I wonder how well Colin Powell did with the African American vote. I mean, even if Powell is African American, he probably won't win that vote, but he'd probably do a lot better than most Republicans.
I wonder who runs against him in 2004.
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I wonder who runs against him in 2004.
I’d say he’d get roughly 25-30% of the black vote. A lot of African-Americans stick to the Democrats, but I think a sizable chunk would break Republican to elect the first black president.
Dunwich is a large town in the county of Suffolk in England. Since the Anglo-Saxon period, it has been one of Suffolk's largest and most significant towns along with Ipswich and Bury St Edmunds; it was the capital of the Kingdom of the East Angles until it was conquered by the Danes around 870. While its political and possible ecclesiastical (since it is possible, though hard to confirm, that Dunwich was the place known as Dommoc, the seat of the Anglo-Saxon bishops) significance declined after the end of Anglo-Saxon rule, the town did continue to grow by establishing itself as a major North Sea port.
In the Domesday Book, Dunwich is recorded as having a population of around 3000 and three churches, but in the following centuries, it would grow into one of the most prominent international ports in England and Suffolk's second-largest town behind the county town, Ipswich. A rivalry of sorts between the two, comparable to that between cities like Liverpool and Manchester or Bradford and Leeds, is a commonly-noted cultural fixture, which is particularly reflected by the fans of Dunwich and Ipswich football clubs.
At its height, Dunwich was comparable to London in terms of the international significance of its docks, though this status has steadily declined since about the 13th century, particularly with the rise of London's docks and other port towns like Liverpool, Plymouth and Portsmouth. While it enjoyed a resurgence in its fortunes in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as tourism emerged and the construction of Dunwich station and the Dunwich Pier turned it into a seaside town, it was subject to considerable urban decay in the latter half of the 20th century and the Dunwich Pier has steadily declined as a tourist attraction since the 1950s.
Despite this, its political significance was enough that it was granted a borough constituency in the House of Commons in 1298, which it has retained to this day, one of the oldest parliamentary constituencies still in existence. Historically a marginal constituency between Labour and the Conservatives, since 2010 it has been represented by Conservative Norman Brooks, though Labour held it prior to 2010 as they did the nearby Ipswich and Waveney seats.
Until 2019, Dunwich also had its own borough council (and prior to that was an urban district of the county of East Suffolk), which covered a slightly larger area of the Suffolk coast than the town itself and was more friendly to the Conservatives than the parliamentary constituency. However, as part of local government reforms, the borough council was merged with Waveney District Council and Suffolk Coastal District Council to form East Suffolk District Council, a rather contentious plan among local residents as it was seen as diluting the local government influence of Dunwich's residents. The 2019 elections saw only two Conservative councillors retain their seats in the former borough council's area, though Brooks had no trouble holding his seat at the 2019 snap election held that December.
Something which sets Dunwich apart from its fellow coastal towns, however, is that it has not only retained its container shipping industry (taking a slightly larger share than the smaller port of Felixstowe), but also remains one of the only British passenger ferry ports still active on the North Sea coast along with Harwich, Hull and Newcastle. Ferry services run between Dunwich and IJmuiden in the Netherlands, Wilhelmshaven in Germany and Kristiansand in Norway (the latter being the only ferry connection between the UK and a non-EU member). Prior to the Brexit vote, there were allegedly plans for Dunwich to continue the services to Esbjerg in Denmark that Harwich ran prior to late 2014, but these have apparently been abandoned.
(This is a bit of a weird idea I've lowkey had in my head since I went to Dunwich on holiday about 18 months ago, but I only just wrote it all down.)
The 2004 United States presidential election was the 55th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 2, 2004. The incumbent Republican President Colin Powell and his running mate Vice President Tommy Thompson were overwhelmingly elected to a second term, defeating the Democratic ticket of Howard Dean, the Governor of Vermont and his running mate Dick Gephardt, the House Minority Leader from Missouri. President Powell managed to win 47 states, the largest landslide victory since Ronald Reagan's victory in 1984.
