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I think Stephen Fry is more aware of that than anyone else.
Would be curious to see how a Wilde Premiership would go, and how he could handle the sex scandal, if it gets out.
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Would be curious to see how a Wilde Premiership would go, and how he could handle the sex scandal, if it gets out.
Just seen my mistake with David Lloyd George. Will rectofy this in on second
In the DVD commentary, Fry, who is gay, admitted he was nervous about the love scenes with his heterosexual co-stars. He says Jude Law, Michael Sheen and Ioan Gruffudd were quick to put him at ease.
- Easter Rising and Home Rule.
- Being close to Asquith, Wilde doesn't split the Liberal Party, like DLG did.
- Also unlike DLG, Wilde, would not try and undermine British Generals, but put his full trust in them.
- Wilde would support the royal family assisting the Russian Tsar during their Revolution, by taking the children of the Tsar into their homes.
- Female suffrage and lower age to 18.
- With his son, Cyril, being killed by a German sniper on 9 May 1915, the public respect him more as a war prime minister.
- His other son, Vyvyan, stayed in Europe, but in a more backroom situation and on his return would follow his father's footsteps in the halls of parliament.
His "sex scandal" will be kept on the low down and never publicized while in office, entering politics in 1895, means he isnt able to meet with Lord Alfred "Bosie" Douglas and his father. Due to the death of his wife in 1898, many believe he doesn't remarry out of honour to his wife, so he just keeps his relations quiet behind close doors, although historians will find out about his relationships after his death.
Producer Marc Samuelson confesses casting Stephen Fry in the title role was both a blessing and a problem. Everyone agreed he was physically perfect for the part and more than capable of carrying it off, but the fact he wasn't a major presence in films made it difficult for them to obtain financing for the project.
In the DVD commentary, Fry, who is gay, admitted he was nervous about the love scenes with his heterosexual co-stars. He says Jude Law, Michael Sheen and Ioan Gruffudd were quick to put him at ease.
I would like to think that with Oscar Wilde in offices such as Home Office as well as the Premiership would cover theses aspects:
- Easter Rising and Home Rule.
- Being close to Asquith, Wilde doesn't split the Liberal Party, like DLG did.
- Also unlike DLG, Wilde, would not try and undermine British Generals, but put his full trust in them.
- Wilde would support the royal family assisting the Russian Tsar during their Revolution, by taking the children of the Tsar into their homes.
- Female suffrage and lower age to 18.
- With his son, Cyril, being killed by a German sniper on 9 May 1915, the public respect him more as a war prime minister.
- His other son, Vyvyan, stayed in Europe, but in a more backroom situation and on his return would follow his father's footsteps in the halls of parliament.
His "sex scandal" will be kept on the low down and never publicized while in office, entering politics in 1895, means he isnt able to meet with Lord Alfred "Bosie" Douglas and his father. Due to the death of his wife in 1898, many believe he doesn't remarry out of honour to his wife, so he just keeps his relations quiet behind close doors, although historians will find out about his relationships after his death.
The new election update in my British Mini TL, 'Don Hitchens.'
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For the Labour Government, the past four years had been relatively tranquil and smooth for them. The Government had successfully defended all their by-election seats (though some came rather close to defeat, such as in Leeds Central where Hilary Benn defeated the Liberal Democrats by around 2,000 votes - down from a 21,000 vote majority in 1997); many suspected that Labour was heading for an inevitable victory from the very start. Many in the party however were afraid of voter apathy, which was epitomised in the "Hague with Lady Thatcher's hair" poster. The Dotcom bubble burst and the subsequent recession in mainland Europe and in the United States, caused by the bursting of global technology bubbles, Britain was notably unaffected and unscathed by the bubble bursting, leading to Blair and the Labour Party feeling assured they could rely on a strong economic forecast and economy, with falling unemployment towards election day - easily dispelling any sort of fears that a Labour Government was putting the nation and her economy at risk.
