Al Gore was assassinated by a Islamic terrorist.
Dick Cheney was elected as vice president from a contingent election, as republicans won the senate.
Alternate Electoral Maps III
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Dick Cheney was elected as vice president from a contingent election, as republicans won the senate.
2004 Presidential Election
Sen. Hillary Clinton/Gen. Wesley Clark 40.1%
Sen. John McCain/Vice President Dick Cheney 40.8%
Rep. Dennis Kucinich/Rep. Ron Paul 8.8% (Anti War Party)
Rep. Ron Paul/Rep Dennis Kucinich 10.02% (Freedom Party)
Results: President Elect Hillary Clinton/Vice President Dick Cheney
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Here is an (admittedly WIP) election map for a fantasy world I'm working on. The setting is roughly the 80's in terms of technology and population. This map focuses on the Midwest, where the Moderate party enjoys Solid South like dominance (although things are beginning to fall apart). This is in large part due to the fact the area is ethnically and typically (type = race) different than the rest of the country. The shades represents (roughly) the margin the seat was won by (although it gets a bit complicated since there are runoffs and things).
Federalist:
Party Symbol: Stag
Ideology:
Harmonism
Verticalism
Combinism
National:
Party Animal: Mountain Eagle
Ideology:
Equalitarianism
Technocracy
Liberationism
Arbitrism
Moderate:
Party Symbol: Dragon
Ideology:
Silvian Intreats
Centrism
Harmonism
Verticalism
Conservationism
People are fine looking at realistic human faces. They're also fine looking at things that aren't human faces, or at unrealistically stylized depictions of human faces. Things that are close to looking human, but don't quite get there, inspire revulsion, affecting people negatively compared to either alternative.
That's the sort of discomfort I feel when I see your fantasy analogue that's clearly the Midwest but also clearly not the Midwest. It makes the map more interesting than just random squiggles would be.
Abraham Lincoln is not assassinated. In 1868, the Union's savior runs for an unprecedented third term. It becomes his largest and surest victory ever. Due to agitation from the Radical wing of the party (and now that the war was won), Lincoln drops Andrew Johnson and Roscoe Conkling is the Republican nominee. Vice-President Johnson rather unhappily takes the nomination of the reeling Democratic Party - he loses in a landslide.
21 states go to Lincoln by margins upwards of 20%.
21 states go to Lincoln by margins upwards of 20%.
Honestly, I cannot remember now! Maybe Seymour?
In any case, here are two follow ups. Vice-President Conkling wins an even more impressive electoral college victory in 1872 than even Lincoln had in 1868, but the margins in practically every single state were considerably closer. Much of his widespread victory can, in part, be attributed to the Democratic split between whether to endorse the Liberal Republican ticket or the "traditional" Democratic ticket.
Conkling's victory reaffirmed the radical republicans within his own party and indicated (to him, at least) that the country must continue on its push for a strict and strong Reconstruction. These policies began to become far too controversial the farther from the Civil War the country got. As a result, Conkling's re-election was the closest for a Republican since Lincoln's election in 1860. Nonetheless, Conkling and VP Blaine were re-elected in 1876.
Economic downturns in 1878, along with continued resistance to the scale and scope of Reconstruction, brought about an end, perhaps momentarily, of Republican dominance. The Democrats nominated Thomas Bayard of Delaware on a platform of unifying all aspects of the Democrats and even Republicans, those descended from the Liberal Republican Party. His gamble paid off, Bayard defeated Vice-President James G. Blaine rather handily in the election of 1880.
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The electoral map from the 1992 election in this scenario
After 12 years of Democratic Presidency, the Chisholm-McDermott ticket manages to win a second term, though the independent Powell-Perot ticket has a respectable showing and comes pretty close to victory, while the Robertson-Symms ticket, plagued by radicalism and scandals, crashes and burns
After 12 years of Democratic Presidency, the Chisholm-McDermott ticket manages to win a second term, though the independent Powell-Perot ticket has a respectable showing and comes pretty close to victory, while the Robertson-Symms ticket, plagued by radicalism and scandals, crashes and burns
What do you think the state map and national PV margin are if this county map had happened sometime between 1972 and 1988?
Assuming blue is democrats and red is republicans, this looks like a map that would be a lot earlier than 1972.
What do you think the state map and national PV margin are if this county map had happened sometime between 1972 and 1988?
1980 Ford vs Carter rematch?
What do you think the state map and national PV margin are if this county map had happened sometime between 1972 and 1988?
1940s, or maybe 1950s if Eisenhower wasn't liked as much as he was.
Not a perfect fit, by any means, but it's close.
So let’s say it happened in 1952 then. what’s the popular vote and state map look like and who’s the Democratic candidate?
