2010 US Presidential Election

[disputed]

politico.com, Friday February 12th

Republicans Narrow Majority To 1 In The House After Peters Defection

Texas Congressman John Peters has rocked the Democratic Party this morning by announcing that he is switching parties and endorsing Republican Glen Walken for President.

Peters, who represents the Republican leaning 12th District and was facing a tough re election battle this November – his announcement was immediately followed by the withdrawal of Republican candidate Sarah Lewyer from the race – and said he “had not taken the decision lightly.”

Congressman Peters all used the opportunity to take a shot at President Santos saying “like many other public figures I came out of the 2006 election hoping for a new spirit of bi-partisanship and renewed vigor in our leadership – I, like many others, have been thoroughly disappointed by what I’ve seen.”

The Democratic leadership immediately set out to paint Peters as an opportunist. A spokesman for speaker Mark Sellner said “It’s fairly clear that Congressman Peters felt he couldn’t hold to his principles, and that he believes his electoral prospects look brighter on the other side. It’s impossible to see it as anything other than an opportunistic move.”

Jane Braun, Glen Walken’s political director, welcomed the move saying “It shows just how much momentum President Walken has. People of all outlooks are coming over to our side and are demanding a new approach to politics and to tackling America’s problems.”

The defection presents a wider problems for the Democrats – it effectively hands control of the House to the Republicans, as whilst they maintain a 1 vote majority, that depends on them maintaining the support of three of the four independents in the House – one of whom is maverick Georgian Congressman Stoker Hanson who has voted with them only 60% of the time. That coupled with two long term absentees will make the last few months of this Congress a constant battle.

 

[Jay Cruger]

politicalbios.com
Ghosts of 1998

The untold candidacy of Ron Avery



Before Bartlet was shot into office, the media focus was on five candidates, but Ron Avery, Mayor of Ithaca, New York, was a sixth candidate, the media did not report on.

During the 1998 Conference of Mayors, The New York Post Reported, Ron Avery, as candidate who truly understands the issues of the campaign. None of the networks mentioned Avery's presence at the 1998 Democratic National Convention. One of the network men had to run over to a 7Eleven to buy make-up, since the network did not provide it. When he appeared at a forum for Democratic Candidates, the association cropped Avery out of the photo of an issue of the Chicago Tribune.

fIGURE 1
During the New Hampshire Primary, the TV News Reported the Polling of Top 5 Candidates in the Primary, Bartlet,Hoynes, Wiley, Gregg, and Norman. When Avery ran at a three way tie with Gregg and Norman most of the media did not report him.

NEW HAMPSHIRE DEMOCRATS
BARTLET
HOYNES
WILEY
GREGG
NORMAN​

Figure 2

Although, Avery did poll into a 4% lead passing Norman, the CBS Evening News simply deleted his name fromthe roll.Avery was on the ballott in half the country but was still being barred from the debates. The Networks cited, "he did not have enough media credentials to enter".

The Democratic Party refused include him in the debates or to talk to the networks on Avery's behalf. Without any debates or media exposure Avery's campaign quickly lost moentum.

 

[Marky Bunny]

Saturday February 13th​

Franks says Sullivan should stay in race because of Walkens heath
Governor Ray Sullivan's Chief spokesman Dan Franks today caused a storm by suggesting in an interview with Fox News to be broadcast Sunday that Sullivan should not withdraw for the race because "anything can happen in race like this espically when the other guy as a history of poor health".
The Walken campaign hit back, Jane Braun saying "Dan's comments are totally outrangerous, and wrong. Glen has released all his private medical records to the voters. He is in good health. It just shows how desperate they are getting".
We understand that Colt Merchant Sullivan's campaign Manager is said to be furious with Franks and the comments.​

 

