List of Alternate Presidents and PMs II

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Partly inspired by a post by @RCAF Brat from roughly seven years ago, as well as a recent list done by @True Grit.

Prime Ministers of Canada
Lester B. Pearson (Liberal) April 22, 1963 - April 20, 1968

1963 (Min.): John Diefenbaker (Prog. Conservative), Robert N. Thompson (Social Credit), Tommy Douglas (New Democratic)
1965 (Min.): John Diefenbaker (Prog. Conservative), Tommy Douglas (New Democratic), Réal Caouette (Ralliement créditiste), Robert N. Thompson (Social Credit)

Robert Winters (Liberal) April 20, 1968 - June 18, 1968
Paul Martin, Sr. (Liberal) June 19, 1968 - June 21, 1968
Mitchell Sharp (Liberal) June 21, 1968 - July 12, 1968
Robert Stanfield (Progressive Conservative) July 12, 1968 - February 19, 1978

1968 (Maj.): Tommy Douglas (New Democratic), Mitchell Sharp (Liberal), Réal Caouette (Ralliement créditiste)
1972 (Min.): Robert Cliche (New Democratic), Gérard Pelletier (Liberal), Réal Caouette (Ralliement créditiste)
1973 (Maj.): Gérard Pelletier (Liberal), Robert Cliche (New Democratic), Réal Caouette (Ralliement créditiste)

Ray Hnatyshyn (Progressive Conservative) February 19, 1978 - April 8, 1982
1978 (Maj.): John Turner (Liberal), John Paul Harney (New Democratic), Fabien Roy (Social Credit)
Jean Chretien (Liberal) April 8, 1982 - December 2, 1991
1982 (Maj.): Ray Hnatyshyn (Prog. Conservative), John Paul Harney (New Democratic), Fabien Roy (Social Credit)
1985 (Min.): Don Mazankowski (Prog. Conservative), Bob Rae (New Democratic), Fabien Roy (Social Credit)
1987 (Min.): Don Mazankowski (Prog. Conservative), Bob Rae (New Democratic), Fabien Roy (Social Credit)
1988 (Maj.): Don Mazankowski (Prog. Conservative), Bob Rae (New Democratic)

Ralph Klein (Liberal) December 2, 1991 - September 11, 2000
1992 (Maj.): Benoît Bouchard (Prog. Conservative), Bob Rae (New Democratic), Raymond Speaker (Social Credit)
1996 (Maj.): Benoît Bouchard (Prog. Conservative), Stephen Lewis (New Democratic), Raymond Speaker (Social Credit)

John Layton (Progressive Conservative) September 11, 2000 - May 13, 2007
2000 (Min.): Ralph Klein (Liberal), Stephen Lewis (New Democratic), Raymond Speaker (Social Credit), Simon de Jong (Green)
2001 (Min.): Ralph Klein (Liberal), Stephen Lewis (New Democratic), Raymond Speaker (Social Credit), Simon de Jong & Sheila Copps (Green Alliance)
2003 (Maj.): Ralph Klein (Liberal), Stephen Lewis (New Democratic), Raymond Speaker (Social Credit), Simon de Jong & Sheila Copps (Green Alliance)

Stephen Harper (Liberal) May 13, 2007 - May 20, 2009
2007 (Min.): John Layton (Prog. Conservative), Bill Blaikie (New Democratic), Sheila Copps & Various (Green Alliance), Ezra Levant (Social Credit)
John Layton (Progressive Conservative) May 20, 2009 - August 22, 2011
2009 (Maj.): Stephen Harper (Liberal), Bill Blaikie (New Democratic), Sheila Copps & Various (Green Alliance), Ezra Levant (Social Credit)
Rob Nicholson (Progressive Conservative) August 22, 2011 - March 1, 2012
Christy Clark (Progressive Conservative) March 1, 2012 - February 3, 2013
Thomas Mulcair (Liberal) February 3, 2013 -

2013 (Min.): Christy Clark (Prog. Conservative), Sheila Copps & Various (Green Alliance), Hassan Yussuff (New Democratic), Ezra Levant (Social Credit)
2015 (Maj.): Hassan Yussuff (United Left), Christy Clark (Prog. Conservative), Ezra Levant (Social Credit)
 
Prime Ministers of Canada:
1963-1972: Lester B. Pearson (Liberal) [1]
-63 (min):
John Diefenbaker (Progressive Conservative), Robert N. Thompson (Social Credit), Tommy Douglas (New Democratic)
-65 (min): John Diefenbaker (Progressive Conservative), Tommy Douglas (New Democratic), Réal Caouette (Ralliement créditiste), Robert N. Thompson (Social Credit)
-68: Tommy Douglas (New Democratic), John Diefenbaker (Progressive Conservative), Réal Caouette (Ralliement créditiste), Dalton Camp (Unionist), Alexander Bell Patterson (Social Credit)

1972-1975: Paul Joseph James Martin (Liberal) [2]
-73:
Tommy Douglas (New Democratic), John Diefenbaker (Progressive Conservative), Dalton Camp & Alexander Bell Patterson (Unionist-Social Credit Alliance), Réal Caouette (Ralliement créditiste)
1975-1978: Jean Marchand (Liberal) [3]
1978-1984: Paul Hellyer (National) [4]
-78:
Jean Marchand (Liberal), Ed Broadbent (New Democratic), John Diefenbaker (Progressive Conservative)
-83 (min): Jeanne Sauvé (Liberal), Sean O'Sullivan (Progressive Conservative), Ed Broadbent (New Democratic)
1984-1985: Bill Vander Zalm (National) [5]
1985-1989: Jeanne Sauvé (Liberal) [6]
-85:
Sean O'Sullivan (Progressive Conservative), Bill Vander Zalm (National), Ed Broadbent (New Democratic)
1989-1991: Sean O'Sullivan (Progressive Conservative) [7]
-89 (min):
Jeanne Sauvé (Liberal), Gary Doer (New Democratic), Bill Vander Zalm (National)
1991-1992: Gary Doer (New Democratic) [8]
-91 (min):
Sean O'Sullivan (Progressive Conservative), Paul Martin (Liberal), Preston Manning (National)
1992-2002: Sean O'Sullivan (Progressive Conservative) [9]
-92 (coalition with National):
Ralph Goodale (Liberal), Gary Doer (New Democratic), Preston Manning (National)
-97: Ralph Goodale (Liberal), Stephen Lewis (New Democratic), Preston Manning (National)

2002-2002: Larry Smith (Progressive Conservative) [10]
2002-2012: Ralph Goodale (Liberal) [11]
-02:
Stephen Lewis (New Democratic), Larry Smith (Progressive Conservative), Diane Ablonczy (National)
-06: Stephen Lewis (New Democratic), Rob Nicholson (Progressive Conservative), Diane Ablonczy (National)

-10 (min): Brad Wall (United), Peggy Nash (New Democratic), David Orchard (Maple Leaf Alliance)
2012-2013: Navdeep Bains (Liberal) [12]
2013-2022: Brad Wall (United) [13]
-13:
Navdeep Bains (Liberal), Peggy Nash (New Democratic), David Orchard (Maple Leaf Alliance)
-17: Navdeep Bains (Liberal), David Orchard (Maple Leaf Alliance), Peggy Nash (New Democratic)
2022-present: Joël Lightbound (Liberal) [14]
-22 (min):
Brad Wall (United), David Orchard (Maple Leaf Alliance), Georges Laraque (Green), Ryan Cleary (New Democratic)

[1] Lionized by modern-day Liberals, Pearson is often regarded as one of Canada's most transformative Prime Ministers, ushering in Canada's universal healthcare system, the Canada Pension Plan, official bilingualism, and the adoption of a new, distinctly Canadian flag, among others. Winning two minorities thanks to his uninspiring campaign style, Pearson would finally win his majority in 1968, with the Progressive Conservatives divided between those supporting the continued leadership of John Diefenbaker and those opposed, led by Dalton Camp. His subsequent death in office in the fall of 1972 would leave the nation stunned, and throw his party into a scramble to find his successor.

[2] As the senior minister in cabinet and with his caucus colleagues rallying behind him, Martin would finally achieve his long sought after dream of becoming Prime Minister; unfortunately for him, it would not last long. Winning a landslide majority in 1972 with the nation still mourning Pearson, Martin would quickly stumble in office and prove uninspiring among Canadians. With the public increasingly concerned about his age and health and with his caucus growing somewhat restless, Martin would resign after less than three years in office.

[3] Winning a surprise leadership victory over a field including Paul Hellyer, Mitchell Sharp, and Donald Macdonald, among others, Marchand would find himself besieged almost immediately, with Hellyer loudly walking out of the party and successfully winning the leadership of the new National Party of Canada, formed following the merger of the Unionist and Social Credit Parties to provide a strong right-wing alternative to the PCs and Diefenbaker's continued leadership. With Hellyer's supporters walking out with him, Marchand would quickly find the Liberals dipping in the polls, and a worsening economy did little to help. While a series of constitutional reforms patriating the constitution and entrenching certain rights and freedoms has been well received by history, they nevertheless caused the Liberals to drop in the polls in Marchand's home province and ensured the defeat of Pierre Laporte's provincial Liberals. With all this going against him, few were surprised when Marchand's government was defeated in 1978.

[4] Winning a surprise majority largely as a result of the continued decline of the Progressive Conservatives, Diefenbaker still refusing to resign, Hellyer would quickly prove himself to be one of the country's more controversial Prime Ministers. Pivoting hard to the right, Hellyer quickly alienated the former Liberals who had followed him to the party, while his unconventional economic policies would do little to alleviate the economy's problems. Nevertheless, Hellyer's staunch Canadian nationalism made him revered in certain corners of the country and ensured a loyal group of supporters remained behind him and, in somewhat of a surprise, helped propel him to re-election (albeit with a minority) in 1983. Not long after, however, a dip in the economy would damage his popularity, and a series of bizarre statements would make Hellyer an international punchline, including a memorable instance of Hellyer seemingly suggesting that not only do aliens exist but countries like the United States have been covering it up. With his caucus already restless, an ideological shift back to the centre (if not the centre-left!) would prove to be the final straw. Having lost the support of the vast majority of his caucus, Hellyer would resign in the fall of 1984.

[5] Trying his best to pick up the pieces of a divided party, Vander Zalm's brief term in office would prove to be rather unremarkable. Defeated in the House of Commons almost immediately, Vander Zalm would quickly find himself thrust into an election that the party seemed destined to lose. Finding himself attacked on all sides, particularly thanks to the resurgence of the Progressive Conservatives under the popular Sean O'Sullivan (elected following Diefenbaker's 1979 death), Vander Zalm is nevertheless credited with saving the party from a total disaster, with his personal popularity and an energetic campaign preventing a total wipe out, and is generally seen as having done the best he could to move the party past the Hellyer debacle.

[6] Elected with a majority in 1985, Sauvé, the country's first female Prime Minister, would find herself preoccupied with fixing the economy following the malaise of the Marchand/Hellyer years, but a proposed free trade agreement with the United States would prove remarkably divisive and hurt the Liberals in the polls. Not helped by the fact that the Canadian public viewed her as a cold and distant leader, Sauvé's government would be defeated after a single term in office.

[7] Barely elected Prime Minister in the chaotic 1989 election that produced a near four-way tie, O'Sullivan would return the Progressive Conservatives to government for the first time in nearly three decades, but his wishy-washiness on tearing up the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement would cause his poll numbers to drop. Defeated in the House after an unremarkable year in office, O'Sullivan would surprisingly lose his bid for re-election.

[8] With voters still angry at the Liberals as a result of Sauvé's term (and uninspired by her successor, Paul Martin Jr.) and the Progressive Conservatives dropping in the polls with skeptical anti-free traders jumping ship to National and the NDP, Doer's personal popularity and a split in the conservative vote would propel him to office as Canada's first New Democratic Prime Minister. Overwhelmingly popular in the first few months of his tenure, Doer would soon find himself faced not only with the expected problems of a party finding itself in government for the first time, with rookie mistakes and a caucus divided between ideologues and pragmatists, he would also find himself faced misfortune of governing during a onset of a global recession. Losing support remarkably quick, Doer would find his government defeated after a year and a half in office.

[9] Returning to government with a small minority but little support out West, O'Sullivan would make the unusual decision to form a coalition with the more right-wing National Party under Preston Manning in order to ensure geographic representation in government and a far more workable House of Commons. Alienating both moderates and hardcore conservatives alike, the government would quickly prove unpopular, and the Nationals in particular would find themselves dropping in the polls as a result. With their supporters quickly abandoning them for the Progressive Conservatives, National would be nearly wiped out in 1997 as O'Sullivan found himself re-elected with a majority all of his own. Governing somewhat more moderately in his second term, O'Sullivan's government found itself under fire in 2000 following the announcement that Canada would be joining the United States and Mexico in a free trade agreement. Attacked by National and the NDP as a flip-flop that would render the Canadian border meaningless, O'Sullivan would find his poll numbers dropping rapidly; with polls indicating a PC defeat all-but inevitable if he were to lead his party through the next election and, unbeknownst to Canadians, dealing with worsening health concerns, O'Sullivan announced his retirement in early 2002.

