List of Alternate Presidents and PMs II

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Existencil - This Hard Land
  • THIS HARD LAND

    1963-1963: Lyndon B. Johnson / Vacant (Democratic)

    1963-1973: Lyndon B. Johnson / Sargent Shriver (Democratic)

    def. 1964: Nelson Rockefeller / John J. Williams (Republican)

    def. 1968:
    George Cabot Lodge II / Louie Nunn (Republican), Ross R. Barnett / Donald Russell (True American)


    1973-1981: Ronald Reagan / Charles Percy (Republican)

    def. 1972: Ted Sorenson / James Carter (Democratic), William Westmoreland / Hank Greenspun (Values)

    def. 1976: Frank Church / Warren Hearnes (Democratic), Guy Gabaldon / Scattered (Values)


    1981-1985: William Proxmire / Lawton Chiles (Democratic)
    def. 1980 - Charles Percy / George Bush (Republican)

    1985-1993: Kit Bond / C. Everett Koop (Republican)
    def. 1984: William Proxmire / Lawton Chiles (Democratic)

    def. 1988: Mario Cuomo / Scott Matherson (Democratic)


    1993-2001: Bruce Springsteen / Tony Coelho (Democratic)
    def. 1992: C. Everett Koop / Buddy Roemer (Republican), Irving Kristol / Al D'Amato (Values)

    def. 1996:
    Jack Kemp / Kay Orr (Republican)


    2001-???: John Kitzhaber / Carol M. Braun (Democratic)

    def. 2000: Jeb Bush / Paul Cellucci (Republican)
     
    CanadianTory - Wait, Stephen Harper's a Liberal!?
  • List of Canadian Prime Ministers
    1. Sir John A. Macdonald (Liberal-Conservative) 1867-1873

    1867: George Brown (Liberal), Joseph Howe (Anti-Confederation)
    1872: Edward Blake (Liberal)

    2. Alexander Mackenzie (Liberal) 1873-1978
    1874: Sir John A. Macdonald (Liberal-Conservative)
    1. Sir John A. Macdonald (Liberal-Conservative) 1878-1891
    1878: Alexander Mackenzie (Liberal)
    1882: Edward Blake (Liberal)
    1887: Edward Blake (Liberal)
    1891: Wilfred Laurier (Liberal)

    3. Sir John Abbott (Liberal-Conservative) 1891-1892
    4. Sir John Thompson (Liberal-Conservative) 1892-1895
    5. Sir Charles Tupper (Liberal-Conservative) 1895-1900

    1896: Wilfred Laurier (Liberal) [1]
    6. Sir Wilfred Laurier (Liberal/National Liberal) 1900-1919 †
    1900: Sir Charles Tupper (Liberal-Conservative)
    1904: Arthur Rupert Dickey (Liberal-Conservative)
    1908: Arthur Rupert Dickey (Liberal-Conservative)
    1911: Sir George Eulas Foster (Conservative)
    1917: Albert Kemp (Conservative)

    7. William Melville Martin (National Liberal) 1919-1924
    1922 (minority): Charles Ballantyne (Liberal-Conservative), Thomas Langton Church (National) [2]
    8. Charles Ballantyne (Liberal-Conservative) 1924-1929
    1924 (minority): William Melville Martin (National Liberal), Thomas Langton Church (National)
    1925: William Melville Martin (National Liberal), Thomas Langton Church (National)

    9. Hugh Guthrie (National Liberal) 1929-1931
    1929: Charles Ballantyne (Liberal-Conservative), Thomas Langton Church (National)
    10. Thomas Crerar (National Liberal) 1931-1933 [3]
    11. Arthur Sauvé (Liberal-Conservative/Wartime Government) 1933-1944 †
    1933: Thomas Crerar (National Liberal), Thomas Langton Church (National), H.H. Stevens (Reconstruction), J.S. Woodsworth (Labour)
    1937: Thomas Crerar (National Liberal), Thomas Langton Church (National), J.S. Woodsworth (Labour)
    1941: James Garfield Gardiner (National Liberal), Thomas Langton Church (National), J.S. Woodsworth (Labour)

    12. Richard Hanson (Wartime Government/Liberal-Conservative) 1944-1945 [4]
    13. Camillien Houde (Liberal-Conservative/People's Party) 1945-1946
    14. Stuart Garson (National Liberal) 1946-1954
    1946: Camillien Houde (People's Party), Solon Earl Low (National), Henry Elvins Spencer (Labour)
    1950: George Nowlan (Democratic Conservative), Solon Earl Low (National), Henry Elvins Spencer (Labour)

    15. Major James Coldwell (National Liberal) 1954-1959 [5]
    1955, June. (minority): George Nowlan (Democratic Conservative), Solon Earl Low (National), William Irvine (Labour)
    1955, Sept.: George Nowlan (Democratic Conservative), Solon Earl Low (National), William Irvine (Labour)

    16. Paul Sauvé (Democratic Conservative) 1959-1970 [6]
    1959 (minority): Major James Coldwell (National Liberal), Robert N. Thompson (National), William Irvine (Labour)
    1960: Donald Hugh Mackay (National Liberal), Robert N. Thompson (National), William Irvine (Labour)
    1964: Donald Hugh Mackay (National Liberal), Robert N. Thompson (National), Hazen Argue (Labour)
    1968: Robert Winters (National Liberal), Robert N. Thompson (National), Hazen Argue (Labour)

