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1904

The 1908 United States presidential election was the 31st quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 1908. Incumbent Vice President and Republican Party nominee Jonathan P. Dolliver defeated Democratic nominee John Albert Johnson.

Popular incumbent President Mark Twain, citing poor health, decided not to seek a second term. The vice president faced opposition at the 1908 Republican National Convention from multiple directions. The classical progressive Roosevelt wing of the party again put forward staunch imperialist Senator Albert J. Beveridge, citing the Twain administration's strong anti-imperialist positions. Dolliver, who was himself a moderate progressive, faced less organized opposition from some radical members of Twain's faction of the party. Regardless, when Dolliver selected Senator Henry Cabot Lodge to be his running mate, hoping to satisfy the Roosevelt wing through Lodge's imperialist views and the Twain wing through Lodge's forward stances on civil rights, the vice president won the nomination on the fourth ballot.

Having lost the last three presidential elections, and with the free silver issue waning, the populist faction of the Democrats finally lost control of the party in this election. Representative William Randolph Hearst, despite losing as the party's nominee in 1904, sought the nomination again, hoping his new moderate stances on imperialism and vast personal fortune would make him amenable to the party's conservative wing. Despite leading in the first few ballots of the 1908 Democratic National Convention against a splintered opposition, he eventually lost on the eighth ballot to Minnesota Governor John Albert Johnson. The Minnesotan's rags-to-riches story, moderate progressive stances, and reformist tenure as governor made him a very appealing candidate. Johnson selected Representative Theodore Arlington Bell to be his running mate as a way to enforce a moderate stance on the prohibition issue.

The fall campaign was spirited but far less divisive than the previous election. Dolliver and Johnson were both more moderate than their predecessors and differed little on the issues. Dolliver and the Republicans faced criticism for the 1907 recession, as well as the ticket's pivot towards imperialism through the inclusion of Lodge. Dolliver was also dogged by rumors that President Twain and his closest allies were disappointed with him and were quietly supporting Johnson. The Republicans attacked Johnson for his poor health, relative inexperience in government, and undeveloped foreign policy agenda. Ultimately, Dolliver would prevail in a very close election, winning 47.3% of the popular vote, only 0.5% more than his opponent, becoming the first sitting vice president elected to the presidency since Martin Van Buren in 1836. A less than 1% margin in Illinois decided the election in Dolliver's favor. Traditional Republican strength in the Northeast carried him to victory as Johnson made unprecedented gains in the Midwest and won some Western states. Two third-party candidates, Eugene V. Debs of the Socialist Party and Eugene W. Chafin of the Prohibition Party, each took over 1% of the popular vote.

Ultimately, Johnson would die within a year of the election and Dolliver within two, making Vice President Lodge the sixth president in just ten years.

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Pretty sure that's meant to be "employee." Scrooge made Cratchit his partner but he never handed over the business completely. Other than that nice work.
Don't worry, JamesHunter, I just the infobox replaced and corrected the information. The mistake is fixed now. Here it is for you and everyone else to see!

However, I still have to finish the write up though. Hopefully I can get that done asap, curse my forgetfulness!

EDIT: Now after about a month, I have finished the write up of my Scrooge infobox! Sorry it took so long. Next infobox writeups to finish up hopefully starting tomorrow, Rivera Shoes and Link.
 
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Fascinating stuff - love it :D

Have you given any thoughts to the other Dominions - namely Newfoundland and South Africa? Ireland was pretty much impossible in the time period; I'm assuming the POD is the 1931 Statute of Westminster?
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You're right, the POD is a different Statute of Westminster: just as IOTL, it creates a separate Crown for each Dominion, but where in OTL each crown was then held by George V, in TTL they each get their own royal family to go along with it (all branches of the Windsors, of course).

I have an idea for South Africa but I haven't gotten around to making it yet (it's not hard, just other things on my mind). Newfoundland, though… I completely forgot was a separate Dominion at this point in time. I'll have to put some thought into that one still!
 