[10] An outsider with no previous government experience chosen only months before the 2002 election, it was hoped that Smith would be able to provide a breath of fresh air for the party and allow it to return to a third term in government. This was not the case. Quickly making his lack of political experience obvious, Smith would prove to be somewhat of a disaster on the campaign trail and quickly destroy whatever initial popularity he had, and it came as no surprise that he was defeated at the polls and announced his subsequent resignation. Dropping to third? That was a surprise.

[11] Finding himself with two large majorities in a row thanks to an inept conservative opposition, since leaving office Goodale has primarily been credited with steering Canada through the global economic troubles of the mid-2000s. While a series of progressive policies including a national childcare program, national homelessness strategy, and investments in Aboriginal health, education, and living conditions (which critics claim were introduced in an attempt to win supporters from the Official Opposition NDP) proved to be popular among Canadians, Canada's lengthy involvement in the Balkan War and the War in Somalia would prove increasingly unpopular near the end of his term and, combined with the conservatives uniting (save for a few populists under the leadership of David Orchard) into the new United Party of Canada, result in his government being reduced to a minority in 2010. Having already been in office for a decade and tired of dealing with a difficult minority, Goodale would announce his resignation in 2012.

[12] Canada's first visible minority Prime Minister, Bains would quickly experience a surge in support following his leadership victory. Making the mistake of waiting over a year to call an election, however, Bains would find himself dealing with a worse economy than when he took over and a series of scandals emerging from the Goodale-era that left Canadians believing the Liberals had grown arrogant in power, and, despite his best efforts, the party would find itself defeated in 2013.

[13] Personally popular, Wall would find himself overseeing a remarkable increase in the economy and the withdrawal of troops from the Balkans, and win re-election with a larger majority in 2017, despite Orchard's Maple Leaf Alliance experiencing minor gains as a result of Wall's strong embrace of globalization. Already angering progressives with his government's intense support for Canadian oil, a catastrophic 2019 oil spill in British Columbia (and his government's disjointed response) would cause his popularity to dip for the first time since coming to power and usher in the country's Green Party government following the election of Claire Martin's BC Greens the following year. Though finding himself further beset by corruption allegations leveled against party officials, Wall would opt to stay on and fight the 2022 election, hoping that his continued personal popularity and the strong economy would help them win re-election despite their baggage.

[14] Running a change-based campaign and repeatedly emphasizing the scandals dogging the Wall government, the youthful Lightbound would prove popular amongst Canadians despite Unionist attacks on his inexperience. With a weak Green campaign and a tax scandal concerning leader Georges Laraque resulting in progressives consolidating behind the Liberals, Lightbound would find himself with a minority government and return the Liberals to power for the first time in nearly a decade.
 
Take your partner by the hand


1989-1994: Al Gore (D-TN)/Daniel Moynihan (D-NY)
1988: George H.W. Bush (R-TX)/Dan Quayle (R-IN)
1992: Bob Dole (R-KS)/Carroll Campbell (R-SC)


Young, smart, moderate, attractive and allegedly charismatic, it’s in hindsight not hard to see why the junior Senator from Tennessee captured the hearts of (enough) Democrats in 1988, after two decades of defeats and disappointments. Dispatching the Vice President in November and winning back a fair-few so-called Reagan Democrats, Al Gore set out to do exactly what he promised: stay away from out-there social positions, stand up for American values and prove that just because a man is a Democrat he does not have to be “anti-commerce” or “anti-innovation”. Indeed, the entrepreneurial sector had never had as good a friend as Albert Arnold Gore Jr. Industry after industry saw themselves deregulated, environmental protections were shored up, the education sector saw itself pumped with more federal money than it ever imagined (if not as much as it might have wished for) and NAFTA negotiations continued on. Labor and liberals might have complained, but the electorate at-large lapped it up to the extent that even with the economy in recession the President saw himself reelected in a landslide (the fall of the Soviet Union in early 1992 certainly didn’t hurt). The Camelot of the Cumberland might have continued on for at least another three years (if not more, prominent Democrats practically fell over one another to position themselves as Gore’s natural successor) had he not been, tragically, gunned down by one Terry Nichols during a Presidential visit in Indianapolis in early 1994.

1994: Daniel Moynihan (D-NY)/VACANT
1994-1997: Daniel Moynihan (D-NY)/Bob Graham (D-FL)


Daniel Patrick Moynihan certainly had both the experience and intellect necessary for the Presidency. Hell, as a Kennedy veteran he was as well equipped as anyone to console a grieving nation. But in the end no record (professional or otherwise) could change the fact that, in the context of the New Democratic Legacy spearheaded by his predecessor, President Moynihan was a man from a bygone era. Gore had been killed a mere two days after Congress voted to approve NAFTA, and a combination of base pressure and his own conscience told the new President to employ the veto. The political winds reigning in the Democratic establishment and his own loyalty to his late boss told a different story however, and an entire genre of political literature have sprung up to documate how and why he came to the conclusion he did. In the end, Moynihan came to settle for the middle road. He signed the necessary bills, while promising reform and increased oversight. Unfortunately, it was not enough. Neither supporter nor opponents of the trade agreement believed him, and the second Kennedy administration that never was died between the furious primary-challenge of Dave McCurdy and an unprecedented third-party challenge.

1997-2001: Ross Perot (I-TX)/Bernadine Healy (I-OH)
1996: Daniel Moynihan (D-NY)/Bob Graham (D-FL), George Voinovich (R-OH)/Trent Lott (R-MS)

The real surprise of the 1996 election is in hindsight not that a tiny Texas billionaire won on a third party ticket by saying pretty much whatever crossed his mind at that particular moment, it’s that he didn’t win by bigger margin. Between a President who had in the end promised everything to everyone and done so badly and a Republican candidate whose main accomplishment was that a majority of viewers could clearly remember that he had been physically present during the debates the starkly populist and anti-establishment message of Ross Perot struck a chord. Governing would, however, prove more difficult. Congress would not stand for the combination of budget cuts and tax increases demanded by the President, his cabinet was barely approved by the Senate and despite the best intentions by the executive branch it would prove to be very hard to wreck a multilateral agreement without seriously without a serious backlash. Only on the issue of anti-drug enforcement would Congress be willing to play ball with the President. After four years of disappointments, failures and, frankly, increasingly deranged statements and behaviour from the White House it surprised very few that President Perot declined to seek a second term.

2001-2005: John McCain (R-AZ)/George Allen (R-VA)
2000: Evan Bayh (D-IN)/Jim Hunt (D-NC), Pat Choate (I-DC)/Tom Golisano (I-NY)

In many ways, John McCain had run as Perot without Perot. A certified maverick reformer (who even had a solid connection to Perot’s pet POW issue) he captured the spirit of the movement that had propelled his predecessor to the White House (it helped that the Democratic Party appeared to have learned nothing and forgiven no one while the actual Perot movement floundered under the leadership of the Treasury Secretary). His Presidency would in many ways both confirm and disapprove that notion. He was staunchly free-trade, and even if his 2002 campaign reform bill would perhaps prove the most consequential pieces of legislation since 1994 a combination of economic recession and a botched armed intervention in Sudan his inability to retain the now seemingly permanent populist wing of the electorate would spell his doom in 2004.

2005-2013: Dorothy Bradley (D-MT)/Chris Dodd (D-CT)
2004: John McCain (R-AZ)/George Allen (R-VA)
2008: Jim Talent (R-MO)/Pat Toomey (R-PA)


The Bradley Presidency would in many ways have been impossible just ten years before. Female, recklessly liberal (with perhaps a focus on the former), from a marginal state a majority of Americans couldn’t place on a map and with so-far unconfirmed rumors flying around regarding her personal life, the former Montana Governor successfully did the opposite of what the last President of her party had done. She appealed to ideological and historical heart of the Democratic base (or at least that’s what sympathetic pundits likes to claim), and under here reign the populist Spirit of ‘96 reigned on. The close-to universal American Medical Rights And Care Act of 2006 revolutionized American healthcare, and the distinctly pro-labor policies of the administration saw a sudden upswing in the number of organized workers, but between the failures of McCain and a President who frankly didn’t care that much, one can not deny that the communist victory in the 2007 Russian elections and the westward expansion of the CIS didn’t represent a lessening of American foreign influence.

2013-2021: Patrick Ballantine (R-NC)/Chuck Hagel (R-NE)
2012: Bill Lockyer (D-CA)/Peter Deutsch (D-FL)
2016: Harold Ford Jr (D-TN)/Jay Nixon (D-MO)


If McCain and Bradley had ridden the wave Perot unleashed, Pat Ballantine was the man who harnessed it. By a combination of friendliness and relative youth, he reinvented himself as the Republican JFK, and suddenly the run-to-the-mill conservative platform that was supposed to be out of style didn’t seem so old fashioned anymore. Sweeping himself into office with the first Republican trifecta since Eisenhower he managed to balance the demands of his own base and a broader electorate where conservative reform wasn’t, technically, very popular and ushered in a program at least as ambitious as his predecessor. With the recent election of his successor (a man who works far more in the mold of Bradley than Ballantine) history have yet to render a solid judgment on his legacy, but the fact that he never passed under 400 electorate and retired with an approval rating of 61% votes speaks for itself.

2021-????: Joe Sestak (D-PA)/Linda Sanchez (D-CA)
2020: Dick DeVos (R-MI)/Tom Cotton (R-AR)
 
A little something I've been doodling for the past few weeks and started typing up on Tuesday on my Day Off. The timeline does stretch further - though the Salian Dynasty, the Osbertians and the subsequent Wars of the Northern Secession.

I will hopefully post the rest at a later date.

The House of Mercia:

879 - 911: Aethelred, Lord of the Mercians [1]
911 - 930: Burgred of Mercia [2]
930 - 960: Cynric, King of the English [3]
960 - 967: Durwin [4]
967 - 968: Ealdian [5]
968 - 994: Farmon the Traveller [6]
994 - 1030: Godric [7]
1030 - 1037: Heorot [8]
1037 - 1056: Isen, the King-in-Waiting [9]
1056 - 1068: Judith, Daughter of Iron [10]

[1] "King" Aethelred married Aethelflaed, daughter of King Alfred of Wessex. Some contemporary sources refer to him as King but it's more true to describe him as Ealdorman/Duke or even Sub-King and not a King in his own right. However, upon Alfreds death in 899 and the crown being passed to his son Edward the Elder, tension began to increase. Despite rumours that Aethelflaed was the power behind the Kingdom of Mercia, Edward and his son, Aethelstan sought to subsume Mercia into a combined Kingdom alongside the Danelaw - the Danish dominated Kingdoms of Eastern Mercia and Northumbria. However, with the marriage of Aethelreds son, Burgred, into the family of Osbert of Bebbanburgh (*) a leading Northumbrian Ealdorman, the downfall of the House of Wessex had already begun by the time Aethelred died in 911.

[2] Born 885. Burgred became Lord of Mercia at the age of twenty-six, already married and with one son, Cynric, at his side. When his uncle, Edward the Elder, and his cousin, Aethelstan, the self-styled King of the Anglo-Saxons, attempted to fold the Kingdom of Mercia into a combined Kingdom of the Anglo-Saxons in the first decade of Burgred's reign, the ties that Mercia now held to the subjugated Ealdormen of the Danelaw prooved to be beneficial. Fighting to a stalemate against Edward and falling into a cold war with Aethelstan, the conflict heated up from 922 when the Kingdoms of Northumbria and Eastern Mercia were largely liberated from Viking control (save for a handful of sporadic and often temporary rogue kingdoms) and became a formidable fighting force. As a result, Mercia conquered Wessex and saw Aethelstan and his brothers, Edmund and Eadred, beheaded. Starting with the aim of securing a truly independent Mercia, Burgred became King of the English from 927 until his death.

[3] Born 912. Cynric was the first true King of the English following his father's death in 930. With his combined heritage (his mother's family being Northumbrian whilst his father's being Wessen and Mercian) he truly symbolised the Kingdom of the English. His reign saw the last handful of rogue Viking Kingdoms in Northumbria and Eastern Mercia being brought under the control of the Kingdom of the English around 949. With his wife, Gytha, daughter of a Viking Lord who had converted to christianity, pledged fealty and provided several boats to a provisional English Navy, he had several sons and notably no daughters. This, at the very least, would secure the future of the House of Mercia for years to come.

[4] Born 940. Durwin had a short seven year reign - notably in comparison to those of Aethelred (22 years), Burgred (19 years) and Cynric (30 years). His name meant 'friend' and it was mostly true that his reign was known at the time as one of peace and prosperity. But this was in comparison to the conflict and conquest of the reigns of his three predecessors. Coming to the throne at the age of twenty, he had a series of bad-luck with regards to marriages - the first died of pneumonia, the second died in childbirth and the third drowned at sea on her way from Francia before they could even marry. With three dead spouses in the course of seven years, Durwin decided that he was probably cursed for reasons he could not discern and abdicated to became a priest on Lindisfarne, handing the throne to his brother.

