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The Tail Wags The Dog​


1961-1969: John F. Kennedy/Lyndon B. Johnson (Democratic)
- 1960: Richard Nixon/Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (Republican) , Harry F. Byrd/Various (Unpledged Electors)
- 1964: Billy Graham/Walter Judd (Republican) , George Wallace/Strom Thurmond (Dixiecrat)
1969-1972: Ronald Reagan/Jim Rhodes (Republican)
- 1968: Lyndon B. Johnson/Hubert Humphrey (Democratic) , George Wallace/Colonel Harland Sanders (Dixiecrat)
1972-1973: Jim Rhodes/None (Republican)
1973-1977: Jim Rhodes/Ed Muskie (Republican/Democratic)
- 1972: Jim Rhodes/Robert Bauman (Republican) , Robert F. Kennedy/Ed Muskie (Democratic) , George Wallace/John Ashbrook (Dixiecrat)
1977-1981: Ed Muskie/Edward M. Kennedy (Democratic)
- 1976: Robert Bauman/Paul Laxalt (Republican) , George Wallace/Lester Maddox (Dixiecrat)
1981-1989: Pat Robertson/Dave Treen (Republican)
- 1980: Ed Muskie/Edward M. Kennedy (Democratic) , Charles Percy/Gerald Ford (Real Republican) , Lester Maddox/James Allen (Dixiecrat)
- 1984: Edward M. Kennedy/Walter Mondale (Democratic) , Ed Brooke/George HW Bush (Real Republican)
1989-1993: John B. Anderson/Evan Mecham (Republican)
- 1988: Paul Simon/John Connally (Democratic) , Pete McCloskey/Donald Trump (Real Republican)
1993-1997: James E. Carter/Mitt Romney (Democratic)
- 1992: John B. Anderson/Evan Mecham (Republican) , Donald Trump/Donald Rumsfeld (Real Republican)
1997-2005: Dan Quayle/Jack Kemp (Republican)
- 1996: James E. Carter/Mitt Romney (Democratic) , Jesse Jackson/Bernie Sanders (Free Democrat)
- 2000: Mitt Romney/Dick Cheney (Democratic) , Paul Wellstone/Bill Bradley (Free Democrat)
2005-: Rick Santorum/Mike Huckabee (Republican)
- 2004: Colin Powell/Al Gore (National Unity Democrat) , Howard Dean/Ralph Nader (Free Democrat)
- 2008: Hillary Rodham Goldwater/John McCain (National Unity) , Bernie Sanders/Mike Gravel (Freedom)
- 2012: Mitt Romney/Rick Perry (National Unity)
- 2016: Various
 
Turquoise Blue

Turquoise Blue

Might as well...

