Any details about how Dole's term went? What happened in the midterms? Did the US get involved in Kosovo or in the Middle East?
I'll get to that in the next update.Any details about how Dole's term went? What happened in the midterms? Did the US get involved in Kosovo or in the Middle East?
Why didn't Jack Kemp run? He was VP after all.
Lack of polling support, Liddy Dole's candidacy, and disagreements with the Dole administration over tax cuts and immigration.Why didn't Jack Kemp run? He was VP after all.
Nixon's EV count doesn't add up.
Fixed.Nixon's EV count doesn't add up.
Although I do like your infobox, @BetterCallPaulson , I am a little confused. In the candidates section, it says that Spencer Shay is nonpartisan. However, in the Elected Mayor section, it says he's a Democrat.The 2025 Seattle mayoral election was held on November 5 and was fought between Sculptor Spencer Shay and Disgraced Internet Critic Nevel Papperman.
Shay, having never been interested in politics before, decided to run in the election to stop Papperman, a very unpopular man who happened to be the only candidate running at the time, from becoming mayor of Seattle.
Of course, given Papperman's unpopularity, 98% of Seattle's voters voted for Shay, not because they believed he would do a goob job as Mayor, but because he was the only other candidate besides Papperman.
Shay proved to be a very popular mayor, though he only chose to run for one term, the next election was won by his Main Advisor, Orenthal "Gibby" Gibson.
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Although I do like your infobox, @BetterCallPaulson , I am a little confused. In the candidates section, it says that Spencer Shay is nonpartisan. However, in the Elected Mayor section, it says he's a Democrat.
A wonderful tribute, all in all.It's May 3rd, the 230th anniversary of the short lived Constitution of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and a national day in Poland - though it's not a national day over here, in Lithuania, I figured I'd make something in memory of the event - a wikibox for an election in a surviving May 3rd Poland.
Hum. So the Polish-Russian War of 1792 resulted in a Polish victory. Does Paul I get assassinated as per OTL?The election of 1808 in the Polish Commonwealth caught a snapshot of a nation in flux, in the midst of transformation towards its first true "party system" - although such a change had not been envisioned by the founders of its modern constitution in 1791. By the beginning of the 19th century, existential threat to the Commonwealth had ceased thanks to the endurance of the Polish-Prussian Alliance despite its significant concessions to the monarchy in Berlin, the simmering and decay of the French Revolution, and the eventual death of Empress Catherine II of Russia, and her replacement by the much less capable Paul I. A state of national consolidation under the Society of Friends of the Constitution in response to political pressure from the East could finally stand down once this threat died down, and mundane questions of the day take precedence in the political sphere as follows - and there were many questions to answer and debate.
In three decades or fewer, the PLC might end up having a populist general in charge.The Patriotic Party were supporters of greater royal power and centralization - a surprising thing, perhaps, when compared to their counterparts in France, the Netherlands or Britain, but it can be explained with the Commonwealth's unique situation before the promulgation of the Constitution. To the ideologues of the Polish Enlightenment, it was not a lack of liberty which was the cause of problems in their nation - it was a deformation and mutation of existing liberty, leading towards so-called "Polish anarchy". Seeing the absolute monarchies surrounding them, all of which were far more powerful than Poland itself, Polish reformers thus pursued a system which, though still democratic, would bestow the central government with much more power, and viewed this pivot towards royal power as the nation's salvation. The Great Sejm of 1788-1792 established universal taxation, replaced pospolite ruszenie mobilization with a large standing army under the control of the King, abolished numerous features of Golden Liberty (such as the right to confederation, liberum veto, and even the religious freedoms of the Warsaw Confederation) and imposed property qualifications for voting, disenfranchising almost a million petty nobles. A committed Patriot would thus find himself agreeing quite often with the King's loyalists.
Oh yeah!The growth of royal power orchestrated by Patriot-led governments were attacked as tyranny and used by Cardinal Law to invoke images of absolutism in Russia or in the German states, which a Constitution supposedly designed to emulate the Enlightenment ideals should avoid, crafting a conundrum for the reformists.
On the contrary, the Polish-Russian War of 1792 does not come about due to Prussian assurances and support, as well as a Polish transfer of Danzig and Torun, and though tensions between them and Russia continued up until the death of Catherine II, they do not escalate into war, and by 1808 Poland is firmly in the Prussian sphere. I could see Paul I still getting assassinated, though at that point the situation in Russia is different enough from OTL that anything can happen.Hum. So the Polish-Russian War of 1792 resulted in a Polish victory. Does Paul I get assassinated as per OTL?
Also did the French Revolution proceed as per OTL, or is the PLC the sole great republic in continental Europe?
At this point in history, Belarusian and Ukrainian nationalism is still extremely embryonic and so the main issues in Right-bank Ukraine are the continuation of serfdom, ever relevant for the region, and the more or less successful conclusion of the Union of Brest as the last Disuniate churches finally accepted Greek Catholic rite in the late 18th century. There is something bubbling up here and there which may develop into a new cleavage in time, however. The National Education Commission in Poland, established in 1773, was uncharacteristically nationalist, replacing former Latin language teaching with Polish language only, including in East Slavic regions - and as it is constitutionally controlled by the Primate, i.e. the Catholic Church of Poland, this situation is not going to change for a while.What's the state of Ruthenian (and Russian) population in the PLC?