[5] Born 941. Ealdian had even worse luck than his elder brother. Ironically for a man whose name meant 'live-long', he was appointed King shortly before Christmas 967, caught a cold within weeks of his coronation and was dead by the end of Lent 968. He had never married and the crown passed on to his younger brother, Farmon the Traveller.

[6] Born 943. Unlike Ealdian, Farmon lived up to the promise of his name and became the first King of the English to travel widely prior to his coronation at the age of twenty-five in 968. Included in those travels was the Kingdom of Italy which had been brought under the control of King Otto, the Holy Roman Emperor, in 961. Impressing the elder monarch with his diplomatic skills and cultured tastes, Farmon found himself awarded the hand of Otto's daughter, Edith (whose mother was Edward the Elders surviving daughter), in 966. When he returned to England to be crowned, it was with a Queen in tow. The cultural ties with the continent continued with Farmon and Edith producing a multitude of children, most of whom survived (With incredible luck) to adulthood and then produced children of their own. By the time Farmon died at the age of fifty one he had five children and, at that point, six grandchildren, and familial ties to four foreign monarchies, to an extent that Edith is sometimes mockingly termed the Midwife of Europe.

[7] Born 968. Godric was the eldest child of Farmon and Edith and also the only one who failed to marry. There was some talk amongst the Witten (the Kings Council) that the crown should bypass Godric and move directly to Heorot who had already married and produced male issue by 992, but Farmon forbade this and Godric ended up ruling the country for 36 years, using his ties with the Holy Roman Empire to forestall an attempted invasion by the Danish, led by Cnut, in 1016. Godric was known for being deeply religious but also for being religiously tolerant - and contemplated abdicating power to Heorot, to join a monastery like his uncle Durwin, but chose to accept the burden of duty that his father had asked of him. And rule, much like his name, with God.

[8] Born 969. Following the rule of his religious brother, Heorot had been the spare for almost sixty one years by the time of his coronation. Long enough to see not only his own marriage to Gisela of Burgundy, but the birth and subsequent marriage of his son, Isen, to Urracca of Navarre, and the birth of his granddaughter Judith in 1030 and the subsequent promise of her hand in marriage to Robert of Normandy shortly before his death after only seven years on the throne. This meant that Heorot knew that the hundred and fifty year Age of Mercia was likely coming to an end and spent much of his reign moulding his son for the throne - in some respects, they could even be considered co-monarchs, with Isen being given the unwieldy title Prince Isen, the King-in-Waiting in several royal proclamations.

[9] Born 992. By rights, Isen should have been the most well equipped person to become King of the English, perhaps even exceeding his grandfather, Farmon. Although he wasn't as widely travelled, his education was bar none and having assisted his father for the better part of seven years meant he should have been able to hit the ground running. However, things weren't going to turn out as had been planned - although an excellent monarch to begin with, it soon became clear that Isen was suffering from a degrading mental sickness. Modern historians would diagnose this as being porphyria, but many at the time considered that he had been cursed by witchcraft or was being led astray by the Devil. As his periods of 'madness' became harder and harder to disguise, the Witten began to largely run the country under the stewardship of Queen Urracca until Princess Judith reached an age of majority and could effectively act as Regent for her father. Isen's illness Had, in effect, started the process of creating the modern concept of Parliament though the crowns power was still absolute. Isen eventually died in his sleep and Judith transitioned from being Regent to being Queen in her own right.

[10] Born 1030. Judith was supposed to have married Robert, the son of Richard, the Duke of Normandy. But when news about Isen's deteriorating condition was delivered to Richard, he decided to put off the marriage for as long as possible and began covertly looking for alternative matches. When the Witten and Queen Urracca tried to force his hand sending one of the Ealdormen to Normandy to represent Judith in a marriage by proxy, Richard chopped off the proxies head and send it back to Isen, Urracca, Judith and the Witten. This started a decade of antagonistic behaviour on the European stage - culminating in the Battle of Hastings in 1066 at the halfway point of Judiths reign. Having failed to secure a match in Normandy, the Witten fielded Judith as a possible wife for the children of the Holy Roman Emperor, Conrad II, finding a match in his fourth son, Louis. Judith and Louis soon had several children of their own, including their eldest, a son they named Kenneth and by the time of the Battle of Hastings, the future of the English monarchy was secure. With William the Defeated invading England at the behest of his elder brother, now the Duke of Normandy, believing that a country led by a woman would be weak, he wasn't counting on the impressive English and Frankish army that Judith commanded, even facing them down in battle herself. In the 1590's, William Shakespeare dramatized the reign of Queen Judith - and much like his other famous rallying cry, "Cry God for the King, England and St George ...' in 1599's "King Xavier", Judith's monologue on the field at Hastings is often remarked as one of Shakespeare's most memorable, though in the case of "Queen Judith's" case it is perhaps due to the monologue being the origin of the phrase "Come and have a go if you think you're hard enough ..." (though not quite literally) and earning her the pseudonym of 'Daughter of Iron'. Ultimately, William lost and was hung on the battlefield, the Duke of Normandy slouched back to Rouen to lick his wounds and though the Witten urged it, Judith resisted invading Normandy leading to several decades of tense diplomatic behaviour between the English and the Duchy.

(*) - named after the lead protagonist in Bernard Cornwell's Anglo-Saxon Chronicles
 
Bye bye Harold

Pod,Wilson steps down in 1970

Ted Heath 1970-4
Jim Callaghan 1974-76
Denis Healy 1976-81
Keith Joseph 1981-84
Michael Heseltine 1984-93
Chris Pattern 1993-97
John Smith 1997-2007
David Milliband 2007-2011
Boris Johnson 2011-????
 
Presidents of México
2000-2006: Cuauhtemoc Cardenas
2006-2012: Andres M. Lopez Obrador
2012-2018: Marcelo Ebrad
How do you make Cárdenas win in 2000? In 1988, certainly, but by 2000 his day had come and gone as far as most Mexicans were concerned. Maybe you eliminate Vicente somehow, but one could also argue that Cárdenas lacked the charisma needed to push the opposition to an unquestionable victory over the PRI. Speaking of the opposition, this would likely require some sort of collapse of the PAN so that the PRD could step in to take its place—perhaps some corruption scandals, real or fabricated, in the middle of Salinas’s presidency that wrecks the PAN’s base in the northern states and spoils its claims of the moral high ground. But that might also butterfly away Luis Donaldo Colosio’s death, which could in turn prevent Zedillo’s presidency, which would be a major setback for the democratization process.
 
Different Paths for the Bushes:

40.
Ronald Reagan / Donald Rumsfeld (Republican): 1981-1989 [1]

Def. 1980: Jimmy Carter / Walter Mondale (Democratic), John Anderson / Patrick Lucey (Independent)
Def. 1984: Walter Mondale / Geraldine Ferraro (Democratic)


41.
Gary Hart / Dick Gephardt (Democratic): 1989-1993 [2]

Def. 1988: Donald Rumsfeld / Howard Baker (Republican)

42.
George W. Bush / John Danforth (Republican): 1993-2001 [3]

Def. 1992: Gary Hart / Dick Gephardt (Democratic)
Def. 1996: Dick Gephardt / Evan Bayh (Democratic)

43. Al Gore / Tom Harkin (Democratic): 2001-2009 [4]
Def. 2000: John Danforth / Dick Cheney (Republican)
Def. 2004: John McCain / John Kasich (Republican)

44. Donald Trump / Charlie Crist (Independent): 2009-2013 [5]
Def. 2008: Tom Harkin / Chris Dodd (Democratic), Mike Huckabee / George Allen (Republican)

45.
Russ Feingold / Patty Murray (Democratic): 2013-2021 [6]

Def. 2012: Jeb Bush / Norm Coleman (Republican)
Def. 2016: John Kasich / Rick Perry (Republican)


46.
Brian Sandoval / John Thune (Republican): 2021-Incumbent

Def. 2020: Cory Booker / Bill Nelson (Democratic)

[1]= Due to having his Number on hand, Former President Ford suggested Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to Reagan instead of George HW Bush. Reagan still defeats Carter by the same margin as OTL, and Bush is chosen to be Secretary of State. However, after Reagan's landslide re election in 1984, Bush declined to serve another term as Secretary of State. Both Bush and Rumsfeld ran for the Presidency in 1988, with the later getting nominated. Bush would retire from politics after crushing defeats early in the primaries, while Rumsfeld and his running mate, Former Senator and Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker, would go onto narrowly lose the General Election to Senator Gary Hart and his running mate, House Majority Whip Dick Gephardt. Rumsfeld, like the elder Bush, would retire from politics after defeat.

[2]= Gary Hart, after many speculated he wouldn't. ran for re election to the Senate in 1986 and won. The So called "Atari Democrat" would then sail to the Democratic nomination, choosing Dick Gephardt of Missouri to be his running mate. They would go on to narrowly defeat the Rumsfeld / Baker ticket by promising to invest in education as well as lifting the poor out of Poverty. Hart's first year in Office would be defined by the Fall of the Berlin Wall and Successful Military intervention in Panama. However, in late 1990 the economy fell into recession, and as a result and despite diplomatically solving the conflict between Iraq and Kuwait, Hart's Democratic party lost a seat in the Senate and lost 30 seats in the House. While the Cold War had ended in 1991, it would be overshadowed by the Recession and Hart's extra marital affair with his Secretary. By the time the 1992 election came, a Country that was tired of a Presidency that came to be defined by recession, even thought the economy was recovering by election day, and infidelity, chose to go down a different path, with a man who promised to return Honor and Dignity to the Presidency and promised a return to Economic Prosperity. Despite the loss, Hart would leave Office in 1993 with a 51% approval rating and would be seen as an overall successful President, by the Public and by Historians.

[3]= George W. Bush's political career started in 1978 when he was narrowly elected to Congress, and he would ride the Reagan Coattails to re election in 1980. In 1982, instead of running for re election to Congress, Bush decided to do what his father did in 1970 and run for Senate against Lloyd Bentsen, and like his father, Bush was defeated. Bush's political career only ended briefly however, as after four years of sobering up and becoming a "born again Christian," Bush ran for Governor of Texas in 1986 and won, and would be re elected to that position in 1990. Bush then decided to run for the Presidency in 1992. Bush would defeat his main rivals, California Senator Pete Wilson and Kansas Senator Bob Dole for the Republican nomination. Despite Media Speculation that Bush would choose primary runner up Pete Wilson to be his running mate, Bush instead chose Senator John Danforth of Missouri to be his Vice Presidential candidate in order to double down on his "Compassionate Conservative" Message. Bush would go on to defeat Incumbent President Gary Hart by a Respectable Margin in the fall, and bring with him a Republican Controlled Senate. While Bush intended to be a Domestic Policy President and did pass a major Tax Cut in 1993, his First Term in Office would be defined by Foreign Policy, with failed intervention in Somalia and a successful intervention in Rwanda. With this and with the economy booming, Bush sailed to a Second Term, defeating Former Vice President Dick Gephardt and his running mate, Governor Evan Bayh. The Republicans would keep control of the Senate and Narrowly Retake the House of Representatives for the first time since 1954. Bush would pass a second tax cut, and sweeping deregulations at the start of 1997, including the Repeal of the 1933 Glass Steagall Act. The Bush administration also tried to pass a partial privatization of Social Security and cut Medicare in 1998, but it failed due to Public Opposition. The Republicans would lose Control of Both Houses of Congress that fall. The Stock Market crashed in the Fall of 1999 and the the economy entered Recession in September of 2000. The Democrats would ride the Recession and Bush's attempt at privatizing Social Security, as well as his attempt to cut Medicare to a near landslide Victory in November of 2000. President Bush would leave Office with a 43% approval rating due to the economy, but his standing would improve with time, at least by Republicans.