The Dying of the Light III: North of the Border
Justin Trudeau (Liberal majority) 2015-2029
2015 (maj.): def. Stephen Harper (Conservative), Thomas Mulcair (New Democratic), Gilles Duceppe (Bloc Québécois), Elizabeth May (Green),...
2019 (maj.): def. Maxime Bernier (Conservative), Nikki Ashton (New Democratic), Xavier Barsalou-Daniel (Bloc Québécois), David Chernushenko (Green),...
2023 (maj.): def. Kellie Leitch (Conservative), Nikki Ashton (New Democratic), David Chernushenko (Green),...
2027 (maj.): def. Michelle Rempel (Conservative), Ruth Ellen Brosseau (New Democratic), James Beddome (Green),...
Jody Wilson-Raybould (Liberal majority, then Liberal minority) 2029-2035
2031 (min.): def. Michelle Rempel (Conservative), Ruth Ellen Brosseau (New Democratic), James Beddome (Green),...
Michael Cooper (Conservative minority) 2035-2043
2035 (min.): def. Jody Wilson-Raybould (Liberal), Ruth Ellen Brosseau (New Democratic), Cherie Wong (Green),...
2039 (min.): def. Mandy Livingstone (Liberal), Paul McDonald (New Democratic), Cherie Wong (Green),...
2040 (min.): def. Mandy Livingstone (Liberal), Paul McDonald (New Democratic),...
Mandy Livingstone (Liberal minority) 2043-2045*
2043 (min.): def. Michael Cooper (Conservative), Paul McDonald (New Democratic), Sarah Palmer (Green),...
Astrid Dell (Liberal minority, then majority, then minority) 2045-2064
2047 (maj.): def. Michael Cooper (Conservative), Tom Singh (New Democratic),...
2051 (maj.): def. Tom Singh (New Democratic), Jeremy Chong (Conservative),...
2055 (maj.): def. Tom Singh (New Democratic), Pierre Cadorette (Conservative),...
2059 (min.): def. Tom Singh (New Democratic), Antoine Proulx (Conservative),...
Tom Singh (New Democratic minority) 2064-2066
2064 (min.): def. Astrid Dell (Liberal), Antoine Proulx (Conservative), Michael McCarthy (Progressive),...
Xavier Trudeau (Liberal minority, then majority) 2066-2072
2067 (maj.): def. Michael McCarthy (Progressive), Tom Singh (New Democratic), Doug Thomas (Socialist Initiative), Antoine Proulx (Conservative),...
2071 (maj.): def. Taylor Chan (Progressive), Chandra Lempik (New Democratic), Michel Banville (Conservative), Doug Thomas (Socialist Initiative),...
American Occupation: 2072-2094 [Xavier Trudeau (Liberal government-in-exile/resistance government) 2072-2094]
Xavier Trudeau (Liberal transitional government, then majority) 2094-2097
2095 (maj.): def. Paul Sánchez (New Democratic), Mary McCarthy (Progressive), July Miles-Quaverly (Conservative), J. C. Major (Socialist Initiative),...
Talésie Lord (Liberal majority) 2097-2113
2099 (maj.): def. Paul Sánchez (New Democratic), July Miles-Quaverly (Conservative), J. C. Major (Socialist Initiative), Dolaris Fleury (Progressive),...
2103 (maj.): def. July Miles-Quaverly (Progressive Conservative), Raven Wright (New Democratic), James Watanabe (Socialist Initiative),...
2107 (maj.): def. Preston Winthrop (Progressive Conservative), Rosalyn Marshall (New Democratic), Dominic Miron (Socialist Initiative),...
2111 (maj.): def. Preston Winthrop (Progressive Conservative), Rosalyn Marshall (New Democratic), Louis McDaniel (Socialist Initiative),...
Zoe Boudreaux (Liberal majority, then minority) 2113-2120
2115 (maj.): def. Rosalyn Marshall (New Democratic), Beverly Coute (Progressive Conservative), Louis McDaniel (Socialist Initiative),...
2119 (min.): def. Rosalyn Marshall (New Democratic), Sofia Pearson (Progressive Conservative), Louis McDaniel (Socialist Initiative),...
Justin Gray (Liberal minority, then majority, then minority, then majority) 2120-2132
2121 (maj.): def. Rosalyn Marshall (New Democratic), Sofia Pearson (Progressive Conservative), Donna Alexander (Socialist Initiative),...
2124 (min.): def. Bermont Gregg (Progressive Democratic), Donna Alexander (Socialist Initiative),...
2127 (maj.): def. Bermont Gregg (Progressive Democratic), Dust Hynde (Conservative Values), Donna Alexander (Socialist Initiative),...
2131 (maj.): def. Félix Quévillon (Progressive Democratic), Tace Overmonde (Conservative Values), Larry Jackson (Socialist Initiative),...
Paul Trudeau (Liberal majority, then minority) 2132-2144
2133 (maj.): def. Tace Overmonde (Conservative Values), Félix Quévillon (Progressive Democratic), Larry Jackson (Socialist Initiative),...
2137 (maj.): def. Alexa Lexington (Progressive Democratic), Tace Overmonde (Conservative Values), Larry Jackson (Socialist Initiative),...
2141 (min.): def. Alexa Lexington (Progressive Democratic), Humiliation Harris (Conservative Values), W. J. Shearer (Socialist Initiative), Drewan (Time'em Na'viyä),...
Darren Shan (Progressive Democratic-Conservative Values coalition with support from Socialist Initiative) 2144-2150
2145 (coal.): def. Paul Trudeau (Liberal), Humiliation Harris (Conservative Values), W. J. Shearer (Socialist Initiative), Drewan (Time'em Na'viyä),...
2149 (coal.): def. Patrick Rhino (Liberal), Humiliation Harris (Conservative Values), Drewan (Time'em Na'viyä), W. J. Shearer (Socialist Initiative),...
Alexa Lexington (Progressive Democratic-Conservative Values coalition with support from Socialist Initiative) 2150-2151
Donna Moss (Liberal minority, then majority) 2151-2163
2152 (maj.): def. Drewan (Time'em Na'viyä), Tace Overmonde (Conservative Values), Bob Hazen (Socialist Initiative), Alexa Lexington (Progressive Democratic),...
2156 (maj.): def. Luxénée Bachand (Conservative Values), Drewan (Time'em Na'viyä), Daniel Coute (Progressive Democratic), Bob Hazen (Socialist Initiative),...
2160 (maj.): def. Daniel Coute (Progressive Democratic), Luxénée Bachand (Conservative Values), Nikti (Time'em Na'viyä), Mike Mackintosh (Socialist Initiative),...
Lexie Luther (Liberal majority, then minority) 2163-2177
2164 (maj.): def. Daniel Coute (Progressive Democratic), Nikti (Time'em Na'viyä), Mike Mackintosh (Socialist Initiative), Praise-God Jones (Conservative Values),...
2168 (min.): def. Violet Nightshade (Progressive Democratic), Nikti (Time'em Na'viyä), Maga MacDonald (Conservative Values), Kenneth O'Neill (Socialist Initiative),...
2171 (min.): def. Walt Bradley (Progressive Democratic), Maga MacDonald (Conservative Values), Nikti (Time'em Na'viyä), Kenneth O'Neill (Socialist Initiative),...
2175 (min.): def. Avélina Lampron (Progressive Democratic), Enoch Abernathy (Conservative Values), Jérôme Corbin (Socialist Initiative), Nikti (Time'em Na'viyä),...
Justine Trudeau (Liberal minority) 2177-present
2179 (min.): def. Harinder Donnelly (Progressive Democratic), Enoch Abernathy (Conservative Values), Nikti (Time'em Na'viyä), Jérôme Corbin (Socialist Initiative),...
 