[Marky Bunny]

politico.com
Sunday February 14th
Sullivan team seem to be in free-fall
The wheels have seemed to come off Governor Sullivans campaign. Despite there situation in delegates , they have been saying of course they can still can come back and win. Then yesterday spokesman Dan Franks told Fox News that Walken had a bad health history and was likely to fall over dead at any minute.
We understand from sources that Campaign Manager Colt Merchant and Franks had to be pulled apart after the interview.
Now Merchant has launched into a bitter attack on the media claming that "You lot have sold voters that this race is over and Walken is the nominee, well he f**cking isnt yet".
And then within minutes Merchant has demanded a final one on one debate between Sullivan and Walken before Mini-Tuesday on March 2nd.
He belives that would have to be a game changer debate, hoping for a massive error from Walken or a performance from Sullivan that changes the race eg Bartlet V Ritchie eight years ago.
The clash between Merchant and Franks seems to have come after months of tension between the two men and there own staffs. To us it looks like that Sullivan's bid for the White House is falling apart in-front of him and the american people.

 

[Marky Bunny]

Ben Sliney as Colt Merchant

William Russ as Dan Franks

 

[Marky Bunny]

Geoffrey Pierson as Vice-President Wendell Tripplehorn

 

[Jay Cruger]

politicalbios.com

Lewis David Eisenhower

Lewis David Eisenhower (Born March 1, 1944)was born in Columbus,Ohio to Marie and Daniel David Eisenhower. He is a distant nephew of former President Dwight David Eisenhower. Eisenhower spent most of his youth in Ohio, and he graduated from Belmont High in Dayton, Ohio, in 1960. He then matriculated into Ohio State University, where he received his B.A. in Political Science in 1964.

Lewis Eisenhower's public service began in July 1970 when he became translator and speechwriter for the Spanish delegation in New York City at the U.N. . Later that year, he became an assistant to the U.S. Ambassador to Greece.

In 1972, he was elected to the Ohio State Senate, and took various trips to different countries in the eastern world. In 1974, he decided to run for Mayor of Columbus, losing to James Harper, a Democrat from his district. In 1975, he was appointed to serve out the term of his brother Roger, who had died of complications from pnuemonia. He won the special election later that year for the House election unopposed. He served on the House Foreign Relations Committee, and was sent on various missions to the leaders of Japan, China and Russia. In 1980, he re won his district in an overwhelming victory, of 72% of the vote.

In 1982, he was tapped to replace Alexander Haig as Secretary of State, under President Reagan, he effectively lost that job in 1987, with the election of Democrat D. Wire Newman. He then returned to see that, in his words, his home district was in "government disarray", and in 1988, ran for his House Seat once again, won, in the hopes of becoming Speaker of the House some day.

1n 1990 Eisenhower decided to perform on a much higher stage in announcing his candidacy for Presidency of the United States. Eisenhower, was victorious in the lead-off Iowa Caucus, but gradually lost momentum, to popular conservative Owen Lassiter. He was vetted to be Vice President at the 1990 Republican National Convention, amidst rumors that Lassiter would chose Joseph Furman as his running mate. The Lassiter-Eisenhower ticket, won a landslide victory over D. Wire Newman and Roland Pierce.

Eisenhower was considered effective bu slightly too middle-roads for the Lassiter administration. He made matters difficult by referring to the Iraqi Leader Saddam Hussein as Adolf Hitler. He made a terrible blunder, in 1992 when he spilled wine on the shirt of the Chinese Premier, and later had to apologize for it publicly. Most of the Republican Leadership considered choosing another running mate for Lassiter in 1994. However, Eisenhower proved himself by addressing newly reformed Russia, with it power struggle, and its impending Chechnya conflict. Eisenhower was the first Vice President to visit Russia in the post-Soviet era, earning him the fron page. In 1994 Eisenhower was embarassed at the public debate, with Barry Goodwin, by calling himself, "a type of Jack Kennedy figure", to which Barry Goodwin shot back "Mr. Vice President, you are no Jack Kennedy". Still Lassiter and Eisenhower were reelected.

