I always wanted to see Mars Attacks! with President Moynihan.
Knowing Moynihan, he'd probably write some incredibly damaging white paper about the dysfunction of the Martian family or something.
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Knowing Moynihan, he'd probably write some incredibly damaging white paper about the dysfunction of the Martian family or something.
Rosa Luxemburg
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The 2017 Hawaiian Presidential Election was the twenty-ninth Presidential election of the Kingdom of Hawaii. There were two main issues that took precedence in this election. The first was the Honolulu affair, in which President Keanu met with controversial Columbian Prime Minister, Pierce Underwood, who had previously stated, during the 2014 election that Columbia "should have taken action in Hawaii", referring to the attempt by the British to seize the islands in 1879. This comment was largely seen as an unofficial endorsement of Columbian imperialism, due to the fact that the only major groups, such as the Columbia Party, who advocated for this intervention supported the annexation of Hawaii into Columbia.
The second major issue was the Recession of 2015 which, despite the Hawaiian governments efforts, was unable to be stopped as quickly as hoped for, continuing into 2016 and then into 2017. This led to a distrust of the coalition between the Kikowaena and Nā Ku'una parties in the Hale Kūkākūkā as well as the administration of Kaemana Keanu. On July 1st, Mayor Apikalia Kapua of the party Nānā Pāpelika, won the Presidency by nearly twelve percent over Kaui Ekewaka and President Keanu respectively. The Nānā Pāpelika party would repeat this success in the Hale Kūkākūkā, securing a narrow majority of 41 seats (three seats over the 39 required for a majority) with the incumbent Nā Ku'una coming in a narrow second, with 18 seats and the Kikowaena in last with 16 seats. One independent candidate would be elected in Honolulu.
This is set far enough in the future to not be current, I think. From my timeline ‘Scary Lou McDonald’, which the local deputy Lord Mayor dislikes.
In 2033, America passes the 30th Amendment, requiring a national referendum within a month of any time that war is to be declared. In 2038, a highly militarized Sinn Féin-led Irish dictatorship declares war on the remainder of the United Kingdom, a state weakened by regional nationalism, a decade of bad economics, and a declining global standing. The UK decides to invoke Article V of the NATO Treaty.
On October 29th 2038, America votes in the First National War Referendum.
It effectively ends NATO, as the bedrock of the organization balks on its commitment.
In 2033, America passes the 30th Amendment, requiring a national referendum within a month of any time that war is to be declared. In 2038, a highly militarized Sinn Féin-led Irish dictatorship declares war on the remainder of the United Kingdom, a state weakened by regional nationalism, a decade of bad economics, and a declining global standing. The UK decides to invoke Article V of the NATO Treaty.
On October 29th 2038, America votes in the First National War Referendum.
It effectively ends NATO, as the bedrock of the organization balks on its commitment.
Not to mentioned I'm confused as to why they have a King and an elected President, unless you were going the Israeli route of elected heads of government.
Rosa Luxemburg
Banned
I was going the route of keeping the King as the Head of State with the President in place of a PM as Head of Government. If this seems too off, I can say that the monarchy was overthrown at some point as neither my box nor the write up mentions a monarchy in the slightest
A state legislative election in a USA-wank that uses IRV voting for president, as well as most states using IRV for elections to congress and their state/local level elections. Some also make use of FPTP and proportional representation, but IRV is the most common among the 64 states. A 4-party system has formed, with many states or regions having two or three dominant parties.
In this wikibox, the state of The Bahamas is holding an election for State Congress that sees a loss of majority by the Republican Party, but their speaker remains in his position after long and drawn out attempts by the Liberals to get a majority of votes for their candidate fail. The state has transitioned in the 20th century from a southern-influenced state to one dominated by snowbirds, northeastern retirees, Caribbean/Latin American immigration, and tourism (think south Florida) and as such, the socially liberal Republicans and Liberals have overtaken the traditionalist Democrats and Progressives that dominate the South.
You could just turn that presidential election into a parliamentary election, given that both would be for a head of state
A state legislative election in a USA-wank that uses IRV voting for president, as well as most states using IRV for elections to congress and their state/local level elections. Some also make use of FPTP and proportional representation, but IRV is the most common among the 64 states. A 4-party system has formed, with many states or regions having two or three dominant parties.
