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I just noticed that. Yeah. that needs to be changed.
Anyone have any opinions on my McNamara infobox?
Someone I made up from TTL's American-Icelander immigrant community
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In 2016, Hillary Clinton runs and wins against Paul Ryan, who narrowly wins the GOP nomination. Hillary makes a somewhat controversial V.P. pick of Julian Castro in order to secure the Hispanic vote and also to help the party long-term. Ryan chooses Bobby Jindal.
Due to health concerns and on the advice of her doctors, President Clinton opts not to seek re-election, thrusting the untested Vice President Castro into the spotlight as the party's nominee. The GOP nominate Rand Paul, who runs on a platform promising to expand the GOP base by welcoming young voters and minorities. He chooses Oklahoma Governor T.W. Shannon as his running mate.
Castro puts Texas legitimately in-play, but ultimately loses it by just over 3% to Paul, who also takes New Hampshire, Florida, Iowa, and Ohio from the democratic column. However, Castro takes Arizona (which isn't called until early afternoon the day after election day) and thus the election.
In 2016, Hillary Clinton runs and wins against Paul Ryan, who narrowly wins the GOP nomination. Hillary makes a somewhat controversial V.P. pick of Julian Castro in order to secure the Hispanic vote and also to help the party long-term. Ryan chooses Bobby Jindal.
Due to health concerns and on the advice of her doctors, President Clinton opts not to seek re-election, thrusting the untested Vice President Castro into the spotlight as the party's nominee. The GOP nominate Rand Paul, who runs on a platform promising to expand the GOP base by welcoming young voters and minorities. He chooses Oklahoma Governor T.W. Shannon as his running mate.
Castro puts Texas legitimately in-play, but ultimately loses it by just over 3% to Paul, who also takes New Hampshire, Florida, Iowa, and Ohio from the democratic column. However, Castro takes Arizona (which isn't called until early afternoon the day after election day) and thus the election.
The Nazis win WW2, so the base in the country become permanent and the US troops stay due to the need to protect the guard in the North Sea against the continent. The American community (coupled from the base, the soldiers families, and opportunistic fortune seekers) grows. Creating the elite immigrant community McNamara (and other American-Icelanders) are apart of TTL.
Opportunistic fortune seekers? Seekers of what, exactly? You know, the base stayed around until 2006 IOTL, and there's still almost no Americans living in Iceland.
I meant the base stayed at wartime levels, 60-70,000. Who the American government forced Iceland to count as citizens. (American soldiers outnumbered Icelandic men during the war. things stay at these levels and grow)
and seekers of the vast natural resources of Iceland.
Why would they force Iceland to count the soldiers as citizens? They aren't going to stay around after their tour is complete.
What natural resources? The only things they have are fish and bauxite, neither of which lends itself well to small-scale prospecting.
They forced it because the growing population and business interests forced Stassen to ensure that the Americans in Iceland were protected.
What about the large amount of natural gas?
That's the North Sea and on the wrong side of Britain. Look at the OTL modern Iceland export map. It's fish and aluminum.
Red, Green, and Blue
By 1968, things had started to come undone for the Nixon administration. The president had bowed to political pressure and upped American involvement in southeast Asia, but as the Indochina Wars (as history would later call the mess of conflicts in the region) continued eating up men and treasure, the post-war version of society began to collapse. Racial minorities outside of the south, where desegregation was occurring at a glacial pace, erupted into open riots in many urban areas as many minorities became convinced that the government was reneging on its promises to help lift up their poor neighborhoods after centuries of economic exploitation and legal discrimination. Emboldened, members of other historically-oppressed groups (women, Hispanics and homosexuals most notably) began dragging down the status quo and questioning the fundamental nature of society. Colleges soon became radicalized as the new "question everything" atmosphere mixed in with fuzzy official reasons for American involvement in southeast Asia. Anti-draft protests soon became an almost weekly campus occurrence at large universities.