Powell and Thompson were renominated with no serious primary challengers. Due to Powell's strong popularity, many leading contenders for the Democratic nomination declined to run, namely Massachusetts Senator John Kerry and New York Senator and former First Lady Hillary Clinton. Howard Dean, the Governor of Vermont, emerged as the front-runner in the primaries and secured the nomination after Super Tuesday. Dean selected Dick Gephardt, another contender for the Democratic nomination, as his running mate.
Powell had remained a largely popular president following the September 11th terrorist attacks and peaked at close to 90% in the week following. Polls conducted throughout 2004 showed President Powell's averaged approval rating of 63% and a disapproval rating of 32% among all citizens. Foreign policy was the dominant issue of this election, focusing on Powell's War on Terror and the ongoing War in Afghanistan. Powell ran on a strong economy and portrayed himself as a decisive leader. Dean ran as a political outsider and criticized the Powell administration's interventionism and economic policies. Domestic issues that were debated included the economy, healthcare, same-sex marriage, and stem-cell research. Dean, not only plagued by President Powell's popularity, suffered from several gaffes, namely the infamous Dean scream during the Democratic primaries. Many voters also took issues with his perceived extremism on many issues and viewed the more moderate Powell as a safer alternative.
Powell won by a large margin of 494 electoral votes and won 56.5% of the popular vote. Dean held onto three states: Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and his home state of Vermont, which had voted for Powell in the previous election. Powell won by the largest margin since fellow Republican Ronald Reagan's landslide reelection in 1984 and won the largest vote share in history up to that point. Powell also managed to win close to 40% of the black vote nationally, while winning every other racial group.
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Could your next movie be the Harold Raimis adaptation of
A Confederacy of Dunces please
I see that he told his wife about her illness ITTL... Did he ever express regret for that one OTL?
Colin Powell must be doing a pretty good job as president if he's winning by Nixon 1972 or Reagan 1984 margins.
I do wonder though how close the margins in the states Howard Dean won. I mean, Powell had previously won Vermont in 2000 but it swung to Dean for obvious reasons (Vermonters are very loyal to their native sons/daughters).
I wonder if the Democrats would blame the dixiecrats for Truman's loss and then banish them? Could it perhaps lead to a semi-permanent dixiecrat party?
Are these part of your TV TL?The cast was as follows:
Superman/Clark Kent: Christopher Reeve
Lex Luthor: Anthony Hopkins
Pa Kent: Hal Holbrook
Perry White: Robert Stack
Lois Lane: Meryl Streep
Ma Kent: June Allyson
John Corben: Christopher Walken
(does not become Metallo in this film)
Jimmy Olsen: Mark Hamill
Lena Thorul: Barbara Rhoades
Kristen Wells: Carrie Fisher
(small, but important part as it sets up the story for the sequel)
In case, you were wondering why Coppola was making Superman instead of Apocalypse Now. He had already made in 1971. It this movie's lack of success that lead to the Godfather, instead of our timeline's THX-1138.
Also, the murder mystery aspects of what became Annie Hall work in TTL. So, instead of reviving romantic comedies, we see Woody Allen reinvent the screwball comedy.
As a bonus, we see Smokey and the Bandit as it was initended, a Jerry Reed vehicle.
Other films in this series:
1975: Jaws
1976: Flash Gordon
1976: Buck Rogers
1977: The Legend of King Kong
Way too big of a Republican win for that. It'd have to be a case where both Truman and Stassen had like 48% of the vote each, and Stassen won something like Virginia or Tennessee by a plurality, and those states somehow were the tipping point for Stassen.
As someone who's been doing a lot of reading on the OTL Red Army Faction recently, I can say that the comparison is apt.
Gotta ask though, was there a TTL equivalent of the Landshut high jacking/Operation Fire Magic, and are how active ahve they been since 1981?
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