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THIS IS DEWEY COUNTRY Ep. 3 - An alternate timeline of the events after the 1948 election

November 7th, 1956



As the nation awakes, it's clear that after a second attempt, Estes Kefauver has won the presidency.
Cheering supporters crowd the streets of America, and especially at Kefauver's headquarters in Chattanooga, Tennesse, as the results of a Democratic sweep are confirmed. The Democrats will retain the control of Congress like they in 1950 with a welcome bigger majority, after the disappointing results of the 1954 midterms, where they managed to keep the House but lose the Senate; but most importantly they have won the White House.

Kefauver's victory wasn't really doubted of really; as soon as the Republican establishment forced the nomination of the somewhat moderate incumbent Vice-President Earl Warren in the midst of the summer, and the Democratic Party re-nominated the popular senator from Tennessee Estes Kefauver, whom was the 1952 nominee and had lost by only one electoral vote and less than 300k votes, the general belief and sensation was already in favour of Kefauver, to much concern of the Republicans.

In fact, the Dewey Administration was falling into disgrace, mainly because of the insuccess in ending the Korean War, which was still ongoing all the way from 1950. Some victories in the summer of 1952 is what had permitted a very narrow Dewey re-election, but this time Americans were very much tired of it, and the nomination of Earl Warren didn't help the party, and also further dividing the moderate wing from the conservative one which had dominated Congress until 1950 and that had forced Dewey to coalize with the Democrats sometimes, to pass his moderately liberal legislation. Instead, Kefauver campaigned mainly on the promise of ending the war, which was now in a stalemate, and to finally pass through what he called the "Sincere Liberalism"- in opposition to Dewey's "Timid Liberalism" - a set of legislation which mainly focused on education, healthcare and social security.

In an attempt to reunite the party to be able to face the election, Warren picked conservative leader and perennial senator from Ohio Robert A. Taft as his running mate, something that the latter reluctantly accepted. The Democrats instead went safe and also re-nominated the Illinois governor Adlai Stevenson II as Kefauver's running mate, like in 1952.

The campaign conducing to the Fall further helped the sensation of a next Kefauver victory; the picking of Taft had somewhat backfired because of the Ohioan senator actions: while Warren was a calm, relaxed figure, Taft made fiery speeches, and very much conservative and a tad contrasting with the general tone that the moderate establishment had originally set. This helped to spread the idea that the Republican ticket of this year was not capable of a successful partnership once elected, and that the Republican Party was seriously split. Meanwhile, Kefauver and Stevenson preserved that same excentric but working chemistry they had in 1952: one an incendiary speaker, that would tour the nation to raise support, and the other an intellectual, that was the main fact-bringer of the campaign in debates.

And so came election day, and general polling and public opinion were proven right: Kefauver won relatively early in the night when Texas was called for the Democrats.
At the end of the night Kefauver had won, if not replicating FDR's landslides, by a comfortable margin in both the electoral and popular vote.

Voter turnout saw a 4.9% drop after the dramatic 10% spike of 1952. This was mainly caused by the fact that a significant chunck of Republican voters didn't bother to go vote.

Will the new administration accomplish it's promises? Will American boys come home from Korea? We shall see.



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Bob Taft would’ve been dead for three years by that point.
 
2000 New England General Election
To say things were going badly for Howard Dean and the Veteran Conservatives would be an understatement. The economic crash of 1999 and the embargo on fishing, logging and mining passed by several radical environmental members of the Federal Republican party forced the economy into a recession. Many people looked to the apparent inaction that Prime Minister Dean had been blamed for and pushed eagerly for either a new prime minister with a victory by the Vermont Republicans in the form of Charles W. Mulaney Jr or a slap on the wrist in the form of a less ruling party members taking their seats in Boston next parliamentarian year. While Dean promised to keep the sinking ship on a steady course, there were challenges by former veteran conservative and celebrated Cuban War hero Wesley Clark, who vowed to alter course heavily in a right leaning position.