[4]= The Dream of the Gore family came true on the night of November 7th, 2000, when Albert A. Gore Jr. was elected President of the United States, defeating Vice President John Danforth and Former House Speaker Dick Cheney. First elected to Congress in 1976, Gore would go on to be elected to the Senate in 1984 where he'd be re elected in 1990 and 1996. Throughout his career, Gore had a record of by partisanship. He supported the Reagan tax cuts in 1981 and supported Reagan's Defense Build Up. He also was one of a dozen Democrats to support Bush's intervention in Somalia, though he criticized Bush's conduct of the action from the start. He also supported intervening in Rwanda. Despite supporting the Reagan Tax Cut however, Gore opposed the Bush Tax Cuts and was one of the leading voices against privatizing Social Security and cutting Medicare. Once in Office, Gore passed an Economic Stimulus Package that would rebuild our nations infrastructure and would invest in research and development for Renewable Energy. He would also enact Cap and Trade and reforms to Healthcare, which would prohibit lifetime limits and prevent people with pre existing Conditions from getting Coverage. . In 2002, with the Recession ending in August 2001, Gore passed a Tax Increase to lower the Deficits spawned by the 2001 Stimulus package and the Bush Tax Cuts of 1993 and 1997. The plan passed without a Single Republican vote, and cost the Democrats two Senate Seats and 15 House Seats in the 2002 Midterms. The Democrats would keep Control of Congress however. 2002 also saw the Gore Administration put a hault to North Korea's Nuclear Weapons Program and the President Publicly apologizing to the People of Bosnia and Kosovo for our Country's failure to intervene in those Countries to stop the Ethnic cleansing that took place in the 1990's. 2003 saw the passage of Education reform and a Prescription Drug plan to Medicare, as well as a Successful Military intervention with our NATO Allies to stop the Conflict in Darfur. With all of this and a recovered economy, President Gore soundly defeated Senator John McCain and his running mate Congressman John Kasich. 2005 and 2006 would see the failure of Gore's Health Care reform package and Hurricane Katrina in late 2005. The Republicans would retake the Senate and the House in November of 2006. With the economy starting to slow down in 2007, Gore vetoed the Across the Board Tax Cut proposed by Congressional Republicans. He did however eventually sign a Middle Class Tax Cut. He spent the rest of his term as a Gridlocked lame duck that saw a Recession spring up in the Summer of 2008. He would leave Office with a 46% Approval Rating.

[5]: The Election of Donald Trump rocked the World of Politics and shocked the nation. Thanks to the extremely Conservative Social Views of Republican Nominee Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, what was supposed to be an easy Republican win turned into the first victory by a non Democratic or Republican candidate in over a century. Donald Trump had no Political Experience going into the job, and made a lot of enemies on both sides of the isle on his path to the Presidency, and it showed once in Office. Democrats disliked him for his past support of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush and due to his support of Deregulation, while Republicans disliked him for supporting Al Gore in 2000 and 2004 and for his past support of Universal Health Coverage. The accomplishment of President Trump was the 2009 Tax Reform plan that passed a Republican Controlled Congress. The rest of his Presidency was gridlocked, and that, as well as rising tensions in the Middle East driving up Fuel Prices, drove down Confidence a triggered the 2011-12 recession. After four years of Gridlock, increased tensions with friend a foe alike, and now a recession, President Trump announced, to no surprise, that he was not seeking another term as President.

[6]: With no 3rd Party Candidates being able to break 1% in the polls after Four Years of Donald Trump, the race was a two man race between Republican Florida Senator Jeb Bush, the brother of Former President George W. Bush, and Democratic Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold. Despite a very Narrow Win in the Popular Vote, Jeb Bush lost the Electoral Vote and thus the Presidency, due to narrow Feingold wins in the States of Ohio and Iowa. Many expected President Feingold to be doomed politically due to the way he won the Presidency. While it was a struggle, the President was able to pass a Public Option to Health Care and undo the Trump Tax Cuts on the Wealthy. However, the Republicans swept the Midterms of 2014 winning both houses of Congress. With the economy recovering nicely and with a restored standing abroad, despite only one major legislative accomplishment that face a lot of hostility from the right, President Feingold defeated Ohio Governor and 2004 VP candidate John Kasich in the 2016 Presidential election. The Second Feingold Term would be defined by the botched roll out of the Public Option Passed in 2013, a War in Syria, and the 2019 recession. The Republicans would broaden their majorities in Congress in 2018 and retake the White House in 2020. Feingold, America's First Jewish President, would hand the Presidency over to Brian Sandoval, America's first Hispanic President.
 
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A sort of sequel to my earlier list with a similar title. This is set in the same universe.

The Men Who Came Early II: Across the Pond

1783-1801: William Pitt the Younger (Tory [Pittite]) *
1801-1802: John Fane, Earl Westmoreland (Tory [Pittite])
1802-1805: Thomas Stanley (Whig [Stanleyite])

1802 def. Tory (Pittite)
1805-1808: Andrew Cochrane-Johnstone (Military Faction)
1808-1816: William Wemyss (Military Faction)
1816-1817: Charles Paget (Naval-Reform Faction)
1817-1822: Charles Paget (Unionist)

1818 def. Liberal
1822-1823: Archibald Campbell (Moderate Unionist)
1822 def. Conservative Unionist, Liberal
1823 def. Liberal, Conservative Unionist
1823-1824: Wilson Roberts (Liberal)
1823 def. Conservative Unionist, Moderate Unionist

1824: Sir Christopher Cole (Unionist)
1824 def. Liberal
1824-1829: Wilson Roberts (Liberal)
1827 def. Unionist
1829-1831: Sir Christopher Cole (Unionist)
1829 def. Liberal
1831-1835: Sir Christopher Cole (Compromise Unionist with Liberal support)
1831 def. Liberal, Unionist
1835-1837: Wilson Roberts (Liberal) *
1835 def. Unionist, Compromise Unionist
1837 def. Unionist, Compromise Unionist
1837-1840: Richard Spooner (Liberal)
1840-1845: Sir John Tyrell (Unionist)

1840 def. Liberal
1845-1851: Richard Wingfield-Baker (Liberal)
1845 def. Unionist
1851-1855: Sir John Tyrell (Unionist)
1851 def. Liberal
1855 def. Liberal, Royal Liberal
1855-1857: George Repton (Unionist)
1857-1863: William Amherst (Unionist)

1858 def. Liberal, Royal Liberal, British Democratic
1861 def. Royal Liberal, Liberal, British Democratic
1863-1864: William Patrick Adam (Royal Liberal) *
1863 def. Unionist, British Democratic, Liberal
1864-1870: R.A. Cross (Royal Liberal)
1865 def. Unionist, Liberal-Democratic, Irish Brotherhood
1867 def. Unionist, Liberal-Democratic, Irish Brotherhood
1870-1874: Sir Charles Mills (Unionist)
1870 def. Royal Liberal, Liberal-Democratic, Irish Brotherhood
1872 def. Royal Liberal, Liberal-Democratic, National Unionist, Irish Brotherhood

1874-1876: R.A Cross (Royal Liberal)
1874 def. Liberal-Democratic, Unionist, British Unionist, Irish Brotherhood
1876-1879: James Crichton-Stuart (Royal Liberal)
1877 def. Liberal-Democratic, Unionist, Irish Brotherhood
1879-1890: Henry Charles Stephens (Unionist)
1879 def. Royal Liberal, Liberal-Democratic, Irish Brotherhood
1883 def. Royal Liberal, Liberal-Democratic, Irish Brotherhood
1887 def. Liberal-Democratic, Irish Brotherhood, Royal Liberal
1890-1897: Arthur Smith-Barry (British Imperial League)
1895 def. Opposition
1897: Henry Havelock-Allen (British Imperial League) *
1897-1906: J. Thomas Firbank (British Imperial League)

1901 def. Christian Democratic, Eirionn Eire
1903 def. Christian Democratic, Eirionn Eire, Radical Workers
1906-1907: Thomas Ferens (Christian Democratic)
1905 def. British Imperial League, Eirionn Eire, Country, Radical Workers
1907-1910: Augustine Birrell (Christian Democratic)
1910-1916: Eustace Fiennes (British Imperial League-Country Coalition)

1910 def. Christian Democratic, Eirionn Eire, Country, Radical Workers
1910-1916: Eustace Fiennes (British Imperial League)
1915 def. Christian Democratic, Eirionn Eire, Country, Workers
1916-1917: James Mason (British Imperial League)
1917-Present: James Mason (British Imperial League-Country Coalition)

1917 def. Christian Democratic, Workers, Country

* -Died in office
 
Bremer shoots Nixon: A timeline:

1969-1972: Richard Nixon/ Spiro Agnew (Republican)

1968: Hubert Humphrey/ Edmund Muskie (Democrat) George Wallace/ Curtis LeMay (AIP)

Following back to back defeats for both the presidency and governorship of California, Richard Nixon appeared to be a man on the rocks. 1968 proved to be the year of the comeback however, as Nixon cruised to an easy victory in the Republican primaries and secured a solid victory in November. Things continued to look up for President Nixon, who boasted a successful moon mission, gradual "Vietnamization" of the Vietnamese war, and a new round of detente with Russia and China. The president's return to fortunate would be cut short however. On March 23, 2972, Arthur Bremer fired three shots at the President, leaving him gravely wounded. Though Nixon would survive, he would be forever paralyzed, and would resign the office of the presidency shortly after his recovery.


1972-1972: Spiro Agnew/ Vacant (Republicn)

Handed what would be to many a nation at its peak, Agnew had little time to celebrate following his ascension to the highest office. Immediately, Agnew looked to find his successor for the Vice presidency. Agnew settled upon the moderate Massachusetts senator Edward Brooke in an attempt to appeal to moderates and shore up the black vote. Agnew then proceeded to sign the ABM treaty, Having already been negotiated largely by Nixon. Agnew then set his sights on the rapidly approaching 1972 election.

1972-1974: Spiro Agnew/ Edward Brooke (Republican)

1972: George McGovern/ Kevin White (Democrat)

'72 of course, proved to be no great hurdle for the Agnew/ Brooke ticket. A hotly contested Democratic primary saw the staunch liberal George McGovern clinch the nomination, narrowly beating out hopefuls such as George Wallace and Hubert Humphrey. McGovern would further alienate many with his choice of Boston mayor and former Humphrey supporter Kevin White as V.P. these internal splits would serve to undermine the party, who were already struggling with an outpouring of sympathy for the Republican party following Nixon's resignation. Republicans would later win in a landslide, with 58% of the popular vote and 506 electoral votes.

Foreign policy proved to be the early area of focus for the Agnew administration, as pressure grew to finally end the Vietnam war and hostilities broke out between Israel and its Arab neighbors in what would be known as the Yom Kippur War. In this, the work of Secretary of State Kissinger would be pivotal, with "shuttle diplomacy" coming to describe Kissinger's back-and-forth style of rapid negotiation and travel.

In the end, it would be a scandal that would consume the White House. Recently appointed U.S. Attorney George Beale, in his investigation of corruption in Baltimore, stumbled upon evidence of tax fraud, bribery, and corruption by Agnew. Upon hearing of this, President Agnew made the fateful decision to appoint several aids, including G. Gordon Liddy, Roger Stone, and Pat Buchanan to impede Beale's investigation y any means necessary. This proved to be Agnew's undoing, as evidence of a break in at Beale's house was later tie back to Agnew. This, compounded with the crimes Beale initially discovered, made an insurmountable case or the President's own corruption and lawlessness.

In spite of this, President Agnew refused to resign and maintained his innocence on all charges. Agnew's refusal to resign eventually lead to the beginning of formal impeachment hearings, which found Agnew to be clearly guilty of tax fraud, bribery, extortion, conspiracy, contempt of congress, and abuse of power. till, Agnew refused to resign, contending that the trial was a falsehood and that his resignation would mean to concede to it. Finally, a vote on removal the senate proved to be Agnew's undoing, as the Senate voted near unanimously to remove the President.


1974-1974: Edward Brooke/ Vacant (Republican)

1974-1977: Edward Brooke/ John J. Rhodes (Republican)

Left to pick up the pieces from Agnew's implosion, Brooke did an admirable job. Moving quickly to appoint the amiable and inoffensive congressman John Rhodes to the Vice Presidency, Brooke and the republican party braced for what was proved to be a brutal midterm, with the Republicans losing 73 seats in the House and 7 in the Senate. Though Brooke proved effective in mending some trust with the public in his refusal to pardon any members of the Agnew administration and his continued work towards peace in Vietnam, Brooke was considered a lame duck from day one of his administration., and faced further losses in 1976.

1977-1985: Frank Church/ Peter Rodino (Democrat)
1976: Edward Brooke/ John J. Rhodes (Republican)
1980: Charles Percy/ Bill Brock (Republican)
Paul Laxalt/ Phil Crane (Independent Republican)

1985-1993: Jack Kemp/ John Danforth (Republican)
1984: Peter Rodino/ John Jay Hooker (Democrat)
1988: John Jay Hooker/ Jesse Jackson (Democrat)

1993-1997: Pete Wilson/ John McCain (Republican)
1992: Tom Harkin/ Jay Rockefeller IV (Democrat)

1997-20xx: Douglas Wilder/ Robert Garcia (Democrat)
1996: Pete Wilson/ John McCain (Republican)


I'll try to annotate/ expand later, but here's a little something I've been cooking up.
 
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Interesting that you have Brooke losing....

It's funny, because I actually started this last night after reading through a thread I recently started on what would've happened if Arthur Bremer shot Nixon, and just came back to finish it up. Might do footnotes for it later, but in mine, Brooke does win in 76.

