2018 Presidential Election

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Turkish Air Force begins massive air campaign against suspected EOKA-III camps across Cyprus

Akrotiri, Cyprus- In response to the increasing attacks from the EOKA insurgency, the Turkish Air Force has begun what is expected to be a massive bombing campaign against the EOKA fighters across the entire island. Operating from the captured Andreas Papandreou AFB in Paphos, Lakatamia AFB in Nicosia, and several Air Bases in mainland Turkey, the plan calls for a sustained campaign against areas of suspected heavy EOKA concentration. "These terrorists will be rooted out of their holes" a Turkish government spokesman said in a brief statement.

Human Rights organizations have already issued letters of protests over these actions, sitting specifically the bombing of areas with high civilian populations.
 
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Thursday, January 27 2022

Seaborn marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Washington D.C.
— In a speech at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, President Sam Seaborn led the nation in its solemn remembrance of the victims of the Holocaust. Speaking on the 77th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp by the Soviet Red Army, Seaborn commemorated the victims of one of history's greatest crimes with a brief, but stirring, speech. Matching the occasion of remembering the attempted extermination of European Jews by the Nazi regime, the president spoke on the failures of the world community, including the United States, that allowed the Holocaust to occur.

After introductory remarks, the president spoke:

"Today stands as a stark reminder of that infamous quote, 'The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.' On this day, those words could not be more truthful. The perpetrators of the Holocaust are, unquestionably, the most evil people to ever walk this earth. Their leader, also unquestionably, is the worst person to ever exist. The commencement of World War II, the deadliest conflict in human history, was merely a cover for mass murder and extermination. Nearly 20,000,000 people were murdered on the orders of evil.

But that is something that we all know; that we all acknowledge. Today, I want to talk about something that we don't. While the Nazis committed and carried out these heinous and evil crimes, the entire world was complicit. When the Jews of Europe sought to flee to the safety of other nations, every nation in the world rejected them, closed their borders to them. The small few who would let them in charged outrageous and exorbitant fees to do so. We were all complicit. We turned our back to them as they were slaughtered and massacred.

Perhaps more so than ever, it is vitally important that we recognize and acknowledge this. Across the globe, the forces of denialism are rising. In our own country, books about the Holocaust are being banned from our schools and libraries. It is incumbent on all of us to make the most of the time that we still have left with the survivors. We must continue to educate ourselves and others, particularly our children.

Let this day be a reminder to us all of what can happen when evil is left unchecked and when good people bury their heads in the sand."
 
Wait I thought Sam would write his own speeches, I mean it was his job for Bartlet. :D

Although more seriously who is Sam's speechwriter in the West Wing, that's gotta be an interesting relationship with many of Sam's issues with Jed

Mark Sterns and John Edwards are the speechwriting team, with Sterns as the most senior of the two.

Given that both the president (and his chief of staff) is a former speechwriter, the dynamic was pretty rough at first when the administration began, especially since Edwards wasn't on the campaign.

But three years in, they've settled into a groove where Sterns & Edwards can reliably craft speeches that Sam doesn't feel like he needs to make a million edits to, while Will is in the background fondly remembering having time to sit and write speeches.
 
Mark Sterns and John Edwards are the speechwriting team, with Sterns as the most senior of the two.

Given that both the president (and his chief of staff) is a former speechwriter, the dynamic was pretty rough at first when the administration began, especially since Edwards wasn't on the campaign.

But three years in, they've settled into a groove where Sterns & Edwards can reliably craft speeches that Sam doesn't feel like he needs to make a million edits to, while Will is in the background fondly remembering having time to sit and write speeches.
Any chance of a story like in 'Celestial Navigation'? One White House staffer explaining what is happens in the White House on a... 'typical day'? The odds of Mark Sterns and John Edwards navigating by the stars to find a lost judicial nominee don't seem as high as when Toby and Sam handled communications in the Bartlet White House :coldsweat:
 
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Friday January 28th, 2022

Edwards ends presidential campaign, Royce and Forrester remain in ahead of Super-Tuesday

Former Michigan Congressman Gus Edwards has ended his long-shot bid for the Republican presidential nomination this morning. In a message posted on the campaign website he said "we have done anything we could, and I am very proud of what my campaign was able to bring our national debate" adding "it is clear to me despite performing way better than everyone said we could do, when we started out on this journey over 14 months ago, I have to be honest and reflect that I am not going to win the nomination".

