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Little known fact: Salmon P. Chase went by the nickname Grant among his close friends and acquaintances."desperate to stop Grant, decided to not run their own candidate and endorse Grant."
Odd decision!
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Canadamerica: 1872
Grant's administration has had a tough time with Reconstruction, and has been plagued by several scandals. Furthermore, the moderate dissident Republicans, who supported Chase in 1868, have formed their own party, called the Liberal Republican Party. They nominated former Ambassador and Congressman Charles Francis Adams, son of President John Quincy Adams, and managed to attract most of the support of the Democratic Party, which once again did not run anyone official against Grant in fear of splitting the anti-Republican vote. It was to no avail; Grant still won easily, in no small part thanks to the Reconstruction-enforcing military presence down South. Once again, Grant won many votes on the Unionist line in addition to the Republican line.
Once again, the Liberals in Canada failed to have an official leader for some bizarre reason, so once again the Democrats do not have an official nominee, and instead endorse someone else. For these elections, I'm discarding the vote which on Wikipedia is for "unknown candidates" and just taking the candidates' percentage of the "known vote". I debated whether or not to have the Democrats win this election, since the Canadian Liberals did take control in 1873. However, the way they took control without an election doesn't really work in America. I decided to move the 1874-1878 Canadian inter-election period back two years to make it match the American calendar, so the Democrats will win 1876-1880 instead.
Grant's administration has had a tough time with Reconstruction, and has been plagued by several scandals. Furthermore, the moderate dissident Republicans, who supported Chase in 1868, have formed their own party, called the Liberal Republican Party. They nominated former Ambassador and Congressman Charles Francis Adams, son of President John Quincy Adams, and managed to attract most of the support of the Democratic Party, which once again did not run anyone official against Grant in fear of splitting the anti-Republican vote. It was to no avail; Grant still won easily, in no small part thanks to the Reconstruction-enforcing military presence down South. Once again, Grant won many votes on the Unionist line in addition to the Republican line.
Once again, the Liberals in Canada failed to have an official leader for some bizarre reason, so once again the Democrats do not have an official nominee, and instead endorse someone else. For these elections, I'm discarding the vote which on Wikipedia is for "unknown candidates" and just taking the candidates' percentage of the "known vote". I debated whether or not to have the Democrats win this election, since the Canadian Liberals did take control in 1873. However, the way they took control without an election doesn't really work in America. I decided to move the 1874-1878 Canadian inter-election period back two years to make it match the American calendar, so the Democrats will win 1876-1880 instead.
Red, Green, and Blue
Dull, boring Al Gore would have likely been thought of as a great peacetime president if he had somehow been the Progressive nominee instead of Clinton in 1996. Unfortunately, in the first summer after he took office, Gore's president was quickly transformed when bombs went off near-simultaneously in downtown Boston, New York and Washington D.C. on June 15, 2005. The attacks of 6/15 left 1,000 dead and thousands more wounded. The attacks were soon linked to anti-US Latin American left-wing radicals. Gore used the huge surge in support he received to get Congress to pass bills both authorizing the US military to seek out and destroy the radicals' support and arrest the perpetrators. Gore then oversaw large changes to the country's internal security, creating a Department of Domestic Security to replace the overlapping jurisdictions that previous agencies had had to protect the nation.
The military action was a success and in early 2006, pundits were declaring that 2008 would be a Gore landslide akin to Clinton's 2000 performance. However, Americans soon began to chafe at the tight security measures and questionable policies being done in their name in the anti-terrorism fight. In addition, inflation began rising as the US' new anti-terrorism objective soon started driving up the food prices of many items grown in Latin America, where the US began launching many small but devastating raids alongside local forces.
By 2008, Gore was in trouble. The DDS' controversial beginnings (and even existence), the controversial anti-terrorism operations that had grown out of the response to 6/15, growing inflation and Gore's inability to connect with most Americans lead to him entering the year with very low numbers.
The Republicans, learning from their mistake with George W. Bush, selected the personable, moderate Ohio Senator John Kasich as their nominee. Kasich chose South Dakota's at-large congressman, John Thune, as his running-mate to secure the conservative vote.
The Democrats picked independent Maine Governor Angus King as their nominee, and King scored a coup by persuading popular Washington Senator Rob McKenna to join his ticket.
Kasich had a field day with Gore as the president flailed on the defensive while largely unable to convince Americans as to how a second Gore term would be better than the first. Gore's numbers were in a near-constant slow bleed as the campaign wore on and by the end, pollsters were predicting a Kasich landslide.