A Different 1980

Operation Eagle Claw

Although the president felt sorry for Reagan he breathed a small sigh of relief. He had been worried about Ronald Reagan's ability to capture people with charisma and humour and if he would have been the nominee it would be difficult to stop his momentum. For now though he was preparing to face off the clear frontrunner in George Bush. Certainly more laid back than Reagan but Carter knew he was still no pushover and with an ongoing hostage crisis and energy crisis Bush had leverage over him. However, due to a rally around the flag effect and Carter's continued efforts kept him in a comfortable lead.

Divisions in his own party and Ted Kennedy's campaign were giving the republicans fuel, labelling the Democrats divided between Kennedy and Carter. Despite his convincing win in Iowa and Kennedys missteps, cracks were beginning to show with Carter's strategy in Iran. As the months grew on and the inactions impression on voting grew, primary results from the northwest were actually lost by Carter. As April rolled around Carter grew more frustrated and on the 7th of April Carter ordered all relations with Iran be severed, thus started a month of strong armed action on Iran with the final goal to pull off a successful rescue of all 52 remaining embassy staff being held hostage

As the plans for a rescue mission were set up cartographers were set out on the task of hurriedly completing more maps of Iran from risky aerial photography. The date was set for April 24th. The president's advisors were skeptical about his determinedness to rescue the hostages

While the 8 Helicopters would meet up with Delta Force at “Desert One” a location near Yazd in the Dasht-e Lut desert, a small valley away from any roads or populous areas. Problems seemed afoot when once landed the Hydraulic Pump on one of the Helicopters was glowing red and the meetup occurring in a desert the sand that was kicked up into the air was disrupting visibility. One of the Helicopters also had to drop out because of impending blade failure. But miraculously 7 out of the 8 Helicopters met up with Delta Force at desert one.

In the secure location the Hydraulic pump of the affected Helicopter was left to cool down and the Troops were transported from the C-130 aircraft to the Helicopters which would then go on to “Desert Two'' nearer to Tehran. In the early hours of the morning the Rescue raid went as planned, hostages were brought to the helicopters and with the team secure before any of the Iranian air force could respond they were flown to Egypt to later arrive in the USA.

The successful performance of what was thought to be an impossible mission stunned the world. The pacifist Jimmy Carter had just rescued 52 hostages from an extremely hostile enemy with an extremely dangerous maneuver. After a brutal 2 day operation just in time for the evening news in many parts of the country Americans saw the hostages disembark from the rescue plane from Egypt. Jimmy Carter made a short national address on Television celebrating the release of the hostages and re-iterating what they had been through in Iran. Privately, Carter has said that he was ecstatic and took the first opportunity to meet the hostages the following morning.

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On April 26th 1980, 2 days after Operation Eagle Claw, President Carter announced further plans to increase the domestic supply of energy in response to the worsening oil crisis. Plans to drastically increase domestic production of oil and gas in places like Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Alaska would be in place alongside subsidisation over the use of Appalachian coal. The US would drastically increase its energy output within the next few months causing minor influxes of wealth into Oil and Coal communities. Privately Carter had major concerns about clean energy but decided that the possible agitation of oil companies may prevent full cooperation. The increased supply of domestic oil led to cutbacks in imports of middle eastern oil. Within only a few months the price of Gas had fallen to about 90 cents a gallon and the switchover where possible from oil to coal had led to better livelihoods for coal miners in states like West Virginia and Kentucky.

President Carter’s approval skyrocketed to about 65%. He was the nation's hero, The successful operation effectively assured he would win the nomination after Carter won the Pennsylvania primary and Missouri caucus in a landslide Kennedy dropped out and immediately endorsed Carter, Saying that his concerns were now alleviated. Bush’s spouting about Carter’s inaction suddenly stopped at risk of backlash and Carter now enjoyed an extremely large 69% to 29% lead over Bush in a Gallup poll taken the week after the attack. Bush strategists scrambled to figure out what to do as Carter rode high

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May 4th 1980, CBS evening news TV graphic of a poll immediately following the Operation

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As a sign of the boosted popularity of Carter. A conservative Democrat won the Louisiana 3rd Special Election in a landslide gaining it off of the Republican Party