For William Hague and the Tories, the party had still not fully recovered from the trauma of loosing the 1997 General Election. The party was still ideologically divided over the issue of Europe, especially with talk rife of a referendum on the United Kingdom joining the new Euro currency and the Eurozone. A policy gaffe by Oliver Letwin over public spending cuts left the party with an own goal that Labour soon took advantage of. Margaret Thatcher also added to Hague's troubles when speaking out strongly against the Euro to applause. Hague himself was seen to be a competent, effective and witty parliamentarian and performer during Prime Minister's Questions, this however did not stop him being dogged in the press, especially with constant reminders of his speech to the Conservative conference at the age of sixteen. The Sun newspaper, a constant supporter of Mrs. Thatcher, only added to the problems and woes of the Tories by backing the Labour Government once again, branding Hague as a "dead parrot."
While Labour appeared to pivot towards the centre once again, the Conservatives swung to the right so as to shore up their vote; emphasising the issue of Europe, the Pound, immigration and taxation - which was branded as the 'Tebbit Trinity.' Labour however retorted by asking the Conservatives where the proposed tax cuts were going to come from, Gordon Brown, the Chancellor of the Exchequer decried the Tory taxation policy as "cut here, cut there, cut everywhere," in relation to the widespread belief that the Tories would make sweeping cuts to public services in order to fund their proposed tax cuts.
The Liberal Democrats went into the campaign with their new leader Charles Kennedy, being the only party to advocate tax increases in order to fund their proposed increases in public services. Immigration played a major issue in Oldham, which had seen race riots in the town not long before; leading to much interest in the British National Party and it's leader, Nick Griffin who was standing in Oldham West and Royton. One of the more noted events of the mostly quiet campaign was when countryside protester Craig Evans threw an egg at Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott in Rhyl; Prescott then punched him and a struggle ensued, in front of television cameras. In Kidderminster, the campaign to restore the casualty unity at Kidderminster Hospital led to Dr Richard Taylor running (with Liberal Democrat support) under the Independent Community and Health Concern ticket. Meanwhile in Tatton, Martin Bell, the former BBC reporter, owing to calls from his constituents, rescinded on his single term pledge and stood once again (with Labour and Liberal Democrat support), this time facing Conservative George Osbourne.
Then on the 7th of June, 2001 the country went to the polls.
Blair was returned with a marginally decreased majority, losing nine seats, to take Labour's total to a 'mere' 409 seats. The Conservatives gained five nets seats, though their gains from Labour were somewhat offset by six gains for the Liberal Democrats - generally from the Conservatives; the two party's sat on 170 and 52 seats respectively. The Conservatives ended their 'Celtic Fringe' period, by gaining the seat of Monmouth in Wales by around fifty votes; and gaining the seats of Galloway and Upper Nithsdale and Perth from the Scottish Nationalists, by over a hundred votes and seven votes respectively. In Tatton and Wyre Forrest the independent candidates both won over their opponents by decent margins. The SNP incurred two losses, both to the Conservatives, bringing their total to four seats; Plaid Cymru meanwhile won four seats. In Oldham the BNP made gains, with Griffin piping the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats into a distant second place.
The election was by far more dramatic in Northern Ireland with multiple seats changing hands over the course of the night. The Ulster Unionists lost several seats, three to the their Democratic Unionist rivals, and one to the SDLP (West Tyrone). Sinn Fein made little of their pre-election hype, falling flat in Fermanagh and South Tyrone below a near seven thousand vote Ulster Unionist majority (owing to Independent Unionist William James Dixon dropping out in favour of the Ulster Unionist candidate, Arlene Foster) and failing to capture their targets of West Tyrone and New & Armagh, both falling to the SDLP. The Ulster Unionists narrowly failed to gain North Down, with their candidate Peter Weir falling short behind Bob McCartney's UK Unionist Party, owing to the Alliance Party opting to field a candidate instead of endorsing the UUP in that seat. Overall the UUP was down four on 1997, to six seats; the DUP was up three on 1997, to five seats. The SDLP was up one on 1997, to four seats; while Sinn Fein and the UKUP remained static on two and one seats, respectively.
