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The Long National Nightmare
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The 1972 Presidential election campaign was seemingly turned on it's head by events north of the border in Ottawa, Canada. On 13th April, 1972 while the President's motorcade sped past a crowd of anti-war and Quebecois nationalist protesters, several loud shots rang out from the crowd, leaving the most powerful man in the world injured. Nixon, as was thought at the time, had not been seriously injured - though his injuries ensured that he was kept in hospital for several weeks. His assailant was arrested not long after the assassination attempt; and was revealed to be twenty-one year old Milwaukee janitor/busboy, Arthur Bremer. Bremer had begun writing a diary just over a month prior, beginning with the words: "It is my personal plan to assassinate by pistol either Richard Nixon or George Wallace. I intend to shoot one or the other while he attends a campaign rally for the Wisconsin Primary. How will the news associations describe me? An unemployed painter? An unemployed part-time busboy? A colledge (still can’t spell it) drop-out? ... I have it. “An unemployed malcontent who fancys himself a writer.” Bremer's purpose was "to do SOMETHING BOLD AND DRAMATIC, FORCEFUL & DYNAMIC, A STATEMENT of my manhood for the world to see." Bremer would by the year's end be imprisoned for the attempted assassination of the President; for life, without the possibility of parole. Due to Nixon's incapacitation until early-mid May, 1972; his chief primary opponents, the arch-conservative Congressman from Ohio, John Ashbrook; and the liberal anti-war Congressman from California, Pete McCloskey - both started to perform 'drastically' better in the primaries - McCloskey hitting over 15% in Massachusetts; while Ashbrook scored over 5% in the north-eastern state, with his 'No left turns' campaign against détente with 'Red China.' Once Nixon was given the all clear and was released back onto the campaign trail; his victory - as expected before - was never in doubt. At the Republican National Convention, once again at Miami Beach, Florida - where Nixon won all but three delegates (two for McCloskey, one for Ashbrook.) Spiro Agnew was re-nominated for vice president with 1,345 votes, against one vote for television journalist David Brinkley and two abstentions. The NBC network, for which Brinkley worked, had some "Brinkley for Vice President" buttons made, which the news team wore as a joke. [1]
The Democratic Primaries in comparison were in comparison - chaotic. Over a dozen candidates including the likes of the conservative Los Angeles Mayor, Sam Yorty, the liberal (and Republican defector) New York Mayor, John Lindsay, black Congresswoman from New York, Shirley Chisholm, former Minnesota Senator Eugene McCarthy, Congressman Wilbur Mills of Arkansas, hawkish Washington Senator, Henry M. 'Scoop' Jackson. The frontrunners of the race were however, former Vice President, 1968 Democratic Presidential nominee and once again Senator for Minnesota Hubert Humphrey, the 'reformed' populist Governor of Alabama, George Wallace, the liberal anti-war South Dakota Senator George McGovern and the 1968 Vice Presidential nominee and Senator from Maine - Ed Muskie.
By early mid March, Muskie's campaign was effective done for. After the release of the (forged) 'Canuck Letter' (where Muskie was alleged to have slandered the French-Americans of New England - calling them 'Canucks'); his 'crying episode' in the snow in New Hampshire while refuting the accusations in the letter and his 'Sunshine Special' disaster in Florida - effectively meant his campaign was done for (despite a landslide victory in Illinois on the 21st of that month; by around a 25% margin over Eugene McCarthy.) By April another campaign appeared to be faltering - that of George McGovern. In Bremer's apartment, various pieces of McGovern campaign literature, badges and banners - seemingly linking the would-be assassin of the President, to the McGovern campaign. [2] Various parts of the press declared open season on McGovern; seemingly ignoring the fact that Bremer had been seen at several Wallace campaign rallies; the fact that Bremer wrote he wished to assassinate either Nixon or Wallace in his diary - seemed to lead to a rise in Wallace's poll numbers.
In Wisconsin, Bremer's home state, Wallace scored a solid victory over Humphrey and McGovern. McGovern meanwhile barely won Idaho over Muskie and lost the Vermont primary to the Maine Senator by a slender margin. The final nail in the McGovern campaign occurred in Pennsylvania; Humphrey won the state with a rather large 15% margin; Wallace was a healthy second, Muskie was third; while McGovern was a distant forth. By the start of June; Humphrey had won Ohio, Nebraska, West Virginia and Rhode Island; while Wallace had triumphed in Indiana, Tennessee, North Carolina, Maryland and Michigan. McGovern only won Oregon by a slender margin of 3% over Wallace.