1969-1972: Richard M. Nixon (R-NY)/Spiro Agnew (R-MD)
Def. 1968 Hubert Humphrey (D-MN)/Edmund Muskie (D-ME), George Wallace (American Independent-AL)/Curtis LeMay (American Independent-CA)
1972-1974: Spiro Agnew (R-MD)/Edward Brooke (R-MA)
Def. 1972 George McGovern (D-SD)/Sargent Shriver (D-MD)
1974-1981: Edward Brooke (R-MA)/George H.W. Bush (R-TX)
Def. 1976 Jimmy Carter (D-GA)/Walter Mondale (D-MN)
1981-1985: Ted Kennedy (D-MA)/Jesse Jackson (D-IL)
Def. 1980 George H.W. Bush (R-TX)/Mark Hatfield (R-OR)
1985-1993: Bob Dole (R-KS)/Olympia Snowe (R-ME)
Def. 1984 Ted Kennedy (D-MA)/Jesse Jackson (D-IL)
Def. 1988 Gary Hart (D-CO)/Al Gore (D-TN)

1993-1997: Olympia Snowe (R-ME)/Carroll A. Campbell (R-SC)
Def. 1992 Dick Gephardt (D-MO)/Joe Biden (D-DE)
1997-20??: Carol Moseley Braun (D-IL)/Bill Clinton (D-AR)
Def. 1996 Olympia Snowe (R-ME)/Carroll A. Campbell (R-SC)
 
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Interesting that you have Brooke losing....
Thank you for your thought! I'm continuing to write this TL, though I think my most recent additions explain this somewhat. Agnew makes a complete fool of himself and his party during his impeachment hearings, robbing them of legitimacy. Brooke is able to rebuild some trust, but less than 2 years is hardly enough time to rebound fully.
 
Damnatio Memoriae

1929-1933: Herbert Hoover (Republican)
1928 (with Charles Curtis) def. Al Smith (Democrat)
1933-1937: John Nance Garner (Democrat)
1932 (with Franklin D. Roosevelt) def. Herbert Hoover (Republican)
1937-1938: John Nance Garner (National Union)
1936 (with Styles Bridges) def. Virgil Effinger (Patriot), Milo Reno (Farmer-Labor)
1938-1939: Cordell Hull (National Union)
1939-1941: Douglas MacArthur (Military)
1941-1942: Upton Sinclair (United Front)
1940 (with Seth Davenport) def. William Dudley Pelley (Patriot)
1942-1945: Seth Davenport (United Front)

basically its a theoretical look forward of the tv series damnation where ive made choices which i think are suitably cinematic and it all gets a bit game of thrones with the twists

FDR is shot in 1932 and Garner presides over four years of mediocrity. The Farmers' Holiday and labour strikes spread out from Iowa, and the Black Legion surges in response. With the Black Legion seizing de facto control in the South and in the Great Lakes and the Farmers' Holiday Association establishing a strange agrarian-syndicalism in the West, the Republicans and Democrats come together to try and steady the ship.

This doesn't quite work as Black Legion chief Virgil Effinger claims the election was rigged and launches a coup that sees Washington nigh on razed. Secretary of State Hull, who at that point was in Mexico becomes de facto President but is poorly situated to contain the Black Legion's Revolution. He is quietly removed from office by MacArthur who rallies the troops but is forced to retreat westward and forge alliances with the socialists and syndicalists who have set up shop there.

1940 comes around and some speculate that MacArthur intends to continue in post, but he instead acquieses to a presidential election and puts his support behind Upton Sinclair who has put California's industry to work in sending armaments to fight the Legion in the east. But in 1942, the Japanese launch a surprise attack upon the United States and Sinclair is killed in the attack on California. Japan and the Black Legion form an unholy alliance and Vice President Seth Davenport is forced to retreat to the agrarian heartland, back to Iowa where it all began...
 
What if Nixon was assassinated you say? Welcome to THE GEORGIAN ERA.

1969-1972: Richard Nixon/Spiro T. Agnew (Republican)
1968: Richard Nixon/Spiro T. Agnew (Republican) def. Hubert H. Humphrey/Edmund Muskie (Democratic), George Wallace/Curtis LeMay (American Independent)
1972-1972: Spiro T. Agnew (Republican)
1972-1973: Spiro T. Agnew/George Bush (Republican)
1972: Spiro T. Agnew/George Bush (Republican) def. Hubert H. Humphrey/Sam Yorty (Democratic)
1973-1973: George Bush (Republican)
1973-1977: George Bush/Nelson Rockefeller (Republican)
1977-1981: George Wallace/Henry M. Jackson (Democratic)

1976: George Wallace/Henry M. Jackson (Democratic) def. George Bush/Nelson Rockefeller (Republican), Ted Kennedy/Ron Dellums (DC faithless electors)
1981-1985: George Bush/William Milliken (Republican)
1980: George Bush/William Milliken (Republican) def. Walter Mondale/Patrick Lucey (Peace Independent), George Wallace/Henry M. Jackson (Democratic)
1985-1989: William Milliken/Howard Baker (Republican)
1984: William Milliken/Howard Baker (Republican) def. Adlai Stevenson III/Ed Edmondson (Democratic)
1989-1997: George McGovern/Joe Biden (Democratic)
1988: George McGovern/Joe Biden (Democratic) def. William Milliken/Howard Baker (Republican), Al Haig/Paul Laxalt (Independent)
1992: George McGovern/Joe Biden (Democratic) def. Bob Dole/Dan Quayle (Republican)

1997-2001: Barry Goldwater Jr./Harrison Schmitt (Republican)
1996: Barry Goldwater Jr./Harrison Schmitt (Republican) def. Joe Biden/Ann Richards (Democratic), Jerry Brown/John Silber (Independent)
2001-2005: Wes Watkins/Frank Fasi (Independent)
2000: Wes Watkins/Frank Fasi (Independent) def. Paul Wellstone/Jim Hunt (Democratic), Barry Goldwater Jr./Harrison Schmitt (Republican)
2005-2013: Tony Knowles/Kathleen Brown (Democratic)
2004: Tony Knowles/Kathleen Brown (Democratic) def. Wes Watkins/Frank Fasi (United We Stand), John E. Bush!/Win Rockefeller (Republican)
2008: Tony Knowles/Kathleen Brown (Democratic) def. George Allen/Bill Schuette (Republican)

2013-present: Lance Armstrong/Norm Coleman (Republican)
2012: Lance Armstrong/Norm Coleman (Republican) def. Kathleen Brown/John Lynch (Democratic)
2016: Lance Armstrong/Norm Coleman (Republican) vs. Claire McCaskill/Roy Cooper (Democratic)


So. Nixon is assassinated in April 1972. Agnew becomes president and it's too late for anyone to challenge him in the Republican primaries. As some Republicans begin considering a third party run in November, Agnew scrambles to select a new VP. Eventually he decides on former Congressman and UN Ambassador George Bush. He is respected by the party establishment and trusted by Nixonland and he is easily nominated at the convention. The confirmation in Congress is a bit rockier but Bush gets through anyway. In the Democratic primaries, without Wallace being assassinated, he continues running in the primaries and eventually forces a deadlocked convention. The main candidates are Hubert Humphrey, George Wallace, and George McGovern. After tons of ballots, with no progress being made, delegates begin discussing drafting a nominee. The top choice is Ted Kennedy. However, before these plans are put into action, George Wallace decides to cut his losses and offers to release his delegates to Humphrey in exchange for choice of running mate and influence over nominations. Humphrey, desperate for victory and facing likely his last chance at the presidency, accepts the deal. Wallace selects Sam Yorty as the running mate. Quite simply put, it was a match made in hell. Humphrey and Yorty clash at every point and Humphrey's reputation is damaged by the deal. Meanwhile, the "sympathy" vote boosts Agnew just as it boosted LBJ eight years prior, and that is the story of how Hubert Humphrey lost an election Spiro Agnew. However, it's much closer than OTL's 1972 election.

Agnew's stuff comes out anyway and he gets stuck in the shit real quick. He wants to fight it out but his staff, largely comprised of Nixon men, and Congressional Republicans don't really support him. Nevertheless, Agnew soldiers on until he's impeached by the House. Barry Goldwater comes to the White House and tells him point blank that the Senate will convict. Agnew resigns a few hours later and Bush takes office. Bush selects as his vice president New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller. In 1976, the Bush-Rockefeller partnership is strong enough to scare away any serious challenge, even Ronald Reagan, and they're renominated. On the Democratic side, Hubert Humphrey is in shame and Ted Kennedy is running for re-election, leaving the nomination wide open. George Wallace runs as a "reformed" man, abandoning much of his rhetoric from past campaigns and co-opting some of the more populist positions of the McGovern campaign. Wallace defeats his myriad opponents and wins the nomination. The Two Georges square off in an extremely bitter and contentious campaign that culminates in Wallace narrowly winning despite losing the popular vote.

Wallace's term is a disaster, much like Carter's OTL. He ends up ordering troops into Iran, which backfires bigly. Wallace barely fends off a primary challenge from Ted Kennedy. George Bush wins the Republican nomination again, defeating challengers such as Ronald Reagan. He is still liked by Republicans, and Americans in general, especially since he won the popular vote in 1976 and Wallace has been a bad president. With Rockefeller dead, Bush selects Michigan Governor William Milliken as his running mate on the advice of his first choice, retiring House Minority Leader Gerald Ford. With Walter Mondale running a "Peace" platform, and his poll numbers slipping every day, Wallace is crushed by Bush in a 49 state landslide, while Mondale wins Minnesota and DC. Wallace becomes the first incumbent president and first major party candidate to lose all 50 states and DC. George Bush becomes the first president to have non-consecutive terms since Grover Cleveland.

Bush's second term goes a lot better than his first, as he quickly ends military action in Iran and presides over economic recovery. Term-limited in 1984, he hands it off to Milliken, who easily wins the nomination despite grumbling from the more conservative elements in the party. He selects retiring Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker as his running mate. On the Democratic side, there is another scramble for the nomination. Illinois Senator Adlai Stevenson III, initially a dark horse, emerges at the top of the pack, partially through sheer luck, partially through his opponents falling to scandal, but mostly due to speaking good sense at a time when most of the other candidates were trying to recapture Wallace's spirit in 1976 through fiery rhetoric and extreme shenanigans. Stevenson selects fellow senator Ed Edmondson of Oklahoma as his running mate. The Milliken-Stevenson race is very quiet, with both candidates taking respectful tones and employing articulate and sensible rhetoric, avoiding mudslinging and negative campaigning, a welcome relief from the madness of the past four (or six) elections. Unfortunately for Stevenson, such elections favor incumbents, especially in good times, and Milliken cruises to victory, becoming the first president not named George in over a decade.

However, Milliken's smooth sailing is disrupted by the choppy waters of global economic instability originating in the Soviet Union. This exacerbates the farm crisis at home and coincides with an Arab-Israeli War. Milliken is unable to manage all the crises and is further crippled in 1986 with Democrats taking back control of the Senate and holding both houses of Congress. By 1988, Milliken is in a very weak position, but he is renominated. On the Democratic side, George McGovern wins the nomination running on a platform of proper liberalism and a return to New Deal-era progress, abandoning both the direction set by Wallace and the middle course charted by Stevenson. With the election becoming moderate Republican vs liberal Democrat, conservatives decide to buck the party. An independent campaign is launched by former Defense Secretary Al Haig and Senator Paul Laxalt. With the Republican base divided and the incumbent weakened, McGovern wins in a landslide.

McGovern's first term is a great success, as he successfully brings peace to the Middle East, eases the collapsing Soviet Union into the new era with generous aid, and creates a national healthcare system with the help of large liberal Democratic majorities in Congress. Although his presidency is the death knell for southern Democrats, a new generation of Democrats is born in McGovern's image. McGovern is strong going into 1992, despite many Republicans being against his so-called socialist healthcare system. Bob Dole wins the Republican nomination against a field of nobodies after former VP Baker decides against running. Dole selects Dan Quayle as his running mate to provide an age balance. Vice President Biden quickly dubs Dole "Boring Bob" and goes on to trounce Quayle in the debates. Quayle attempts to compare himself to John F. Kennedy, to which Biden responds "that's a bunch of malarkey," coining a new political catchphrase. Meanwhile, McGovern maintains his popularity as Dole slips further and further. A McGovern win is predicted by all, which leads to the Dole campaign giving up and very depressed Republican turnout. Shockingly, McGovern wins 49 of 50 states, losing only Utah to Dole.

McGovern's second term proceeds largely like his first. Although there is no sweeping legislation, McGovern is able to expand existing programs and preside over relative prosperity. Biden is a shoe-in for the 1996 nomination, selecting Texas Governor Ann Richards as his running mate. On the Republican side, California Senator Barry Goldwater, Jr. wins, calling for a new direction in the Republican primary to weaken McGovernism and win back moderate voters to the Republican primary. Biden holds the edge over Goldwater, but his campaign is damaged by an independent run from former California Governor Jerry Brown. Brown's quixotic campaign, which attempts to combine positions from all parts of the political spectrum, only serves to divide Democrats and throw the election to Goldwater. Nevertheless, Brown's strong showing proves the viability of his so-called "Third Way" and leads to the emergence of a Brown faction in the Democratic Party. This election marks the start of the Biden-Brown feud, which continues when Biden returns to the Senate in 2002 and Brown is elected Governor of California again.