Edwards who was almost unknown nationally when he announced his candidacy in November 2018, and raised his profile within the party and certainly on the "Vinick" wing of it. Although he made no formal endorsement of another candidate it is expected that he will endorse Illinois Senator Jasper Irving in person over the weekend at a rally, ahead of Super-Tuesday.Due to various states election laws, Edwards will remain on the ballot in ten of the sixteen states voting on Tuesday.

The withdrawal of Edwards from the race is certain to put pressure on the two remaining candidates who have yet to win any delegates, Robert Royce and Charlie Forrester. Both campaigns have made it clear since Tuesday, that they intend to remain in the race for Super-Tuesday, but neither have much realistic hope of winning a state ahead of one of the three front-runners, Alan Duke, Ruth Norton-Stewart and Jasper Irving.
 
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I would have thought South Carolina would be the end of the line for Forrester.
He did ok in Arizona and South Carolina. He is staying because of states like Alabama and Arkansas. Also like Robert Royce he knows that there is a strong chance of another deadlocked convention, for both candidates are hoping to keep going as long as possible, and hope to emerge as a possible compromise candidate.
 
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Seaborn campaign "looking closely" at Senate for VP nominee

Friday, January 28th, 2022

Senator Nicole Kershaw (D-CA), the senior senator from California and a major supporter of President Sam Seaborn, told an interview with NBS that she and fellow California senator Gabe Tillman (D) were "just about the only Democratic senators not being looked at" as potential running mates for the president later this year.

Kershaw, who developed a close working relationship with Seaborn during the nearly eight years the president spent as her colleague in the Senate, said that the campaign was "looking closely" at various members of the party's Senate caucus for the vice presidential nomination. Kershaw says she has been privy to discussions with the president and his top political advisors over who Seaborn should select, owing both to her relationship with the president and the constitutional difficulties that would make selecting her unnecessarily risky.

"The Constitution is pretty clear that California's 54 electors couldn't vote for both President Seaborn, a proud Californian, and a vice presidential nominee also from California," Kershaw explained. "They would have to find a different candidate to support for vice president, which would mean there would almost certainly be another contingent vote [for vice president] when the president wins a second term. I don't think I have to explain why the party and the campaign aren't anxious to repeat that experience."

Kershaw declined to name candidates who have been discussed, but other individuals aware of the discussions have listed several familiar names, including Alicia DeSantos (FL), Ben Newell (CO), Rudi Robinson (IN) and Andrew Howard (WA), while also listing dark horse candidates like Dante Jenkins (NJ) and Andy Ritter (NM).

Seaborn campaign manager Marc Chorley confirmed that "several senators" have been floated internally within the campaign as potential running mates, but declined to name specific senators as under consideration. Chorley also said that the selection of a running mate was "still in the early stages" and that the campaign has not yet begun to vet candidates.

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DOJ expands criminal investigation of veterans' charity to include KY governor

Friday, January 28th, 2022

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has expanded its criminal investigation of the Operation Healing Honor veterans charity to include Governor Ed Barrie (R) of Kentucky. A statement from the Department of Justice confirmed news reports that leaked late Thursday night that Barrie was now a "person of interest" in the investigation that has already seen six current and former directors of the charity, including Barrie's son, charged.

"New information obtained by investigators has resulted in an expansion of the investigation to include Governor Barrie as a person of interest," said Winfield Hawkins Jr., U.S. Attorney for the District of Eastern Kentucky. "Further investigation will be required before a decision can be made [on whether to charge Barrie with a crime]."

Court filings from the six defendants in the Operation Healing Honor scandal allege that the Kentucky-based veterans group defrauded investors and veterans out of an estimated $2.3 million between 2011 and 2021. A lawyer for Barrie says that he was unaware of the fraud perpetrated at the charity, which he co-founded and served on the board of before becoming governor in 2015 and that the investigation targeting him was a "political witch hunt."

Between the scandal over Operation Healing Honor and the testimony of his former aide-de-camp that Barrie had ordered him to falsify military records to be awarded a military medal he was not entitled to, the former Army Chief of Staff has become one of the most unpopular governors in the country, with his approval rating fall to 23 percent of Kentuckians in the last NBS poll. In addition to the DOJ investigation, an impeachment committee in the state House of Representatives has been scheduled to convene next week.