The Hube's victories in California and New York effectively signalled his winning of the party's nomination. Wallace however scored victories in New Mexico and Texas; McGovern won South Dakota - relegating him to third place in the popular vote; Wallace was a close second to Humphrey in that regard as well. At the convention many floor fights occurred between those on the 'Old Left' and 'New Left,' who sparred over the issues of abortion, feminism, gay rights and busing. All these planks were defeated by the convention delegates [3] - leading to a walkout by the likes of Gloria Steinem and Bell Abzug - they received jeers from other delegates and leading ALF-CIO President to exclaim "the faggots, pinkos and whores are storming off? Good riddance to them!" Humphrey, in an attempt to prevent another rout in the South and in an attempt to appeal to 'Wallace Democrats', selected the 'New South' former Governor of North Carolina and former Presidential candidate (who ran in that year.)
The strategy did not however work.
Wallace was allegedly annoyed that he had been effectively shafted by the other candidates and quickly set about forming his own Independent (due the AIP already nominating California Congressman John G. Schmitz and Thomas J. Anderson. This had been Wallace's intention initially; President Nixon however, fearing a close run race with Wallace siphoning off blue collar white voters from him, resolved to threaten Wallace with having the IRS released 'embarrassing' findings concerning his relatives. Nixon's period of weakness had seen Wallace scramble to set up a campaign infrastructure to run in several states; by the time Nixon was back - Wallace considered it too late to turn back at that stage. Nixon's threats came to nothing - it would appear at least. He selected former Georgia Governor (now Lieutenant Governor) Lester Maddox (who was also a personal friend of Hubert Humphrey) as his running mate.
Throughout the campaign Nixon held a consistent lead over Humphrey - though the Wallace campaign frequently polled well above five percent in the polls. Accusations that Humphrey had been with call girls dogged his campaign; though this was never proven by the media. [4] In the end it didn't really seem to affect the end result of the election. Nixon won a respectable victory carrying 306 electoral votes, with 30 states on just under 51% of the vote. Humphrey won an impressive 205 electoral votes, 17 states (plus the District of Columbia) on 44% of the vote. Wallace won three deep southern states with 26 electoral votes on 4% of the vote.
The age of Nixon was set to continue - however some in the White House were concerned that his health was not what it once was...
[1] Last two sentences copied from Wikipedia article on the GOP Convention, 1972.
[2] An idea floated by Nixon OTL, but was found to be impossible with the police presence at the apartment.
[3] As they were OTL; except for busing which I have had defeated due to Humphrey, who ran against it OTL, having more likeminded delegates to vote the pro-busing plank down.
[4] An OTL accusation level against Humphrey.
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The 1972 Presidential election campaign was seemingly turned on it's head by events north of the border in Ottawa, Canada. On 13th April, 1972 while the President's motorcade sped past a crowd of anti-war and Quebecois nationalist protesters, several loud shots rang out from the crowd, leaving the most powerful man in the world injured. Nixon, as was thought at the time, had not been seriously injured - though his injuries ensured that he was kept in hospital for several weeks. His assailant was arrested not long after the assassination attempt; and was revealed to be twenty-one year old Milwaukee janitor/busboy, Arthur Bremer. Bremer had begun writing a diary just over a month prior, beginning with the words: "It is my personal plan to assassinate by pistol either Richard Nixon or George Wallace. I intend to shoot one or the other while he attends a campaign rally for the Wisconsin Primary. How will the news associations describe me? An unemployed painter? An unemployed part-time busboy? A colledge (still can’t spell it) drop-out? ... I have it. “An unemployed malcontent who fancys himself a writer.” Bremer's purpose was "to do SOMETHING BOLD AND DRAMATIC, FORCEFUL & DYNAMIC, A STATEMENT of my manhood for the world to see." Bremer would by the year's end be imprisoned for the attempted assassination of the President; for life, without the possibility of parole. Due to Nixon's incapacitation until early-mid May, 1972; his chief primary opponents, the arch-conservative Congressman from Ohio, John Ashbrook; and the liberal anti-war Congressman from California, Pete McCloskey - both started to perform 'drastically' better in the primaries - McCloskey hitting over 15% in Massachusetts; while Ashbrook scored over 5% in the north-eastern state, with his 'No left turns' campaign against détente with 'Red China.' Once Nixon was given the all clear and was released back onto the campaign trail; his victory - as expected before - was never in doubt. At the Republican National Convention, once again at Miami Beach, Florida - where Nixon won all but three delegates (two for McCloskey, one for Ashbrook.) Spiro Agnew was re-nominated for vice president with 1,345 votes, against one vote for television journalist David Brinkley and two abstentions. The NBC network, for which Brinkley worked, had some "Brinkley for Vice President" buttons made, which the news team wore as a joke. [1]
The Democratic Primaries in comparison were in comparison - chaotic. Over a dozen candidates including the likes of the conservative Los Angeles Mayor, Sam Yorty, the liberal (and Republican defector) New York Mayor, John Lindsay, black Congresswoman from New York, Shirley Chisholm, former Minnesota Senator Eugene McCarthy, Congressman Wilbur Mills of Arkansas, hawkish Washington Senator, Henry M. 'Scoop' Jackson. The frontrunners of the race were however, former Vice President, 1968 Democratic Presidential nominee and once again Senator for Minnesota Hubert Humphrey, the 'reformed' populist Governor of Alabama, George Wallace, the liberal anti-war South Dakota Senator George McGovern and the 1968 Vice Presidential nominee and Senator from Maine - Ed Muskie.