Hague had set himself a task of gaining around as many seats Michael Foot had achieved in 1983 (around 200); he fell thirty seats short and subsequently announced that he would be resigning as Conservative leader; thus triggering yet another leadership race and leaving Hague the first Tory leader since Austen Chamberlain to not have served as Prime Minister. Re-elected Kensington and Chelsea Member of Parliament, Peter Hitchens, called for the party to elect a "real conservative as it's leader," and not "a wishy washy liberal moderate." Only time would tell if that would become true.
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[1]Several sections aided by the 'United Kingdom Genera Election' Wikipedia page, which can be found here
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For the Labour Government, the past four years had been relatively tranquil and smooth for them. The Government had successfully defended all their by-election seats (though some came rather close to defeat, such as in Leeds Central where Hilary Benn defeated the Liberal Democrats by around 2,000 votes - down from a 21,000 vote majority in 1997); many suspected that Labour was heading for an inevitable victory from the very start. Many in the party however were afraid of voter apathy, which was epitomised in the "Hague with Lady Thatcher's hair" poster. The Dotcom bubble burst and the subsequent recession in mainland Europe and in the United States, caused by the bursting of global technology bubbles, Britain was notably unaffected and unscathed by the bubble bursting, leading to Blair and the Labour Party feeling assured they could rely on a strong economic forecast and economy, with falling unemployment towards election day - easily dispelling any sort of fears that a Labour Government was putting the nation and her economy at risk.
For William Hague and the Tories, the party had still not fully recovered from the trauma of loosing the 1997 General Election. The party was still ideologically divided over the issue of Europe, especially with talk rife of a referendum on the United Kingdom joining the new Euro currency and the Eurozone. A policy gaffe by Oliver Letwin over public spending cuts left the party with an own goal that Labour soon took advantage of. Margaret Thatcher also added to Hague's troubles when speaking out strongly against the Euro to applause. Hague himself was seen to be a competent, effective and witty parliamentarian and performer during Prime Minister's Questions, this however did not stop him being dogged in the press, especially with constant reminders of his speech to the Conservative conference at the age of sixteen. The Sun newspaper, a constant supporter of Mrs. Thatcher, only added to the problems and woes of the Tories by backing the Labour Government once again, branding Hague as a "dead parrot."
While Labour appeared to pivot towards the centre once again, the Conservatives swung to the right so as to shore up their vote; emphasising the issue of Europe, the Pound, immigration and taxation - which was branded as the 'Tebbit Trinity.' Labour however retorted by asking the Conservatives where the proposed tax cuts were going to come from, Gordon Brown, the Chancellor of the Exchequer decried the Tory taxation policy as "cut here, cut there, cut everywhere," in relation to the widespread belief that the Tories would make sweeping cuts to public services in order to fund their proposed tax cuts.
The Liberal Democrats went into the campaign with their new leader Charles Kennedy, being the only party to advocate tax increases in order to fund their proposed increases in public services. Immigration played a major issue in Oldham, which had seen race riots in the town not long before; leading to much interest in the British National Party and it's leader, Nick Griffin who was standing in Oldham West and Royton. One of the more noted events of the mostly quiet campaign was when countryside protester Craig Evans threw an egg at Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott in Rhyl; Prescott then punched him and a struggle ensued, in front of television cameras. In Kidderminster, the campaign to restore the casualty unity at Kidderminster Hospital led to Dr Richard Taylor running (with Liberal Democrat support) under the Independent Community and Health Concern ticket. Meanwhile in Tatton, Martin Bell, the former BBC reporter, owing to calls from his constituents, rescinded on his single term pledge and stood once again (with Labour and Liberal Democrat support), this time facing Conservative George Osbourne.
Then on the 7th of June, 2001 the country went to the polls.