In 1998, Eisenhower faced a contest for President of the United States, once again. Georgia Governor Caleb Burgess, contested the nomination of Eisenhower, and Burgess surprisingly beat him in the Iowa Caucus, and other Caucuses but dropped out for poor showing on Super Tuesday. After clinching the nomination, Eisenhower chose Alabama Senator Robert Bennett, to be his running mate. From there Eisenhower assumed he would be running against John Hoynes, a seemingly unreal candidiate, and the image he wanted to run an easy campaign against. His numbers were just as good when New Hampshire Governor Josiah Bartlet won the Democratic Nomination. Until the third and final debate with Bartlet, he had a decent lead in the polls. Despite winning some big states on election night Jed Bartlet defeated him 303-235 Electoral Votes, at a 48%- 45% margin, 6% went to Independent Jim Buckner.

After this defeat, he was thought of as a possible for the 2002 Election, he decided against it and instead endorsed Jim Simon for president, and then endorsed Robert Ritchie for President, when Simon dropped out.

Eisenhower refused to comment on President Bartlet's disclosure of Multiple Sclerosis, neither in public nor in his book, The American Way. He did feel however, that "Bartlet hurt alot of people that way". Eisenhower retired, in 2008 and moved to New York to retire upstate, he did however, in 2009 endorse Jesse Crase for Mayor of New York City.

He lives with his wife Lana, and has four kids Jonathan, Lewis, Mark and Renay.

 

[Tim Thomason]

Who is this Peter Manchester?

Peter Manchester is some mysterious message board poster in the West Wing Universe. If I had to guess, he's probably a Roman Catholic (St. Peter) from New Hampshire (Manchester, specifically). Not sure who that could be, but apparently he focuses more on overseas politics than American, perhaps after growing tired of dealing with American politicians. His focus on the UK makes me think he spent some time abroad, perhaps attending university there.

Anyway, here's some of my top news stories of the day (other than the good ones posted by others):

capitolzone.com
First Lady Helen Santos Topless Images Released On Net
Posted Feb 15th 2010 12:34AM by CapitolZone Staff

Last June, following a famed interview with CBS anchor Mara Ferrigno, President Santos and his family took a brief week-long vacation to France. Apparently, at some point during the trip, under heavy guard, Mrs. Santos took the opportunity to do a little sunbathing. She also, apparently, forgot her bikini top.

Although she was at the famed secluded beach at Belle-île-en Mer, some unnamed enterprising papparazzo was able to snap at least five images of the First Lady lying down on the beach. At least three Secret Service agents are seen in the images, although the President and her children are presumably elsewhere.

The images surfaced on the internet just yesterday, and the White House has yet to comment publicly on this issue, releasing a statement to one news network that this is a "private issue" and the images were taken "without consent" (well, duh). No word on whether this constitues a Secret Service mishap (luckily he had a camera and not, say, a sniper rifle), although long-term Secret Service Director Ron Butterfield may want to work on his resignation skills.

NSFW images after the link

Based on TMZ posts and such. I decided against linking to any of Teri Polo's old Playboy pics for both copyright and family-friendly reasons.

President2010.com
Campaign Stickers For Sale
Report posted February 15, 2010

List of top Campaign Stickers by Candidate for 2010:

• Walken - 695,256
  • Walken / Sullivan - 29,123
  • Walken / Lassiter - 13,058
  • Walken / Blakemore - 5,399
• Sullivan - 632,003
  • Sullivan / Blakemore - 8,329
  • Sullivan / Walken - 8,205
• Vinick - 135,025
• Santos - 132,357
  • Santos / Tripplehorn - 38,192
  • Santos / Baker - 5,129
  • Santos / Hoynes - 1,203
  • Santos / Berryhill - 1,111
• Alexander - 96,203

The numbers are totally top of my head (do they make any sense?). They're supposed to be sold in the entire year of 2010 (January 1 - February 10th or so), so if I forgot anyone important, please notify, and I will update it to be more realistic. Alot of them aren't in the running (obviously), but are intended to show where people's feelings lie, e.g. the Vinick Repubs who don't like Walken or Sullivan still ordering Vinick stickers and the Alexander guys as well.