Goldwater soon becomes known as the worst president in living memory, perhaps even of all time. His administration is damaged from the outset by the bad victory, which is then compounded by trouble with cabinet picks and scandal. Goldwater then attempts to deliver on his promise of repealing and replacing "McGovernCare" but fails due to a lack of support in Congress and popular outrage. This has the contrary effect of ensuring McGovernCare's long term survival. Goldwater is dealt another blow with the onset of another recession prompted by the bursting of the tech bubble. At the same time, another Arab-Israeli conflict starts. Goldwater controversially decides to directly intervene on Israel's side, which creates anti-American sentiment among Arab countries and prompts Arab fundamentalist groups to begin terrorist attacks against America, at first only against troops in the region, but then by taking the fight to America using suicide bombers and other methods. The war comes to an abrupt end with a nuclear attack in the Golan Heights. No one knows who used the nuke, but both sides are quick to point fingers. Acting to prevent further use of nuclear weapons, the UN, Europe, and Russia form a coalition for peace. Ironically, Goldwater's only real achievement as president had been the signing of the Nuclear Arms Reduction Treaty with Russian President Anatoly Sobchak.

In 2000, Goldwater is challenged by numerous Republicans, but he manages to win thanks to the divided opposition. On the Democratic side, Joe Biden and Jerry Brown are running, but their feud leaves an opening for dark horse candidate Paul Wellstone to seize the nomination from both of them. Wellstone famously opposed intervention and came to be seen as the leader of the nascent "peace hawk" movement, which grows larger with each day the war continues. Upon securing the nomination, Wellstone's victory is seemingly guaranteed. People begin calling him the second coming of McGovern. However, the dynamics of the election are flipped by the entrance of Oklahoma Governor Wes Watkins as an independent candidate. Watkins, once a Democrat, then an Independent, then Republican, then Independent again, is a curious figure. He is also a candidate for peace, but unlike Wellstone, he is able to bring anti-Goldwater Republicans to his side, as well as moderate Democrats who were slowly driven away from the party by McGovern and Wellstone but unwilling to back Goldwater. Watkins selects Hawaii Governor Frank Fasi as his running mate, another independent governor who has been a member of both parties at various times. The Watkins-Fasi ticket surges ahead of Goldwater and the president is sidelined as the race becomes Wellstone vs Watkins.

However, Goldwater's presence means all bets are off. Predictions range from a Wellstone 50 state landslide to a deadlocked election that will be sent to the House. The latter scenario seems more and more likely as Election Day draws closer. On that day, Watkins stuns the nation as he wins state after state, relegating Goldwater to third place in each of them. Wellstone wins Democratic strongholds as well as some deep red states where Goldwater and Watkins divide the vote. However, Watkins upsets Wellstone in key swing states as he wins moderate and independent voters. As the night goes on, Goldwater joins George Wallace as the second incumbent president and major party candidate to lose in every state. However, there is still no winner. In Montana, Watkins and Wellstone are almost exactly tied, prompting a recount. The long and arduous process ends with Watkins being proclaimed the winner by 492 votes, giving him the election with 270 electoral votes. While Wellstone wins the national popular vote, Watkins becomes the first independent to be president George Washington.

As Wesley Wade Watkins- WWW, as he is known- is sworn as the 45th President of the United States, no one knows what to expect. Watkins promised peace in the Middle East in 100 days, and to that effect he goes directly to Israel to declare the end of American involvement. This bold move proves his dedication to the cause of peace and he is able to bring all sides to the peace table in Bucharest. Peace is indeed achieved, with the United States being represented by none other than Secretary of State Joe Biden. Watkins enjoys a boost in popularity and begins working with both parties in Congress to pass legislation. Watkins's primary achievement is tax reform which was an integral part of his campaign. The new system introduces several new brackets and reduces the burden on middle class. It is hailed as a major victory for the working man but is seen as an odd move for a man who was a Republican, but it is balanced by raising the estate tax baseline, which angers many Democrats. Nevertheless, Watkins bolsters his image as A True Independent™.

In 2004, Watkins explores running as a Republican and as a Democrat, but decides that it's too risky. Instead, he and Fasi form their own political movement, United We Stand. It is not just a vehicle for the presidential campaign, but an actual party that runs candidates in congressional and state elections. In the Republican primaries, John E. Bush, who becomes famous for his ubiquitous Bush! campaign logo, wins. He runs on nostalgia and promises of the "good old days" when his dad was president. After suffering such heavy defeats under Goldwater, Bush! is welcomed by Republicans with open arms. To double down on the nostalgia factor, Bush selects Arkansas Governor Win Rockefeller as his running mate. On the Democratic side, Biden and Brown both decide not to run, as well as Wellstone, leaving the field wide open for the first time since 1988. The top candidates are 2000 running mate Jim Hunt, Missouri Senator Mel Carnahan, and Washington Governor Gary Locke. A fourth dark horse candidate emerges, Alaska Governor Tony Knowles. Knowles cuts through Hunt and Carnahan's southern style moderatism and Locke's more mainstream liberalism with his populist Alaskan politics. It's not quite McGovernism but it's something new and it works. Voters respond to his message and deliver him to victory, hastened by the collapse of his opponents due to scandal and poor strategy. Knowles selects California Governor Kathleen Brown as his running mate to win over the Brown wing of the party and avoid an independent run from them.

The three way race looks a lot like 2000, with one key difference. Bush! is much stronger than Goldwater was. This actually has a negative effect on his campaign, as it further divides Republican voters with Watkins and allows Knowles to sweep the south and southwest in a landslide victory despite winning a slim plurality of the popular vote. Knowles, the first Democratic president not named George in 36 years, takes office with a divided Congress, with Democrats holding the Senate and Republicans holding the House, and the new United We Stand faction emerging as a wildcard. Knowles has difficulty governing, but is able to convince Congress to pursue a bold new initiative: abolishing the Electoral College. After the mayhem of 1976, 1996, 2000, and 2004, both parties can see the problems inherent in the system. Congress passes a constitutional amendment to abolish the Electoral College, which then goes to the states for their ratification. Knowles goes barnstorming across the country to raise support for it, but the small states remain opposed to it. Ultimately, only 30 states ratify the amendment, leaving it unratified. However, no time limit was added by Congress, so the amendment remained active.

Although hobbled by Congress for the first half of his term, Knowles recovers when Democrats actually win control of the House in 2006 as UWS collapses without Watkins to keep it alive. However, Knowles's hopes for legislative achievements are dashed by the start of yet another war in the Middle East. Saddam Hussein dies and is succeeded by his son Qusay. However, Qusay's brother Uday also wants to be president and other players want them both gone. As such, civil war breaks out between Qusay and Uday. Knowles is extremely hesitant to get involved, with the Israel war having ended just a few years ago, but the war creates chaos in the region and disrupts the flow of oil, creating a global energy crisis. As the economy worsens and the war creates a humanitarian crisis, Knowles decides to go before the UN to seek a global coalition for intervention. Knowles gets what he was looking for and the coalition invades Iraq in late 2007. By June 2008, Baghdad has been captured and both Hussein brothers are dead. Knowles famously declares "mission accomplished" and his approval rating skyrockets.

The war coincided with the 2008 presidential primaries. Knowles has no challengers and is renominated. On the Republican side, Virginia Senator George Allen wins the primary against a wide array of challengers thanks to strong establishment support. His running mate is Watkins-esque Michigan Governor Bill Schuette. United We Stand does not field a serious candidate as both Watkins and Fasi decide not to run. With victory in Iraq and troops returning home, Knowles is the heavy favorite for re-election. On Election Day, Knowles sweeps Allen away in a landslide, and Democrats win large majorities in Congress. It looked like Knowles's second term would be much better than his first. It wasn't.

As coalition troops begin withdrawing from Iraq, elections were held, the first free elections in the nation. However, the process is marred by political violence and the results are heavily disputed. As a new president took office, his legitimacy is entirely dependent on the presence of coalition troops. His requests for the withdrawal to halt are ignored, as the coalition sticks to the strict timetable outlined at the start of the invasion. Almost immediately after the last troops leave, the president is deposed by the military, starting the Second Iraqi Civil War. No one wants to go back to Iraq, even as the situation becomes worse than it was the first time. However, when President Knowles is shot in Miami and the shooter is found to be an Iraqi man connected with rebel groups, the attitude in the United States changes overnight.

Knowles is rendered comatose by the would-be assassin and Vice President Brown becomes the acting president. Brown is urged toward action by the defense establishment, Congress, and an angry nation. After some hesitation, she unofficially begins the American return to Iraq by ordering airstrikes on rebel bases. The action is initially regarded as a success, but it backfires by turning more Iraqis against the United States. Additionally, there is confusion as to what a favorable result would be in Iraq, as both the military government and the rebels are anti-American, while the legitimate government is too weak to hold long term power. When Knowles returns to office, he is angry to discover that America is at war again in his name, but has no choice but to ramp up American involvement as the Iraqis continue to hit back harder. Both parties in Congress are divided on the issues and peace and war factions emerge once more. Democrats barely hold on in 2010 as peace and war candidates win in different areas. The liberal base of the party has turned against the war, while there is still majority support in the whole nation. The division between the four factions, which essentially become their own parties, destroy Knowles's presidency and turn him into an early lame duck.

After twelve years out of power, with two consecutive defeats for establishment candidates, the Republicans turn to a true outsider: cycling legend and Texas Governor Lance Armstrong. Armstrong has frequently been mentioned as a presidential candidate since he was first elected and his entry puts the other Republican candidates on the defensive. After sweeping the early primaries, Armstrong is left with only token oppositions and he ends up winning the primary despite the best efforts of the party. For balance, Armstrong selects moderate Minnesota Senator Norm Coleman as his running mate. Vice President Brown wins the Democratic nomination after fending off a challenge from Senator Carol Moseley Braun, running as the peace candidate, and selects New Hampshire Governor John Lynch as her running mate. The war is the dominant topic in the election. Armstrong maintains that the second intervention was a mistake while Brown is forced to defend it. In October, Armstrong is accused of doping, despite the fact that a previous investigation ended without any charges. Armstrong shockingly admits to doping in October and the effects on his candidacy appear to be minimal. It seems voters do not believe the doping will affect his capacity to serve as president and his candor is appreciated. Armstrong ends up winning the election and becoming the youngest president in history.

Armstrong's presidency so far has been a mixed bag. An investigation into his doping starts again in order to examine the extent of his usage and to uncover the full conspiracy. This investigation overshadows the rest of his presidency. He delivers on his promise to end involvement in Iraq and begins pulling troops out, but recent estimates indicate that full withdrawal will take another five years. Democrats take back the House in 2014 and stymie his efforts to undo the Watkins tax reform. By 2016, the investigation is over, but Armstrong has taken a hit in popularity, not because he was a bad president, but because his cycling victories have been delegitimized. Missouri Senator and former Governor Claire McCaskill wins the Democratic primaries and selects outgoing North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper as her running mate. Both candidates represent a type of Democrat that's more moderate and more in the mold of Knowles than McGovern, a type that's expanding the party in the south for the first time in decades. Currently, the polls show a dead heat between Armstrong and McCaskill.
 
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What if Nixon was assassinated you say? Welcome to THE GEORGIAN ERA.