Meanwhile, populist democratic candidate and billionaire Lincoln Chaffee enthused the needed boost of cash in his political base and declared to run 30 candidates in the general election as an alternative to the special interest groups and corruption that plagued Boston at the time. He founded the Yankee Democrats party and promised to bring an end to deadlock in the halls of the electoral chamber.

The issues were mostly centered around each party's apparent operations and plans to stop the economic "bleeding" of the country's economy, which was still suffering from the '99 crash. The Federal Republicans The Vermont Republicans pushed for Vermonter Economic policies to be implemented on a nationwide scale. These would involve slashing import tariffs, lowering taxes, increasing military spending and declare a vanquishing of the welfare state, which they argued was sucking up large portions of the nation's economic prosperity. The Federal Republicans wanted to lower taxes to a bare minimum to keep the government from going bankrupt or from having to borrow from international banks or the Minutemen Financial, the largest state owned bank in the nation. The Vermont Republicans even went so far as to advocate the immediate dissolution of the bank in favor of smaller local chapters of the bank, transferring all their gold reserves into less valuable New English Dollars to promote inflation and cheaper goods over the country. This plan brought criticism from the second largest party in parliament, the Union Democrats, who wanted to maintain the state owned bank to prevent "financial chaos" within the nation and the globe. Liberal Freedom suggested to maintain the status quo within the banks while focusing heavily on the social issues, promising to work with other parties to pass legislation that would improve worker's working conditions, increase welfare, abolish the poverty lottery assistance program, which was a large raffle held yearly to assist 23,000 new englanders out of poverty with high interest government loans. This last point was hated because of the relatively small quantity of the population it was assisting and because of the limited impact the lottery had on the nation.

The Yankee Democrats promised the more radical of solutions. Their policy planks rallied against Minutemen Financial, offering to eliminate the pervasive threat of piracy around the waters of New England and to open up diplomatic talks with the Midwestern People's Republic and the Empire of New York and Pennsylvania, both ruled by longstanding dictators Mary A. Herbert and Carl A. Spaatz Jr respectively. They wanted to slowly take economic stations that were originally imposed during the government of Prescott Bush (1940-1944). However, all political parties agreed to stick by tough sanctions that were imposed due to human rights abuses taking place in the Federal Democratic Republic of Maryland, ruled by the "Smiling Strongman" Uncle Sam's Servant and Presidential Dictator Joe Biden, in power since 1976.

Memorable Lines throughout the Campaign
"Now, Prime Minister, Are you suggesting that your approval of a bill for a new vet hospital was in any way influenced by the large monetary donation of 340,000 given by Cynthia Nixon in California toward the coffers of the Veteran Conservative Party?"
"No. That was not my intention. I was merely going to thank Nixon for her never ending support for the nation's veterans of many wars. However, I do intend to bring up the donation and question her about why New England wine is better than those Californian grapes."
*laughter*

~ Member of Parliament Bernie Sanders (Liberal-Freedom) and Prime Minister Howard Dean during Parliamentarian Question Time on August 4th, 2000.

"Prime Minister, did you take bribes during your time as MP for Hampden?"
"I did not take a single New English Dollar, the only money I took as my time was the fifteen cents they agreed to pay me after I was on strike."
"So you were part of the 81 protests during your time as MP? and you were using taxpayer dollars and your own time to protest an unfair law passed by your predecessor?"
"That is correct in a way. I was part of the protests, but I was in no way utilizing the taxpayer and voter's monetary resources during my activities outside of office. That's not a crime."


~ Member of Parliament Chris Shays and Prime Minister Howard Dean during the first debate on September 4th,2000.

"My opponent's crimes and felonies are outrageous! He reportedly paid off several journalists with hush payments to prevent stories of him badmouthing military officials, picking his nose during 4th grade and reportedly burning government documents during his time as MP!"
"I would like to make notice that those documents weren't burnt, they were thrown away by mistake."
"Do you remember what was on those documents?"
"No I would not remember off the top of my he-"
"Do you remember? Prime Minister?"
"No, I've already told you no. End of discussion, let's move onto tax reform, now your plan..."


~ Member of Parliament Chip Mulaney and Prime Minister Howard Dean during the second debate on September 11th,2000.

