Alternate Wikipedia Infoboxes
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Inspired by the "What if the 1860 US presidential election was thrown to Congress?" thread.
Scenario: Lincoln loses California, Illinois, Indiana and the rest of New Jersey's electoral votes to Douglas, as well as Oregon to Breckinridge. No one now gets an electoral-vote majority, so the election is thrown to Congress. Not only that, but Douglas has now overtaken Bell to reach third place in the electoral count, meaning that he is now eligible to be elected by the House but Bell is not.
The result? Joseph Lane is easily elected Vice-President by the Democratic-controlled Senate. Meanwhile, in the House, the non-Republican ex-Whig delegations (Bell's support base) force a deadlock: naturally they won't vote for Lincoln, but being closely associated with the Unionist Party they see that they will control the balance of power in the House in the ensuing term and they'd rather do it with as weak and illegitimate-seeming a Democratic president as possible -- thus they refuse to vote for Breckinridge either, to prevent the House from electing anyone. Eventually the clock runs out and, on March 4th 1861, Vice-President-elect Joseph Lane is sworn in as the 16th President of the United States.
Scenario: Lincoln loses California, Illinois, Indiana and the rest of New Jersey's electoral votes to Douglas, as well as Oregon to Breckinridge. No one now gets an electoral-vote majority, so the election is thrown to Congress. Not only that, but Douglas has now overtaken Bell to reach third place in the electoral count, meaning that he is now eligible to be elected by the House but Bell is not.
The result? Joseph Lane is easily elected Vice-President by the Democratic-controlled Senate. Meanwhile, in the House, the non-Republican ex-Whig delegations (Bell's support base) force a deadlock: naturally they won't vote for Lincoln, but being closely associated with the Unionist Party they see that they will control the balance of power in the House in the ensuing term and they'd rather do it with as weak and illegitimate-seeming a Democratic president as possible -- thus they refuse to vote for Breckinridge either, to prevent the House from electing anyone. Eventually the clock runs out and, on March 4th 1861, Vice-President-elect Joseph Lane is sworn in as the 16th President of the United States.
I hope next season of Game of Thrones includes Utherydes's nephew:
Said to be the richest man in the Riverlands.
Said to be the richest man in the Riverlands.
And a variation: in addition to the above, Bell also wins Maryland instead of Breckinridge. Meaning he comes third in electoral vote count and is eligible to be elected by the House instead of Douglas. The Republicans realise they can't win and so strike a deal with the conservative ex-Whig delegations to elect their man Bell as President in order to keep Breckinridge out.
I'm assuming that the reboot universe continues into the Next Generation? But who could they get to replace Stewart.
That's a weird situation. So weird, that I think Wikipedia (which will never exist, but whatevs) would probably have a different kind of infobox or something.
I'm assuming that the reboot universe continues into the Next Generation? But who could they get to replace Stewart.
I'm guessing James McAvoy.
I just realized the 50th Anniversary is coming up. I hope Neill Blomkamp does a nice Klingon War film for the occassion. Of course, anything would be better than the very sad 40th Anniversary.
Possibly pictures of the Vice-Presidential candidates as well.
He's in the line of succession, one of the many Stark cousins that must exist (because it's an 8,000-year-old family!) but for some reason, have never been referenced.
"Tony" Stark is a noble silversmith, the son of a legitimized Stark bastard (Howd Snow, the son of Lord Edwyle Stark), who resides in the rich port city of White Harbor.
He secretly masquerades as a mystery knight at tournaments and spent much of his youth on the Eastern continent (where, legend has it, he was once taken as hostage by a Dothraki Khal).
Here's the third in my 257-part series:
All credit goes to Dethklok at The Last of His House: Kal-El in Westeros for inspiring me on this idea. I came *this* close to making Calon a young Superman, but the Starks already have Tony and I want to explore a different culture with each infobox.
"Khal El" leads one of the greatest khalasars in the Dothraki Sea. Legend has it he cannot be pierced by manly blade, and has more than once laid siege to a city by himself. Whispers and legends surround the man (said to have been discovered as an infant by a Great Khal in a mysterious red meteorite), but he has very rarely ventured into the west of Essos, instead focusing on the lands of Yi Ti and other targets east of the Dothraki Sea.
All credit goes to Dethklok at The Last of His House: Kal-El in Westeros for inspiring me on this idea. I came *this* close to making Calon a young Superman, but the Starks already have Tony and I want to explore a different culture with each infobox.
"Khal El" leads one of the greatest khalasars in the Dothraki Sea. Legend has it he cannot be pierced by manly blade, and has more than once laid siege to a city by himself. Whispers and legends surround the man (said to have been discovered as an infant by a Great Khal in a mysterious red meteorite), but he has very rarely ventured into the west of Essos, instead focusing on the lands of Yi Ti and other targets east of the Dothraki Sea.
This is for an election game I'm doing over on the Atlas Forum. I haven't made one for the Senate or Presidential elections yet, but T.R. won the Republican nomination and thus the White House with 42.49% of the popular vote and 417 electoral votes, smashing the Democrats (led by Champ Clark), who won 22.49% of the popular vote, lost every state outside of the 'Solid South' (and Tennessee), bringing their electoral count to 114, and just barely holding on to Southern House seats as Northern working class voters defected to the Socialists.
Debs got 16.67% of the popular vote and carried no states, but as the United States looks at the possibility of intervention in World War I ahead of schedule (because, Theodore Roosevelt) there's a decent chance that the reds might take control of Congress in 1914, which of course might just be enough to provoke a constitutional crisis between the President, his allies in the Senate, and the judiciary, and the House.
Debs got 16.67% of the popular vote and carried no states, but as the United States looks at the possibility of intervention in World War I ahead of schedule (because, Theodore Roosevelt) there's a decent chance that the reds might take control of Congress in 1914, which of course might just be enough to provoke a constitutional crisis between the President, his allies in the Senate, and the judiciary, and the House.
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