The incumbent party usually loses House seats in the midterms. Only exceptions to that rule since 1822 are 1878, 1934, 1998, and 2002. Plus, watching the GOP have complete control of every branch of government should be the spark needed to get the Democrats to turn out again
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Not necessarily. Hillary still won the popular vote by close to 3 million. The concept behind these wikiboxes is that Trump's approval ratings sink after the first year and the democrats finally have a half way motivated base to turn out for a midterm.
"Things are shit now, therefore I can extrapolate them being shit forever." Come on.
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On a side note: wikibox idea! the 2019 European Parliament elections in Canada/Australia/New Zealand.
Fie on you for being all realistic and such. Naturally, I must now respond with this.
[1] McCain nabs the nomination in 2000 and selects North Carolina Senator Liddy Dole as his running mate. Gore taps House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt to join him on the Democratic side and performs surprisingly well in the upper south. Nevertheless, with a margin of over 3 million votes, McCain carries the day.
[2] With war raging in Afghanistan and Libya, the former in response to 9/11 and the latter begun in order to neutralize Muammar Gaddafi's nuclear weapons program, McCain is able to leverage his foreign policy credentials to solidify his standing in the polls. Although Gephardt's choice of New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson as his running mate is initially hailed as a savy form of Hispanic outreach, the ticket is hit with accusations of financial impropriety on Richardson's part late in the campaign. As a consequence, voters opt not to change horses midstream and McCain is re-elected rather comfortably.
[3] The 2008 election features a tight contest between Vice President Elizabeth Dole and Senator Hillary Clinton. The two major party nominees vied for the mantle of first women president while the third party candidacies of Tom Tancredo and Tim Penny picked up surprising support among those concerned with radical terrorism and job outsourcing respectively. Although Dole would go on to lose the popular vote, thanks in part to loosing a large chunk of southerners to Tancredo (notably spoiling Kentucky for the GOP), her slim victory in the electoral college carried the day.
[4] President Dole ultimately inherited a poisoned chalice with her victory. The stock market crash rocked the nation shortly after her swearing in and the measures undertaken to combat the crisis were seen as woefully inadequate by the public. The Arab Spring*, which toppled Hosni Mubarak's Egypt, Saddam Hussein's Iraq, and Bashar Al Assad's Syria, and numerous smaller regimes, proved to be a major blow to Dole's supposed foreign policy credentials. Though the president managed to fend of a primary challenge from Texas Representative Ron Paul, her defeat to the Sanders/Feingold ticket was not a question of if but by how much. And it turns out, it was by alot.
[5] Note: Barack Obama remains in the Illinois Senate ITTL and Republican Peter Fitzgerald currently occupies Illinois' Class 3 U.S. Senate seat.
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The current map makes it impossible for Democrats to take back the House until 2022 at the very earliest. The Senate map in 2018 is also not entirely favorable. At best, the Democrats pick up one seat assuming some incumbents like Manchin and Heitkamp hold on.
2020, on the other hand, has me worried as a Republican (at least for the Senate). A lot of states that the GOP took in 2014 will be up in a presidential year.
The utter insanity has spread to the Old Country. My only regret is that Norway was robbed of having a yaoi fangirl on the throne.
Dystopian? This is literally the most optimistic prediction for the Democrats in 2018 I've seen so far.
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What, in the same style with the same kinds of groups, or with CANZ being part of the European Parliament?
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Incumbent party always struggles in midterms. Only exception in recent memory was 2002 because of 9/11.
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In which I try, but will never make as good of a far-future wikibox as Machineking/Archangel Micheal/et al…
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Following up my 2018 House and Senate maps, here are the results of the Gubernatorial elections:
Through A Mirror, Darkly
The Civilian Conservation Corps is an independent federal agency that provides unskilled manual labor jobs related to the conservation and development of natural resources in the United States. The CCC is engaged in a variety of different jobs and positions. They build transportation infrastructure(e.g., as roads, trails, railroads and airports), flood control infrastructure (e.g., dams, ditches, channels), participate in forestry missions (planting trees, seed collection, firefighting and insect control), general landscaping and wildlife control. The CCC is a uniformed paramilitary service that offers non-military national service for millions of Americans annually, and it has a small cadre of permanent officers and foremen. Last year alone, the CCC planted three billion trees, erected one thousand building, built three hundred dams and bridges, laid down five thousand miles of foot trails and more than ten thousand miles of roads. Because of its size, the CCC is a powerful political force capable of mobilizing millions of voters and supporters for an approved candidate, while CCC funding for programs makes for great pork barrel funding. As an independent agency, they have great autonomy with little outside oversight of their operations and plans.
The Civilian Conservation Corps is an independent federal agency that provides unskilled manual labor jobs related to the conservation and development of natural resources in the United States. The CCC is engaged in a variety of different jobs and positions. They build transportation infrastructure(e.g., as roads, trails, railroads and airports), flood control infrastructure (e.g., dams, ditches, channels), participate in forestry missions (planting trees, seed collection, firefighting and insect control), general landscaping and wildlife control. The CCC is a uniformed paramilitary service that offers non-military national service for millions of Americans annually, and it has a small cadre of permanent officers and foremen. Last year alone, the CCC planted three billion trees, erected one thousand building, built three hundred dams and bridges, laid down five thousand miles of foot trails and more than ten thousand miles of roads. Because of its size, the CCC is a powerful political force capable of mobilizing millions of voters and supporters for an approved candidate, while CCC funding for programs makes for great pork barrel funding. As an independent agency, they have great autonomy with little outside oversight of their operations and plans.
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As far as your deep states go, Mike, these folks don't seem so bad.
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I wouldn't mind having a go at that. Would it be based on a province-by-province basis?
"It's time to stop!"
-Filthy Frank's motto for candidacy
After four years of total crap under Trump regime, the Mexicans were being forced to pay for a wall they didn't ask for and being called rapists and criminals. But with a Republican majority government it was for certain that Trump would see himself having another go in the White House. And the Republicans were surely going to dominate the government for decades now it seemed.
But then famous edgy YouTuber named FilthyFrank decided to run for presidency as a independent candidate finding his own party called the Da Club. At first everyone even tons of YouTubers saw him as the biggest laughing stock in history, but luckily FilthyFrank was able to pull it off and gain victory becoming the president of the US with Pink Guy as his vice president. And he made America edgy again.
-Filthy Frank's motto for candidacy
After four years of total crap under Trump regime, the Mexicans were being forced to pay for a wall they didn't ask for and being called rapists and criminals. But with a Republican majority government it was for certain that Trump would see himself having another go in the White House. And the Republicans were surely going to dominate the government for decades now it seemed.
But then famous edgy YouTuber named FilthyFrank decided to run for presidency as a independent candidate finding his own party called the Da Club. At first everyone even tons of YouTubers saw him as the biggest laughing stock in history, but luckily FilthyFrank was able to pull it off and gain victory becoming the president of the US with Pink Guy as his vice president. And he made America edgy again.
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