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I cannot claim to be an expert on military strategy, but my main gist is that Carter's slightly higher gutsiness toward Iran gives the operation a higher degree of preparation in deciding the location of the alternate desert one
 
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So, this was mostly fun experiment to see how the (modern) State of Jefferson would have voted in multiple Presidential Elections. I made maps for 1892, 1912, 1924, 1940, 1992, and 2020. I only made the singular infobox because getting all the county data for each election would've taken me at least a week and I didn't feel all that up to it. I went with 1924 to make the infobox of because I thought that La Follete might have had a better chance to winning the state vs. Coolidge. As you can see he did not. Both 1892 and 1912 could flip, but I doubt it.
Everything here is OTL information, just presented under the banner of the State of Jefferson.​
 
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The 1904 United States presidential election was the 30th quadrennial presidential election, held on November 8th, 1904. The Democratic ticket of Representative and newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst of New York and Former Attorney General Richard Olney of Massachusetts defeated the Progressive Party ticket of incumbent Vice President Theodore Roosevelt of New York and Senator Albert J. Beveridge of Indiana, and the Republican ticket of Secretary of War Elihu Root of New York and Senator Jonathan P. Dolliver of Iowa.

The Republicans faced a difficult and highly contested convention. The early frontrunner was Vice President Theodore Roosevelt, who was seen as a war hero following his leadership of the Rough Riders in the Spanish-American War of 1898. Roosevelt, however, faced much opposition from the conservative wing of the party and the party's establishment for his own very progressive views. His biggest opposition was that of Senator Mark Hanna of Ohio, but he ultimately died from typhoid fever 4 months before the convention went underway. As Roosevelt's opposition scrambled to find somebody else to fill Hanna's role, a compromise between the competing factions arose in Secretary of War Elihu Root of New York, Root would go onto narrowly defeat Roosevelt on the tenth ballot, and as a way to reach out to some moderate progressives, the convention nominated Iowa Senator Jonathan P. Dolliver for vice president. Outraged and feeling as if he had been cheated out of the nomination, Roosevelt and his supporters flocked to form the Progressive Party, to which he would easily be nominated for president by, while Indiana Senator and outspoken imperialist progressive Albert J. Beveridge would be nominated for vice president by acclimation. This did not go unnoticed by the Democrats, who faced a contentious convention of their own. In order to prevent too many progressive Democrats from flocking to Roosevelt's progressive campaign, New York Representative William Randolph Hearst, endorsed by William Jennings Bryan, would be nominated for president, and Bourbon Democrat ally and former Attorney General under the Cleveland administration Richard Olney would be nominated for vice president.

Though the election had 3 major candidates, it quickly became a predominantly two-man race. Hearst leveraged his media empire and vast wealth to gain a fundraising advantage on his opponents, while Roosevelt went on the stump, running up to that point one of the most grassroots presidential campaigns in all of American presidential election history. His charisma gained him a great deal of support among swing voters. This left the Republicans with the rather unknown Root, who campaigned on progressive conservatism, continuing the McKinley agenda, and high tariffs. Root maintained support among the party's old guard, but expanded little past that.

Due to the split between Roosevelt and Root, Hearst was able to win a landslide victory in both the electoral college and popular vote. Hearst became the first presidential candidate up to that point to win more than 300 electoral college votes. Roosevelt won all three west coast states, plus Michigan and Pennsylvania, all by narrow margins. Root won all of the New England states, in addition to the Republican stronghold of North Dakota.
 

John Fitzgerald Kennedy had lost everything. His family, his sweetheart, his home, his nation. It is often said that, once you reach rock-bottom, you can only go up. John used to think that, until life went ahead and gave him a jackhammer. Truth was, you can only know how deep you sink until you start drilling...

When the Nazis came marching into Massachusetts, the Kennedys would largely remain tacitly compliant, quietly reaping the rewards of collaborationism. It was a fate John simply couldn't swallow: the war veteran would try to reenlist, this time in the Army. However, not even the manpower-hungry U.S. military would take the physically injured and chronically ill former Navy man. He advanced with the frontlines, joining the hundreds of thousands of civilians that flooded out of New England and the Midwest seeking to escape the German rampage. When the nukes started flying, a disheveled and disheartened Kennedy was living in a squatters' camp south of Nashville. The United States was no more: now, it was the creatively-named Reichskommissariat Amerika.

