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The 1975 Progressive Conservative Party leadership convention was held in early February, 1975, in the wake of Robert Stanfield's resignation as party leader after the Tories were beaten at the polls by the Social Democratic & Labor Party during the preceding years general election. Convening in Philadelphia's Civic Center, 2,360 delegates gathered for a weekend of balloting and speeches as the party prepared to face it's future. Six candidates had filed with the Progressive Conservative Party's executive committee, representing a wide range of constituencies and interests within the party.
The initial front runner was Flora MacDonald, who was only first elected to the House in 1970 from her riding, Cape Breton Island. Despite being relatively new to parliament, the Nova Scotian quickly became a national feature due to her longstanding ties to Stanfield. Her involvement in the Progressive Conservative Party's political apparatus was key to her success, having risen from receptionist to party committeewoman while working as a professor of political science and later an MP on the side. MacDonald's rise was supported by the outgoing Stanfield, who had employed her for many years. A fiercely independent woman with fiery red hair and a zest for public service, MacDonald entered the race as the favorite of the "Red Tory" wing of the party. Her populist campaign, based around bread and butter issues during a time of economic stagnation, endeared her to more pragmatic Tories, who appreciated her candor. But she was not alone in the race.
Her chief rival was Claude Wagner, a law and order focused former Quebec provincial Minister and as of 1970, a member of the House of Commons. An outspoken opponent of Quebec separatism, Wagner entered the convention with a large amount of support among delegates from his native Quebec, yet he still struggled to attract the support of conservative delegates from outside of his province. Another Quebec candidate in the mix was that of Brian Mulroney, a business executive and lawyer based out of Montreal. Running in opposition to both Wagner and MacDonald, Mulroney - only in his thirties - used his personal wealth to fund a media savvy campaign that was complete with a dancing troupe of slogan chanting cheerleaders who fired up the crowds at events on the campaign trail.
One candidate who straddled the middle between Wagner and MacDonald was George Bush, a Connecticut MP and Foreign Minister under Stanfield. Bush was a popular figure within the party, and was considered one of the stronger candidates for the leadership. Yet his relative lack of charisma hampered his campaign, and despite his personal wealth, he simply could not keep up financially with Mulroney to run a strong campaign. Though Bush had hoped his experience in the cabinet of Stanfield would make him stand tall over MacDonald, Mulroney, and Wager - all of whom were either first term MPs with no ministerial experience, or in Mulroney's case, not an MP at all, his campaign limped into the convention with fewer than anticipated delegates pledged to his campaign.
Lastly, Phil Crane, an arch-conservative MP from suburban Chicago, ran as the most outspokenly anti-communist and pro-London candidate in the field. With Wagner running on a campaign of law and order populism whereas Mulroney dominated the monetarist wing, there was little room on the right-wing of the Progressive Conservative Party for Crane to break out from. A further 17 votes, all write-ins, were also cast. Eight of these votes were for the retiring Robert Stanfield, four for Tonight Show host Ronald Reagan, three for former Premier and perennial candidate Harold Stassen, and one each for Gerald Ford and George Wallace.
When the first ballot was officially underway, it became quickly apparent to the candidates, commentators, and the viewers watching from home that something was happening. Though she entered the convention with 700 pledged delegates elected in constituency caucuses across the country, the "Flora Syndrome" played out; as a result, more delegates that initially were skeptical of MacDonald's candidacy and gender suddenly threw their support behind her campaign during the vote, leading to a completely unanticipated (if also narrow) first ballot majority. MacDonald's election as leader of the opposition made history as she became the first woman to lead an American political party.
MacDonald's unique campaign was later written about widely and is studied to this day by political science students; starting out in the middle of the polls as a largely unknown candidate, Flora MacDonald applied her own knowledge and wide experience within the party apparatus to organize supporters on the precinct level, visiting local party chapters to organize a core group of dedicated supporters. Accompanied occasionally by a bagpiper playing the old Jacobite folk tune Flora MacDonald, the campaign raised less money then all of her opponents spare Philip Crane, MacDonald ran her leadership campaign on a shoe string budget, employing strategies such as mail chains and visiting small businesses to hear the direct concerns of conservative voters. Her campaign remains one of the biggest upsets in American history.
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1974 American Federal Election
Up Next: Hubert Humphrey!