In this atmosphere, President Nixon hoped to bring about an historic sixth Republican term. The youth vote firmly against him, Nixon embraced the "establishment" side of his image, arguing for law and order and met privately with Democratic southerners and began telling congressional Republicans to ease up on pushing forth total desegregation and stronger civil rights laws to appease his new power base.
The Progressives, taking no chances this time, recruited an unlikely candidate: former New York Governor and 1964 GOP presidential candidate Nelson Rockefeller. Rockefeller, while coming down even further to the right than Nixon on the use of drugs, agreed to run, and his moderate tendencies were balanced out by his running mate, the left-liberal House Minority Leader Harold Hughes of Iowa.
The Democrats' nominee, John Connally, lost substantial ground to Nixon's southern strategy and attempted to make up for it by selecting archconservative Utah Governor Ezra Taft Benson has his vice-presidential nominee, the first Mormon on a major-party ticket. While this shifted the Mormon vote solidly behind the Democratic ticket, it did little to effect Connally's nationwide outlook.
It was Indochina and law and order that dominated the debates and all three candidates (initially) ran on various degrees of cracking down on disorder at home while largely staying the course in Indochina. Then, Rockefeller pivoted after a brief "fact-finding" trip took him to Laos and Cambodia and he came out for an immediate draw-down of front-line combat troops and a slow withdrawal of other Americans. This tipped the balance firmly in Rockefeller's favor and the scion of one of the nation's wealthiest families became the first Progressive president in twenty years.
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United States presidential election, 1964
By 1968, things had started to come undone for the Nixon administration. The president had bowed to political pressure and upped American involvement in southeast Asia, but as the Indochina Wars (as history would later call the mess of conflicts in the region) continued eating up men and treasure, the post-war version of society began to collapse. Racial minorities outside of the south, where desegregation was occurring at a glacial pace, erupted into open riots in many urban areas as many minorities became convinced that the government was reneging on its promises to help lift up their poor neighborhoods after centuries of economic exploitation and legal discrimination. Emboldened, members of other historically-oppressed groups (women, Hispanics and homosexuals most notably) began dragging down the status quo and questioning the fundamental nature of society. Colleges soon became radicalized as the new "question everything" atmosphere mixed in with fuzzy official reasons for American involvement in southeast Asia. Anti-draft protests soon became an almost weekly campus occurrence at large universities.
In this atmosphere, President Nixon hoped to bring about an historic sixth Republican term. The youth vote firmly against him, Nixon embraced the "establishment" side of his image, arguing for law and order and met privately with Democratic southerners and began telling congressional Republicans to ease up on pushing forth total desegregation and stronger civil rights laws to appease his new power base.
The Progressives, taking no chances this time, recruited an unlikely candidate: former New York Governor and 1964 GOP presidential candidate Nelson Rockefeller. Rockefeller, while coming down even further to the right than Nixon on the use of drugs, agreed to run, and his moderate tendencies were balanced out by his running mate, the left-liberal House Minority Leader Harold Hughes of Iowa.
The Democrats' nominee, John Connally, lost substantial ground to Nixon's southern strategy and attempted to make up for it by selecting archconservative Utah Governor Ezra Taft Benson has his vice-presidential nominee, the first Mormon on a major-party ticket. While this shifted the Mormon vote solidly behind the Democratic ticket, it did little to effect Connally's nationwide outlook.
It was Indochina and law and order that dominated the debates and all three candidates (initially) ran on various degrees of cracking down on disorder at home while largely staying the course in Indochina. Then, Rockefeller pivoted after a brief "fact-finding" trip took him to Laos and Cambodia and he came out for an immediate draw-down of front-line combat troops and a slow withdrawal of other Americans. This tipped the balance firmly in Rockefeller's favor and the scion of one of the nation's wealthiest families became the first Progressive president in twenty years.