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Cevolian

Cevolian

"THE MAN WHO'LL TAKE US OUT OF THE WAR!"
A Progressive victory in 1912 and earlier US involvement in WWI have some interesting repurcussions...​

1913-1913: Theodore Roosevelt/Hiram Johnson (Progressive) [1]
1912 Def: Woodrow Wilson/Thomas Marshall (Democratic), William Howard Taft/Nicholas M. Butler (Republican), Eugene V. Debs/Emil Seidel (Socialist)
1913-1917: Theodore Roosevelt/Hiram Johnson (Republican)
1917-1921: Champ Clark/William Borah ("Peace" Coalition -- "Peace" Democrat/"Peace" Republican) [2]
1916 Def: Theodore Roosevelt/Hiram Johnson (Republican), Various ("War" Democrats)
1921-1929: J.P. Morgan Jr/Albert B. Fall (Republican) [3]
1920 Def: Champ Clark/James M. Cox (Democratic)
1924 Def: John W Davis/Charles W. Bryan (Democratic), Thomas Marshall/Thomas Gore (Peace Democrats)
1929-1930: Albert B. Fall/Warren G. Harding (Republican) [4]
1928: Al Smith/Joseph Robinson (Democratic), James A. Reed/Norman Thomas (Peace Democrats/Socialists)
1930-1931: Huey Long (Provisional Revolutionary Government) [5]
1931-1933: Huey Long/Upton Sinclair (Popular Front -- Democrat/Socialist/Communist/National Union For Justice/Peace Democrats/Progressive)
1930 (Provisional Election) Def: Herbert Hoover/Franklin Roosevelt (National Union -- Republican/Democratic), Charles Lindbergh/Prescott Bush ("Conservative" Republicans)
1933-1937: Huey Long/Upton Sinclair (Democratic-Labor)
1932 Def: Various (Republicans), Various (Democrats), Various (Independents), Various (Progressives)
1937-1945: Huey Long/Rex Tugwell (Democratic-Labor)
1936 Def: Several Minor and Regional Candidates
1940 Def: None (Officially Unopposed)
1945-1947: Huey Long/Lyndon Johnson (Democratic-Labor)
1944 Def: None (Officially Unopposed)
1947-1949: Lyndon Johnson/none (Democratic-Labor) [6]
1949-1951: Lyndon Johnson/Earl Browder (Democratic-Labor)
1948 Def: None (Officially Unopposed)
1951-1953: John J. Pershing/Thomas E. Dewey (National Union --- Non-Partisan/New Democratic/Republican) [7]
1951 (Provisional Election by Congress) Def: John J. Pershing/none (Non-Partisan/Democratic), none/Harry Truman (Democratic), Thomas E. Dewey/Wendell Wilkie (Republican), Strom Thurmond/none (Democratic), Robert LaFollete Jr (Progressive/Republican)
1953-19??: Ronald Reagan/Harry Truman (New Democratic) [8]
1952 Def: Richard Nixon/Robert LaFollete Jr (Progressive Republican), William Z. Foster/A. Philip Randolph (Labor)