The initial front runner was Flora MacDonald, who was only first elected to the House in 1970 from her riding, Cape Breton Island. Despite being relatively new to parliament, the Nova Scotian quickly became a national feature due to her longstanding ties to Stanfield. Her involvement in the Progressive Conservative Party's political apparatus was key to her success, having risen from receptionist to party committeewoman while working as a professor of political science and later an MP on the side. MacDonald's rise was supported by the outgoing Stanfield, who had employed her for many years. A fiercely independent woman with fiery red hair and a zest for public service, MacDonald entered the race as the favorite of the "Red Tory" wing of the party. Her populist campaign, based around bread and butter issues during a time of economic stagnation, endeared her to more pragmatic Tories, who appreciated her candor. But she was not alone in the race.
Her chief rival was Claude Wagner, a law and order focused former Quebec provincial Minister and as of 1970, a member of the House of Commons. An outspoken opponent of Quebec separatism, Wagner entered the convention with a large amount of support among delegates from his native Quebec, yet he still struggled to attract the support of conservative delegates from outside of his province. Another Quebec candidate in the mix was that of Brian Mulroney, a business executive and lawyer based out of Montreal. Running in opposition to both Wagner and MacDonald, Mulroney - only in his thirties - used his personal wealth to fund a media savvy campaign that was complete with a dancing troupe of slogan chanting cheerleaders who fired up the crowds at events on the campaign trail.
One candidate who straddled the middle between Wagner and MacDonald was George Bush, a Connecticut MP and Foreign Minister under Stanfield. Bush was a popular figure within the party, and was considered one of the stronger candidates for the leadership. Yet his relative lack of charisma hampered his campaign, and despite his personal wealth, he simply could not keep up financially with Mulroney to run a strong campaign. Though Bush had hoped his experience in the cabinet of Stanfield would make him stand tall over MacDonald, Mulroney, and Wager - all of whom were either first term MPs with no ministerial experience, or in Mulroney's case, not an MP at all, his campaign limped into the convention with fewer than anticipated delegates pledged to his campaign.
Lastly, Phil Crane, an arch-conservative MP from suburban Chicago, ran as the most outspokenly anti-communist and pro-London candidate in the field. With Wagner running on a campaign of law and order populism whereas Mulroney dominated the monetarist wing, there was little room on the right-wing of the Progressive Conservative Party for Crane to break out from. A further 17 votes, all write-ins, were also cast. Eight of these votes were for the retiring Robert Stanfield, four for Tonight Show host Ronald Reagan, three for former Premier and perennial candidate Harold Stassen, and one each for Gerald Ford and George Wallace.
When the first ballot was officially underway, it became quickly apparent to the candidates, commentators, and the viewers watching from home that something was happening. Though she entered the convention with 700 pledged delegates elected in constituency caucuses across the country, the "Flora Syndrome" played out; as a result, more delegates that initially were skeptical of MacDonald's candidacy and gender suddenly threw their support behind her campaign during the vote, leading to a completely unanticipated (if also narrow) first ballot majority. MacDonald's election as leader of the opposition made history as she became the first woman to lead an American political party.
MacDonald's unique campaign was later written about widely and is studied to this day by political science students; starting out in the middle of the polls as a largely unknown candidate, Flora MacDonald applied her own knowledge and wide experience within the party apparatus to organize supporters on the precinct level, visiting local party chapters to organize a core group of dedicated supporters. Accompanied occasionally by a bagpiper playing the old Jacobite folk tune Flora MacDonald, the campaign raised less money then all of her opponents spare Philip Crane, MacDonald ran her leadership campaign on a shoe string budget, employing strategies such as mail chains and visiting small businesses to hear the direct concerns of conservative voters. Her campaign remains one of the biggest upsets in American history.
Dominion of America & 1970 American Federal Election
1974 American Federal Election
Up Next: Hubert Humphrey!
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Not to nitpick, but I think Bush would just be known as George Bush...or is George W. Bush relevant in this TL?
Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – July 10, 1887) was an American statesman and lawyer who served as the 1st president of the Free States of America (1861–1873). Lincoln led the nation through its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis in the first American Civil War. He won the FSA's independence, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the F.S. economy. Lincoln had been the Republican nominee for the 1860 US Presidential Election but lost to Vice President John C. Breckenridge amid controversy of a startling amount of Breckenridge's votes being from deceased voters but he still became President leading to the succession of Maryland from the Union and soon many other North Eastern states before the Free States of America was born. Lincoln was unanimously elected the new president on February 16, 1861 with John C. Frémont being elected vice president before a couple of months later the US attacked the FS starting the first American Civil War.
(based of my post in the list of alternate presidents thread)
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
*Vandenberg is from Michigan, forgot to change that.