They were right. Kasich won the popular vote by thirteen points and Gore's only electoral votes came from the northeast (as well as the dark red Washington D.C.). McKenna gave Washington to King and the Democrat surprisingly picked up Alaska, due to the vote splitting between the GOP, Progressives and the Independence ticket.
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Dull, boring Al Gore would have likely been thought of as a great peacetime president if he had somehow been the Progressive nominee instead of Clinton in 1996. Unfortunately, in the first summer after he took office, Gore's president was quickly transformed when bombs went off near-simultaneously in downtown Boston, New York and Washington D.C. on June 15, 2005. The attacks of 6/15 left 1,000 dead and thousands more wounded. The attacks were soon linked to anti-US Latin American left-wing radicals. Gore used the huge surge in support he received to get Congress to pass bills both authorizing the US military to seek out and destroy the radicals' support and arrest the perpetrators. Gore then oversaw large changes to the country's internal security, creating a Department of Domestic Security to replace the overlapping jurisdictions that previous agencies had had to protect the nation.
The military action was a success and in early 2006, pundits were declaring that 2008 would be a Gore landslide akin to Clinton's 2000 performance. However, Americans soon began to chafe at the tight security measures and questionable policies being done in their name in the anti-terrorism fight. In addition, inflation began rising as the US' new anti-terrorism objective soon started driving up the food prices of many items grown in Latin America, where the US began launching many small but devastating raids alongside local forces.
By 2008, Gore was in trouble. The DDS' controversial beginnings (and even existence), the controversial anti-terrorism operations that had grown out of the response to 6/15, growing inflation and Gore's inability to connect with most Americans lead to him entering the year with very low numbers.
The Republicans, learning from their mistake with George W. Bush, selected the personable, moderate Ohio Senator John Kasich as their nominee. Kasich chose South Dakota's at-large congressman, John Thune, as his running-mate to secure the conservative vote.
The Democrats picked independent Maine Governor Angus King as their nominee, and King scored a coup by persuading popular Washington Senator Rob McKenna to join his ticket.
Kasich had a field day with Gore as the president flailed on the defensive while largely unable to convince Americans as to how a second Gore term would be better than the first. Gore's numbers were in a near-constant slow bleed as the campaign wore on and by the end, pollsters were predicting a Kasich landslide.
They were right. Kasich won the popular vote by thirteen points and Gore's only electoral votes came from the northeast (as well as the dark red Washington D.C.). McKenna gave Washington to King and the Democrat surprisingly picked up Alaska, due to the vote splitting between the GOP, Progressives and the Independence ticket.
Red, Green, and Blue
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I know there isn't long left for this wikibox series but I haven't said this before: well done lord caedus. Very well done, they're fantastic.
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Made this as both a test and as a response to a RB TL where Wellstone was defeated for re election 53-46 ()
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Wellstone survives his Plane crash and while in the hospital for a while, returns to the Senate within two weeks. He and Feingold become the only Senators to vote against the PATRIOT Act, giving him national attention.
Republicans think they have a good Candidate in Mayor Coleman but after a series of gaffes and an entry into the race by Jesse Ventura, sapping votes from both sides, he loses, though he does successfully take the Governor's office in 2006 by a 42-41-15 Margin against Mayor Rybak after Incumbent Pawlenty unsuccessfully tried to claim the Senate race against Klobuchar.
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Wellstone survives his Plane crash and while in the hospital for a while, returns to the Senate within two weeks. He and Feingold become the only Senators to vote against the PATRIOT Act, giving him national attention.
Republicans think they have a good Candidate in Mayor Coleman but after a series of gaffes and an entry into the race by Jesse Ventura, sapping votes from both sides, he loses, though he does successfully take the Governor's office in 2006 by a 42-41-15 Margin against Mayor Rybak after Incumbent Pawlenty unsuccessfully tried to claim the Senate race against Klobuchar.
Made this as both a test and as a response to a RB TL where Wellstone was defeated for re election 53-46
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Wellstone survives his Plane crash and while in the hospital for a while, returns to the Senate within two weeks. He and Feingold become the only Senators to vote against the PATRIOT Act, giving him national attention.
Republicans think they have a good Candidate in Mayor Coleman but after a series of gaffes and an entry into the race by Jesse Ventura, sapping votes from both sides, he loses, though he does successfully take the Governor's office in 2006 by a 42-41-15 Margin against Mayor Rybak after Incumbent Pawlenty unsuccessfully tried to claim the Senate race against Klobuchar.
So if Coleman becomes governor, is he going to try and pursue electoral reform to make sure this sort of thing doesn't happen again?
What? Republicans losing?