1 - In the upset of the (admittedly young) century, Third Party candidate Theodore Roosevelt beat both major parties to the Presidency and began his third term as President. Continuing his own radical programmes from before Taft's ascendancy to the Presidency, Roosevelt quickly returned to the Republican Party - in essence the "split" had simply been a Civil War in which the Progresisves had beaten the Conservatives. The most important act of Roosevelt's second Presidency came in 1914, when he brought the USA into the war against Germany in Europe. It was an immediate disaster. Between 1914 and 1917 hundreds of thousands of Americans were killed in Europe as the war ground on slowly, and public dissatisfaction quickly turned into enmity towards Roosevelt - in the election of 1916 he was beaten by a coalition of those from both parties opposed to the war...

2- Just four years before Clark would have been an outside candidate, and no one would have predicted he would have been running with a Republican... The war changed everything. Emerging at the head of a coalition from across the political spectrum opposed t the war, Clark swept to power against a divided and unpopular pro-war movement (no fewer than three "Pro-War Democratic" tickets received votes). His first actions were, naturally, to come to terms with Germany and her allies, bringing the US out of the war and returning her troops home. The war would last another two years, claim millions of lives, and see Germany essentially remaining in tact, with only her eastern most territories lost to Poland and a number of buffer states against the rising Russian Soviet Republic. Clark's sole mission had been to bring the USA out of the war, and his only other notable action was to veto the "Wilsonian" proposal for a League of Nations to be created by the USA. When the Republicans declined to continue the coalition Clark was beaten...

3- Having made huge profits from the sale of armaments throughout the war, J.P. Morgan Jr was seen as a hypocrite by many for taking an isolationist stance to win the Presidency. Nevertheless, with his enormous wealth and growing personal popularity, Morgan was able to beat the popular Champ Clark and entered the Oval Office. His term was marked by isolation on the world stage and laissez-fairs capitalism. Fearing the rise of Communism in Russia, Morgan quickly reneged on his promises of isolation, sending troops into Russia to fight off the offensive being fought in Finland. The Democrats accepted that action needed to be taken against the RSR (although it opposed military intervention) and its refusal to condemn the attacks by Morgan led to the extreme isolationists in the party breaking off and running their own Presidential candidate - this vote splitting enabled Morgan to win another term with ease and, not long after Election Day, the US pulled out of Russia entirely. The economy was booming, businessmen like Henry Ford were driving innovation forwards, and the US economy was taking off like a rocket. When Morgan left office in 1929, handing over to a hand-picked successor, it seemed like the Republican empire he had built was unstoppable.

4- Just one month after entering office, President Fall's scandalously corrupt business dealings as Vice President were revealed, and the nation's confidence in him was shattered. Over the next year the economy crashed and millions of Americans were made homeless, forming into "Liberty Militias" under the guidance of strongly anti-corruption populist Huey Long, who was arguing against the domination of "Fat cats, aristocrats, millionaires and a scheming political class" in increasingly revolutionary and violent speeches. With the forces of the left joining up in a "Ppopular Front" and taking a majority in Congress in 1930, Fall became increasingly despotic. His use of executive power to try and slash taxes for the richest led t a violent revolt, and the overthrow of the government...