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*Vandenberg is from Michigan, forgot to change that.
(sorry for bad cropping)
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I got an idea of a mix between some 60's cop show and if richard nixon decided to become an actor instead of reagan.
Tricky Dicky was an american police drama that ran from 1962 to 1975. The brainchild of seasoned actor Richard Nixon, the former Vice President of the United States, in the wake of his political defeat to Roman Hruska in the 1960 Republican Primaries, opts to go into television. After pitching the idea to the BBC, who rejected an american cop drama, he turned the idea to ABC, who green-lit an inital ten episode series. Hiring the italian Ennio Morricone for the theme music, the telivison show became a mixed hit at the start, though managed to make enough ratings to convince ABC in renewing it several times.
The synopsis is that "Tricky" Dick Fritz is appointed the new political position of Police Commissioner of America by the unnamed fictional president (though passing remarks are granted at it being either Robert Byrd or Sean Connery adopting a heavily southern accent). He is assisted in his struggles by a hot headed, mean and frequently loud southern "Sheriff of the South" Ceaser "Bob" Jackson (played by Lyndon B. Johnson).
Additional supporting characters are in Pat Nixon, who plays Jessica Lurleen Fritz, the wife of the Police Commissioner. Other cast members include the bloodthirsty "Rolling Thunder" Goldwater, who frequently brags about murder and rules an intricate criminal empire based in Las Vegas. Robert F. Kennedy plays Wilson Applejax, an up-and coming Legal-Protector of the Northeastern States, who represents those states when cases come to the Supreme Jury in the fictional Rightsburg, based in and shot on location in Philadelphia. Kentucky Fried Chicken magnate and Governor of Kentucky Harland Sanders plays Albert Fritz, Dick's well meaning (if peculiar) father, who gives him unwarranted advice and acts as a jokester often before grisly events.
The Show ran for thirteen years with twelve seasons and one hundred and eighty two episodes. Behind the scenes, there was disagreement between J. Edgar Hoover, the recently fired FBI Director who had never done show-business before and the slightly more seasoned John N. Mitchell, who had managed a few campaign ads for Nixon's failed 1960 Presidential campaign. By the fourth season, the show had reached a large audience of twenty million active watchers, though disagreements over budgeting and a threaten by the staff to strike in favor of better wages made production suffer by the 8th season, which included the only Special, "Yule-Tide Glee", airing around christmas time. Many hardcore fans of the series consider the show to have "jumped the shark" by the 9th Season, which saw antagonist "Rolling Thunder" opt to launch a criminal attack against Nixon himself in the capital in "Lighting Strikes Twice".
The show remained popular, though the cast opted to move onto other things, such as potential political careers, with Martin Luther King Jr winning the Mayor ship of New York City once establishing residency there. In 1984 Richard Nixon would reluctantly reprise a reboot of the beloved show, which met with favorable ratings enough to provide him with income and something to do until his death in 1994. Currently, ABC has been in talks with Tricia Nixon for her part in a female staring show called Tricky Tricia, though it remains to be seen if those talks will go anywhere.
Tricky Dicky was an american police drama that ran from 1962 to 1975. The brainchild of seasoned actor Richard Nixon, the former Vice President of the United States, in the wake of his political defeat to Roman Hruska in the 1960 Republican Primaries, opts to go into television. After pitching the idea to the BBC, who rejected an american cop drama, he turned the idea to ABC, who green-lit an inital ten episode series. Hiring the italian Ennio Morricone for the theme music, the telivison show became a mixed hit at the start, though managed to make enough ratings to convince ABC in renewing it several times.
The synopsis is that "Tricky" Dick Fritz is appointed the new political position of Police Commissioner of America by the unnamed fictional president (though passing remarks are granted at it being either Robert Byrd or Sean Connery adopting a heavily southern accent). He is assisted in his struggles by a hot headed, mean and frequently loud southern "Sheriff of the South" Ceaser "Bob" Jackson (played by Lyndon B. Johnson).
Additional supporting characters are in Pat Nixon, who plays Jessica Lurleen Fritz, the wife of the Police Commissioner. Other cast members include the bloodthirsty "Rolling Thunder" Goldwater, who frequently brags about murder and rules an intricate criminal empire based in Las Vegas. Robert F. Kennedy plays Wilson Applejax, an up-and coming Legal-Protector of the Northeastern States, who represents those states when cases come to the Supreme Jury in the fictional Rightsburg, based in and shot on location in Philadelphia. Kentucky Fried Chicken magnate and Governor of Kentucky Harland Sanders plays Albert Fritz, Dick's well meaning (if peculiar) father, who gives him unwarranted advice and acts as a jokester often before grisly events.
