Alternate Electoral Maps

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JwEX

JwEX

So I played Campaign Trail as Ford in 1976 with the single goal of losing every state. So that's what I did. I picked John Connally as Ford's running mate and made Ford say all the wrong things in all the right places, and I lost every state. My best states were Utah, Alaska, Idaho and Wyoming. Carter's best were Arkansas and Georgia.
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Jimmy Carter(GA)/Walter Mondale(MN): 538 EV, 61.1% (49,480,297)
Gerald Ford(MI)/John Connally(TX): 0 EV, 36.4% (29,474,053)
 
Turquoise Blue

Turquoise Blue

TurkishCapybara said:
Here's a somewhat different U.S. political system than your typical parliament or bicameral congress.
(Still ironing out the kinks, and more just a musing than actually making a statement about the demographics of each area of the U.S.)

In this government, the legislature is composed of councils that are half executive department, half congressional committee, and without the sanctification of the party system found in other systems (no caucusing, no coalition building, ballots are distributed by political groups and not by the state, etc.). Each council has a set of topics it is allowed to make legislation upon, and various inter-council and regulatory bodies make sure that bills are introduced to every committee they are relevant to. The U.S. states are split up between ten regions of semi-similar populations, and each region distributes 5 seats on each council through the Jeffersonian method.

Due to the each council being based around a set of issues, single-issue, multi-issue, and big-tent political parties exist, with splitting one's ballot being common.

Here are the two councils focused on international affairs: the Security Council (Military, Intelligence, Police) and the Foreign Affairs Council (Treaties and Diplomacy). These two have fewer regionalist parties than the others, and are mostly dominated by the three big-tents parties:

Conservative Party - Your typical Center-Right political party. Pro-Military, Interventionist.
Center Party - Moderate/Center-Left, the important swing-vote in both Councils.
American Workers' Party - Pushes a bit more to the left in many fields than the conservatives do the right, but they are very similar to the conservatives in the Security Council when it comes to military affairs.

The following parties aren't found in all the councils, but can be found in both the Security Council and Foreign Affairs Council:

Eagle Party - The Nationalist, Jingoistic Right, they've been moving away from mainline Conservatives alongside gaining more support and the establishment right is a bit worried.
Dove Party - Once the main anti-Military, isolationist Party, they've been out of the limelight due to the Globalists and New Left alongside a more tumultuous global stage.

A singular party can only in the Foreign Affairs Council:

Globalists - Recent Breakaway from the Doves, they are pushing for making more of an impact on the world stage than their more isolationist brethren.

As well, there's one party than can only be found in the Security Council:

New Left - A Break-Away from the American Worker's Party due to the latter's Militarism, they're the Security Council's equivalent to the Globalists.

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Are you going to continue this? It is genuinely far more original than a lot of the stuff on here, and it would be a shame if it was just an one-shot.
 

Chairwoman Roxelana

Turquoise Blue said:
Are you going to continue this? It is genuinely far more original than a lot of the stuff on here, and it would be a shame if it was just an one-shot.
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I am, actually.

Who needs to fear the spoiler effect of third parties when ten parties are fighting for five seats?

The Judicial Council is in a very interesting position, for its power over the courts and law enforcement results in many different factions campaigning for seats, resulting in the big-tent parties frequently being pushed out by more focused, single-issue parties.

It also has the largest amount of parties campaigning for seats, at 10 parties of note.

(Once again, still a first draft)

On the farthest left there is Spectrum, representing the modern rights movements, especially on the coasts. It was once a faction of the more centrist Justice Party, which still remains the bastion of civil liberties in more conservative areas, especially focusing on racial issues, though the two have moved away as Spectrum pushes for more LGBT and Labor protection laws. The libertarian Freedom Party also votes on many an occasion with these two, though they break on business issues.

(Interesting to note: The polling data I pulled from the æther to make the map would unintentionally place the unified Spectrum-Justice-Progressive-Worker's-faction party as the largest party, with 18 Seats and at least one representative from every state except Texas.)