Blair was returned with a marginally decreased majority, losing nine seats, to take Labour's total to a 'mere' 409 seats. The Conservatives gained five nets seats, though their gains from Labour were somewhat offset by six gains for the Liberal Democrats - generally from the Conservatives; the two party's sat on 170 and 52 seats respectively. The Conservatives ended their 'Celtic Fringe' period, by gaining the seat of Monmouth in Wales by around fifty votes; and gaining the seats of Galloway and Upper Nithsdale and Perth from the Scottish Nationalists, by over a hundred votes and seven votes respectively. In Tatton and Wyre Forrest the independent candidates both won over their opponents by decent margins. The SNP incurred two losses, both to the Conservatives, bringing their total to four seats; Plaid Cymru meanwhile won four seats. In Oldham the BNP made gains, with Griffin piping the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats into a distant second place.
The election was by far more dramatic in Northern Ireland with multiple seats changing hands over the course of the night. The Ulster Unionists lost several seats, three to the their Democratic Unionist rivals, and one to the SDLP (West Tyrone). Sinn Fein made little of their pre-election hype, falling flat in Fermanagh and South Tyrone below a near seven thousand vote Ulster Unionist majority (owing to Independent Unionist William James Dixon dropping out in favour of the Ulster Unionist candidate, Arlene Foster) and failing to capture their targets of West Tyrone and New & Armagh, both falling to the SDLP. The Ulster Unionists narrowly failed to gain North Down, with their candidate Peter Weir falling short behind Bob McCartney's UK Unionist Party, owing to the Alliance Party opting to field a candidate instead of endorsing the UUP in that seat. Overall the UUP was down four on 1997, to six seats; the DUP was up three on 1997, to five seats. The SDLP was up one on 1997, to four seats; while Sinn Fein and the UKUP remained static on two and one seats, respectively.
Hague had set himself a task of gaining around as many seats Michael Foot had achieved in 1983 (around 200); he fell thirty seats short and subsequently announced that he would be resigning as Conservative leader; thus triggering yet another leadership race and leaving Hague the first Tory leader since Austen Chamberlain to not have served as Prime Minister. Re-elected Kensington and Chelsea Member of Parliament, Peter Hitchens, called for the party to elect a "real conservative as it's leader," and not "a wishy washy liberal moderate." Only time would tell if that would become true.
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[1]Several sections aided by the 'United Kingdom Genera Election' Wikipedia page, which can be found here
AN ALTERNATE AMERICAN PARTY SYSTEM: PART 0 (Introduction)
"Ever since the tumultuous presidential election of 1830 and the ensuing elections henceforth, two major (and rather loose and big-tent) political parties/coalitions prevailed within the United States of America that had managed to survive throughout the mid-19th century and had shaped the Second Party System;
the Nationalist Party, which was considered to be the political organization of Northern businessmen and the upper-class elite who largely emphasized using the power of trade protectionism to steer the young and burgeoning American republic forwards in its path of domineering glory over its European counterparts;
and the big-tent Republican Party, the party that supposedly captured the interests of the common red-blooded yeoman farmer who was largely disinterested with social issues such as slavery and internal reform, and instead was seemingly interested on preserving America's status as a nation reliant on free trade principles and maintaining as little government interference as possible with the frequently phrased and quoted 'business of the common man and nothing more' being the political party's unofficial ideological anthem.
These two large and rather disillusioned political organizations arguably campaigned solely on the legacies of two of the United States' principle founders; Alexander Hamilton, the Nation's first Treasury Secretary and its fourth President, and Thomas Jefferson, the Nation's first official Secretary of Foreign Affairs and the nation's second President. These two sole men undoubtedly created the Second Party System and had possibly even influenced its later downfall due to their seemingly insurmountable legacies serving as metaphorical rocks on the shoulders of America's future leaders and their reputation as the respective leaders of their parties.
The election of 1824, in particular, is considered to be a watershed moment for the rapidly unnerving Federalist Party and one of the hallmark moments that led to the creation of the Nationalist Party and the dawn of the Second Party System. Many of my fellow political academics and even myself henceforth believe that this election was primarily caused by the rather cantankerous and uncooperative presidency of Mr. Federalist himself, John Quincy Adams (1819 to 1825).