As the scion of a prominent Massachusetts family, John understandably became a hot target, and the SS launched a nationwide manhunt against him. John would yet again disappear into the shadows, traveling west and reaching the Rockies. Far away from the reaches of Nazi control in the East Coast, an American resistance movement was flourishing in these parts, of which Gen. Dwight Eisenhower was the most prominent leader. John would offer his services to the Resistance, initially serving as a desk official within the intelligence department, before catching the eye of Old Ike, who appreciated John's charisma, veteran background, and exceptional leadership abilities. Eisenhower slated him as a frontlines operative, much to the objection of military commanders and physicians alike, who were rather concerned about John's health record. It was Eisenhower's understanding, however, that he could hardly give a single damn.

John was sent to receive military training at a camp in northwest Colorado, where he was instructed as a special agent. Despite being at a physical disadvantage, John would excel in training, biting the bullet and pushing through the pain. He would describe the experience as cathartic, expressing the belief that pain was purifying. After training, John was deployed to support the Resistance's operations in New York City, renamed Hitlerstadt under the Nazi regime. For months, John acted as a field agent, collecting intelligence and partaking in small-scale sabotage endeavors throughout the city. John became known as an effective operative and a well-liked leader, rising to prominence within the Resistance. He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant, and took part in strategic operations planning.

A particularly important piece of information would be acquired from an NSDAP office in Manhattan, either leaked by an informant or stolen by a Resistance mole. Whichever the case, its value was undeniable: it included detailed information into the upcoming public appearances of one highly elusive figure: Reich President Joachim Peiper. Rising to prominence as a Waffen-SS commander in the war against the Soviets, he would distinguish himself in the North American campaigns. He was the first German commander to cross the Ohio River, and also the first one to reach the Atlantic Coast. He committed untold atrocities and war crimes throughout his exploits, developing a sort of roving concentration camp, in which he would systematically capture and execute undesired peoples on the go. His fame and influence stretched far and wide, and it only grew in magnitude when he was appointed the political and military leader of the RKA, second only to Adolf Hitler himself.

This new piece of information stated that Joachim Peiper would attend the annual Hitler Rally, held in honor of the Fuhrer's birthday, to review the troops and make a brief speech. Overall, his participation wouldn't last more than thirty minutes. Enough, the Resistance hoped, to wipe that splatter of scum off the face of the Earth. Many methods were discussed, ranging from a sniper to poisoning. Eventually, it was John himself who devised the final plan: to plant a bomb underneath the vehicle from which he would review the parading troops. It was untraceable and undeniably effective. The question was, who would carry out such a daring quest?

John raised his hand without hesitation. He had already lost everything. What else did he had to lose? If he succeeded, then hey. If he didn't, at least he would've given it a shot. Either way, there wasn't any point in not trying.
Jokes on him, we all know nothing bad ever happens to the Kennedys...
 

John Fitzgerald Kennedy had lost everything. His family, his sweetheart, his home, his nation. It is often said that, once you reach rock-bottom, you can only go up. John used to think that, until life went ahead and gave him a jackhammer. Truth was, you can only know how deep you sink until you start drilling...

When the Nazis came marching into Massachusetts, the Kennedys would largely remain tacitly compliant, quietly reaping the rewards of collaborationism. It was a fate John simply couldn't swallow: the war veteran would try to reenlist, this time in the Army. However, not even the manpower-hungry U.S. military would take the physically injured and chronically ill former Navy man. He advanced with the frontlines, joining the hundreds of thousands of civilians that flooded out of New England and the Midwest seeking to escape the German rampage. When the nukes started flying, a disheveled and disheartened Kennedy was living in a squatters' camp south of Nashville. The United States was no more: now, it was the creatively-named Reichskommissariat Amerika.