1969-1972: Richard Nixon/Spiro T. Agnew (Republican)
1968: Richard Nixon/Spiro T. Agnew (Republican) def. Hubert H. Humphrey/Edmund Muskie (Democratic), George Wallace/Curtis LeMay (American Independent)
1972-1972: Spiro T. Agnew (Republican)
1972-1973: Spiro T. Agnew/George Bush (Republican)
1972: Spiro T. Agnew/George Bush (Republican) def. Hubert H. Humphrey/Sam Yorty (Democratic)
1973-1973: George Bush (Republican)
1973-1977: George Bush/Nelson Rockefeller (Republican)
1977-1981: George Wallace/Henry M. Jackson (Democratic)

1976: George Wallace/Henry M. Jackson (Democratic) def. George Bush/Nelson Rockefeller (Republican), Ted Kennedy/Ron Dellums (DC faithless electors)
1981-1985: George Bush/William Milliken (Republican)
1980: George Bush/William Milliken (Republican) def. Walter Mondale/Patrick Lucey (Peace Independent), George Wallace/Henry M. Jackson (Democratic)
1985-1989: William Milliken/Howard Baker (Republican)
1984: William Milliken/Howard Baker (Republican) def. Adlai Stevenson III/Ed Edmondson (Democratic)
1989-1997: George McGovern/Joe Biden (Democratic)
1988: George McGovern/Joe Biden (Democratic) def. William Milliken/Howard Baker (Republican), Al Haig/Paul Laxalt (Independent)
1992: George McGovern/Joe Biden (Democratic) def. Bob Dole/Dan Quayle (Republican)

1997-2001: Barry Goldwater Jr./Harrison Schmitt (Republican)
1996: Barry Goldwater Jr./Harrison Schmitt (Republican) def. Joe Biden/Ann Richards (Democratic), Jerry Brown/John Silber (Independent)
2001-2005: Wes Watkins/Frank Fasi (Independent)
2000: Wes Watkins/Frank Fasi (Independent) def. Paul Wellstone/Jim Hunt (Democratic), Barry Goldwater Jr./Harrison Schmitt (Republican)
2005-2013: Tony Knowles/Kathleen Brown (Democratic)
2004: Tony Knowles/Kathleen Brown (Democratic) def. Wes Watkins/Frank Fasi (United We Stand), John E. Bush!/Win Rockefeller (Republican)
2008: Tony Knowles/Kathleen Brown (Democratic) def. George Allen/Bill Schuette (Republican)

2013-present: Lance Armstrong/Norm Coleman (Republican)
2012: Lance Armstrong/Norm Coleman (Republican) def. Kathleen Brown/John Lynch (Democratic)
2016: Lance Armstrong/Norm Coleman (Republican) vs. Claire McCaskill/Roy Cooper (Democratic)


So. Nixon is assassinated in April 1972. Agnew becomes president and it's too late for anyone to challenge him in the Republican primaries. As some Republicans begin considering a third party run in November, Agnew scrambles to select a new VP. Eventually he decides on former Congressman and UN Ambassador George Bush. He is respected by the party establishment and trusted by Nixonland and he is easily nominated at the convention. The confirmation in Congress is a bit rockier but Bush gets through anyway. In the Democratic primaries, without Wallace being assassinated, he continues running in the primaries and eventually forces a deadlocked convention. The main candidates are Hubert Humphrey, George Wallace, and George McGovern. After tons of ballots, with no progress being made, delegates begin discussing drafting a nominee. The top choice is Ted Kennedy. However, before these plans are put into action, George Wallace decides to cut his losses and offers to release his delegates to Humphrey in exchange for choice of running mate and influence over nominations. Humphrey, desperate for victory and facing likely his last chance at the presidency, accepts the deal. Wallace selects Sam Yorty as the running mate. Quite simply put, it was a match made in hell. Humphrey and Yorty clash at every point and Humphrey's reputation is damaged by the deal. Meanwhile, the "sympathy" vote boosts Agnew just as it boosted LBJ eight years prior, and that is the story of how Hubert Humphrey lost an election Spiro Agnew. However, it's much closer than OTL's 1972 election.

Agnew's stuff comes out anyway and he gets stuck in the shit real quick. He wants to fight it out but his staff, largely comprised of Nixon men, and Congressional Republicans don't really support him. Nevertheless, Agnew soldiers on until he's impeached by the House. Barry Goldwater comes to the White House and tells him point blank that the Senate will convict. Agnew resigns a few hours later and Bush takes office. Bush selects as his vice president New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller. In 1976, the Bush-Rockefeller partnership is strong enough to scare away any serious challenge, even Ronald Reagan, and they're renominated. On the Democratic side, Hubert Humphrey is in shame and Ted Kennedy is running for re-election, leaving the nomination wide open. George Wallace runs as a "reformed" man, abandoning much of his rhetoric from past campaigns and co-opting some of the more populist positions of the McGovern campaign. Wallace defeats his myriad opponents and wins the nomination. The Two Georges square off in an extremely bitter and contentious campaign that culminates in Wallace narrowly winning despite losing the popular vote.

Wallace's term is a disaster, much like Carter's OTL. He ends up ordering troops into Iran, which backfires bigly. Wallace barely fends off a primary challenge from Ted Kennedy. George Bush wins the Republican nomination again, defeating challengers such as Ronald Reagan. He is still liked by Republicans, and Americans in general, especially since he won the popular vote in 1976 and Wallace has been a bad president. With Rockefeller dead, Bush selects Michigan Governor William Milliken as his running mate on the advice of his first choice, retiring House Minority Leader Gerald Ford. With Walter Mondale running a "Peace" platform, and his poll numbers slipping every day, Wallace is crushed by Bush in a 49 state landslide, while Mondale wins Minnesota and DC. Wallace becomes the first incumbent president and first major party candidate to lose all 50 states and DC. George Bush becomes the first president to have non-consecutive terms since Grover Cleveland.

Bush's second term goes a lot better than his first, as he quickly ends military action in Iran and presides over economic recovery. Term-limited in 1984, he hands it off to Milliken, who easily wins the nomination despite grumbling from the more conservative elements in the party. He selects retiring Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker as his running mate. On the Democratic side, there is another scramble for the nomination. Illinois Senator Adlai Stevenson III, initially a dark horse, emerges at the top of the pack, partially through sheer luck, partially through his opponents falling to scandal, but mostly due to speaking good sense at a time when most of the other candidates were trying to recapture Wallace's spirit in 1976 through fiery rhetoric and extreme shenanigans. Stevenson selects fellow senator Ed Edmondson of Oklahoma as his running mate. The Milliken-Stevenson race is very quiet, with both candidates taking respectful tones and employing articulate and sensible rhetoric, avoiding mudslinging and negative campaigning, a welcome relief from the madness of the past four (or six) elections. Unfortunately for Stevenson, such elections favor incumbents, especially in good times, and Milliken cruises to victory, becoming the first president not named George in over a decade.

However, Milliken's smooth sailing is disrupted by the choppy waters of global economic instability originating in the Soviet Union. This exacerbates the farm crisis at home and coincides with an Arab-Israeli War. Milliken is unable to manage all the crises and is further crippled in 1986 with Democrats taking back control of the Senate and holding both houses of Congress. By 1988, Milliken is in a very weak position, but he is renominated. On the Democratic side, George McGovern wins the nomination running on a platform of proper liberalism and a return to New Deal-era progress, abandoning both the direction set by Wallace and the middle course charted by Stevenson. With the election becoming moderate Republican vs liberal Democrat, conservatives decide to buck the party. An independent campaign is launched by former Defense Secretary Al Haig and Senator Paul Laxalt. With the Republican base divided and the incumbent weakened, McGovern wins in a landslide.

McGovern's first term is a great success, as he successfully brings peace to the Middle East, eases the collapsing Soviet Union into the new era with generous aid, and creates a national healthcare system with the help of large liberal Democratic majorities in Congress. Although his presidency is the death knell for southern Democrats, a new generation of Democrats is born in McGovern's image. McGovern is strong going into 1992, despite many Republicans being against his so-called socialist healthcare system. Bob Dole wins the Republican nomination against a field of nobodies after former VP Baker decides against running. Dole selects Dan Quayle as his running mate to provide an age balance. Vice President Biden quickly dubs Dole "Boring Bob" and goes on to trounce Quayle in the debates. Quayle attempts to compare himself to John F. Kennedy, to which Biden responds "that's a bunch of malarkey," coining a new political catchphrase. Meanwhile, McGovern maintains his popularity as Dole slips further and further. A McGovern win is predicted by all, which leads to the Dole campaign giving up and very depressed Republican turnout. Shockingly, McGovern wins 49 of 50 states, losing only Utah to Dole.

McGovern's second term proceeds largely like his first. Although there is no sweeping legislation, McGovern is able to expand existing programs and preside over relative prosperity. Biden is a shoe-in for the 1996 nomination, selecting Texas Governor Ann Richards as his running mate. On the Republican side, California Senator Barry Goldwater, Jr. wins, calling for a new direction in the Republican primary to weaken McGovernism and win back moderate voters to the Republican primary. Biden holds the edge over Goldwater, but his campaign is damaged by an independent run from former California Governor Jerry Brown. Brown's quixotic campaign, which attempts to combine positions from all parts of the political spectrum, only serves to divide Democrats and throw the election to Goldwater. Nevertheless, Brown's strong showing proves the viability of his so-called "Third Way" and leads to the emergence of a Brown faction in the Democratic Party. This election marks the start of the Biden-Brown feud, which continues when Biden returns to the Senate in 2002 and Brown is elected Governor of California again.

Goldwater soon becomes known as the worst president in living memory, perhaps even of all time. His administration is damaged from the outset by the bad victory, which is then compounded by trouble with cabinet picks and scandal. Goldwater then attempts to deliver on his promise of repealing and replacing "McGovernCare" but fails due to a lack of support in Congress and popular outrage. This has the contrary effect of ensuring McGovernCare's long term survival. Goldwater is dealt another blow with the onset of another recession prompted by the bursting of the tech bubble. At the same time, another Arab-Israeli conflict starts. Goldwater controversially decides to directly intervene on Israel's side, which creates anti-American sentiment among Arab countries and prompts Arab fundamentalist groups to begin terrorist attacks against America, at first only against troops in the region, but then by taking the fight to America using suicide bombers and other methods. The war comes to an abrupt end with a nuclear attack in the Golan Heights. No one knows who used the nuke, but both sides are quick to point fingers. Acting to prevent further use of nuclear weapons, the UN, Europe, and Russia form a coalition for peace. Ironically, Goldwater's only real achievement as president had been the signing of the Nuclear Arms Reduction Treaty with Russian President Anatoly Sobchak.

In 2000, Goldwater is challenged by numerous Republicans, but he manages to win thanks to the divided opposition. On the Democratic side, Joe Biden and Jerry Brown are running, but their feud leaves an opening for dark horse candidate Paul Wellstone to seize the nomination from both of them. Wellstone famously opposed intervention and came to be seen as the leader of the nascent "peace hawk" movement, which grows larger with each day the war continues. Upon securing the nomination, Wellstone's victory is seemingly guaranteed. People begin calling him the second coming of McGovern. However, the dynamics of the election are flipped by the entrance of Oklahoma Governor Wes Watkins as an independent candidate. Watkins, once a Democrat, then an Independent, then Republican, then Independent again, is a curious figure. He is also a candidate for peace, but unlike Wellstone, he is able to bring anti-Goldwater Republicans to his side, as well as moderate Democrats who were slowly driven away from the party by McGovern and Wellstone but unwilling to back Goldwater. Watkins selects Hawaii Governor Frank Fasi as his running mate, another independent governor who has been a member of both parties at various times. The Watkins-Fasi ticket surges ahead of Goldwater and the president is sidelined as the race becomes Wellstone vs Watkins.

However, Goldwater's presence means all bets are off. Predictions range from a Wellstone 50 state landslide to a deadlocked election that will be sent to the House. The latter scenario seems more and more likely as Election Day draws closer. On that day, Watkins stuns the nation as he wins state after state, relegating Goldwater to third place in each of them. Wellstone wins Democratic strongholds as well as some deep red states where Goldwater and Watkins divide the vote. However, Watkins upsets Wellstone in key swing states as he wins moderate and independent voters. As the night goes on, Goldwater joins George Wallace as the second incumbent president and major party candidate to lose in every state. However, there is still no winner. In Montana, Watkins and Wellstone are almost exactly tied, prompting a recount. The long and arduous process ends with Watkins being proclaimed the winner by 492 votes, giving him the election with 270 electoral votes. While Wellstone wins the national popular vote, Watkins becomes the first independent to be president George Washington.

As Wesley Wade Watkins- WWW, as he is known- is sworn as the 45th President of the United States, no one knows what to expect. Watkins promised peace in the Middle East in 100 days, and to that effect he goes directly to Israel to declare the end of American involvement. This bold move proves his dedication to the cause of peace and he is able to bring all sides to the peace table in Bucharest. Peace is indeed achieved, with the United States being represented by none other than Secretary of State Joe Biden. Watkins enjoys a boost in popularity and begins working with both parties in Congress to pass legislation. Watkins's primary achievement is tax reform which was an integral part of his campaign. The new system introduces several new brackets and reduces the burden on middle class. It is hailed as a major victory for the working man but is seen as an odd move for a man who was a Republican, but it is balanced by raising the estate tax baseline, which angers many Democrats. Nevertheless, Watkins bolsters his image as A True Independent™.

In 2004, Watkins explores running as a Republican and as a Democrat, but decides that it's too risky. Instead, he and Fasi form their own political movement, United We Stand. It is not just a vehicle for the presidential campaign, but an actual party that runs candidates in congressional and state elections. In the Republican primaries, John E. Bush, who becomes famous for his ubiquitous Bush! campaign logo, wins. He runs on nostalgia and promises of the "good old days" when his dad was president. After suffering such heavy defeats under Goldwater, Bush! is welcomed by Republicans with open arms. To double down on the nostalgia factor, Bush selects Arkansas Governor Win Rockefeller as his running mate. On the Democratic side, Biden and Brown both decide not to run, as well as Wellstone, leaving the field wide open for the first time since 1988. The top candidates are 2000 running mate Jim Hunt, Missouri Senator Mel Carnahan, and Washington Governor Gary Locke. A fourth dark horse candidate emerges, Alaska Governor Tony Knowles. Knowles cuts through Hunt and Carnahan's southern style moderatism and Locke's more mainstream liberalism with his populist Alaskan politics. It's not quite McGovernism but it's something new and it works. Voters respond to his message and deliver him to victory, hastened by the collapse of his opponents due to scandal and poor strategy. Knowles selects California Governor Kathleen Brown as his running mate to win over the Brown wing of the party and avoid an independent run from them.