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Friday, January 28 2022

Italian parliament struggles to elect president in blow to Boschetti

Rome
— The Parliament of Italy failed in its fifth round of voting to elect a new president, with its most recent vote taking place today. The failure to elect a successor to outgoing president Pietro Pannunzio thus far has come as a major blow to the government of longtime prime minister Manuele Boschetti, who had openly pushed for the governing center-left coalition's candidate, former cabinet minister Giovanni Sacco.

As expected the center-right and other opposition parties voted for their own nominees on the first two ballots, with no candidate coming close to the three-fifths supermajority required to win. But negotiations between the government and opposing members of both the Chamber of Deputies and Senate failed to lead to any breakthrough in the next two rounds, the last held where a supermajority is required to elect. Further ballots, including the failed fifth ballot held today, only require a majority of the 730 members of parliament to vote in favor of one candidate. The process has been marked by higher than expected abstentions from members; since the election is by secret ballot, there is no way of telling which members voted to abstain, but the results show a significant underperformance for Sacco compared to the number of center-left senators and deputies.

Another ballot will be held today, and it is likely that two will be held each day until a new president is elected. Pannunzio's term expires February 3rd, although should a successor fail to be elected within that time frame, his term may be extended or an acting president appointed.
 
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Sunday January 30th, 2022

Latest "Super-Tuesday" Polling

Alabama (50 Dels)

  1. Duke 54%
  2. Norton-Stewart 28%
  3. Irving 7%
  4. Forrester 5%
  5. Royce 2%
Undecided/Others: 4%

Arizona (56 Dels)
  1. Duke 41%
  2. Norton-Stewart 24%
  3. Irving 21%
  4. Forrester 5%
  5. Royce 3%
Undecided/Others: 6%

Arkansas (38 Dels)
  1. Duke 40%
  2. Norton-Stewart 30%
  3. Irving 17%
  4. Forrester 6%
  5. Royce 3%
Undecided/Others: 4%

California (169 Dels)
  1. Irving 53%
  2. Norton-Stewart 24%
  3. Duke 13%
  4. Royce 3%
  5. Forrester 2%
Undecided/Others: 5%

Colorado (37 Dels)
  1. Norton-Stewart 33%
  2. Duke 31%
  3. Irving 22%
  4. Royce 5%
  5. Forrester 4%
Undecided/Others: 5%

Massachusetts (40 Dels)
  1. Irving 59%
  2. Norton-Stewart 20%
  3. Duke 13%
  4. Royce 3%
  5. Forrester 1%
Undecided/Others: 4%

Minnesota (39 Dels)
  1. Irving 46%
  2. Norton-Stewart 24%
  3. Duke 18%
  4. Royce 5%
  5. Forrester 3%
Undecided/Others: 4%

Missouri (53 Dels)
  1. Norton-Stewart 38%
  2. Duke 34%
  3. Irving 20%
  4. Royce 4%
  5. Forrester 1%
Undecided/Others:3%

Montana (30 Dels)
  1. Duke 50%
  2. Norton-Stewart 27%
  3. Irving 14%
  4. Royce 2%
  5. Forrester 1%
Undecided/Others: 6%

New Jersey (49 Dels)
  1. Irving 40%
  2. Norton-Stewart 39%
  3. Duke 12%
  4. Royce 4%
  5. Forrester 2%
Undecided/Others: 3%

New York (91 Dels)
  1. Irving 61%
  2. Norton-Stewart 23%
  3. Duke 10%
  4. Royce 2%
  5. Forrester 1%
Undecided/Others: 3%

North Dakota (28 Dels)
  1. Duke 44%
  2. Norton-Stewart 27%
  3. Irving 22%
  4. Forrester 3%
  5. Royce 2%
Undecided/Others: 2%

Oklahoma (42 Dels)
  1. Duke 65%
  2. Norton-Stewart 22%
  3. Irving 7%
  4. Forrester 2%
  5. Royce 1%
Undecided/Others: 3%

Tennessee (57 Dels)
  1. Duke 46%
  2. Norton-Stewart 31%
  3. Irving 13%
  4. Forrester 4%
  5. Royce 3%
Undecided/Others: 3%