5- When Huey Long's supporters seized power from President Fall they ended over a century of uninterrupted democratic government in the US, but some would argue that they also saved the nation from one of the single most disastrous Presidents in history. Leading a short lived Revolutionary Government, Long's Popular Front quickly won the provisional Presidential Election, befor euniting under the "Democratic-Labour" banner in time for the election of 1932. Pursuing deeply socialistic policies, Long would recuse America form the depression, but his tactics of disrupting rival parties and breaking them apart alienated some more democratically minded colleagues, including Vice President Sinclair, who declined to run again in 1936. With Long's "Share The Wealth" programmes proving hugely popular, he seemed totally unasiable as President, especially as he began to rearm and construct huge monuments to American greatness. Long declined to enter the war between the Anglo-French-Polish Entente and the nationalist German State in 1940, or the war between the RSR and Japan in 1941. It was only when the Japanese attacked Hawaii that the Russo-American alliance was formed - attacking Japan, seizing her island territories, and dividing the mainland into occupation zones, the two countries were able to establish peace by 1945. When the war in Europe ended with Germany split in half and a resolutely anti-Communist bloc rising in Europe, Long began to increase tension with Britain on the Canadian border. Many feared a Cold War between socialist Russia and America and the Entene nations, until Long was assassinated.

6- A southern populist like his predecessor, Johnson was never able to unite the people like Long had. Trying to build a coalition of the urban poor, blacks and Middle Class socialists, Johnson alienated as much of the country as he gained support from. Soon a coalition of the "rich" (those earning enough to have their wages capped) southern racists and the more conservative members of the middle class (as well as supporters of Douglas MacArthur's exile government in the Philippines and a considerable military element) were conspiring against him. Failing to mount a significant challenge at the 1948 Presidential Election, they instead launched a coup in 1951 as proceedings were brought by the "extremists" in the Democratic-Labour party to impeach President Johnson - with the opposition divided, now was the time to strike. They were quick in removing Johnson, securing major facilities, and finally, taking control of the nation...

7- The new, provisional, US Congress (after over twenty rounds of voting with over thirty candidates out forward at first) eventually narrowed tehrunning down to four "serious" contenders, but with a roughly equal number of New Democrats and Republicans having been elected (as well as obstructionist Democratic-Labour members who refused to participate) no candidate could receive enough support. Eventually the leader of the coup, military hero Pershing, was put forwards and elected as a caretaker President with hi-partisan support...

8- Following the retirement of the elderly President Pershing, popular, young New Democrat warhero Ronald "Dutch" Reagan was elected president, promising a return to old fashioned values, the repeal of many overtly socialist policies, a return to isolation and, covertly, the return of power to states or segregate based on race. He narrowly defeated the Progressive Republicans (a fusion of the primarily New England based Republican Party and midwestern Progressives) and entered the White House as the first "real" Democrat since Champ Clark...

Fin.​
 
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Gorrister

Gorrister

Make Your MP, Your PM (apologies to @Gonzo)

2007: Gordon Brown (Labour)
2010: David Miliband (Labour-Liberal Democrat coalition) [1]
2014: David Cameron (Conservative) [2]
2015: William Hague (Conservative) [3]
2015: Ed Balls (Labour minority) [4]
2016: Liz Truss (Conservative-DUP coalition) [5]
2016: Nigel Dodds (Conservative-DUP coalition) [6]