The New York Times
February 15, 2010
West Wing to Undergo Construction

In the first major White House construction since the Newman administration, the entire West Wing of the White House is to be rebuilt, with new walls, floors, and ceiling panels. To those of you unfamiliar with the layout of the Presidential Mansion, the West Wing is the area reserved for the Executive Office of the President, and includes the Press Briefing Room as well as the famed Oval Office.

The funding was set aside in the 2009 budget, and according to White House Press Secretary Maria Lopez, the renovations are slated to occur over an expedited three-month process by architectural firm AIK Washington. According to Chief of Staff Nate Singer, the White House plans to work around the renovations for the first month-and-a-half, and then for most of the offices to be temporarily moved to the Old Executive Office Building across the street from the White House.

The intention of AIK Washington is not to drastically change the floorplan, and they will keep as much of the original boarding as possible on the Oval Office. However, the rest of the office will be completely compatible for an advanced CIA-approved wireless networking system, and adjustible for future administrations. This will also be the first visible change to the Oval Office since the Lassiter Administration, where it first adopted its blue carpeting and furniture pattern (Bartlet and Santos both retained the Lassiter design).

Well, we can imagine comic hilarity occurring at the West Wing amongst the current cast of unknowns they have working there.

Washington Post, February 15, 2010
Justice Mendoza Under Fire for Political Statements

Supreme Court Justice Roberto Mendoza, at a UCLA seminar Saturday, is under criticism for a brief statement he made. When answering question on Supreme Court nominee Edward Appleton's qualifications for the position, Mendoza, who supports Appleton, mentioned that he was a Democrat.

Here is the exact quote:

STUDENT: "Mr. Justice, what qualifications do you feel Judge [sic] Appleton brings to the Supreme Court, and what is he lacking?"​

MENDOZA: "That's an interesting question. I have had the opportunity to meet Justice Appleton on multiple occassions [...] I also feel, even as a Democrat, that Justice Appleton's supposed centrist views are needed on the Court, especially in Henry Clark's seat. Clark had conflicting conservative and some liberal views and [...]"​

Although not immediately caught at the event, the statement "as a Democrat" has been jumped on by some conservative pundits, who have stated it is against the tradition and of non-partisan Justices. It is a taboo for Justices (and many Judges in general) to be publicly affiliated with a political party (at least during their time on the bench), and Mendoza has incidentally broken this taboo.

When reached for comment, Mendoza's aides called it a "slip of the tongue." Mendoza was appointed by Democratic President Josiah Bartlet ten years ago, and narrowly made it through the Republican-controlled confirmation hearings. Mendoza has been criticized following his confirmation for being too centrist or conservative himself, often going against his former record as a New York District Judge.

I'm interested in how the Appleton story is progressing, given we haven't heard anything since December. I guess they can't afford the big bucks to have Kevin Costner appear in too many episodes.

pbs.com
February 15, 2010
Cornelius Sykes to retrieve Mark Twain Prize for American Humor

Famed comedian Cornelius "Corey" Sykes has been announced as this years winner of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. The ceremony, which will be performed this summer at the Kennedy Center, will by tradition be attended by President Santos and the First Lady, as well as much of the Washington, DC establishment.

Sykes, an LA-based comedian and film star, is the first comedian of the "modern school" to be so honored. Sykes has received controversy in the past for his use of profanity and obscene jokes within his act, and has promised not to "curb his humor for the President." Others humorists who have been awarded the prize include Bill Cosby, George Carlin and Wes Mendell.

C.J. Cregg is probably not invited.