No, the winner in a three-way race getting only 37% of the vote, with the two other candidates being closer to each other than the winner. Under a preferential system, I think Coleman would most likely have won, much as I myself prefer Wellstone.
Well, considering that Wellstone did win by over four points, he did win fairly, and I doubt that Norm Coleman of all people would try to institute Electoral Reform.
I have to agree with that. Remember that Ventura won the gubernatorial election with 37% both ITTL & IOTL and there was no move to institute electoral reform.
Ten years later, Coleman himself lost a ridiculously close election by 322 votes out of 2.8 million total votes. Nowhere during the entire recount or in the aftermath was electoral reform seriously debated for state elections.
A Minor Meighen Majority
Here's 1980:
Unfortunately, Canadian politics was rocked following the shocking corruption charges leveled against Prime Minister Alan Eagleson in late 1979. In a report from the CBC, Eagleson was accused of, most notably, allowing government funds to be funneled to the Conservative Party along with wiretapping the phones of his competitors for the purposes of political attacks.
Although Eagleson denied having any involvement and initially refused to resign, he announced his resignation in the beginning of 1980. While there was some speculation that the opposition would refuse to wait until the selection of his successor before bringing down the government, this proved not to be the case. However, shortly after the election of Jack Horner as Conservative leader (a victory in a field that included Flora MacDonald, Joe Clark, and Brian Mulroney), the opposition seized on the scandal and defeated the government, sending Canadians to the polls.
The campaign was a disaster for the Conservative Party in general, as the Eagleson scandal dominated the campaign. Horner, however, ran a strong campaign (a fact admitted by even his opponents) and throughout the campaign managed to increase Conservative support in polls from the abysmal numbers seen during the height of the Eagleson scandal.
However, the scandal proved too big a hurdle for the Conservatives to overcome, and they were sent to the opposition benches with only 75 seats and 29 per cent of the vote. Pierre Trudeau's National Liberals managed to win a huge majority with nearly 50 per cent of the vote, but Horner's strong campaign (under the circumstances) assured that he would fight another election as Conservative leader.
The Social Democrats and CCF, who had entered the campaign expecting to make gains due to the unpopularity of the Conservatives, actually ended up losing seats. The Conservatives had become so unpopular thanks to the scandal that many people who would normally have voted for one of the two parties instead chose to vote strategically for the Liberals to guarantee the defeat of the government. By election night, both parties had come out of the campaign in a worse position than they had entered, and had both lost official party status. Shockingly, Social Democrat leader James Laxer was defeated in his own riding and resigned on election night, setting about discussions about the future of his party and the CCF...
Prime Ministers of Canada:
William Lyon Mackenzie King (Liberal) 1921-1925
Arthur Meighen (Conservative) 1925-1933
Charles Avery Dunning (Liberal) 1933-1939
James Garfield Gardiner (National Liberal) 1939-1953
Brooke Claxton (National Liberal) 1953-1957
Howard Charles Green (Conservative) 1957-1965
James Sinclair (National Liberal) 1965-1973
Alan Eagleson (Conservative) 1973-1980
Jack Horner (Conservative) 1980
Pierre Trudeau (National Liberal) 1980-present
A Minor Meighen Majority
Canadian Federal Election 1925
Canadian Federal Election 1929
Canadian Federal Election 1933
Canadian Federal Election 1937
Canadian Federal Election 1940
Canadian Federal Election 1945
Canadian Federal Election 1950
Canadian Federal Election 1955
Canadian Federal Election 1957
Canadian Federal Election 1958
Canadian Federal Election 1961
Canadian Federal Election 1965
Canadian Federal Election 1967
Canadian Federal Election 1969
Canadian Federal Election 1973
Canadian Federal Election 1977
Here's 1980:
Unfortunately, Canadian politics was rocked following the shocking corruption charges leveled against Prime Minister Alan Eagleson in late 1979. In a report from the CBC, Eagleson was accused of, most notably, allowing government funds to be funneled to the Conservative Party along with wiretapping the phones of his competitors for the purposes of political attacks.
Although Eagleson denied having any involvement and initially refused to resign, he announced his resignation in the beginning of 1980. While there was some speculation that the opposition would refuse to wait until the selection of his successor before bringing down the government, this proved not to be the case. However, shortly after the election of Jack Horner as Conservative leader (a victory in a field that included Flora MacDonald, Joe Clark, and Brian Mulroney), the opposition seized on the scandal and defeated the government, sending Canadians to the polls.
The campaign was a disaster for the Conservative Party in general, as the Eagleson scandal dominated the campaign. Horner, however, ran a strong campaign (a fact admitted by even his opponents) and throughout the campaign managed to increase Conservative support in polls from the abysmal numbers seen during the height of the Eagleson scandal.