Utah (39 Dels)
  1. Duke 64%
  2. Norton-Stewart 20%
  3. Irving 11%
  4. Forrester 2%
  5. Royce 1%
Undecided/Others: 2%

Wyoming (29 Dels)
  1. Duke 49%
  2. Norton-Stewart 28%
  3. Irving 14%
  4. Forrester 4%
  5. Royce 3%
Undecided/Others: 2%
 
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Sunday January 30th, 2022

Edwards endorses Irving at rally in Albany


Former Michigan Congressman Gus Edwards who pulled out of the GOP Presidential race on Friday, endorsed Illinois Senator Jasper Irving at a rally in Abany, New York, Sunday morning.

"I have come here this morning to endorse a man who needs to be our nominee and god willing, the next President of these United States of America, Senator Jasper Irving" adding "I seen him up close over the past months as we have been campaigning across the country, he is man of great honour, truth and justice. He appeals to all of us to unite our party and our Country".

Irving appeared on state with Edwards thanking him "I thank Gus from the bottom of my heart, he has made this race better, he helped me be a better candidate, and when I win I think he will help me be a better President". This comment sparked speculation that Irving could pick Edwards as his running-mate if he wins the nomination but this played down by the Irving campaign "The Senator is fighting for every vote to be our nominee, he hasn't even started thinking about a running-mate" although " I think Gus Edwards would be part of any future moderate and decent Republican administration" Irving Communications Director Scott Galley told NBS.
 
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Super Tuesday: What It Is And What's At Stake

Monday, January 31st, 2022

Super Tuesday is one of the most consequential days in any presidential campaign. Every four years, the party out of power—and, when the president is term-limited, the party in power—looks forward to the day when the largest amount of delegates, in races across the country, are at stake for the party's nomination. This is Super Tuesday, the first big day in the primary calendar after the first four contests (Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina) who have worked out long-standing agreements with both the Democratic and Republican parties to go ahead of everyone else.

This year, with the Republicans looking to take on President Sam Seaborn, it's the Grand Old Party's contests that everyone will be watching tomorrow once polls begin to close.

Which states are voting and how many delegates are at stake?

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Dark grey: Contests before Super Tuesday (133 delegates)
Red: Super Tuesday contests (847 delegates)
Grey: Contests after Super Tuesday (1,509 delegates)

This year, 16 state primaries and caucuses will take place tomorrow on Super Tuesday. The contests will run the gamut in terms of geographical location, with most regions of the continental U.S. represented. There will also be a diversity in terms of the total voters in each race, with both California (the nation's most populous state) and Wyoming (its least populous) holding their contests on the same day.

In terms of delegates, the five remaining Republican candidates can rake in a big haul—847 delegates are up for grabs, over one-third of the total that will appear at the Republican National Convention in July (169 are in California alone). But Super Tuesday is early in the primary process; there will be Republican primary contests going on until May.

What result each of the Republican candidates need

Each of the five Republicans actively seeking their party's nomination would like to pull off a clean sweep in Super Tuesday; but historically, that only happens when an incumbent president is running unchallenged for the nomination (as President Seaborn is doing in the Democratic contest).

Alan Duke (OK): Duke is the current frontrunner based on delegates (87), and he's likely to add a considerable number based on NBS' Super Tuesday polling of many of the states the eventual Republican nominee will win handily in November. The question will be whether the polling holds true and he can show that Iowa was not just a fluke; that he can also win in states that aren't deep red on the presidential level.

Ruth Norton-Stewart (OH): The senator from Ohio has been getting squeezed from the right by Duke and from her left by Jasper Irving. Her campaign is clearly disappointed with former congressman Gus Edwards dropping out and endorsing Irving, meaning she no longer has a shot of sneaking by in one of the coastal states (or Minnesota) contests that Duke is expected to do poorly in. She's got very narrow leads in two states and needs to win at least that many states in order to stay in the race.

Jasper Irving (IL): Irving is the candidate with momentum, having consolidated almost all of the self-styled "Vinick Republicans" behind him with Gus Edwards' withdrawal and announcement. He also benefits greatly from New York and California taking part in Super Tuesday this year, meaning he is almost certain to walk away with a boatload of delegates. If he succeeds in keeping Norton-Stewart from winning only one race or fewer, it will be a gamechanger.