 

[Tim Thomason]

Christian Clemenson as Dan Franks

I hate to bring this up, but when I originally mentioned Dan Franks last year, I intended it to be William Russ' character, Dan, from the Vinick Campaign (as can be seen here)

Of course, William Russ might've been busy on some other project, so recasting was necessary.

 

[Marky Bunny]

Yeah my error, I will change, and Tim great to have you back on the team...

 

[disputed]

politico.com, Monday February 15th

Grissom and Royce see “No Obstacle To Appleton Confirmation”

The Senate Majority and Minority leaders have held a joint press conference this afternoon where they have both stated that they see no reason why the confirmation of Florida Supreme Court Justice Edward Appleton to the vacant seat to the Supreme Court would not proceed.

Grissom told reporters that he felt the Democratic Caucus would vote overwhelmingly for Appleton – though he would not answer questions over whether it would be a unanimous vote. The minority leader is believed to be struggling to convince Oregon Senator Ricky Rafferty, Hawaii Senator Joanne White and Massachusetts Senator Stephen Wilson to vote in favor of the President’s nominee.

Majority Leader Robert Royce on the other hand said he expected strong support for Appleton saying that “there are members of the caucus with specific concerns, I’ve told them they need to vote with their principles and conscience. I don’t see this as an obstacle by any means.”

With the hearings due to end on Friday, it’s expected that Royce will call for a vote at sometime next week, however the Pennsylvania Senator would neither confirm nor deny.

 

[Marky Bunny]

Monday February 15th
Walken "Happy for debate"
Glen Walken told reporters in Raleigh, North Carloina today where he is campaigning ahead of the states election on March 2nd that he is "happy for a one on one debate with Governor Sullivan".
This comes after Sullivan's Campaign Manager Colt Merchant said that must be a one on one debate between the two men before the seven state "Mini-Tuesday" two weeks tomorrow.

 

[disputed]

townhall.com, Monday February 15th

Senior Republicans Travel To Meet Sullivan

A group of senior Republicans is believed to be en-route to West Virginia in an attempt to talk Governor Ray Sullivan out of his apparent debate challenge to the party’s prospective nominee Glen Walken.

The delegation, made up of Florida Senator Rafe Framhagen, former Georgia Governor Caleb Burgess and former Lassiter advisor Bob Harlan are rumored to have boarded a plane in Virginia this morning and hope to convince the 2006 Vice-Presidential nominee to announce that he will not seek a further debate with Walken ahead of his make or break bid to snatch the nomination on March 2nd.

A source close to Governor Burgess said “The party has asked three of it’s heavyweights to try to make Sullivan see sense. He’s not only damaging his own future prospects but he’s risking our chances in November by splitting the party.”

The Walken camp said they were “unaware” of any such move, and re-iterated the former acting President’s stance that he was fully prepared for a further debate with Sullivan.

 

[Alexander Hamilton]

Chicago Tribune, February 15, 2010

Vinick Speaks at McGarry Lecture

Secretary of State Arnold Vinick delivered the second annual Leo McGarry Memorial Lecture at Norhwestern Law School on Sunday evening before a large audience of moves and shakers from the political, legal and financial world.
Introduced by Annabeth Schott, the host of CBNC's "Money Talks", the Secretary of State gave a brief update on the status of the Gaza talks saying that a Palestinian decision to accept a two state solution and "live in peace with its neighbor" has opened the door to a real solution but that much hard work on the details of borders, security guarantees and economic ties remains to be done.
The main topic of the Secretary's talk however was on "the uses and misuses of bipartisanship". Relating several humorous and instructive stories about his long running relationship with Leo McGarry through the Wireman, Lassiter and Bartlett Adminstrations and how Leo embodied the ability to "diasagree without being disagreeable" Secretary Vinick said that bipartisanship was not forcing the other side to agree with your position but trying to find common ground. He commented somewhat dryly that "common ground was some of the least occupied real estate in Washington."
Secretary Vinick thanked Former Acting President Walken for his public support of the Santos Administration's efforts to negotiate settlements in the Middle East and in Kazakastan, but refused to comment further on Presidential politics except for one humourous comment about former Senator Fuller. Saying that Senator Fuller had been one of the first people to suggest that he run for President and one of his closest advisors during the 2006 campaign but had been "the first and loudest person telling me not to accept the President's offer to become Secretary of State", Secretary Vinick said that "the jury is still out on which time Hawk was right".