The Show ran for thirteen years with twelve seasons and one hundred and eighty two episodes. Behind the scenes, there was disagreement between J. Edgar Hoover, the recently fired FBI Director who had never done show-business before and the slightly more seasoned John N. Mitchell, who had managed a few campaign ads for Nixon's failed 1960 Presidential campaign. By the fourth season, the show had reached a large audience of twenty million active watchers, though disagreements over budgeting and a threaten by the staff to strike in favor of better wages made production suffer by the 8th season, which included the only Special, "Yule-Tide Glee", airing around christmas time. Many hardcore fans of the series consider the show to have "jumped the shark" by the 9th Season, which saw antagonist "Rolling Thunder" opt to launch a criminal attack against Nixon himself in the capital in "Lighting Strikes Twice".
The show remained popular, though the cast opted to move onto other things, such as potential political careers, with Martin Luther King Jr winning the Mayor ship of New York City once establishing residency there. In 1984 Richard Nixon would reluctantly reprise a reboot of the beloved show, which met with favorable ratings enough to provide him with income and something to do until his death in 1994. Currently, ABC has been in talks with Tricia Nixon for her part in a female staring show called Tricky Tricia, though it remains to be seen if those talks will go anywhere.
One issue: Washington, D.C. voted Democrat by high double-digit margins since 1964. You'd need a controversy so large that it completely wipes out the entire Democratic Party, if you want to get DC hop on the Republican ship.
And that would cause the Dems to lose every single state first, which almost happened in 1984. In that year, Mondale carried Minnesota by 3761 votes, or a 0.22 percent margin (and Reagan still carried 5 out of 8 Minnesotan congressional districts despite that); but he carried DC by 151,399 votes, or a 71.65 percent margin.
Honestly I just used a screenshot from the map wikipedia infobox of the 1992 election...
The rest is believable (except possibly DC) but how did an ancient evil like Burns get 20 million votes? He's a convicted felon over toxic waste dumping and the other two candidates would have a field day digging up all his other evil acts. Its probably why he never ran on the show, to many things could get dug up.
You just know Homer would ruin it all for him (on purpose or otherwise).
He's pretty charismatic and after some recent POTUS's a known supervillain really isn't that scary.
continuing
(So, I decided that the writeup looks a bit too small in anything else than a computer with the full page open so... here's the writeup that isn't in an image
Arthur (Arthur Vincent Theodore Charles; 9 November 1841 – 18 April 1916) was Emperor of Albion from 16 March 1908 until his death in 1916.
The eldest son of Victoria the Great and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Arthur was related to royalty throughout Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. He was Prince of Wales and heir apparent to the Albish Throne for over 60 years, and he was the longest-serving in heir in Albish History, having held the title from birth to age 66. During the long reign of his mother he was constantly involved in politics and held offices in government and in the military multiple times, serving as regent or as her representative and holding the position of Chief of the Defence Staff from 1890 to 1908. A trained diplomat, he also served as the empire's head of foreign relations during his adulthood, inheriting his mother's dislike of the French, who called him "the Sourfaced".
Arthur was educated by private tutors before entering the Royal Military Academy Woolwich at the age of 15, and while absent during his first venture as regent, he graduated at age 19, and was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Army, where he would serve for nearly 50 years until his ascension to the throne, seeing service in various parts of the empire. Placed mostly on North America and Africa, he served as a commander during the Fenian Raids in Canada as well as the Willamette Rising in Oregon, gaining widespread fame and admiration from the public both there and in the Home Islands. He later also commanded armies during the Boer Wars and in the Albish intervention on the Brazilian Civil War and the Anglo-La Platan War, ordering the infamous Raid of Montevideo.
The personification of the ideal Albish nobleman, with his good looks, interest in the arts and culture, good manners and military service, Arthur served during his time as Prince of Wales as one of the main faces of the Royal Family, helping cement its position in the heart of Albish society as the glue which connects the various cultures and entities that make the Empire. Attending as much as 10.000 public events and ceremonies during his tenure as heir, Arthur was responsible for establishing the modern saying of monarchs rules, princes appear in relation to the functions of members of the family, he also founded, was president, chairman or member of over 100 charities and organizations, the major of which was The Prince's Trust.