Of the big-tent parties, the American Workers' Party has been the most successful, especially after the the fracturing of the Justice Party. The party's main focus being on labor and business issues, the various delegations are allowed to basically make their own agendas when it comes to civil liberties, though they typically lean leftwards.

Center and the Conservatives, however, have not fared as well, with conflicting interests both internally and externally pulling anyone that isn't a complete moderate or establishment conservative to other causes. They only get 3 seats in the typical swing regions because of this.

The factions that would best represent the OTL mainstream Republican party are Business (An Inspiring name, I know) and Constitution, laissez-faire capitalists who are fairly moderate on social issues and traditionalist Christians who favor some regulation on big business respectively. While these groups do unite under other banners in various other councils (See: Foreign Affairs and Security Earlier), their different philosophies on the extent and purpose of government in regards to social and economic welfare push them apart in this council. In other councils, the right-wing populous are only represented by one of these two parties.

More recently there has been further splintering, as the more right-wing factions of the four aforementioned center-right parties have broken away to push interests previous considered to extreme for their party line, coinciding with the rise of more extremist figures.

Financial Crisis combined with anti-governmental zeal in some areas culminating in the formation of the Tea Party, which has focused on pushed minimalist, decentralized government and opposition to even the conservative and business large government policies.

Alongside the Tea Party is the very recent Great America party, which just became tied for largest party (alongside the American Workers' Party) in the council under the demagogic leadership of a certain businessman residing in New York. The Great America Party represents the social far right in a much more visible way than the Tea Party, and their rise to power has been fueled by the establishment conservative split between Business, Constitution, and the original Conservatives not being able to articulate different views without losing their core voters.

The Progressive Socialists, Grange, Meritocrats and the Green Party, while not contesting judicial seats in recent elections, do back and provide support for other candidates. Usually, the Progressive Socialists, Meritocrats and Green go towards Spectrum and Justice while Grange goes towards Constitution and the Conservatives, though times of crisis can result in stranger alliances emerging. All of these parties will be explained as they become relevant.

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That Jersey Guy

That Jersey Guy

That Jersey Guy said:
Just a little preview of my next maps. First is Nevada (even though It may appear that one candidate has won, lets just say its very close between two.)
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Building on this....

I'm almost halfway done with Super Tuesday. Virginia is giving me the biggest problem creating the map (damn you independent cities!) and I'm probably going to save it for last. Expect an infobox on the other forum thread as soon as I'm done. Anyways, here's the map:
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Green: Charlie Baker
Red: Ben Sasse
Blue: Nikki Haley
Purple: Cory Gardner
 

Tayya

That Jersey Guy said:
Building on this....

I'm almost halfway done with Super Tuesday. Virginia is giving me the biggest problem creating the map (damn you independent cities!) and I'm probably going to save it for last. Expect an infobox on the other forum thread as soon as I'm done. Anyways, here's the map:
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Green: Charlie Baker
Red: Ben Sasse
Blue: Nikki Haley
Purple: Cory Gardner
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Charlie Baker winning the Iron Range? Huh? Then again, no candidate is an excellent fit for the region.
 
Prussian1871

Prussian1871

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Rep. Davis Cameron (CON-OH) - 270 EV
Rep. Ed Lieberman (LAB-CT) - 213 EV
State Rep. Nicole Trout (CNP-CA) - 55 EV
UN Rep. Nigel Franklin (USIP-AZ) - 0 EV
Rep. Nicolas Clive (LIB-MA) - 0 EV​
 
Stuyvesant

Stuyvesant

Accompanying my latest wikibox:

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Calhoun/Scratch (Eternal Darkness): 231 EV 99.8% (666,666,666)
Webster/Clay (Anti-Demonic) 65 EV 0.2% (1,386,942)

John C. Calhoun sells his soul to the devil in exchange for the Presidency. In 1852 Daniel Webster challenged Calhoun for the Presidency to "Expunge Demonic Influence." He failed.
 
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