Robert Royce (PA): The former Senate Majority Leader has failed to find much traction with primary voters, and his campaign seems pretty aimless. If he doesn't perform well in any of tomorrow's contests, the pressure on him to suspend his campaign will be enormous. He's sitting on enough cash reserves to keep going deep into the primary calendar, but he can only justify remaining in the race if he shows some popular support in at least one contest.

Charlie Forrester (GA): Forrester completely miscalculated the amount of support he would receive in South Carolina and is polling abysmally low in the southern states he was banking on winning. Losing not just South Carolina, but all four primaries in the former Confederacy would be the end of his campaign, and he needs to win, or at least do extremely well, in at least one state to justify keeping his campaign going.
 
Got a big haul of four Senate lists, finishing off the states with cardinal directions in their names.
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United States Senators from North Carolina
Class 2
1985-2015: Eric Bennett (Democratic)
Elections: 1984, 1990, 1996, 2002, 2008
2015-2027: Kenny Sattler (Republican)
Elections: 2014, 2020

Class 3
1981-1986: John P. East (Republican)†
Elections: 1980
1986-1993: David La Gava (Republican)
Elections: 1986 (special), 1986
1993-2005: Jack Fuld (Democratic)
Elections: 1992, 1998
2005-2011: David McNamara (Republican)
Elections: 2004
2011-2017: Brett Logan (Democratic)
Elections: 2010
2017-2023: Barbara Layton (Republican)
Elections: 2016

Bennett was basically a Southern Democrat of the old school who finally got knocked off in 2014. Republicans had tried to get him to switch parties and after he was defeated, he was even talked about for a position in Walken's cabinet, but nothing came of it.

John P. East's story is pretty sad (he killed himself after announcing his retirement due to hypothyroidism), but we opted to keep it since it occurred less than a year after the "POD" of Reagan having his stroke. McNamara could have been the guy who unseated Matt Santos, but he had a terrible case of John Hoynes' disease and lost his Senate seat (he managed to make a comeback of sorts by becoming North Carolina's governor and is retiring due to term limits this year). An unusual thing about the Class 3 seat ITTL: Jack Fuld is the only occupant to win two terms since Watergate icon Sam Ervin left office in 1974 (Ervin's successor, Robert P. Morgan, lost the 1980 election to East). Of course, Barbara Layton is looking to break that trend this November.


United States Senators from North Dakota
Class 1
1960-1989: Quentin Burdick (Democratic-NPL)
Elections: 1960 (special), 1964, 1970, 1976, 1982
1989-2010: Seth Gillette (Democratic-NPL)
Elections: 1988, 1994, 2000, 2006
2010-2013: Seth Gillette (Progressive Alliance)
2013-2019: Jay Mattock (Democratic-NPL)
Elections: 2012
2019-2025: Jamie Muller (Republican)
Elections: 2018

Class 3
1981-1987: Mark Andrews (Republican)
Elections: 1980
1987-1999: Dave Canton (Democratic-NPL)
Elections: 1986, 1992
1999-2005: Paul Everett (Republican)
Elections: 1998
2005-2011: Jon Rinier (Republican)
Elections: 2004
2011-2017: Harry Conroy (Democratic-NPL)
Elections: 2010
2017-2023: Matt Chantler (Republican)
Elections: 2016

North Dakota is one of two states in the US where the Democratic Party has a different name than it does nationally, just like its neighbor Minnesota. Like Minnesota, the ND Democrats merged with a left-wing third party and its name is a legacy of that; in North Dakota's case, the Democratic-Nonpartisan League is the result of the merger with the Democrats and the Nonpartisan League.

Gillette was a Democratic senator from a Midwestern state that borders Canada who ran a third-party ticket against an incumbent Democratic president. Stop me if you've heard this one before. Unlike Stackhouse, though, Gillette switched his party designation and was the vice-presidential nominee instead of the presidential one (former Republican congressman Tim Hall topped the ticket that withdrew in September 2010). Gillette's political career outlived the PA itself (it folded in 2012), so he effectively was an independent in the last half-year of his Senate career.