The results of the voting allowed the people's voices and votes to be both heard and counted, as Veteran Conservative lost 293 seats, losing their majority and forcing them to coalition with a hodgepodge of political parties that also had seats in Parliament. Vermont Republican leadership offered a coalition in opposition to the Federal Republicans. After a quick phone call and the meeting of top party leadership, both parties agreed to form a coalition government. However, there were still not enough seats for them to officially take control of Parliament. After bitter words were exchanged by Clark and Dean on the phone, a sweeter contact came from Chris Shays and Dean, officially forming a ruling coalition between Veteran Conservative-Vermont Republican and Unionist-Democrat. Clark thought it would've been his year for the Prime Minister position and the sweet, sweet government control. While Federal Republican had indeed been the largest party to gain seats that night, with 318 more than when they had started, they still fell short of the 647 seats needed to take back Parliament. Despite hopes of a coalition with Vermont Republicans, those plans fell through when the ruling coalition was announced on television.

Needless to say, Howard Dean kept his job, albeit by a hair's margin, and now enraged his opposition, opposition that would do everything in their power to ensure this would be his last term as prime minister.


2000 North Dakotan Imperial Election
Prime Minister John Hoeven had led the Frontier Party to a bare bones majority government with the assistance of the Rancher Party and Conrad Burns. However, there had been tensions that were begining to simmer between John Thurne and Hoeven, who sacked the Ministers of Education and Deputy Minister of Agricultural Integrity, who had previously been held by Westward Expansion to gift wrap both positions to the Frontier Party. Thurne vowed revenge for Fitzpatrick and O.J Simpson's firings in putting pressure on several Frontier party and Rancher MP's by running better candidates to turn those districts competitive in the election.

Upon the approval of King Barrasso I (1972-present) Parliament was dissolved and the election season commenced. The Frontier Party decided to go with a strategy of promising to keep the ruling coalition together, and so actively held many rallies and events jointly with the Rancher party. The Moderate conservative Frontier and the slightly more right leaning Ranchers seemed to have a winning strategy, with many liking their message of responsible firearm ownership, increased tariffs on manufacturing good and a strengthened armed forces. They promised to lower taxes, and keep the nation on a course of prosperity. However, this all changed when the first waves of the economic crash of 1998 crept into the nation's boarders. This pushed James E. Geringer, who had previously served as an MP and was indecisive about entering politics, to throw his hat into the ring with the Guns and God party, promoting far right solutions to the problems of the nation. His strategy was to gain a small amount of seats and grow his party's influence throughout the country, starting with his native state and then stretching outwards.
His planks were bluntly simple:
1. Promote a religious symbolism within the boarders of the country and push for a desecuralism of the nation's schools, wanting to have priests begin the pledge, hire only Protestant believing teachers and to ban the teaching of evolution within the classrooms of the nation.
2. Ensure that the right of firearms is not tampered with and promote a fear within other parties that the Frontier party would acquiesce to the removal of firearms from people's homes to promote government tyranny over the country.

Memorable Lines from the debate
"Do firearms and religious extremism not make for a wonderful combination, I'm sure Geringer would back my ass up on this. You're wanting to fund a Dakotan version of the Army of God! What's next, you want us to go on crusades marching through Chicago against those godless communists to our east while converting the populace?"
"I most certainly see my great and noble mission to be nothing less than to preserve the rights of our grandfathers in the operation of firearms and to push for a religious hegemony throughout the state. for too darn long the Government has lost the god in it's name."
"I hate to break it to you, but there was never any god in government, it doesn't work because there is no d in government."

~ John Hoeven, James E. Geringer and John Thune during an informal radio debate.
The Results of the election caused panic within the ranks of the Frontier Party, as twenty of their seats and six of the Frontier party's seats were eaten up by the three old guard parties and the one baby faced political movement of Gods and Guns, who gained 2 representatives and nearly 600,000 votes. Despite the advice of his own party leadership, Hoeven went against their wishes to simply reform the coalition with Rancher, reportedly opening fire on several rancher politicians that approached his ranch in Bismark, though no-one was injured in the incident. The Rancher party then broke off all ties with the Frontier party, leaving Hoeven to scramble for allies in Manifest Destiny and the radical Guns and God party to form a working coalition government. On October 27th, eight minutes before the King's deadline to form a government, His Majesty's most blessed,exploitative and sacredly armed coalition was hobbled out with Frontier-Manifest Destiny- Guns and God, leaving Rancher, Westward Expansion and the tiny Native Rights to form His Majesty's most cattle driven, expansive and indigenous opposition in Parliament.
Politics makes strange beds, and politicians make even stranger bedfellows.