[1]: Gordon remembers to switch his mic off after meeting that nice Ms. Duffy, and a media storm is averted. Cameron underperforms in the debate the day following, stunting his momentum a little. The final result is still a hung parliament, but with the Tories on 290, Labour on 270, and the Liberal Democrats on 61. Before Cameron and co can get in a good offer, Mandelson and Brown impress Clegg with offers of STV without a referendum. Brown reluctantly goes as a condition, and the more acceptable D-MIL is installed. The four years of coalition are rocky, with Labour clearly uncomfortable and out of ideas, and the Lib Dems failing with their #1 goal of electoral reform when the ensuing referendum on STV leads to a victory for the status quo 53-47%. The London Olympics, Phone-Hacking and the pickup of growth, spearheaded by Darling, saves Labour from an utter battering in 2014 at the hands of the Tories, who end up with a two seat majority.
[2]: Cameron, in an attempt to make up for lost time, pushes through as much as he can while he still has the majority. Osborne's austeritynomics displeases large portions of the general public as growth slows. Inaction over Russia's taking of the Ukraine also annoys foreign policy 'hawks' within the cabinet, such as Liam Fox. Cameron's faffing about on the promise of an EU referendum sees two defections to UKIP from Mark Reckless and Tom Pursglove. Cameron loses his majority, and eventually following a string of by-election defeats, his position as Prime Minister.
[3]: Hague, always the choice if Cameron went, takes over in quick order. Osborne's agenda is stalled against the Chancellor's wishes as the government calls an election. An incompetent Tory campaign, suffering against UKIP in the shires, leads to a narrow Labour victory.
[4]: Balls, who was able to soften his image while LotO, does his best to reverse the Conservative agenda. The SNP, still in a minority government, protests that they weren't given a role in government, and that a Scottish Independence Referendum is still forthcoming. Balls' carefully crafted budget fails to pass the house, and another general election is called in order to increase Labour's position, seats-wise. A surge from the SNP and wobbles in the Lib Dems put paid to that, as another hung parliament occurs, with the Tories on top.
[5]: The Tories, under their fresh-faced leader Liz Truss, enter coalition with the Democratic Unionist Party, which won ten seats at the election. Truss' government, expected to fall, in fact holds on quite steadily as the new Labour leader Andy Burnham fails to make an impact. Truss implements small tariffs intended to boost British industry, and calls a referendum on Britain's status within the EU. Midway through the referendum, while flying to Strasbourg, Truss and half the cabinet are downed in what is presumed to be a terrorist attack.
[6]: The 'Hague principle', as it was called, leads Dodds, the Deputy PM, as Prime Minister. So far, he's just in until the Tories elect their new leader. He pledges to unite a shaken nation, and to destroy those responsible for such a dreadful act.
 
Turquoise Blue

Turquoise Blue

Random Note: Quite a few of the Canadian politicians in my list are actually MySims. ;)

Rosalyn P. Marshall here is actually the most interesting to me. She's sort of a mix of Jack Layton (considerably more popular than her party, rebuilds her party to take Opposition) and Robert Stanfield (best PM Canada never had). Kinda apt for a "I can't believe they're not Tory!" NDP. XD
 
Mumby

Mumby

Cevolian said:
"THE MAN WHO'LL TAKE US OUT OF THE WAR!"
A Progressive victory in 1912 and earlier US involvement in WWI have some interesting repurcussions...​

1913-1913: Theodore Roosevelt/Hiram Johnson (Progressive) [1]
1912 Def: Woodrow Wilson/Thomas Marshall (Democratic), William Howard Taft/Nicholas M. Butler (Republican), Eugene V. Debs/Emil Seidel (Socialist)
1913-1917: Theodore Roosevelt/Hiram Johnson (Republican)
1917-1921: Champ Clark/William Borah ("Peace" Coalition -- "Peace" Democrat/"Peace" Republican) [2]
1916 Def: Theodore Roosevelt/Hiram Johnson (Republican), Various ("War" Democrats)
1921-1929: J.P. Morgan Jr/Albert B. Fall (Republican) [3]
1920 Def: Champ Clark/James M. Cox (Democratic)
1924 Def: John W Davis/Charles W. Bryan (Democratic), Thomas Marshall/Thomas Gore (Peace Democrats)
1929-1930: Albert B. Fall/Warren G. Harding (Republican) [4]
1928: Al Smith/Joseph Robinson (Democratic), James A. Reed/Norman Thomas (Peace Democrats/Socialists)
1930-1931: Huey Long (Provisional Revolutionary Government) [5]
1931-1933: Huey Long/Upton Sinclair (Popular Front -- Democrat/Socialist/Communist/National Union For Justice/Peace Democrats/Progressive)
1930 (Provisional Election) Def: Herbert Hoover/Franklin Roosevelt (National Union -- Republican/Democratic), Charles Lindbergh/Prescott Bush ("Conservative" Republicans)
1933-1937: Huey Long/Upton Sinclair (Democratic-Labor)
1932 Def: Various (Republicans), Various (Democrats), Various (Independents), Various (Progressives)
1937-1945: Huey Long/Rex Tugwell (Democratic-Labor)
1936 Def: Several Minor and Regional Candidates
1940 Def: None (Officially Unopposed)
1945-1947: Huey Long/Lyndon Johnson (Democratic-Labor)
1944 Def: None (Officially Unopposed)
1947-1949: Lyndon Johnson/none (Democratic-Labor) [6]
1949-1951: Lyndon Johnson/Earl Browder (Democratic-Labor)
1948 Def: None (Officially Unopposed)
1951-1953: John J. Pershing/Thomas E. Dewey (National Union --- Non-Partisan/New Democratic/Republican) [7]
1951 (Provisional Election by Congress) Def: John J. Pershing/none (Non-Partisan/Democratic), none/Harry Truman (Democratic), Thomas E. Dewey/Wendell Wilkie (Republican), Strom Thurmond/none (Democratic), Robert LaFollete Jr (Progressive/Republican)
1953-19??: Ronald Reagan/Harry Truman (New Democratic) [8]
1952 Def: Richard Nixon/Robert LaFollete Jr (Progressive Republican), William Z. Foster/A. Philip Randolph (Labor)


