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Why would the IOC give the Summer Olympics to apartheid South Africa of all places?

But why? The apparatus was with the PRI as an institution, and I can't see Portillo's Independent candidacy garnering enough support among PRI members to seriously galvanize it.

Desmond O'Malley: a senior Fianna Fáil Cabinet minister in the 1970s and 1980s, O'Malley was on the more classical liberal side of the party, something that put him at ends with Taioseach and Fianna Fáil leader Charles Haughey. After mooting a challenge to Haughey for the leadership of the party...

Re-reading the Mexico update and why didn't the PRI rig the election if they were actually threatened like in 1988?

Wish I knew more about this time period to comment.

There was some concern that Social Credit could overtake the PCs as Canada's main right-wing party before Dief took the reins in the 1950s, if they had actually gotten in power they would have governed as right-wing populists and probably not even touch Social Credit economic theories.

So here's a map of the last gubernatorial election in West Virginia. To start, West Virginia's economy is mostly built around coal, with the state having the most coal production east of the Mississippi River and one-tenth of America's total coal reserves. While a large labor union force built...

Has he shifted to the right like OTL or has he remained a liberal Republican in the mold of John Sherman Cooper?

No but I'm just curious as to how he got this far at such a young age.

Hi, I'm just curious about how this happened and I was wondering if you saw this earlier.

NDP all the way.

Marco Rubio wouldn't run as an Independent.

Would he really defect to UKIP in 1997?

what

I really like that picture you used for McGovern.

@lord caedus, I've never watched Star Trek aside from a few episodes of TNG but those look really cool.

Walker/Mallott wouldn't be able to win Alaska's electoral votes

Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas was one of the founders of the Party of Democratic Revolution (PRD) in Mexico and was the son of prominent Mexican leader Lazaro Cardenas, serving as his father's aide during his political career. A member of the Party of Institutional Revolution (PRI) from his youth...

[*JOH BJELKE-PETERSEN IS LAUGHING MANIACALLY*]

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