2000 Confederate States of America Election
The Last House of Counties election saw a slim majority for the Whig Party over the Democratic party, yet the Whigs decided to go together with their more in common cousins of the Confederate party, which came in third regarding seat count. While the Democratic party felt maddened by this switch in supposed party loyalty, the Whigs felt uneasy in this result. They were worried that county house members would jump ship and defect at the prospect of government changes, so they proposed a government shutdown right before the election, though this was rejected by party leadership as a bad move before a legislative election.

The Head of the Democratic Party pushed hard for a referendum on the abolition of slavery. As did the heads and central party leadership of the Whigs, backing the Confederates into a corner of the looming threat of a shutdown unless the chains were released on the 9 million African american prisoners enslaved. The 1998 economic crisis soon yanked the slavery issue to the back burner, forcing many voters to not worry about how they would get someone to fix their oven, but rather get by on their inflating monetary notes of Dixe Dollars, which were becoming worse and worse thanks to the ill thought out monetary policies by the Minister of the Economy Sonny Perdue (D-GA), who had been sacked but not officially fired until the day before the election. City-Senator of Richmond Douglas Wilder (C-VA), one of the loudest voices for his removal, got the job thanks to investment in Martin's local oil company near the gulf of mexico. During this election, there were large protests against Martin's supposed corrupt influences, which brought on even larger counter-protests all in Richmond on the eve of the election, resulting the Richmond Riots of 2000, which saw 480.5 million Dixie Dollars worth of damage, 9,205 arrests, 75 deaths, 504 injuries and a total of 54,967 homes & 6,338 businesses vandalized out of the 60,000 homes and 7,000 business that were in the downtown area of Richmond during the riot.

2001 CSA constitutional referendum
Despite the distraction provided by the Economic crisis on the slavery issue, several thousand petitions to local governors and the Prime Minister forced him to call for a referendum to get approval for a recently passed but blocked by the Senate bill that would outlaw slavery. If a majority of the state governments (6/10) and at least a 10% plurality over the opposition's vote was reached, then the referendum would be signed as a legally binding mandate of the people and bypass the senate to grant the Prime Minister the right to bring it into law.
Proponents of the bill wished for the government to be brought into the 21st century gracefully, if not kicking and screaming all the way to the emancipated workforce. There were several reasonable issues that were brought up by the No" campaign, such as what to do with the largely freed workforce. The "Yes" campaign brought up the added tax revenue that millions of freed colors would do for the nation, and proposed a method of segregation that was equal to the conditions that the white population had in the south.

The day of the referendum arrived, and early results looked promising, as several areas that had already polled Yes coming in huge numbers out to the polls, with the first state called for the Yes campaign being Tennessee. However, a No state was called soon after, with Alabama landing in that column. One by One the states were called. However, results for Mississippi were found to be on a hair's thread, with the ballots narrow getting closer. At one point, the Yes campaign was leading by just 405 votes, only to go back to the No campaign by 139, and then it went back to the Yes campaign by 27, then swung back for the final time in the No campaign by just 6 votes.
On January 10th, 2001, Prime Minister Steve Martin, who only haphazardly backed a Yes campaign because of the political pressure on his party, brought out the concession speech on behalf of the Yes campaign addressed at the 'No' one. Despite rumors and calls for Martin to resign from his office which he had held as Prime Minister since 1990, Martin neglected to leave the part in in the meat of his speech, merely putting a passing defiance murmur that "The incumbent leadership finds that a new head of state would be unwise at this time, as such the incumbent prime minister shall maintain his role with the support of his governing coalition of parties in the House of Counties."