In this wikibox, the state of The Bahamas is holding an election for State Congress that sees a loss of majority by the Republican Party, but their speaker remains in his position after long and drawn out attempts by the Liberals to get a majority of votes for their candidate fail. The state has transitioned in the 20th century from a southern-influenced state to one dominated by snowbirds, northeastern retirees, Caribbean/Latin American immigration, and tourism (think south Florida) and as such, the socially liberal Republicans and Liberals have overtaken the traditionalist Democrats and Progressives that dominate the South.
True fact: I worked on the campaign against Lois Frankel in 2012 and consider her the great villain of the first 20 years of my life
Gore's the One
Albert Arnold Gore Jr. (born March 31, 1948) is an American politician and environmentalist who served as the 44th President of the United States from January 20, 2009, to January 20, 2017. He had previously served as the 45th Vice President of the United States during the Clinton administration from 1993 to 2001, and prior to that as a Representative from Tennessee (1977–85) and also from 1985 to 1993 as one of the state's Senators.
Gore was Bill Clinton's running mate in their successful campaign in 1992, and the pair was re-elected in 1996. Near the end of Clinton's second term, Gore was selected as the Democratic nominee for the 2000 presidential election but lost the election in one of the very closest presidential races in history. Gore won the popular vote, but lost the election to Republican opponent George W. Bush in the Electoral College. A controversial election dispute over a Florida recount was settled by the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled 5–4 in favor of Bush. After his term as vice president ended in 2001, Gore remained prominent as an author and environmental activist, whose work in climate change activism earned him an honorable mention as part of the IPCC's receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. In 2008, he ran for the presidency again and was nominated for president a year after his campaign began and after a close primary campaign against Hillary Clinton, who served as First Lady during her husband, Bill Clinton's presidency while Gore was vice president. He was elected over Republican Senator John McCain and was inaugurated on January 20, 2009. Nine months later, he was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate for his "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples", humbly accepting the award with the caveat that he felt there were likely others "far more deserving of this honor than I."
During his first two years in office, Gore signed many landmark bills into law. The main reforms were the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (often referred to as "GoreCare", shortened as the "Affordable Care Act", and considered the U.S. healthcare system's most significant regulatory overhaul and expansion of coverage, including a public option, since the passage of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965), the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, and the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 served as economic stimulus amidst the Great Recession. After a lengthy debate over the national debt limit, he signed the Budget Control and the American Taxpayer Relief Acts. He also issued wide-ranging executive actions concerning his own personal favored cause, climate change. In foreign policy, he promoted discussions that led to the binding 2009 Copenhagen Accord on global climate change, increased U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan, reduced nuclear weapons with the United States–Russia New START treaty, and ended military involvement in the Iraq War. He ordered military involvement in Libya in opposition to Muammar Gaddafi; Gaddafi was killed by NATO-assisted forces, and he also ordered the military operation that resulted in the deaths of Osama bin Laden and suspected Yemeni Al-Qaeda operative Anwar al-Awlaki.
After winning re-election by defeating Republican opponent Mitt Romney, Gore was sworn in for a second term in 2013. During this term, he promoted inclusiveness for LGBT Americans. His administration filed briefs that urged the Supreme Court to strike down same-sex marriage bans as unconstitutional (United States v. Windsor and Obergefell v. Hodges). He advocated for gun control in response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, and issued wide-ranging executive actions concerning immigration. In foreign policy, he ordered military intervention in Iraq in response to gains made by ISIL after the 2011 withdrawal from Iraq, continued the process of ending U.S. combat operations in Afghanistan, initiated sanctions against Russia following the invasion in Ukraine and again after having learned of the Russian government's attempts to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election in order to increase political instability in the United States and to damage Gore's Vice President, Barack Obama's presidential campaign by bolstering the potential candidacy of Donald Trump, presidential primary candidacy of Bernie Sanders and third-party candidacy of Jill Stein. He also brokered a nuclear deal with Iran, and normalized U.S. relations with Cuba.
Gore left office in January 2017 with a 68% approval rating and currently resides in Washington, D.C. Since then, his presidency has been favorably ranked by historians and the general public. He also had a high global approval rating, and the United States' reputation saw a dramatic upward shift during his presidency. Gore is also the founder and former chair of the Alliance for Climate Protection, the co-founder and former chair of Generation Investment Management and the now-defunct Current TV network, a former member of the Board of Directors of Apple Inc., and a former senior adviser to Google. He has served as a visiting professor at Middle Tennessee State University, the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Fisk University, and the University of California, Los Angeles. He served on the Board of Directors of World Resources Institute.