1 - In the upset of the (admittedly young) century, Third Party candidate Theodore Roosevelt beat both major parties to the Presidency and began his third term as President. Continuing his own radical programmes from before Taft's ascendancy to the Presidency, Roosevelt quickly returned to the Republican Party - in essence the "split" had simply been a Civil War in which the Progresisves had beaten the Conservatives. The most important act of Roosevelt's second Presidency came in 1914, when he brought the USA into the war against Germany in Europe. It was an immediate disaster. Between 1914 and 1917 hundreds of thousands of Americans were killed in Europe as the war ground on slowly, and public dissatisfaction quickly turned into enmity towards Roosevelt - in the election of 1916 he was beaten by a coalition of those from both parties opposed to the war...

2- Just four years before Clark would have been an outside candidate, and no one would have predicted he would have been running with a Republican... The war changed everything. Emerging at the head of a coalition from across the political spectrum opposed t the war, Clark swept to power against a divided and unpopular pro-war movement (no fewer than three "Pro-War Democratic" tickets received votes). His first actions were, naturally, to come to terms with Germany and her allies, bringing the US out of the war and returning her troops home. The war would last another two years, claim millions of lives, and see Germany essentially remaining in tact, with only her eastern most territories lost to Poland and a number of buffer states against the rising Russian Soviet Republic. Clark's sole mission had been to bring the USA out of the war, and his only other notable action was to veto the "Wilsonian" proposal for a League of Nations to be created by the USA. When the Republicans declined to continue the coalition Clark was beaten...

3- Having made huge profits from the sale of armaments throughout the war, J.P. Morgan Jr was seen as a hypocrite by many for taking an isolationist stance to win the Presidency. Nevertheless, with his enormous wealth and growing personal popularity, Morgan was able to beat the popular Champ Clark and entered the Oval Office. His term was marked by isolation on the world stage and laissez-fairs capitalism. Fearing the rise of Communism in Russia, Morgan quickly reneged on his promises of isolation, sending troops into Russia to fight off the offensive being fought in Finland. The Democrats accepted that action needed to be taken against the RSR (although it opposed military intervention) and its refusal to condemn the attacks by Morgan led to the extreme isolationists in the party breaking off and running their own Presidential candidate - this vote splitting enabled Morgan to win another term with ease and, not long after Election Day, the US pulled out of Russia entirely. The economy was booming, businessmen like Henry Ford were driving innovation forwards, and the US economy was taking off like a rocket. When Morgan left office in 1929, handing over to a hand-picked successor, it seemed like the Republican empire he had built was unstoppable.

4- Just one month after entering office, President Fall's scandalously corrupt business dealings as Vice President were revealed, and the nation's confidence in him was shattered. Over the next year the economy crashed and millions of Americans were made homeless, forming into "Liberty Militias" under the guidance of strongly anti-corruption populist Huey Long, who was arguing against the domination of "Fat cats, aristocrats, millionaires and a scheming political class" in increasingly revolutionary and violent speeches. With the forces of the left joining up in a "Ppopular Front" and taking a majority in Congress in 1930, Fall became increasingly despotic. His use of executive power to try and slash taxes for the richest led t a violent revolt, and the overthrow of the government...