Unfortunately for this ambitious man, he was faced by an equally ambitious and hostile Republican congress that blamed the nation's economic deficits throughout the Adams presidency following the Panic of 1822 solely on the man himself rather than analyzing their own failures by refusing to even attempt to accept Mr. Adams's proposals to aid the nation's current economic impurities.
A particularly venomous session of Congress during the Panic of 1822 and the chaos ensuing it.
As such, the Federalist Party certainly was not in the best prospects during the 1824 election and was even condemned to lose the presidential and congressional elections by notoriously pro-Federalist newspapers across the United States. It was certainly not the greatest time to be a Federalist and had possibly even signaled the later collapse of the party in 1826/27, just three years later.
However, all was different in the Republican Party, which was seemingly inescapable in its dreams and ambitions to engulf the American political system by the 1824 election. This was their dream, their destiny! Republicans knew that 1824 would be the year wherein their names would be forever memorialized in the history of American politics as the first of the last! The first Republicans to overtake the Federalist carcass, and the last year wherein the Federalists would even exist as a political entity! All praise should go the emboldened Republican Party, right?
Right?!
But, unfortunately for the seemingly unstoppable Republicans, one man would solidify their party core. One man would bring these giddy Republicans back to the sensible earth wherein they grew and settled upon. Ashes to sky, sky to ashes this man would do such an ambitious organization.
And his name was John Caldwell Calhoun.
Calhoun, despite having little governmental experience and being one of the youngest presidential candidates in United States history at the age of 42 by 1824, was able to invigorate a rising party and was able to firmly establish himself as a prominent figure within the Republican Party by being a major advocate of mass governmental reform, economic modernization through the use of (low) tariffs, and overall centralizing the U.S. government without having to use the power of a national bank (although Calhoun certainly was not completely opposed to the idea of establishing a small national bank that still gave some economic influence to the states).
These positions infuriated two particular wings of the Republican Party: first, the Old Jeffersonians, who proclaimed themselves to be solely inspired by the original founders of the Republican Party and Jefferson in particular, who wished to establish the United States as a small and de-centralized agrarian republic that maintained its economic stability on the backs of the common yeoman white farmer rather than the backs of economic magistrates in the nation's largest cities and without raising a single tariff on economic goods to 'preserve the stability of the yeoman farmer'. Despite their sharp contrasts with Calhoun's Federalist-esque ideology, they begrudgingly supported the young Southern Senator to ensure party unity.
However, another faction was absolutely outraged by Calhoun's positions and had even left the party to form their own political organization...and that would be the Free Republicans, who were Northern anti-slavery Republicans despised Calhoun's favorable opinions on slavery and were further outraged by Calhoun's opinions on economic centralization and the like. The faction would eventually merge with the Federalists to form the Nationalist Party in 1830, but that is a story for another day...
On the other side of the spectrum, the Federalists nominated famed general William Henry Harrison in order to capitalize on the seemingly shattered and disorganized Republican vote and to campaign less on actual politics and issues of the day, but to campaign on the fame of such an acclaimed general like Harrison.
Nevertheless, on Election Day 1824, the results were in, and the Republicans still managed to claim victory for their party.
ELECTION OF 1824
Sen. John C. Calhoun (R–SC) / Gov. Daniel D. Tompkins (R–NY) ~ 134 EVs
(50.8%; 185,843 votes)
Gen. William Henry Harrison (F–OH) / Atty. Gen. William Wirt (F–VA) ~ 124 EVs
(42.1%; 154,016 votes)
Sen. Martin Van Buren (FR–NY) / Rep. Charles F. Mercer (FR–VA) ~ 3 EVs
(6.8%; 24,877 votes)
John Caldwell Calhoun, the Republican nominee who had changed the face and message of his party, had won the executive throne.
Only the future could tell what this man's impact would be in the history of the United States as a sovereign state."