However, the scandal proved too big a hurdle for the Conservatives to overcome, and they were sent to the opposition benches with only 75 seats and 29 per cent of the vote. Pierre Trudeau's National Liberals managed to win a huge majority with nearly 50 per cent of the vote, but Horner's strong campaign (under the circumstances) assured that he would fight another election as Conservative leader.
The Social Democrats and CCF, who had entered the campaign expecting to make gains due to the unpopularity of the Conservatives, actually ended up losing seats. The Conservatives had become so unpopular thanks to the scandal that many people who would normally have voted for one of the two parties instead chose to vote strategically for the Liberals to guarantee the defeat of the government. By election night, both parties had come out of the campaign in a worse position than they had entered, and had both lost official party status. Shockingly, Social Democrat leader James Laxer was defeated in his own riding and resigned on election night, setting about discussions about the future of his party and the CCF...
Prime Ministers of Canada:
William Lyon Mackenzie King (Liberal) 1921-1925
Arthur Meighen (Conservative) 1925-1933
Charles Avery Dunning (Liberal) 1933-1939
James Garfield Gardiner (National Liberal) 1939-1953
Brooke Claxton (National Liberal) 1953-1957
Howard Charles Green (Conservative) 1957-1965
James Sinclair (National Liberal) 1965-1973
Alan Eagleson (Conservative) 1973-1980
Jack Horner (Conservative) 1980
Pierre Trudeau (National Liberal) 1980-present
A Minor Meighen Majority
Canadian Federal Election 1925
Canadian Federal Election 1929
Canadian Federal Election 1933
Canadian Federal Election 1937
Canadian Federal Election 1940
Canadian Federal Election 1945
Canadian Federal Election 1950
Canadian Federal Election 1955
Canadian Federal Election 1957
Canadian Federal Election 1958
Canadian Federal Election 1961
Canadian Federal Election 1965
Canadian Federal Election 1967
Canadian Federal Election 1969
Canadian Federal Election 1973
Canadian Federal Election 1977
Canadamerica: 1876
President Grant's second term was much less successful than his first. A series of corruption scandals became public, damaging his reputation and leading to calls of reform. Scandals included incidents where the Secretary of the Treasury hired bounty hunters to collect unpaid taxes and paid them with parts of said taxes, reports of the Secretaries of the Interior, War, Navy, and Attorney General taking bribes, and most notorious of all, the Whiskey Ring, where numerous politicians were stealing tax dollars on Whiskey. The scandals, as well as the rising unpopularity of Reconstruction, revived the ailing Democratic Party, which absorbed the Liberal Republicans and decided to run its own candidate for the first time since 1864. President Grant remained popular among Republicans, but he lost most independent voters to New York Governor Samuel Tilden in a landslide defeat. Even alleged vote tampering by Reconstruction forces in Louisiana, South Carolina, and Florida failed to defeat Grant. The election signaled the coming of reform and the end of Reconstruction.
This parallel was easy to make; MacDonald and Grant both suffered scandals. I looked for a prominent reformer who came from a working class background and couldn't find anyone good, so I went with Tilden, a known reformer, to be Alexander Mackenzie.
Canadamerica:
1868
1872
President Grant's second term was much less successful than his first. A series of corruption scandals became public, damaging his reputation and leading to calls of reform. Scandals included incidents where the Secretary of the Treasury hired bounty hunters to collect unpaid taxes and paid them with parts of said taxes, reports of the Secretaries of the Interior, War, Navy, and Attorney General taking bribes, and most notorious of all, the Whiskey Ring, where numerous politicians were stealing tax dollars on Whiskey. The scandals, as well as the rising unpopularity of Reconstruction, revived the ailing Democratic Party, which absorbed the Liberal Republicans and decided to run its own candidate for the first time since 1864. President Grant remained popular among Republicans, but he lost most independent voters to New York Governor Samuel Tilden in a landslide defeat. Even alleged vote tampering by Reconstruction forces in Louisiana, South Carolina, and Florida failed to defeat Grant. The election signaled the coming of reform and the end of Reconstruction.
This parallel was easy to make; MacDonald and Grant both suffered scandals. I looked for a prominent reformer who came from a working class background and couldn't find anyone good, so I went with Tilden, a known reformer, to be Alexander Mackenzie.
Canadamerica:
1868
1872
Looks great. For 1920 and 1924, I assume you're going with Roosevelt and La Follette for the Progressives?
How will you handle the rise of Social Credit and of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation?
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