As the scion of a prominent Massachusetts family, John understandably became a hot target, and the SS launched a nationwide manhunt against him. John would yet again disappear into the shadows, traveling west and reaching the Rockies. Far away from the reaches of Nazi control in the East Coast, an American resistance movement was flourishing in these parts, of which Gen. Dwight Eisenhower was the most prominent leader. John would offer his services to the Resistance, initially serving as a desk official within the intelligence department, before catching the eye of Old Ike, who appreciated John's charisma, veteran background, and exceptional leadership abilities. Eisenhower slated him as a frontlines operative, much to the objection of military commanders and physicians alike, who were rather concerned about John's health record. It was Eisenhower's understanding, however, that he could hardly give a single damn.

John was sent to receive military training at a camp in northwest Colorado, where he was instructed as a special agent. Despite being at a physical disadvantage, John would excel in training, biting the bullet and pushing through the pain. He would describe the experience as cathartic, expressing the belief that pain was purifying. After training, John was deployed to support the Resistance's operations in New York City, renamed Hitlerstadt under the Nazi regime. For months, John acted as a field agent, collecting intelligence and partaking in small-scale sabotage endeavors throughout the city. John became known as an effective operative and a well-liked leader, rising to prominence within the Resistance. He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant, and took part in strategic operations planning.

A particularly important piece of information would be acquired from an NSDAP office in Manhattan, either leaked by an informant or stolen by a Resistance mole. Whichever the case, its value was undeniable: it included detailed information into the upcoming public appearances of one highly elusive figure: Reich President Joachim Peiper. Rising to prominence as a Waffen-SS commander in the war against the Soviets, he would distinguish himself in the North American campaigns. He was the first German commander to cross the Ohio River, and also the first one to reach the Atlantic Coast. He committed untold atrocities and war crimes throughout his exploits, developing a sort of roving concentration camp, in which he would systematically capture and execute undesired peoples on the go. His fame and influence stretched far and wide, and it only grew in magnitude when he was appointed the political and military leader of the RKA, second only to Adolf Hitler himself.

This new piece of information stated that Joachim Peiper would attend the annual Hitler Rally, held in honor of the Fuhrer's birthday, to review the troops and make a brief speech. Overall, his participation wouldn't last more than thirty minutes. Enough, the Resistance hoped, to wipe that splatter of scum off the face of the Earth. Many methods were discussed, ranging from a sniper to poisoning. Eventually, it was John himself who devised the final plan: to plant a bomb underneath the vehicle from which he would review the parading troops. It was untraceable and undeniably effective. The question was, who would carry out such a daring quest?

John raised his hand without hesitation. He had already lost everything. What else did he had to lose? If he succeeded, then hey. If he didn't, at least he would've given it a shot. Either way, there wasn't any point in not trying.
Is there a timeline of this? And may I repost this?
 

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You're right, the POD is a different Statute of Westminster: just as IOTL, it creates a separate Crown for each Dominion, but where in OTL each crown was then held by George V, in TTL they each get their own royal family to go along with it (all branches of the Windsors, of course).

I have an idea for South Africa but I haven't gotten around to making it yet (it's not hard, just other things on my mind). Newfoundland, though… I completely forgot was a separate Dominion at this point in time. I'll have to put some thought into that one still!

Excellent, love the series. Looking forward to seeing what you come up with :)
 
President Rockefeller and Church
POD: New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, a liberal Republican is nominated as 1968 Republican Presidential nominee Richard Nixon's running mate in order to balance the ticket with the more right wing Nixon. The Nixon-Rockefeller ticket wins in 1968 and is re-elected in a landslide in the 1972, although Nixon is forced to resign following the Watergate scandal in 1974, following which Rockefeller ascends to the Presidency.

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Following Rockefeller's ascension to the Presidency in August 1974, he nominates Ronald Reagan, the outgoing Governor of California to serve as his Vice President, mainly to apse the conservative wing of the Republican , of which Reagan had become the figure head of. Despite originally not intending to run for President in 1976, Rockefeller had decided to launch a campaign for a full Presidential term following his swearing in as President, and as an incumbent he found winning the Republican nomination easy, with Vice President Reagan being nominated as his running mate.