Everett is a new creation, and let's say illness caused him not to seek a second term in 2004. Rinier basically had the perfect storm of having his re-election bid be against the state's popular Democratic at-large congressman (Conroy) with presidential turnout and having gone through a very public messy divorce right before the election. Conroy, a freshman senator who represented a state the party's presidential nominee had lost by 15%, inexplicably became the #2 Democrat in the Senate before barely losing re-election in 2016. I'd say that's pretty poor judgment on the part of Senate Democrats, it's not like either OTL or TTL hasn't had numerous examples of congressional Democrats exhibiting poor judgment.

United States Senators from South Dakota
Class 2
1979-1991: Lenny Parker (Republican)
Elections: 1978, 1984
1991-2009: Wendell Tripplehorn (Democratic)
Elections: 1990, 1996, 2002
2009-2021: Jim Simon (Republican)
Elections: 2008, 2014
2021-2027: Tim Masters (Republican)
Elections: 2020

Class 3
1981-1987: Philip Pressley (Republican)
Elections: 1980
1987-2003: Jim Simon (Republican)
Elections: 1986, 1992, 1998
2003-2023: Robin Fulton (Republican)
Elections: 2004, 2010, 2016

With South Dakota's delegation being done, we've now included every TTL president (Seaborn) and vice president (Pierce, Hoynes, Tripplehorn, Clark, Hunter) who has served in the Senate.

I established Parker as Tripplehorn's predecessor in Tripplehorn's infobox. Parker later served as the Secretary of Agriculture in Owen Lassiter's second term. Tripplehorn, of course, served as Senate Minority Leader for a decade before losing his seat in the 2008 midterms. He got a promotion after Eric Baker resigned due to health problems and became the 49th VPOTUS (his presence on the ticket also caused the Democrats to carry SD in 2010).

Jim Simon had an interesting career. He held the Class 3 seat for three terms before retiring in 2003, with Robin Fulton being named to replace him. Then, Simon came out of retirement to take out Tripplehorn in the Class 2 seat five years later, and opted to retire for good in 2020 (he didn't resign ahead of schedule this time). Fulton was diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer and is not seeking re-election this year.

United States Senators from West Virginia
Class 1
1959-1995: Robert Byrd (Democratic)
Elections: 1958, 1964, 1970, 1976, 1982, 1988
1995-2007: Sarah Brainerd (Democratic)
Elections: 1994, 2000
2007-2013: Brent Harrison (Republican)
Elections: 2006
2013-2019: Michael Higgins (Democratic)
Elections: 2012
2019-2025: Sam Hedrick (Republican)
Elections: 2018

Class 2
1985-1991: Oliver J. Murray (Republican)
Elections: 1984
1991-2010: Don Rossiter (Democratic)
Elections: 1990, 1996, 2002, 2008
2010-2015: Charles Oakley (Republican)
Elections: 2010 (special)
2015-2021: Rachel Mears (Democratic)
Elections: 2014
2021-2027: Mac Walters (Republican)
Elections: 2020

Byrd's tenure ends a dozen years earlier *here* and he is obviously eased/pushed out of the leadership at some point before the 99th Congress (1985-1987). TTL's WV Democrats appear to be a bit healthier on the Senate level than OTL, where two different Democrats won Senate elections in the past decade. I had thought that Mark & disputed, being from the UK, had picked up the name Michael Higgins by osmosis without realizing it, but apparently he was the invention of an American poster (I think he's American).

Rossiter retired early in 2010 due to a cancer diagnosis, and Oakley (no, not that one) won a special election to fulfill the rest of his term (part of the chaotic mess that was the 2010 Senate elections). Oakley apparently wasn't great at being a senator and lost bigly to Mears, who then in turn got walloped by Mac Walters because something about Sam "Get The Guns" Seaborn doesn't play well in West Virginia.
 
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I am pleased to announcement will be having some posts during the night covering "Super-Tuesday". I am unable to do it myself this year, but you will be in the good hands of @MountainDew17 .
Cheers

Mark
 
It seems likely that Sam Seaborn will be in enviable position, similar to Jed Bartlet, 20 years previously! If it's Alan Duke who's the nominee, then I figure that Seaborn will win in a LBJ sized landslide, if he faces Jasper Irving, we will have a Santos-Vinick type contest. Unless I missed it, where is the Republican party's national convention this cycle? And where will the Democrats host their convention?
 
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