Recent content by jacopo

Thanks for the comments, guys. Gore Vidal will indeed be making an appearance next update. More than anything else it's a nod to the earlier draft of this timeline in which Jesse Helms maneuvered his way into the nomination - I obviously decided to take a marginally less suicidal route this...

“REPUBLICAN CONVENTION OPENS IN CHAOS The 1976 Republican National Convention opened yesterday in at Kemper Arena in Kansas City, to general pandemonium amongst the delegates. The party has emerged from a gruelling primary season with no presumptive nominee to face Democratic nominee Jerry...

So I ended up scrapping the Republican convention updates and starting it from scratch but I've timetabled myself, much like a too-long primary season, this timeline will be resuming updates on *drum roll* December 16th (that's 2013, by the way. I think I may have to actually clarify this...

Slight technological hiccup, Republican Convention update up tomorrow evening.

I wish I could take credit for the idea but someone suggested it to me as "out of the box" possibility for a VP candidate and I ran with it. Glad you're enjoying it thus far - the Republican stuff will be up this weekend and should be entertaining. :D

Thanks Archangel. I'm hopeful you'll all find it to be worth the excruciatingly long wait.

Indeed, particularly since he's been Governor barely a year. :p Republican convention insanity update should be up this weekend or Monday, everyone.

“DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION OPENS IN NEW YORK The Democratic National Convention begins today in Madison Square Garden in New York City. The convention, which lasts three days, will end with, barring unforeseen circumstances, California Governor Jerry Brown's acceptance of the Presidential...

Oh, just to be clear, there'll still be a (second) update tomorrow. :) We're back in business, folks.

Oh, what the hell, you deserve a taste after so long. :D "CARTER ENDS CAMPAIGN, ENDORSES BROWN Speaking to a crowd of supporters and national media in his native Georgia, where he won a landslide victory in the Presidential primary last week, Governor Jimmy Carter exited the race for the...

Thanks! I've got a pretty clear direction for where I'm going and I'm hoping to update weekly as of tomorrow.

Ask and ye shall receive - update coming tomorrow. :)

RIP my laptop, unfortunately. Along with a shiny new computer I've switched to using a Google document - this is actually still theoretically happening. Sidenote - I wish wish wish there wasn't a time limit on editing posts/threads here. There's so much I've written that I'd like to change -...

There would likely not be this plague of great locusts o'er the land.

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