After a heated primary season, the Democratic party nominated Frank Church, a US Senator from Idaho for President, with former astronaut John Glenn, now a US Senator from Ohio as his running mate. Church's record as a progressive, including his early opposition to the Vietnam war and advocacy for environmental protection made him popular with young voters, while the Democrats hoped Glenn's popularity, as the first American to orbit the Earth, would help sway over for conservative voters who had fond memories of Glenn from when he was younger.

Rockefeller showed to be a relatively weak candidate for the Republicans, his connections to the Watergate scandal still didn't sit well with many American's, and his stance as a liberal didn't do much to make the growing Republican conservative base happy. Despite this the Republican ticket looked to do well in the south, with the remnants of Nixon's "southern strategy" and Vice President Reagan's popularity among conservatives kept Rockefeller polling in the deeply conservative southern United States. While Rockefeller polled well in the south, Church looked to do well pretty much everywhere else, with his geographical advantage as a Senator from Idaho boosting his popularity in his home state and the Northwest, while Glenn's popularity in his home state gave Church a boost in the Rustbelt and Northeast, while polling showed the central United States also looked to be going to Church, albeit narrowly.

As November 2nd came around, the election turned out to be much closer than expected, although Church and Glenn were still handed a comfortable victory with 53.1% of the popular vote and 324 electoral votes to the Republican ticket's 213. The Republican ticket narrowly won in Rockefeller's home state of New York, as well as Reagan's home state of California, although despite their large electoral vote blocks it was still not enough and President Rockefeller had conceded to Senator Church before midnight. Church was inaugurated as the 39th President of the United States on January 20, 1977, with Glenn as the 42nd Vice President the same day. President Church and Vice President Glenn would go on to be re-elected to a second term in 1980, defeating the Republican ticket of former Vice President Reagan and Senate Minority Leader Howard Baker (R-TN). The Church administration remained popular through its tenure, enjoying relatively high approval ratings and unbroken Democratic majorities in both chambers of Congress during Church's whole Presidency, allowing Church to work on his legislative agenda unencumbered.

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President Church would be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer during the final year of his Presidency, despite his determination to complete his term as President, he succumbed to his illness on April 7th 1984, following which Glenn ascended to become the 40th President of the United States with less than six months to go until the November 1984 election, of which Glenn was already expected to win the Democratic nomination for. Glenn went on to be elected to a full term as President in 1984, with him and his running mate Senator Lloyd Bentsen (D-TX) defeating Republican Senator Robert Dole and his running mate, Delaware Governor Pete Du Pont in a landslide.

The Glenn administration remained popular, like the preceding administration, with his re-election in 1988 marking the first time since the 1940s that one party had won the White House four consecutive times.

The Republicans would need to wait until 1992 to win to the White House again, when the Republican ticket consisting of Senator John McCain (R-AZ) and Governor Bill Weld (R-MA) defeated the Democratic ticket, consisting of Vice President Bentsen and House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt. The 1992 election was seen by many as the election where the Republicans were finally able to rise above Watergate.
 
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Well, this is something I made on a whim, although I've long been fascinated with JFK and Joachim Peiper facing off. I may develop something ASB that involves Nordic mythology...
This has a great potential for a The Man in the High Castle fanfiction.
 
1904

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The 1908 United States presidential election was the 31st quadrennial presidential election, held on November 3rd, 1908. The Republican ticket of former Secretary of War William Howard Taft of Ohio and Senator Albert B. Cummins of Iowa defeated the Democratic ticket of incumbent president William Randolph Hearst of New York and former State Senator John W. Kern of Indiana.

Upon taking office, Hearst was quickly sent a platter many expected he was too inexperienced to deal with properly. To their credit, they may have been right about that. Hearst's avowed anti-imperialism led him to immediately cease the remaining construction of the Panama Canal within his first few days of taking office, to which he claimed furthering its construction "Would set a precedent that America can just meddle anywhere it pleases, to further her own interest". Many Democrats in congress, whom were already wary of the Hearst administration, stopped supporting much of the President's agenda beyond this point, uniting with Republicans to block his sponsored legislation and to cause many veto overrides. Hearst decried the entire congress as "The next corrupt bargain" which only worsened relations with the latter. The president was not aided by the Panic of 1907, with which Hearst's inability to cooperate with congress only made the issue worse.