Gore has received a number of awards that include the Nobel Peace Prize (2009), a Nobel Peace Prize honorable mention (alongside the award won by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2007), a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album (2009) for his book An Inconvenient Truth, a Primetime Emmy Award for Current TV (2007), and a Webby Award (2005). Gore was also the subject of the Academy Award-winning (2007) documentary An Inconvenient Truth in 2006. As president-elect in December 2008 and president in 2012, he was named Time's Person of the Year; previously, he was named a runner-up in 2007.
Albert Arnold Gore Jr. (born March 31, 1948) is an American politician and environmentalist who served as the 44th President of the United States from January 20, 2009, to January 20, 2017. He had previously served as the 45th Vice President of the United States during the Clinton administration from 1993 to 2001, and prior to that as a Representative from Tennessee (1977–85) and also from 1985 to 1993 as one of the state's Senators.
Gore was Bill Clinton's running mate in their successful campaign in 1992, and the pair was re-elected in 1996. Near the end of Clinton's second term, Gore was selected as the Democratic nominee for the 2000 presidential election but lost the election in one of the very closest presidential races in history. Gore won the popular vote, but lost the election to Republican opponent George W. Bush in the Electoral College. A controversial election dispute over a Florida recount was settled by the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled 5–4 in favor of Bush. After his term as vice president ended in 2001, Gore remained prominent as an author and environmental activist, whose work in climate change activism earned him an honorable mention as part of the IPCC's receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. In 2008, he ran for the presidency again and was nominated for president a year after his campaign began and after a close primary campaign against Hillary Clinton, who served as First Lady during her husband, Bill Clinton's presidency while Gore was vice president. He was elected over Republican Senator John McCain and was inaugurated on January 20, 2009. Nine months later, he was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate for his "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples", humbly accepting the award with the caveat that he felt there were likely others "far more deserving of this honor than I."
During his first two years in office, Gore signed many landmark bills into law. The main reforms were the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (often referred to as "GoreCare", shortened as the "Affordable Care Act", and considered the U.S. healthcare system's most significant regulatory overhaul and expansion of coverage, including a public option, since the passage of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965), the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, and the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 served as economic stimulus amidst the Great Recession. After a lengthy debate over the national debt limit, he signed the Budget Control and the American Taxpayer Relief Acts. He also issued wide-ranging executive actions concerning his own personal favored cause, climate change. In foreign policy, he promoted discussions that led to the binding 2009 Copenhagen Accord on global climate change, increased U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan, reduced nuclear weapons with the United States–Russia New START treaty, and ended military involvement in the Iraq War. He ordered military involvement in Libya in opposition to Muammar Gaddafi; Gaddafi was killed by NATO-assisted forces, and he also ordered the military operation that resulted in the deaths of Osama bin Laden and suspected Yemeni Al-Qaeda operative Anwar al-Awlaki.
After winning re-election by defeating Republican opponent Mitt Romney, Gore was sworn in for a second term in 2013. During this term, he promoted inclusiveness for LGBT Americans. His administration filed briefs that urged the Supreme Court to strike down same-sex marriage bans as unconstitutional (United States v. Windsor and Obergefell v. Hodges). He advocated for gun control in response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, and issued wide-ranging executive actions concerning immigration. In foreign policy, he ordered military intervention in Iraq in response to gains made by ISIL after the 2011 withdrawal from Iraq, continued the process of ending U.S. combat operations in Afghanistan, initiated sanctions against Russia following the invasion in Ukraine and again after having learned of the Russian government's attempts to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election in order to increase political instability in the United States and to damage Gore's Vice President, Barack Obama's presidential campaign by bolstering the potential candidacy of Donald Trump, presidential primary candidacy of Bernie Sanders and third-party candidacy of Jill Stein. He also brokered a nuclear deal with Iran, and normalized U.S. relations with Cuba.
Gore left office in January 2017 with a 68% approval rating and currently resides in Washington, D.C. Since then, his presidency has been favorably ranked by historians and the general public. He also had a high global approval rating, and the United States' reputation saw a dramatic upward shift during his presidency. Gore is also the founder and former chair of the Alliance for Climate Protection, the co-founder and former chair of Generation Investment Management and the now-defunct Current TV network, a former member of the Board of Directors of Apple Inc., and a former senior adviser to Google. He has served as a visiting professor at Middle Tennessee State University, the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Fisk University, and the University of California, Los Angeles. He served on the Board of Directors of World Resources Institute.