A full transcript of the McGarry Lecture can be found on the Tribune's website.

 

[Marky Bunny]

Brian Dehnny as Senior Florida Senator Rafe Framhagen

Gene Hackman as Former Georgia Governor Celeb Burgess

Ronny Cox as Former Senior Lassiter advisor Bob Harlan

 

[Tim Thomason]

Gene Hackman as Former Georgia Governor Celeb Burgess

Gene Hackman! Wow, between Hackman, Costner, Bates and Pacino, we sure are spending alot of imaginary money on big name movie stars.

Here's a little something I got from one of those user-edited websites (<s>and yes, I'm a little sad that Karl Malden replaced my choice of Kirk Douglas, but oh well</s> NM, I had to recast him anyway):

 

[Marky Bunny]

There is major continuity error in having Karl Malden as Furman in that Malden was a guest star in the Series One epsiode Take This Sabbath Day when he played Bartlets Family preist.
I am about to right reviews of the elections with full results from 86 to 98.
It certainly helps.
Also I have and it has been mentioned elsewhere piearce was from Mass not Maine.

 

[disputed]

View From The Beltway

Political Blog by Stevie Richardson

Don’t know if anyone has come across this fascinating fly on the wall report coming from out of the Walken camp. David Barrett, of fledgling online political newspaper The Landscape, is travelling with the former acting President’s campaign and has logged this latest report from Indiana:

The campaign headquarters just outside Indianapolis has a real Jekyl and Hyde feel to it. Today it’s very much in Hyde mode. The candidate is in town and touring local schools and the office is, as a result at fever pitch.

Walken’s entourage arrive not long before 11am, the former acting President’s impact on the locals can’t be understated. For what seems like an eternity he greets and chats with every person who crosses his path and a generally jovial mood prevails.

It’s becoming pretty much a cliché that the candidate arrives, spends far too long speaking to his junior staffers and things fall behind. The job of keeping things on track is now the role of Daniel Kline, the 32 year old who is for all intents and purposes now Chief of Staff to Walken’s campaign manager Anne Stark. Kline announces Walken’s schedule to everyone in earshot – and quite a few who weren’t – and a sudden buzz emerges as the key players gather in the conference room. The “conference room” in question is in fact an unused office left over from the previous tenants – Malford’s Chicken Emporium.

What has become known as the midday war room kicks off with most of Walken’s senior team present: Stark, Kline, Indiana Senator Rob O’Rourke, Press Secretary Julian Barter and Communications Director Simon O’Connor. I manage to gather from Stark’s comments that Jane Braun is in Washington and Steve Atwood is in Texas meeting with key supporters.

The agenda and message for the day is pretty clear, Stark tells everyone that all they talk about in Indiana is jobs and the economy. She insists to everyone “Governor Sullivan is not the target. We’re talking about the current administration, not the last one in West Virginia.”

The meeting wraps up suddenly with O’Connor interjecting and announcing that they are “late for the Governor” and in a whirlwind of activity they set off for the door.

The first meeting of the afternoon is with Indiana Governor Stephen Kendrick who greets Walken, Stark and O’Rourke outside the state house, allowing for an open discussion with a select group of local and national reporters. Kendrick talks up Walken and says “There is no doubt in my mind that Glenn Walken should be the next President of the United States.”