By early mid March, Muskie's campaign was effective done for. After the release of the (forged) 'Canuck Letter' (where Muskie was alleged to have slandered the French-Americans of New England - calling them 'Canucks'); his 'crying episode' in the snow in New Hampshire while refuting the accusations in the letter and his 'Sunshine Special' disaster in Florida - effectively meant his campaign was done for (despite a landslide victory in Illinois on the 21st of that month; by around a 25% margin over Eugene McCarthy.) By April another campaign appeared to be faltering - that of George McGovern. In Bremer's apartment, various pieces of McGovern campaign literature, badges and banners - seemingly linking the would-be assassin of the President, to the McGovern campaign. [2] Various parts of the press declared open season on McGovern; seemingly ignoring the fact that Bremer had been seen at several Wallace campaign rallies; the fact that Bremer wrote he wished to assassinate either Nixon or Wallace in his diary - seemed to lead to a rise in Wallace's poll numbers.
In Wisconsin, Bremer's home state, Wallace scored a solid victory over Humphrey and McGovern. McGovern meanwhile barely won Idaho over Muskie and lost the Vermont primary to the Maine Senator by a slender margin. The final nail in the McGovern campaign occurred in Pennsylvania; Humphrey won the state with a rather large 15% margin; Wallace was a healthy second, Muskie was third; while McGovern was a distant forth. By the start of June; Humphrey had won Ohio, Nebraska, West Virginia and Rhode Island; while Wallace had triumphed in Indiana, Tennessee, North Carolina, Maryland and Michigan. McGovern only won Oregon by a slender margin of 3% over Wallace.
The Hube's victories in California and New York effectively signalled his winning of the party's nomination. Wallace however scored victories in New Mexico and Texas; McGovern won South Dakota - relegating him to third place in the popular vote; Wallace was a close second to Humphrey in that regard as well. At the convention many floor fights occurred between those on the 'Old Left' and 'New Left,' who sparred over the issues of abortion, feminism, gay rights and busing. All these planks were defeated by the convention delegates [3] - leading to a walkout by the likes of Gloria Steinem and Bell Abzug - they received jeers from other delegates and leading ALF-CIO President to exclaim "the faggots, pinkos and whores are storming off? Good riddance to them!" Humphrey, in an attempt to prevent another rout in the South and in an attempt to appeal to 'Wallace Democrats', selected the 'New South' former Governor of North Carolina and former Presidential candidate (who ran in that year.)
The strategy did not however work.
Wallace was allegedly annoyed that he had been effectively shafted by the other candidates and quickly set about forming his own Independent (due the AIP already nominating California Congressman John G. Schmitz and Thomas J. Anderson. This had been Wallace's intention initially; President Nixon however, fearing a close run race with Wallace siphoning off blue collar white voters from him, resolved to threaten Wallace with having the IRS released 'embarrassing' findings concerning his relatives. Nixon's period of weakness had seen Wallace scramble to set up a campaign infrastructure to run in several states; by the time Nixon was back - Wallace considered it too late to turn back at that stage. Nixon's threats came to nothing - it would appear at least. He selected former Georgia Governor (now Lieutenant Governor) Lester Maddox (who was also a personal friend of Hubert Humphrey) as his running mate.