Yet despite Hearst's low favorability amongst his party, he was renominated at his party's convention with relative ease, only facing a challenge by senator George Gray of Delaware. However, Vice President Olney would refuse to be renominated alongside Hearst, citing irreconcilable ideological and personal disagreements with the President. To garner working class support in the Midwest, the convention nominated former state senator John W. Kern to fill Olney's spot on the ticket. The Republicans faced a more contentious convention. Former vice president Theodore Roosevelt had hoped to make a comeback, but many republican delegates were displeased or even despised Roosevelt for costing the party a victory in the election prior. With great reluctance, former secretary of war William Howard Taft was nominated as a way to prevent Roosevelt from being on the ticket, while also pleasing him by nominating a close friend of his, thus preventing another third party bid. To reach out to progressives that may have opposed Taft's nomination, senator Albert B. Cummins, a Roosevelt ally, was nominated as vice president.

The fall campaign was bitter, with Taft painting Hearst as a failed president, and promised to fix the economic recession, as well as immediately resume construction of the Panama Canal. Hearst tacked Taft as a member of a corrupt establishment, working in collaboration with congressional leaders to undermine the will of the people. Despite claiming to be the man of anti-corruption, lots of corruption within the Hearst administration, particularly his cabinet, severely damaged his credibility.

Taft defeated Hearst in a lopsided victory, winning 312 electoral votes and 49.8% of the popular vote. Taft's 7.4 million votes was the highest total of votes of any presidential candidate up to that point. Hearst's support was localized almost entirely in the Solid South, though he did also carry the states of Maryland, Indiana, Colorado, and Nevada by narrow margins. Hearst initially refused to accept the election result, but ultimately agreed to carry out the presidential transition process after the result was certified by congress.
 
Something random I thought of was how Steven Universe and Bee & PuppyCat both had their pilots released around the same time. Given that both Rebecca Sugar and Natasha Allegri worked on Adventure Time beforehand, what if somehow Sugar had been picked up by Cartoon Hangover and Allegri by Cartoon Network?

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Steven Universe is an American web series produced for Cartoon Hangover, created by Rebecca Sugar and premiering with its pilot in May 2013. This pilot episode, known as ‘The Time Thingy’, introduces the concept of Steven living with his guardians, Garnet, Amethyst and Pearl (collectively known as the Crystal Gems) in a town called Beach City to protect humanity from other, hostile gems.

The series’ first full season was produced after a successful Kickstarter campaign, and released in two production blocks on Cartoon Hangover’s YouTube channel. The first of these was worked on throughout 2013 and released in November and December 2014, and the second was made during 2015 and released in November and December 2016. The first season introduced further characters, including Steven’s father Greg; his mother Rose (who was formerly leader of the Crystal Gems but gave up her existence to have Steven); his human best friend and crush Priyanka#; Lapis Lazuli, another gem Steven discovers in the two-part finale of the first run; and in the second half of the series, villainous gem Jasper and her right-hand gem Peridot, who kidnapped Lapis and come to Earth to try to destroy the Crystal Gems.

During the first run of episodes- ‘Laser Light Cannon’, ‘Bubble Buddies’, ‘An Indirect Kiss’, ‘Mirror Gem’ and ‘Ocean Gem’- the show received positive reviews for its vivid visual design, interesting and compelling characters, and the musical numbers produced by Sugar that appeared in several episodes. It also developed a small fan following, and was fairly successful for Cartoon Hangover, with the episodes accumulating on average 5 million views apiece on YouTube by the time the second run started in November 2016.