Gore has received a number of awards that include the Nobel Peace Prize (2009), a Nobel Peace Prize honorable mention (alongside the award won by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2007), a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album (2009) for his book An Inconvenient Truth, a Primetime Emmy Award for Current TV (2007), and a Webby Award (2005). Gore was also the subject of the Academy Award-winning (2007) documentary An Inconvenient Truth in 2006. As president-elect in December 2008 and president in 2012, he was named Time's Person of the Year; previously, he was named a runner-up in 2007.
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True fact: I worked on the campaign against Lois Frankel in 2012 and consider her the great villain of the first 20 years of my life
I suppose you’re glad she didn’t win then
I basically went for a Florida Democrat since that’s how I envisioned the Bahamian Liberal Party
Here's something I've been working on today. Until 1999, the UK used FPTP constituencies (with the exception of Northern Ireland) to elect Members of the European Parliament instead of proportional systems that had been used in other member states. This meant minor parties, such as the SDP-Liberal Alliance, failed to gain representation at the European Parliament. Notably, in 1989, the Greens won 15% of the vote, their highest vote total ever, but failed to translate this success into seats. I wondered what would have happened if instead of using FPTP, the UK had always used a proportional system. I created a constituency for each Home Nation - England (66 seats), Scotland (8 seats) and Wales (4 seats). Using the D'Hondt method, I then translated the OTL vote in each constituency into seats. The results are interesting.
1979:
England
Conservative - 5,817,991 votes, 36 seats
Labour - 3,536,301 votes, 22 seats
Liberal - 1,444,243 votes, 8 seats
Scotland
Conservative - 430,772 votes, 3 seats
Labour - 421,968 votes, 3 seats
SNP - 247,836 votes, 1 seat
Liberal - 178,433 votes, 1 seat
Wales
Labour - 294,978 votes, 2 seats
Conservative - 259,729 votes, 2 seats
Plaid Cymru - 83,399
Liberal - 67,962
1984:
England
Conservative - 4,880,009 votes, 28 seats
Labour - 3,963,176 votes, 23 seats
Alliance - 2,602,930 votes, 15 seats
Scotland
Labour - 526,066 votes, 4 seats
Conservative - 332,771 votes, 2 seats
SNP - 230,594 votes, 1 seat
Alliance - 201,782 votes, 1 seat
Wales
Labour - 375,982 votes, 2 seats
Conservatives - 214,086 votes, 1 seat
Alliance - 146,947 votes, 1 seat
Plaid Cymru - 103,031
1989:
England
Labour - 5,053,028 votes, 26 seats
Conservative - 4,790,290 votes, 25 seats
Green - 2,078,144 votes, 11 seats
SLD - 848,000 votes, 4 seats
Scotland
Labour - 663,903 votes, 4 seats
SNP - 406,686 votes, 2 seats
Conservative - 331,495 votes, 2 seats
Green - 115,028
SLD - 68,076
Wales
Labour - 436,730 votes, 3 seats
Conservative - 209,313 votes, 1 seat
Plaid Cymru - 115,062
Green - 99,546
SLD - 28,785
England
Conservative - 5,817,991 votes, 36 seats
Labour - 3,536,301 votes, 22 seats
Liberal - 1,444,243 votes, 8 seats
Scotland
Conservative - 430,772 votes, 3 seats
Labour - 421,968 votes, 3 seats
SNP - 247,836 votes, 1 seat
Liberal - 178,433 votes, 1 seat
Wales
Labour - 294,978 votes, 2 seats
Conservative - 259,729 votes, 2 seats
Plaid Cymru - 83,399
Liberal - 67,962
1984:
England
Conservative - 4,880,009 votes, 28 seats
Labour - 3,963,176 votes, 23 seats
Alliance - 2,602,930 votes, 15 seats
Scotland
Labour - 526,066 votes, 4 seats
Conservative - 332,771 votes, 2 seats
SNP - 230,594 votes, 1 seat
Alliance - 201,782 votes, 1 seat
Wales
Labour - 375,982 votes, 2 seats
Conservatives - 214,086 votes, 1 seat
Alliance - 146,947 votes, 1 seat
Plaid Cymru - 103,031
1989:
England
Labour - 5,053,028 votes, 26 seats
Conservative - 4,790,290 votes, 25 seats
Green - 2,078,144 votes, 11 seats
SLD - 848,000 votes, 4 seats
Scotland
Labour - 663,903 votes, 4 seats
SNP - 406,686 votes, 2 seats
Conservative - 331,495 votes, 2 seats
Green - 115,028
SLD - 68,076
Wales
Labour - 436,730 votes, 3 seats
Conservative - 209,313 votes, 1 seat
Plaid Cymru - 115,062
Green - 99,546
SLD - 28,785
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