, Trenton, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Tulsa, and Milwaukee to name a few. They also have a sizable minority in Oklahoma, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, North Missouri, Illinois, and Pennsylvania. Meanwhile, in the Federal States Caribbean colonies, related Afro-Caribean Federal Americans and Cuban Blacks hold sizable majorities in all but Puerto Rico. Altogether they have formed a key demographic and cultural component to the Federal States with its own Vice President being of Second Generation descent.





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*Cordray Box should say Councilmen from Ohio, not Senator, and Johnson box should say he began political office in 2001, not 1997.
The Great American Divide
- The Major Political Parties of the Federal States of America
- The Federal States, The Executive Premiers, and Afro-American Federal Americans
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What's the rest of North America like?
 
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