~ The prologue of noted American historian and academic Robert G. Kardaschoff's best-selling 1997 novel "A Comprehensive History of American Politics: Chapter II"
"Ever since the tumultuous presidential election of 1830 and the ensuing elections henceforth, two major (and rather loose and big-tent) political parties/coalitions prevailed within the United States of America that had managed to survive throughout the mid-19th century and had shaped the Second Party System;
the Nationalist Party, which was considered to be the political organization of Northern businessmen and the upper-class elite who largely emphasized using the power of trade protectionism to steer the young and burgeoning American republic forwards in its path of domineering glory over its European counterparts;
and the big-tent Republican Party, the party that supposedly captured the interests of the common red-blooded yeoman farmer who was largely disinterested with social issues such as slavery and internal reform, and instead was seemingly interested on preserving America's status as a nation reliant on free trade principles and maintaining as little government interference as possible with the frequently phrased and quoted 'business of the common man and nothing more' being the political party's unofficial ideological anthem.
These two large and rather disillusioned political organizations arguably campaigned solely on the legacies of two of the United States' principle founders; Alexander Hamilton, the Nation's first Treasury Secretary and its fourth President, and Thomas Jefferson, the Nation's first official Secretary of Foreign Affairs and the nation's second President. These two sole men undoubtedly created the Second Party System and had possibly even influenced its later downfall due to their seemingly insurmountable legacies serving as metaphorical rocks on the shoulders of America's future leaders and their reputation as the respective leaders of their parties.
The election of 1824, in particular, is considered to be a watershed moment for the rapidly unnerving Federalist Party and one of the hallmark moments that led to the creation of the Nationalist Party and the dawn of the Second Party System. Many of my fellow political academics and even myself henceforth believe that this election was primarily caused by the rather cantankerous and uncooperative presidency of Mr. Federalist himself, John Quincy Adams (1819 to 1825).
Unfortunately for this ambitious man, he was faced by an equally ambitious and hostile Republican congress that blamed the nation's economic deficits throughout the Adams presidency following the Panic of 1822 solely on the man himself rather than analyzing their own failures by refusing to even attempt to accept Mr. Adams's proposals to aid the nation's current economic impurities.
A particularly venomous session of Congress during the Panic of 1822 and the chaos ensuing it.
As such, the Federalist Party certainly was not in the best prospects during the 1824 election and was even condemned to lose the presidential and congressional elections by notoriously pro-Federalist newspapers across the United States. It was certainly not the greatest time to be a Federalist and had possibly even signaled the later collapse of the party in 1826/27, just three years later.
However, all was different in the Republican Party, which was seemingly inescapable in its dreams and ambitions to engulf the American political system by the 1824 election. This was their dream, their destiny! Republicans knew that 1824 would be the year wherein their names would be forever memorialized in the history of American politics as the first of the last! The first Republicans to overtake the Federalist carcass, and the last year wherein the Federalists would even exist as a political entity! All praise should go the emboldened Republican Party, right?
Right?!
But, unfortunately for the seemingly unstoppable Republicans, one man would solidify their party core. One man would bring these giddy Republicans back to the sensible earth wherein they grew and settled upon. Ashes to sky, sky to ashes this man would do such an ambitious organization.
And his name was John Caldwell Calhoun.
Calhoun, despite having little governmental experience and being one of the youngest presidential candidates in United States history at the age of 42 by 1824, was able to invigorate a rising party and was able to firmly establish himself as a prominent figure within the Republican Party by being a major advocate of mass governmental reform, economic modernization through the use of (low) tariffs, and overall centralizing the U.S. government without having to use the power of a national bank (although Calhoun certainly was not completely opposed to the idea of establishing a small national bank that still gave some economic influence to the states).
These positions infuriated two particular wings of the Republican Party: first, the Old Jeffersonians, who proclaimed themselves to be solely inspired by the original founders of the Republican Party and Jefferson in particular, who wished to establish the United States as a small and de-centralized agrarian republic that maintained its economic stability on the backs of the common yeoman white farmer rather than the backs of economic magistrates in the nation's largest cities and without raising a single tariff on economic goods to 'preserve the stability of the yeoman farmer'. Despite their sharp contrasts with Calhoun's Federalist-esque ideology, they begrudgingly supported the young Southern Senator to ensure party unity.
