A Democratic nominee from Indiana? Preposterous! The Democratic nominee should've been from New York instead! The Democrat's always from New York, the Republican's always from Ohio. Thus is the natural order of things.
A Democratic nominee from Indiana? Preposterous! The Democratic nominee should've been from New York instead! The Democrat's always from New York, the Republican's always from Ohio. Thus is the natural order of things.
Presenting: the Eternal Gilded Age.
I was originally going to put Andrew Cuomo as the Democratic nominee, but he's a filthy papist, so it wouldn't hold true to an eternal Gilded Age.
In a basement somewhere in Florida, a teenager just came for no apparent reason.
Chuck Schumer? He might pass. Just might. I'm not sure how anti-semitic Gilded Age voters were.
Nice work!Presenting: the Eternal Gilded Age.
There was a veep candidate from New York, though, fulfilling the requirement that all Gilded Age elections have someone from New York and someone from Ohio.A Democratic nominee from Indiana? Preposterous! The Democratic nominee should've been from New York instead! The Democrat's always from New York, the Republican's always from Ohio. Thus is the natural order of things.
There was a veep candidate from New York, though, fulfilling the requirement that all Gilded Age elections have someone from New York and someone from Ohio.
Between 1876 and 1948, or 19 US Presidential Elections, in all but three elections had Governors of New York win electoral votes either as a Presidential candidate or VP. Since then, no New York Governor has received electoral votes in any way
Here's a new Wikibox challenge: try to replicate a political landscape from your country's past with modern politicians.
Here's a new Wikibox challenge: try to replicate a political landscape from your country's past with modern politicians.
I call this the Eternal Eighteenth Century. Of course, I've been selective in what I've carried over: there are female and Catholic leaders, but at the same time there's a heavily restricted franchise, lots of unopposed elections and seven-year parliamentary terms.
Nice work!
I yield. It would only end in some Southerner scolding me for listing Eskil Erlandsson as a Cat and not a Hap, or something.
Cat? Hap?
I yield. It would only end in some Southerner scolding me for listing Eskil Erlandsson as a Cat and not a Hap, or something.
Or maybe even the Toupée Party - one never knows.
You could have guessed. What was the Whigs' main reason for existence?Thanks! I was originally going to do "Whigs vs. Democrats" but way too many states weren't in the Union by the time the Whigs collapsed so I couldn't draw upon their OTL electoral tendencies to formulate a map/results.
You could have guessed. What was the Whigs' main reason for existence?
You could have guessed. What was the Whigs' main reason for existence?
Tariffs, tariffs, personal dislike of Andrew Jackson, a central bank and tariffs.
Hmm... Sounds like they would end up the party favored by labor and poor farmers. What with central banks and protectionism.Tariffs, tariffs, personal dislike of Andrew Jackson, a central bank and tariffs.
Hmm... Sounds like they would end up the party favored by labor and poor farmers. What with central banks and protectionism.
That's true. I guess the whole of the Western states apart from California (swing?) and Hawaii would be Democratic, then. They're rural after all.Except, you know, historically in the US, farmers have hated protectionism, and among Southern populists in particular tariffs were pure evil (look up Sam Rayburn's views on the matter, the guy seems to have genuinely believed that the Republican tariffs in the 1920s was something that had just been put up to deliberately screw over poor Southern farmers). Plus, at the time in the 1830s, Andrew Jackson was generally considered to be a populist who had massive support from the less well off, not in spite of, but because of his opposition to central banking. Central banking was seen as this elitist scheme of the aristocracy and wealthy by many, and consequently, Jackson's decision to get rid of the Second Bank was actually very popular.
General Emerson Lamont
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