The three way race looks a lot like 2000, with one key difference. Bush! is much stronger than Goldwater was. This actually has a negative effect on his campaign, as it further divides Republican voters with Watkins and allows Knowles to sweep the south and southwest in a landslide victory despite winning a slim plurality of the popular vote. Knowles, the first Democratic president not named George in 36 years, takes office with a divided Congress, with Democrats holding the Senate and Republicans holding the House, and the new United We Stand faction emerging as a wildcard. Knowles has difficulty governing, but is able to convince Congress to pursue a bold new initiative: abolishing the Electoral College. After the mayhem of 1976, 1996, 2000, and 2004, both parties can see the problems inherent in the system. Congress passes a constitutional amendment to abolish the Electoral College, which then goes to the states for their ratification. Knowles goes barnstorming across the country to raise support for it, but the small states remain opposed to it. Ultimately, only 30 states ratify the amendment, leaving it unratified. However, no time limit was added by Congress, so the amendment remained active.

Although hobbled by Congress for the first half of his term, Knowles recovers when Democrats actually win control of the House in 2006 as UWS collapses without Watkins to keep it alive. However, Knowles's hopes for legislative achievements are dashed by the start of yet another war in the Middle East. Saddam Hussein dies and is succeeded by his son Qusay. However, Qusay's brother Uday also wants to be president and other players want them both gone. As such, civil war breaks out between Qusay and Uday. Knowles is extremely hesitant to get involved, with the Israel war having ended just a few years ago, but the war creates chaos in the region and disrupts the flow of oil, creating a global energy crisis. As the economy worsens and the war creates a humanitarian crisis, Knowles decides to go before the UN to seek a global coalition for intervention. Knowles gets what he was looking for and the coalition invades Iraq in late 2007. By June 2008, Baghdad has been captured and both Hussein brothers are dead. Knowles famously declares "mission accomplished" and his approval rating skyrockets.

The war coincided with the 2008 presidential primaries. Knowles has no challengers and is renominated. On the Republican side, Virginia Senator George Allen wins the primary against a wide array of challengers thanks to strong establishment support. His running mate is Watkins-esque Michigan Governor Bill Schuette. United We Stand does not field a serious candidate as both Watkins and Fasi decide not to run. With victory in Iraq and troops returning home, Knowles is the heavy favorite for re-election. On Election Day, Knowles sweeps Allen away in a landslide, and Democrats win large majorities in Congress. It looked like Knowles's second term would be much better than his first. It wasn't.

As coalition troops begin withdrawing from Iraq, elections were held, the first free elections in the nation. However, the process is marred by political violence and the results are heavily disputed. As a new president took office, his legitimacy is entirely dependent on the presence of coalition troops. His requests for the withdrawal to halt are ignored, as the coalition sticks to the strict timetable outlined at the start of the invasion. Almost immediately after the last troops leave, the president is deposed by the military, starting the Second Iraqi Civil War. No one wants to go back to Iraq, even as the situation becomes worse than it was the first time. However, when President Knowles is shot in Miami and the shooter is found to be an Iraqi man connected with rebel groups, the attitude in the United States changes overnight.

Knowles is rendered comatose by the would-be assassin and Vice President Brown becomes the acting president. Brown is urged toward action by the defense establishment, Congress, and an angry nation. After some hesitation, she unofficially begins the American return to Iraq by ordering airstrikes on rebel bases. The action is initially regarded as a success, but it backfires by turning more Iraqis against the United States. Additionally, there is confusion as to what a favorable result would be in Iraq, as both the military government and the rebels are anti-American, while the legitimate government is too weak to hold long term power. When Knowles returns to office, he is angry to discover that America is at war again in his name, but has no choice but to ramp up American involvement as the Iraqis continue to hit back harder. Both parties in Congress are divided on the issues and peace and war factions emerge once more. Democrats barely hold on in 2010 as peace and war candidates win in different areas. The liberal base of the party has turned against the war, while there is still majority support in the whole nation. The division between the four factions, which essentially become their own parties, destroy Knowles's presidency and turn him into an early lame duck.

After twelve years out of power, with two consecutive defeats for establishment candidates, the Republicans turn to a true outsider: cycling legend and Texas Governor Lance Armstrong. Armstrong has frequently been mentioned as a presidential candidate since he was first elected and his entry puts the other Republican candidates on the defensive. After sweeping the early primaries, Armstrong is left with only token oppositions and he ends up winning the primary despite the best efforts of the party. For balance, Armstrong selects moderate Minnesota Senator Norm Coleman as his running mate. Vice President Brown wins the Democratic nomination after fending off a challenge from Senator Carol Moseley Braun, running as the peace candidate, and selects New Hampshire Governor John Lynch as her running mate. The war is the dominant topic in the election. Armstrong maintains that the second intervention was a mistake while Brown is forced to defend it. In October, Armstrong is accused of doping, despite the fact that a previous investigation ended without any charges. Armstrong shockingly admits to doping in October and the effects on his candidacy appear to be minimal. It seems voters do not believe the doping will affect his capacity to serve as president and his candor is appreciated. Armstrong ends up winning the election and becoming the youngest president in history.

Armstrong's presidency so far has been a mixed bag. An investigation into his doping starts again in order to examine the extent of his usage and to uncover the full conspiracy. This investigation overshadows the rest of his presidency. He delivers on his promise to end involvement in Iraq and begins pulling troops out, but recent estimates indicate that full withdrawal will take another five years. Democrats take back the House in 2014 and stymie his efforts to undo the Watkins tax reform. By 2016, the investigation is over, but Armstrong has taken a hit in popularity, not because he was a bad president, but because his cycling victories have been delegitimized. Missouri Senator and former Governor Claire McCaskill wins the Democratic primaries and selects outgoing North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper as her running mate. Both candidates represent a type of Democrat that's more moderate and more in the mold of Knowles than McGovern, a type that's expanding the party in the south for the first time in decades. Currently, the polls show a dead heat between Armstrong and McCaskill.


Thats amazing! great stuff!
 
Prime Ministers of Canada:
1984-1988: Brian Mulroney (Progressive Conservative)
-84:
John Turner (Liberal), Ed Broadbent (New Democratic)
-88 (min): John Turner (Liberal), Ed Broadbent (New Democratic)

1988-1991: John Turner (Liberal)
1991-1994: Lucien Bouchard (Progressive Conservative, then Millennium)
-91:
John Turner (Liberal), Ed Broadbent (New Democratic), Preston Manning (Reform)
1994-2003: Stephen Lewis (New Democratic)
-94:
Paul Martin (Liberal), Lucien Bouchard (Millennium), John Crosbie (Progressive Conservative), Preston Manning (Reform)
-99 (min): Sheila Copps (Liberal), Gary Filmon (Progressive Conservative), Lucien Bouchard (Millennium), Deborah Grey (Reform)
-01 (min): Sheila Copps (Liberal), Gary Filmon (Progressive Conservative), Mario Dumont (Millennium), Deborah Grey (Reform)

2003-2004: Svend Robinson (New Democratic)
2004-2008: Roméo Dallaire (Liberal)
-04:
Svend Robinson (New Democratic), Scott Brison (Progressive Conservative), Mario Dumont (Millennium), Deborah Grey (Reform)
-08 (min): Gordon Earle (New Democratic), Mario Dumont (Canada's Future), Scott Brison (Progressive Conservative), Chuck Strahl (Reform)

2008-2010: Mario Dumont (Canada's Future)
2010-present: Christy Clark (Liberal)
-10:
Sid Ryan (New Democratic), Mario Dumont (Canada's Future), Jim Flaherty (Progressive Conservative), Chuck Strahl (Reform)
-14: Rick Hillier (Conservative), Sid Ryan (New Democratic), André Bachand (Canada's Future)
-18 (min): Rick Hillier (Conservative), Naomi Klein (New Democratic), André Bachand (Canada's Future)


Mulroney’s reduced to a minority in 1988, and Turner forms an anti-free trade government with supply and confidence from the NDP (a la Ontario 1985), lasting until 1991. He ignores calls to reform the constitution, realizing that it’s too much of a potential headache.

The PCs return to government with a majority in 1991 under the leadership of Lucien Bouchard, but his overwhelming concessions to Quebec in a series of constitutional negotiations split his party, who force him out as leader. Refusing to bow, Bouchard forms his own party, but this doesn’t last long as it immediately loses the confidence of the house and the government is sent to the polls in 1994. With the right split three ways and the Liberals somewhat unpopular (thanks to a right-leaning leader and an unpopular provincial government in Ontario), the NDP under Stephen Lewis is able to win a surprise majority government.

Governing with a good economy, the NDP is nevertheless reduced to a minority in 1999 and again in 2001, at which point Lewis opts to retire as Prime Minister and is succeeded by Svend Robinson. Robinson’s unabashed progressiveness alienates Canadians (though his outspoken opposition to the Iraq War proves popular), and he’s defeated by new Liberal leader Roméo Dallaire who returns his party to government with a majority. Dallaire proves to be a relatively popular Prime Minister, but nevertheless finds himself reduced to a minority in 2008 as a result of a sudden financial crisis and a surprise surge for Canada’s Future under the leadership of Mario Dumont. With the right-leaning parties combined having a plurality of seats, and the NDP (in a bit of leadership turmoil at the time, following party leader Gordon Earle’s slightly controversial decision to shift the party to the centre, and a series of losses out West) making it clear that they won’t support the Liberal government, the right-wing parties form a grand coalition and install Dumont as Prime Minister.

This quickly proves to be somewhat unworkable, with regional differences quickly becoming apparent and the government unable to deal with the economy as effectively as they initially expected. It doesn’t help things either that Canadians perceive them as stealing government from the popular Dallaire, and though polls indicate he’d likely be able to return to power he opts to retire, not loving opposition and not particularly enjoying his stint in politics anyway. Scott Brison resigns as PC leader, accepting the blame for the PCs falling behind Canada’s Future, and is succeeded by Jim Flaherty, who reneges on the coalition agreement and withdraws the PCs from government a year earlier (most of them anyway, with some opting to stay and continue to support Dumont). The government falls not long after and the Liberals return with a majority in the subsequent election under the leadership of the young, populist Christy Clark. Re-elected in 2014 with another majority despite the PCs and Reform having merged, Clark alienates the left over the course of her second term and is reduced to a minority in 2018 thanks to an NDP surge under new leader Naomi Klein, a prominent author, filmmaker, and the daughter in law of former Prime Minister Stephen Lewis.
 
Very cool idea @True Grit! Mine is far less impressive. This is a complete mess.

Prime Ministers of Canada:
James Macdonnell (Conservative) 1935-1946

1935 (maj.): Allison Dysart (National Liberal), Charles Bélec (New Democracy), J.S. Woodsworth (Socialist)
1939 (min.): Allison Dysart (National Liberal), Lionel Groulx (New Democracy),
J.S. Woodsworth (Socialist)
1941 (maj.): Allison Dysart (National Liberal), Lionel Groulx (New Democracy), J.S. Woodsworth (Socialist)
Eugene Forsey (National Liberal) 1946-1947
1946 (min.): James Macdonnell (Conservative), John Diefenbaker (New Democracy), Dorise Nielsen (Socialist)
James Macdonnell (Conservative) 1947-1951
1947 (maj.): Eugene Forsey (National Liberal), John Diefenbaker (New Democracy)
Ellen Fairclough (Conservative) 1951
Walter L. Gordon (National Liberal)
1951-1960
1951 (maj.): Ellen Fairclough (Conservative), John Diefenbaker (New Democracy)
1955 (maj.): Ellen Fairclough (Conservative), John Diefenbaker (New Democracy)

George Ignatieff (National Liberal) 1960
W. A. C. Bennett (Conservative) 1960-1970

60 (maj.): Stanley Fox (Provincial Rights), David Lewis (Progressive), Wally Downer (New Democracy), George Ignatieff (National Liberal)
64 (maj.): David Lewis (Progressive), Harry Strom (Provincial Rights), Michael Starr (New Democracy), Louis Robichaud (National Liberal)
67 (maj.): Ross Thatcher (United Canada), Harry Strom (Provincial Rights), Michael Starr (New Democracy), Eugene Forsey (National Liberal)

Donald Fleming (Conservative) 1970-1973
1971 (min.): Pierre Trudeau (Liberal), Harry Strom (Provincial Rights), Gordon Towers (New Democracy)
Pierre Trudeau (Liberal) 1973-1982
1973 (min.): Donald Fleming (Conservative), Harry Strom (Provincial Rights), Gordon Towers (New Democracy)
1975 (min.): Reuben Baetz (Conservative), Harry Strom (Provincial Rights), Gordon Towers (New Democracy), Daryl Seaman (Freedom)
1978 (maj.): Gordon Towers (New Democracy), Pierre Sévigny (Conservative), Harry Strom (Provincial Rights), Daryl Seaman (Freedom)

Brian Mulroney (Conservative) 1982-19??
1982 (maj.): Pierre Trudeau (Liberal), Ralph Raymond Loffmark (New Democracy), Harry Strom (Provincial Rights), Daryl Seaman (Freedom)
 
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