A lover of African culture and history, Arthur has been many times credited for establishing the many treaties between the Albion and her native subjects in the continent, serving as an ambassador more than once to royal courts there and developing the system of protectorates that have for over a century composed most of Imperial Africa and being a personal friend of rulers like king Cetshwayo of the Zulu, chief Mgolombane of the Ngqika, king X Kanyembo Ntemena of Kazembeand the queen Khesetoane of the Balobedu, whom he is said to have slept, reason why her daugher and successor, Queen Makoma, was biracial.
The oldest Albish monarch at the time of his ascension to the throne, surpassing William IV's 64 years, 10 months and 5 days, Arthur's reign, while short, was marked by the First Great War (1910-1921), started after the assassination of his son, Prince Alexander, while in a visit to Buffalo, New York, and at the time of his death had seen over 20 million causalities both military and civilian across all continents besides Antarctica.
He died of a sudden stroke while visiting Caernarfon Castle, returned to the status of royal residence in 1895, after receiving news of the Burning of Toronto and the death of Prince John, being succeeded by his son and heir, Henry, who, against popular myth, was the one who ordered the Razing of Chicago in retaliation.
(and now I'm going to do the boxes for his siblings)
Any questions?
(So, I decided that the writeup looks a bit too small in anything else than a computer with the full page open so... here's the writeup that isn't in an image
Arthur (Arthur Vincent Theodore Charles; 9 November 1841 – 18 April 1916) was Emperor of Albion from 16 March 1908 until his death in 1916.
The eldest son of Victoria the Great and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Arthur was related to royalty throughout Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. He was Prince of Wales and heir apparent to the Albish Throne for over 60 years, and he was the longest-serving in heir in Albish History, having held the title from birth to age 66. During the long reign of his mother he was constantly involved in politics and held offices in government and in the military multiple times, serving as regent or as her representative and holding the position of Chief of the Defence Staff from 1890 to 1908. A trained diplomat, he also served as the empire's head of foreign relations during his adulthood, inheriting his mother's dislike of the French, who called him "the Sourfaced".
Arthur was educated by private tutors before entering the Royal Military Academy Woolwich at the age of 15, and while absent during his first venture as regent, he graduated at age 19, and was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Army, where he would serve for nearly 50 years until his ascension to the throne, seeing service in various parts of the empire. Placed mostly on North America and Africa, he served as a commander during the Fenian Raids in Canada as well as the Willamette Rising in Oregon, gaining widespread fame and admiration from the public both there and in the Home Islands. He later also commanded armies during the Boer Wars and in the Albish intervention on the Brazilian Civil War and the Anglo-La Platan War, ordering the infamous Raid of Montevideo.
The personification of the ideal Albish nobleman, with his good looks, interest in the arts and culture, good manners and military service, Arthur served during his time as Prince of Wales as one of the main faces of the Royal Family, helping cement its position in the heart of Albish society as the glue which connects the various cultures and entities that make the Empire. Attending as much as 10.000 public events and ceremonies during his tenure as heir, Arthur was responsible for establishing the modern saying of monarchs rules, princes appear in relation to the functions of members of the family, he also founded, was president, chairman or member of over 100 charities and organizations, the major of which was The Prince's Trust.
A lover of African culture and history, Arthur has been many times credited for establishing the many treaties between the Albion and her native subjects in the continent, serving as an ambassador more than once to royal courts there and developing the system of protectorates that have for over a century composed most of Imperial Africa and being a personal friend of rulers like king Cetshwayo of the Zulu, chief Mgolombane of the Ngqika, king X Kanyembo Ntemena of Kazembeand the queen Khesetoane of the Balobedu, whom he is said to have slept, reason why her daugher and successor, Queen Makoma, was biracial.
The oldest Albish monarch at the time of his ascension to the throne, surpassing William IV's 64 years, 10 months and 5 days, Arthur's reign, while short, was marked by the First Great War (1910-1921), started after the assassination of his son, Prince Alexander, while in a visit to Buffalo, New York, and at the time of his death had seen over 20 million causalities both military and civilian across all continents besides Antarctica.
He died of a sudden stroke while visiting Caernarfon Castle, returned to the status of royal residence in 1895, after receiving news of the Burning of Toronto and the death of Prince John, being succeeded by his son and heir, Henry, who, against popular myth, was the one who ordered the Razing of Chicago in retaliation.
(and now I'm going to do the boxes for his siblings)
Any questions?
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Basically because it was the only option I could think of for a name that would refer to the entirety of the British Isles without it being "Britain" or "the Isles"
I've always liked 'Britannia' for that, but it's not always aesthetically appropriate.
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