The second half of the run- ‘Giant Woman’, ‘Alone Together’, ‘The Message’, ‘The Return’ and ‘Jail Break’- also gained praise for its depiction of LGBTQ characters in its storylines. ‘Alone Together’ introduced Stevanka, a nonbinary and intersex character who uses they/them pronouns, and ‘Jail Break’ introduced Ruby and Sapphire, two gems who are revealed to combine to form Garnet and are explicitly a lesbian couple. That episode, which featured Garnet fighting off Jasper in song and Lapis Lazuli rejecting Jasper’s advances to join the Crystal Gems, was particularly highly praised, with CartoonBrew.com ranking it as the best episode of a cartoon that year and the episode itself having accumulated over 45 million views as of 2021.

The show was renewed for a second season by Cartoon Hangover, this time running to 26 11-minute episodes instead of 10 7-minute episodes as in the first season. While this season has been released to the Cartoon Hangover website, in late 2020 the company announced a deal had been struck to bring Steven Universe’s second season to Netflix. Episodes of the second season have featured stories such as Steven bonding with Lapis, Pearl teaching Priyanka to swordfight, Greg telling Steven how he met Rose, Steven and Amethyst running away from home and Garnet revealing how Ruby and Sapphire met and fell in love. This season also received positive reviews from critics, though it is unclear if a third season will be produced or how long it will take.

#- Priyanka was Connie’s name in the early episode plans seen in the Art & Origins book, and since in this more condensed version of the show we don’t meet her parents (at least in season 1), I figured they’d stick with that name instead of giving it to her mother.

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Bee & PuppyCat is an American cartoon series produced for Cartoon Network, created by Natasha Allegri and premiering in November 2013, running until January of 2019. The show focuses on Bee, a young adult who lives with PuppyCat, a catlike creature with a magical collar that is connected to a strange employer known as TempBot. Bee and PuppyCat are frequently employed by TempBot to carry out tasks for clients.

Bee also has a slowburn romance with her best friend Deckard, and Deckard’s family, the Wizards, are also all major cast members. Deckard strives to go to culinary school, while his sister Cass is rivals with an amateur boxer named Toast. (In season 3, the two of them realize they have been suppressing romantic feelings for each other and decide to date, staying together until the end of the show, making them the longest running gay couple in an ongoing animated series to date.) In addition, Bee’s landlord Cardamon, his dog Sticky and his mother also frequently appear, with Cardamon’s mother being in a coma for much of the series before awakening at the end of season 3 and becoming an antagonist.

The show’s first series is largely focused on comedic adventures starring the title characters seeking temporary work in various places with TempBot and meeting numerous characters in the worlds they visit. The last episode, however, features the reveal that Bee is a cyborg created by her father, something which more characters gradually discover as the series goes on (Deckard and PuppyCat in season 1, then the Wizards in season 2, Cardamon in season 3 and Cardamon’s mom in season 4.)

In addition to this, as the show progresses Bee grows more cynical about temp work and Deckard more cynical about pursuing his dreams of becoming a chef, originally leaving for culinary school at the end of season 1 and returning in season 2. After Bee finally finds out that she is a cyborg in the season 5 episode ‘Myself’, she realizes she does not know how to feel content with her life; Cardamon’s mom tries to use this to her advantage in the season 5 finale and turn Bee into an android without any sentience who can simply serve her and Cardamon. However, her attempt to do so fails when Deckard admits his feelings to Bee and tells her he wants to help her find her place in life. Allegri explained in a subsequent interview that a central theme of the show is dealing with feelings of meaninglessness and isolation brought on by socio-economic injustice.

After its fifth and final season ended, the series concluded with a feature-length TV movie, which aired in September 2019. It was a comedy which centered around Bee continuing to try to find a niche in a comedic fashion, with the ending having her return to working for TempBot on the promise of certain conditions for every job she does for him. The movie also has Cardamon leave home with Sticky to get away from his mother’s cruel behaviour, Cass and Toast planning a boxing tournament together (Allegri later revealed this was intended to be a wedding at first, but Cartoon Network executives vetoed this) and Deckard finding his love of cooking again.

Throughout its run, Bee & PuppyCat has received very positive reviews from critics and audiences for its snarky humor, subtle and interesting lore and well thought-out themes. In 2020, it was voted the third-best Cartoon Network series of the decade in a poll organized by the network, behind Adventure Time and The Amazing World of Gumball in first and second place.
 
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