NASH-03
Held from June 1st, 2003 to June 8th, 2003, the annual meeting of North American State Heads (NASH) was the last one to take place in California until the Sacramento meeting in 2013. The 2002 meeting took place in Herbert's Revolutionary People's Vacation Home near the Ohio SR and Kentucky SR boarder. This meeting was notable for being the first one that newly sworn in president Billy Mays, the victor of the 2002 Californian snap election, attended. It was also notable for being the last one that Prime Minister John Hoeven would attend. Other attendees were longstanding members Barry M. Goldwater, who had attended every NASH since 1990, and Mary Alice Herbert, who had attended every NASH since 1980. The Meeting place was decided by the Committee of NASH Localisation Diplomacy and International Outreach, or LDIO.
Emphasis was placed upon a plan for lower tariffs and the begining of an economic union between all separate nations, the idea coming from Prime Minister Dean, who wanted to eventually tie the culturally different countries together with a shared currency. He proposed the Deanller, though this was rejected for being a stupid name for a shared currency. After several ideas floated around in their heads, such as the Mayes Money, the Goldwater goldcoin, the Bush buck, the Herbert Hotpocket, and the Continental SpaatzMark,nothing came from this idea and the issue was dropped, much to Dean's humiliation.

During the meeting, Uncle Sam's Servant and Presidential Dictator Joe Biden was pressured to institute democratic reforms within his nation's totalitarian boarders, to which he refused, but acquiesced to a proposed tourist board to visit some of the historic capital buildings and the many statues dedicated to Americana Worship and to explore the cult of personality developed over the years around Biden. Progress was also made against Mary Herbert, who revealed a simmering power struggle within her nation over who would succeed her as Chairwoman of the Revolutionary Politburo Standing Committee, the highest organ of party power and the de facto head of state. It was revealed that several members on the Politburo, of which there were 9 ( 1 from each S.R) were wanting to push a young member of the party from Illinois S.R named Barrack Obama to the position, though he was backed by a multitude of political factions within the Great Lakes Communist Party (GLCU). During this, several state visits between the continental leaders were brought up and approved, with the most notable being Joe Biden's first visit to California since 1977.
Other notable achievements of this meeting between heads of state was the agreement of a renegotiated trade deal with California, Arizona and New Mexico, with all three signatures of Billy Mays, Barry Goldwater and Gary Johnson being finalized on the document after two days of negotiation and the sending of the proposed renegotiated treaty to their respective legislative assemblies,where approval would be needed before it would take effect.

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- various comments from online message boards, 2028.

With the kind of candidates this 2028 presented, I'd expect the voter turnout to drop far more greatly than just 3.4%.

Also, I have a suspicion that 2032 will end poorly for AOC. The '32 date isn't exactly known for good economic conditions or close elections.
 
THIS IS DEWEY COUNTRY Ep. 4 - An alternate timeline of the events after the 1948 election

November 9th, 1960


After a short-lived hope for the Republicans, the night clearly unfolded in favor of the Democrats.
The Democratic nominee, popular WW2 and Korea general, senator from Kansas since 1958 Dwight D. Eisenhower has won in a landslide, both in the electoral and popular vote.

Nixon hopes were slashed early in the night, and Eisenhower supporters flooded the electrically-lighted streets in the early hours of today. The popular slogan of Eisenhower's campaign "I like Ike" resounds in the voices, minds, and newspapers of the nation. His victory speech is broadcasted as Americans wake up and have breakfast.
Nixon had already conceded hours before.

The slogan was already popular among Americans during the campaign as it was the man itself: Eisenhower was a Kansas man that led the allied forces in WW2 to victory in Europe, and later he would lead allied troops into a successful retreat and peace in the Korean War, after being appointed by President Kefauver in 1957. At this point, he was considered as one of the USA's most important men, and for many years he was on the list for the Man of the Year Issue of Time Magazine. After the end of the Korean War with the signing of an actual peace deal, the Daeseong Treaty, by Kefauver in January of 1958, he ran for Senate in the Kansas special election as a moderate Democrat and won overwhelmingly. He then campaigned for the Democratic nomination for President after incumbent Estes Kefauver announced he would not seek a second term because of his heart problems and won narrowly against popular Massachusetts senator John F. Kennedy, whom he later picked as his running mate.