Red, Green, and Blue
United States presidential election, 1928
United States presidential election, 1932
United States presidential election, 1936
United States presidential election, 1940
United States presidential election, 1944
United States presidential election, 1948
United States presidential election, 1952
United States presidential election, 1956
United States presidential election, 1960
United States presidential election, 1964
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Bracken over Socialism
Canadian Federal Election 1944
The 20th election campaign in Canadian history proved to be the undoing of one of Canada’s greatest political leaders, and a crushing blow to a party which had served as the government, off and on, for a combined 38 years. A realignment of Canadian politics in a manner not previously seen in the country’s 78-year history, it saw the rise of two new political entities, the more radically leftist political entity, the Co-Operative Commonwealth Federation, and the more moderate, small-c Progressive Conservative Party. The Tories had grown desperate since their third defeat by the hands of the Liberal leader and recruited the popular, long-time serving Progressive Premier of Manitoba, John Bracken, going as far as to change the name of their party in order to cement his conversion to their ranks. The CCF meanwhile had secured their breakthrough in Saskatchewan under Tommy Douglas, which resulted in some pollsters predicting that the Federal branch under M.J. Coldwell would ride the momentum to the government benches.
Although many Liberals hoped that the tactics of their leader and the advantage of incumbency during a period of global spanning war would be enough to secure them yet another mandate to govern the country, voters had grown tired of the Liberal scandals and the government’s inability to handle the issue of conscription, and issue which had previously divided the country in half during the Great War. King’s previous inability to please both sides resulted in the abandonment by several of his Quebec Cabinet Ministers, who in turned formed yet another political entity called the Bloc Populaire.
The internal civil war, coupled with a popular Tory leader and a surging CCF proved too much for the Liberal brand, who found themselves for the first time in their history, relegated to third place, albeit narrowly. John Bracken had become the first Premier in Canadian history to be elected Prime Minister and would not only be challenged to see an end to the war in Europe, but to face the new leader of the official opposition, M.J. Coldwell.
Bracken over Socialism
1944
Canadian Federal Election 1944
The 20th election campaign in Canadian history proved to be the undoing of one of Canada’s greatest political leaders, and a crushing blow to a party which had served as the government, off and on, for a combined 38 years. A realignment of Canadian politics in a manner not previously seen in the country’s 78-year history, it saw the rise of two new political entities, the more radically leftist political entity, the Co-Operative Commonwealth Federation, and the more moderate, small-c Progressive Conservative Party. The Tories had grown desperate since their third defeat by the hands of the Liberal leader and recruited the popular, long-time serving Progressive Premier of Manitoba, John Bracken, going as far as to change the name of their party in order to cement his conversion to their ranks. The CCF meanwhile had secured their breakthrough in Saskatchewan under Tommy Douglas, which resulted in some pollsters predicting that the Federal branch under M.J. Coldwell would ride the momentum to the government benches.
Although many Liberals hoped that the tactics of their leader and the advantage of incumbency during a period of global spanning war would be enough to secure them yet another mandate to govern the country, voters had grown tired of the Liberal scandals and the government’s inability to handle the issue of conscription, and issue which had previously divided the country in half during the Great War. King’s previous inability to please both sides resulted in the abandonment by several of his Quebec Cabinet Ministers, who in turned formed yet another political entity called the Bloc Populaire.
The internal civil war, coupled with a popular Tory leader and a surging CCF proved too much for the Liberal brand, who found themselves for the first time in their history, relegated to third place, albeit narrowly. John Bracken had become the first Premier in Canadian history to be elected Prime Minister and would not only be challenged to see an end to the war in Europe, but to face the new leader of the official opposition, M.J. Coldwell.
Bracken over Socialism
1944
May I just say I'm finally glad to see a scenario where Rocky beats Tricky Dick. Warms my heart.
I thought you'd like it.
Also, with your new infobox TL, does this mean that Canada's going to be more right-wing than IOTL? Also, I'm interested to see what happens with conscription since I'm guessing that there aren't many Quebecois in the PC benches.
I don't think it's really going to be too much of an issue, seeing as King eventually did it himself, and the war is nearly over at this point.
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