However, another faction was absolutely outraged by Calhoun's positions and had even left the party to form their own political organization...and that would be the Free Republicans, who were Northern anti-slavery Republicans despised Calhoun's favorable opinions on slavery and were further outraged by Calhoun's opinions on economic centralization and the like. The faction would eventually merge with the Federalists to form the Nationalist Party in 1830, but that is a story for another day...
On the other side of the spectrum, the Federalists nominated famed general William Henry Harrison in order to capitalize on the seemingly shattered and disorganized Republican vote and to campaign less on actual politics and issues of the day, but to campaign on the fame of such an acclaimed general like Harrison.
Nevertheless, on Election Day 1824, the results were in, and the Republicans still managed to claim victory for their party.
ELECTION OF 1824
Sen. John C. Calhoun (R–SC) / Gov. Daniel D. Tompkins (R–NY) ~ 134 EVs
(50.8%; 185,843 votes)
Gen. William Henry Harrison (F–OH) / Atty. Gen. William Wirt (F–VA) ~ 124 EVs
(42.1%; 154,016 votes)
Sen. Martin Van Buren (FR–NY) / Rep. Charles F. Mercer (FR–VA) ~ 3 EVs
(6.8%; 24,877 votes)
John Caldwell Calhoun, the Republican nominee who had changed the face and message of his party, had won the executive throne.
Only the future could tell what this man's impact would be in the history of the United States as a sovereign state."
~ The prologue of noted American historian and academic Robert G. Kardaschoff's best-selling 1997 novel "A Comprehensive History of American Politics: Chapter II"
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From The Long National Nightmare
Born in 1992 to Italian-American Parents in Newark, New Jersey, Loretta Crocetti continues to be one of the most well known and popular New Jersey Politicians under 40. After graduating from Rutgers Law School in 2018, She joined the practice of LoFaro & Reiser as a Bankruptcy Lawyer. Even though she loved being a lawyer, her love of politics since high school drove to become a Bergen County, New Jersey Freeholder in 2021. She aspired for more. She ran for the State Senate in 2023, running against long time Democratic Politician and alleged "political machine boss" Nicholas Sacco. Crocetti ran on a particularly Liberal and "Race Based" Campaign, as the district she was running in had elected democrats by substantial margins, and was almost 70% Hispanic. Crocetti blamed Sacco for the poverty striken areas in the district that were mostly Hispanic. In addition, a scandal broke out when Sacco was caught on tape saying he "doesn't care about the Hispanics, I just want their vote". After a hard fought, and a particularly dirty campaign on both sides, Crocetti ultimately won the election by 9 votes in a shock victory, becoming the first ever Republican to represent this district in the state senate. Just a couple of months after winning the election, she started her campaign for the United States Senate, in which she immediately became the frontrunner against Incumbent Cory Booker, who was suffering from horrible approval ratings. Many pundits believe she will cruise to victory, possibly even a landslide, in 2026. National Democratic party operatives and fundraisers have pulled out of the state, leaving Cory Booker to fight Crocetti on his own.
Born in 1992 to Italian-American Parents in Newark, New Jersey, Loretta Crocetti continues to be one of the most well known and popular New Jersey Politicians under 40. After graduating from Rutgers Law School in 2018, She joined the practice of LoFaro & Reiser as a Bankruptcy Lawyer. Even though she loved being a lawyer, her love of politics since high school drove to become a Bergen County, New Jersey Freeholder in 2021. She aspired for more. She ran for the State Senate in 2023, running against long time Democratic Politician and alleged "political machine boss" Nicholas Sacco. Crocetti ran on a particularly Liberal and "Race Based" Campaign, as the district she was running in had elected democrats by substantial margins, and was almost 70% Hispanic. Crocetti blamed Sacco for the poverty striken areas in the district that were mostly Hispanic. In addition, a scandal broke out when Sacco was caught on tape saying he "doesn't care about the Hispanics, I just want their vote". After a hard fought, and a particularly dirty campaign on both sides, Crocetti ultimately won the election by 9 votes in a shock victory, becoming the first ever Republican to represent this district in the state senate. Just a couple of months after winning the election, she started her campaign for the United States Senate, in which she immediately became the frontrunner against Incumbent Cory Booker, who was suffering from horrible approval ratings. Many pundits believe she will cruise to victory, possibly even a landslide, in 2026. National Democratic party operatives and fundraisers have pulled out of the state, leaving Cory Booker to fight Crocetti on his own.