Throughout the campaign Nixon held a consistent lead over Humphrey - though the Wallace campaign frequently polled well above five percent in the polls. Accusations that Humphrey had been with call girls dogged his campaign; though this was never proven by the media. [4] In the end it didn't really seem to affect the end result of the election. Nixon won a respectable victory carrying 306 electoral votes, with 30 states on just under 51% of the vote. Humphrey won an impressive 205 electoral votes, 17 states (plus the District of Columbia) on 44% of the vote. Wallace won three deep southern states with 26 electoral votes on 4% of the vote.
The age of Nixon was set to continue - however some in the White House were concerned that his health was not what it once was...
[1] Last two sentences copied from Wikipedia article on the GOP Convention, 1972.
[2] An idea floated by Nixon OTL, but was found to be impossible with the police presence at the apartment.
[3] As they were OTL; except for busing which I have had defeated due to Humphrey, who ran against it OTL, having more likeminded delegates to vote the pro-busing plank down.
[4] An OTL accusation level against Humphrey.
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What? Wow! Holy fucking shit! That's even more insane than the "Mario Cuomo is a member of the Mafia" accusation!
Woops - corrected it now.
Let's see they also said that Scoop Jackson had a bastard child with an underage girl, among other things.
This is a bit of a bump, but it bears repeating that these logos are just awesome.
Glad to see I'm not the only one caring about Belarus! Good job!
Thanks, high praise indeed when you inspire someone else.
Consider me subscribed to your series, really intriguing concept! Any thoughts on what the original POD is? Can I ask what's happening in the rest of Europe that isn't in TTL's EU?
Glad you liked it
. In the case of Flanders the POD is the Treaty of Rastatt, as in the OTL modern day Belgium was handed over to the Habsburgs, whereas here they were granted independence.I am not necessarily looking at one central POD that everything else flows from, as I'm more looking to develop an intriguing alternate world with many PODs that are all interconnected. Each state or union I wikibox will likely have its own POD, or will work directly off a previously established POD like the Rastatt or something else i'll come up with. While there will be no doubt some scepticism as to the realistic chances of some of the ideas I have coming to fruition, I'm looking to base them all on some level of fact
.As for what is happening in the rest of Europe, well that Flemish TL did reveal a bit; France is somehow still a Kingdom and in reverse the Netherlands is a Republic; Wallonia exists as it's own sovereign Kingdom; and rather than a united Germany you have a Prussian Federation and the rest i'll reveal in an upcoming post; you also have a European Union but it is without any of the Baltic, Nordic or Balkan nations and also excludes the UK (who are trying to gain access but just got vetoed by Flanders). So there is a load to consider there, hope that sounds interesting and gets people interested for later instalments.
So, what sort of ideology does the Worker's Party adhere to? It isn't clear from the main thread. Is it just general reformist socialism, or is there more nuance?
From what TB suggested, it seems to be more of a combination of OTL's Populist and Prohibition Parties.
EDIT: I've found the 1876 party platform, if that helps.
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The 1946 elections held according to the conditions of the German-Allied Armestice were more or less free although the extrem left remained banned and the military goverment used its control over the broadcasting service to promoted the "Großdeutscher Block" it favoured. In the end the GDB was able to govern in alliance with the monarchist "Konservative Volkspartei" and the federalists and with case by case support from the center parties (who refused a coalition goverment unless it also includes the SPD). But a surprise 40% of votes for the newly formed democratic parties were a clear sign that the German people hab become wary of the war and the goverment propaganda.
Reichtagswahlen 1946
SPD-Ö 22,2%
DVP 2,4%
CDU 0,8%
Total Left Democrats 25,4%
Zentrum 11,0%
CSU 1,8%
ÖVP 1,6%
Total Center-Right Democrats 14,4%
BP 3,8%
DHP 2,4%
ÖPU 3,2%
Total Federalists 9,4%
GDB 40,3%
KVP 1,7%
Total Nationalists 42,0%
SRP 8,3%
Total Fascists 8,3%
Reichtagswahlen 1946
SPD-Ö 22,2%
DVP 2,4%
CDU 0,8%
Total Left Democrats 25,4%
Zentrum 11,0%
CSU 1,8%
ÖVP 1,6%
Total Center-Right Democrats 14,4%
BP 3,8%
DHP 2,4%
ÖPU 3,2%
Total Federalists 9,4%
GDB 40,3%
KVP 1,7%
Total Nationalists 42,0%
SRP 8,3%
Total Fascists 8,3%
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