5- When Huey Long's supporters seized power from President Fall they ended over a century of uninterrupted democratic government in the US, but some would argue that they also saved the nation from one of the single most disastrous Presidents in history. Leading a short lived Revolutionary Government, Long's Popular Front quickly won the provisional Presidential Election, befor euniting under the "Democratic-Labour" banner in time for the election of 1932. Pursuing deeply socialistic policies, Long would recuse America form the depression, but his tactics of disrupting rival parties and breaking them apart alienated some more democratically minded colleagues, including Vice President Sinclair, who declined to run again in 1936. With Long's "Share The Wealth" programmes proving hugely popular, he seemed totally unasiable as President, especially as he began to rearm and construct huge monuments to American greatness. Long declined to enter the war between the Anglo-French-Polish Entente and the nationalist German State in 1940, or the war between the RSR and Japan in 1941. It was only when the Japanese attacked Hawaii that the Russo-American alliance was formed - attacking Japan, seizing her island territories, and dividing the mainland into occupation zones, the two countries were able to establish peace by 1945. When the war in Europe ended with Germany split in half and a resolutely anti-Communist bloc rising in Europe, Long began to increase tension with Britain on the Canadian border. Many feared a Cold War between socialist Russia and America and the Entene nations, until Long was assassinated.

6- A southern populist like his predecessor, Johnson was never able to unite the people like Long had. Trying to build a coalition of the urban poor, blacks and Middle Class socialists, Johnson alienated as much of the country as he gained support from. Soon a coalition of the "rich" (those earning enough to have their wages capped) southern racists and the more conservative members of the middle class (as well as supporters of Douglas MacArthur's exile government in the Philippines and a considerable military element) were conspiring against him. Failing to mount a significant challenge at the 1948 Presidential Election, they instead launched a coup in 1951 as proceedings were brought by the "extremists" in the Democratic-Labour party to impeach President Johnson - with the opposition divided, now was the time to strike. They were quick in removing Johnson, securing major facilities, and finally, taking control of the nation...

7- The new, provisional, US Congress (after over twenty rounds of voting with over thirty candidates out forward at first) eventually narrowed tehrunning down to four "serious" contenders, but with a roughly equal number of New Democrats and Republicans having been elected (as well as obstructionist Democratic-Labour members who refused to participate) no candidate could receive enough support. Eventually the leader of the coup, military hero Pershing, was put forwards and elected as a caretaker President with hi-partisan support...

8- Following the retirement of the elderly President Pershing, popular, young New Democrat warhero Ronald "Dutch" Reagan was elected president, promising a return to old fashioned values, the repeal of many overtly socialist policies, a return to isolation and, covertly, the return of power to states or segregate based on race. He narrowly defeated the Progressive Republicans (a fusion of the primarily New England based Republican Party and midwestern Progressives) and entered the White House as the first "real" Democrat since Champ Clark...

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This.

This was worth the wait.
 
Mumby

Mumby

I have to admit, I initially assumed Ronny would be more New Deal-y and be a 'Reformed Longist' or something, carrying the Democratic-Labor consensus forward into true democratic politics.
 
Gorrister

Gorrister

1998-2001: John Hume (SDLP) & Ken Maginnis (UUP)
2001-2001: Alex Attwood (SDLP) & Ken Maginnis (UUP)
2001-2002: John Hume (SDLP) & Jack Hermon (UUP)
2002-2007: Suspended
2007-2008: Ruairí Ó Brádaigh (Sinn Féin) & David McNarry (DUP)
2008-2015: Pat Sheehan (Sinn Féin) & David McNarry (DUP)*
2015-2015: Michele Gildernew (Sinn Féin) & David McNarry (DUP)
2015-2016: Pat Sheehan (Sinn Féin) & David McNarry (DUP)
2016-20XX: Michele Gildernew (Sinn Féin) & David McNarry (DUP)**

*McNarry briefly stepped down in order to run for Mayor of London.
**Gildernew won unanimously after SF parliamentary leader Máirtín O Muilleoir declined to enter the race.

A very silly scenario.
 
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