A sneak peak from my Nixon in '55 Wikibox TL.
Credit to @Aolbain for inspiration for the box. Try to figure out what Horrid Urge is an anagram for.
Rough Rider
Yes. I'm going to be heavily using the same outline, as well as from other TLs.
BlackentheBorg
Banned
A quick one I did for shits and giggles
This Isn't Parliament, But It'll Do/Running Up That Capitol Hill/something something Music Pun
Unfortunately there's no country-western musician I can find with the last name "Perot".
This Isn't Parliament, But It'll Do/Running Up That Capitol Hill/something something Music Pun
Unfortunately there's no country-western musician I can find with the last name "Perot".
I adore it.
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Department of Justice, Negro Affairs Division
Readjuster Party
Describing the Republican Party is difficult. On one hand it is the dominant left wing political party in New England, the Midwest and the West Coast, providing progressive reform to millions. On the other hand it is also the de facto head of a quasi-collilition between itself, the Populist Party, and the various state level parties across the south and south west. Sine 1900, with the exception of Oscar K. Allen (Parti Liberal/Liberal Party, Louisiana), the nominee of the GOP has also been selected by the other parties, you can always tell when a populist wants to run for President because he/she changes their affiliation to Republican. Oddly the Populist Party primary often ends up selecting the Vice Presidential selection of the GOP. The influence of the GOP over the affiliate parties changes, currently it is waning. The GOP was forced into accepting Mark Castor (Orange Party, Florida) as Senate majority leader at the threat of a revolt by the Southern Parties and the Populist Party, thought this was not the first time the GOP has ceded control over a house to its allies.
It currently is seeking to replace Democratic President Ruth Stockade in the 2016 election.
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Pretty good, just one question though - how over the course of a little more than a month does the leader of the opposition go from a Liberal (Wilde) to a Labourite (MacDonald)? When Lloyd George became leader of the Liberals did the party straight-up split apart or something?
umm i can explain
So basically the Independence Party is center to center-right fiscally and center-right to right-wing socially. It is also anti-populist. The Cyber Party is basically the Internet Party of New Zealand + left-libertarianism + right wing populism. How this happened is basically Evan McMullin becomes president due to the electoral college and founds the Independence Party. As for the Cyber Party, and why these parties are the only major ones, I really can't explain, mostly because I wanted to mix the Rick Perry transhumanist populism meme with a McMullin presidency in a nice big ASB sandwich. The electoral map is this:
I don't have enough time to make a proper map and put it in the infobox but I'll try to do that later.
So basically the Independence Party is center to center-right fiscally and center-right to right-wing socially. It is also anti-populist. The Cyber Party is basically the Internet Party of New Zealand + left-libertarianism + right wing populism. How this happened is basically Evan McMullin becomes president due to the electoral college and founds the Independence Party. As for the Cyber Party, and why these parties are the only major ones, I really can't explain, mostly because I wanted to mix the Rick Perry transhumanist populism meme with a McMullin presidency in a nice big ASB sandwich. The electoral map is this:
I don't have enough time to make a proper map and put it in the infobox but I'll try to do that later.
Fascinating. A six-year presidency, and from the outset too.
I'm pretty sure McMullin would revert to being a Republican while in office and would compete for that party's nomination in 2020 if he was victorious via the electoral college in 2016.
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