After the meeting with the Governor, the smaller group of Walken, Stark and O’Connor head off to what Walken describes as “one of the perks of running for President” – a meeting with the defeated Superbowl contending Indianapolis Colts. The man who stepped into the Oval Office during the Zoe Bartlet crisis is reduced to little more than an excited kid as he asks Stark to “make sure we get a photo with Peyton Manning.”

The meeting takes at the Indianapolis Colts Training Facility on west 56th street and Walken is clearly thrilled to meet Manning, Head Coach Jim Caldwell and Tight End Dallas Clark but he’s able to hold himself together to offer the standard politicians commiserations following the Superbowl defeat they’d suffered just a few days before.

Stark manages to get things back on track as they return to the motorcade informing Walken of comments made by Nate Singer, President Santos’ Chief of Staff has made criticizing his time as Speaker. “You’ve gotta love Nate! He worked with me on quite a few things – dig out a few old quotes, shouldn’t be difficult.”

After a quick hot dog stop (Walken sticks to his tuna salad, bemoaning that he “really misses hot dogs”) they head on for a meeting with local supporters at the home of District Champion Emily Danforth. Stark and O’Connor take advantage of Ms. Danforth’s generous spread and are sipping on beers while Walken answers questions from the attendees. The meeting is brought to an end with the arrival of Kline who announces they need to get back on the road, as they have one more stop before they head to the airport.

The final stop is at a local homeless refuge, where former Speaker of the House chats with patrons as he and his team help to serve the food. The clock ticks past 10pm as they leave the refuge headed for a flight to North Carolina where they can start all over.

I’m amazed to see Walken bounding out to the motorcade looking as it’s 10 in the morning, not heading towards the end of the day. Stark takes a call, apparently from Jane Braun, and she suddenly announces they’ll call back from the plane to discuss the latest news from the Appleton hearings. We board what’s been dubbed Glen Force One (an Airbus 320 that has been serving as the campaign plane) shortly after 11pm and we’re in the air twenty minutes later.

After an hour in the air, and a rush through the airport we finally reach our hotel at 2.18am. Walken tells everyone to get some sleep and confirms with Stark that they’ll meet at 6.30 in the morning. I’m left to sigh, neck a whiskey and head off to bed.

 

[Tim Thomason]

There is major continuity error in having Karl Malden as Furman in that Malden was a guest star in the Series One epsiode Take This Sabbath Day when he played Bartlets Family preist.

Right-oh. I can't believe I forgot that, especially since I alluded to Furman being close to his own minister.

I guess I can go with Kirk Douglas afterall.

I am about to right reviews of the elections with full results from 86 to 98. It certainly helps.

I recall, that's why I tried to leave as few details, with regards to states won and electoral count as it is, as I'm about as good as a common chimpanzee at that stuff. Hopefully my delegate count makes sense (based in part on recounting the number from the '88 RNC).

Also I have and it has been mentioned elsewhere piearce was from Mass not Maine.

The continuity error begins elsewhere with regards to Pierce's origin. I know disputed has him as Maine on his big list of all Senators and Governors (457 based on President_Gore's 453), which stem from me in one of my early news clippings (87). However, he was also listed as a Massachusetts Senator by you in a news clipping (413, later supported by disputed's 672) and Jay Cruger in D. Wire Newman's biography (1220). I didn't spot your mention by I did notice Cruger's.

Since this continuity is nebulous (like Franklin Richards turning into Franklin Eisenhower turning into Lewis David Eisenhower), I guess Pierce is a Massachusetts man from now on (especially since, following his January '09 retirement, that list is incorrect. I'll be changing the article soon to upload Kirk Douglas images, change at least one state around, and probably remove my name from the "Find a Grave" listing on the bottom (that chilled me!).

 

[Marky Bunny]

Team Walken
James Van Der Beek as Anne Stark's Chief of Staff Daniel Kline

Christian Clemenson as Communications Director Simon O'Connor

David Alan Basche as Press Secretary Julian Barter