On the other side, the Republican nomination was a three-way race with California Senator Richard M. Nixon, well-known ambassador and JFK's defeated opponent in the Massachusetts 1952 senate race Henry Cabot Lodge, and New York governor Nelson A. Rockefeller running. After an intense primary, Nixon surged victorious, and picked Lodge as his running mate, some say because of Eisenhower choosing Kennedy.

Now that the country was at peace thanks to a Democrat, and the economy was booming, Nixon's battle was very much uphill.
Eisenhower promised to maintain and defend Kefauver's peace and educational and healthcare reforms, while Nixon advocated for a reduction of government power. But apart from that Nixon was very much uninspiring for the voters, as he really didn't have much charisma, and he was very vague in addressing many issues, being this part of a (backfiring) campaign strategy to not offend anybody.

As election day came, it was pretty clear who was going to win. And Eisenhower won by a landslide and with a double-digit lead in the popular vote. Nixon barely won his home state of California, which had not gone Democrat since 1952, and Eisenhower managed to break the midwestern red wall winning by a considerable margin his home state of Kansas. Kansas had not gone Democrat in 24 years since FDR won it in 1936.

This was the first election in which Hawaii and Alaska could vote.

Will Eisenhower be able to hold up Kefauver's legacy? Will he distinguish himself as a mediocre, good or terrific president?

We shall see.

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With the kind of candidates this 2028 presented, I'd expect the voter turnout to drop far more greatly than just 3.4%.
Also, I have a suspicion that 2032 will end poorly for AOC. The '32 date isn't exactly known for good economic conditions or close elections.
Well, yes, in a logical world. But this is supposed to be one of those near-future semi-dystopias where there's no such thing as the middle isle anymore, where every voter is either hard-left or hard-right. The idea was 'what if we take the political divides from the current era and just make them worse?'
 
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The First Strait War was a war between the Republic of China, commonly known as Taiwan, and the People's Republic of China, with token support from North Korea. The war began on 3 June 1995 when China declared war on Taiwan following a series of diplomatic challenges to Taiwan's possession of nuclear weapons. It was the first war in which both sides possessed and use nuclear weapons and was the first military engagement in the Strait Conflicts. It is widely recognized to have started the Millennium Nuclear Crisis.

As a product of the Chinese Civil War between the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China, the nation had been split into two sovereign states. Both governments claimed to be the sole legitimate government of China, but had settled into a diplomatic and geopolitical stalemate. Following the nuclear bombing of Baghdad by the United States government, Taiwan refused to cease its nuclear program, calling the United States government "hypocritical'. The exact date of the creation of Taiwan's first nuclear weapon is unknown, but it is expected to have been first created between 1990 and 1992. It is known by the time of the First Strait War, Taiwan had at least twelve nuclear missiles. Threatened by Taiwan's capabilities, the PRC demanded that Taiwan destroy all nuclear weapons, which the United States also suggested.

Despite threats from the United States of ceasing relations, Taiwan refused to give up their weaponry, leading to the ending of the unofficial relationship between the United States and Taiwan that had existed since 1979. This caused the mainland Chinese government to consider invasion, by at least 1994, but no military actions were taken until 1995. China declared war in June, which led to the immediate reprisal of Taiwan. In the course of the war, at least twenty nuclear weapons were fired between both nations, leading to over a million civilian casualties and the tactical defeat of Taiwan. However, following the intervention of the United States government and the United Nations, both nations were forced to negotiate a stalemate at the Treaty of Manila, with U.S. President Eugene McCarthy serving as the mediator, representing the United Nations.
 

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WIP. I've been working on this for a long time and was inspired to post what I've got so far by Nerdman3000's excellent work.

I recommend reading it while listening to this:

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Great series. I like the sincere depiction of alternate cultures. The bit on the slavery referendum in the CSA in 2001 is pretty horrific.
Thank you very much!
Are you horrified that the referendum failed or that the CSA would still have slavery survive into the 21st century?
 
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