    17. George Hees (Democratic Conservative) 1970-1973
    18. Paul Hellyer (National Liberal) 1973-1980

    1973 (minority): George Hees (Democratic Conservative), Gordon Taylor (National), Hazen Argue (Labour)
    1975 (minority): Yves Ryan (Democratic Conservative), Gordon Taylor (National), Hazen Argue (Labour)
    1976: Yves Ryan (Democratic Conservative), Gordon Taylor (National), Hazen Argue (Labour)

    19. Michael Meighen (Democratic Conservative) 1980-1984
    1980: Paul Hellyer (National Liberal), Gordon Taylor (National), Rosemary Brown (Labour)
    20. James Armstrong Richardson (National Liberal) 1984-1991
    1984: Michael Meighen (Democratic Conservative), Robert Curtis Clark (National), John Paul Harney (Labour)
    1988 (minority): Benoît Bouchard (Democratic Conservative), Bob Clark (National), John Paul Harney (Labour)
    1990 (minority): Benoît Bouchard (Democratic Conservative), Bob Clark (National), John Paul Harney (Labour)

    21. Benoît Bouchard (Democratic Conservative) 1991-2000
    1991 (minority): James Armstrong Richardson (National Liberal), Raymond Speaker (National), Howard McCurdy (Labour), Gordon Kesler (United West)
    1993 (minority): Laurence Decore (National Liberal), Raymond Speaker (National), Howard McCurdy (Labour), Gordon Kesler (United West)
    1996: Laurence Decore (National Liberal), Howard McCurdy (Labour), Raymond Speaker (National), Gordon Kesler (United West)

    22. Ralph Klein (National Liberal) 2000-2006
    2000: Benoît Bouchard (Democratic Conservative), Lorne Calvert (Labour), Tom Long (National), Gordon Kesler (United West)
    2004: Pat Binns (Democratic Conservative), Lorne Calvert (Labour), Tom Long (National), Doug Christie (United West)

    23. Joe Volpe (National Liberal) 2006-2008 [7]
    24. Pat Binns (Democratic Conservative) 2008-2013 [8]
    2008 (minority): Joe Volpe (National Liberal), Lorne Calvert (Labour), Tom Long (National), Bruce Burnett (Western Bloc)
    2010: Stephen Harper (National Liberal), Michael Prue (Labour), Tom Long (National), Bruce Burnett (Western Bloc)

    25. Denis Lebel (Democratic Conservative) 2013-2015
    26. Stephen Harper (National Liberal) 2015-
    [9]
    2015: Denis Lebel (Democratic Conservative), Michael Prue (Labour), Doug Ford (National), Bruce Burnett (Western Bloc)

    [1] You're probably wondering how Laurier, the great Liberal titan, lost. Well IOTL he actually lost the popular vote. You'll also notice that I had John Thompson stay on as Prime Minister an extra year. He still dies, but with a little bit of extra time, he manages to bring Newfoundland into Confederation. Those extra Atlantic seats manage to push Tupper over the top and hand the Liberal-Conservatives one more kick at the can.

    [2] A member of the Orange Order of Canada, former Toronto Mayor Thomas Langton Church did not care much for his party's new French-Canadian leader. So, he started his own. The West stayed Liberal, Quebec and the East went Tory, while Ontario seemed content to give the Nationals a try.

    [3] It kinda sucks to get your first kick at the job of Prime Minister just as the Great Depression hits the country. What's worse is when you're leading a party as ambitious as the Liberals, who don't have much of a problem dumping a leader when Canadians are protesting in the streets. Maybe that progressive-thinking Crerar will do the job.

    [4] Sure, when the Prime Minister dies, you get a replacement. Trouble is, the guy who died had been Prime Minister for eleven years, and his most obvious successor, Robert Manion, had died the year before. Thanks Manion. Ah well, Hanson will do for now. Steady as she goes!

    [5] An acolyte of Crerar, Coldwell is convinced to become Liberal leader after several scandals risk booting the government from office. He's reluctant, but on the advice of his mentor, he takes the job. Becoming the father of healthcare isn't a bad legacy to have.

    [6] Lets be honest, if the Tories wanted to win again, and win big, they needed a Sauvé at the helm. Managed to serve a week longer than his Dad. Go figure.

    [7] Did he help balance the budget? Sure. But he started to act a little too authoritarian towards the end. Can't have that now.

    [8] Quiet and unassuming, Binns was the first non-Quebec leader since George Hees in the early 70s, and the first Maritime leader since...geez, George Nowlan in the 1950s. The man started to get tired after five years in Ottawa, and decided he wanted to spend a little more time with his family. Can you blame the guy?

    [9] A protegee of Decore and Klein, Harper seems determined to completely wipe out the Tories no matter what. He's reaching out to Quebec, cementing the Liberal's roots in Ontario, and recruited some star candidates out in Atlantic Canada. Who knows, with any luck this guy could be around for quite some time.

    † Died in office.
     
    Kovalenko - Don't Keep Veep, Vetting Volpe, and Carternation
  • No story. Just random lists. Enjoy.

    Don't Keep Veep

    1953-1957: Dwight D. Eisenhower / Richard Nixon (Republican)

    1952: Adlai Stevenson / John Sparkman (Democratic)
    1957-1961: Dwight D. Eisenhower / Robert B. Anderson (Republican)
    1956: Adlai Stevenson / Estes Kefauver (Democratic)
    1961-1965: Robert B. Anderson / Thruston Morton (Republican)
    1960: John Kennedy / Lyndon B. Johnson (Democratic)
    1965-1973: Lyndon B. Johnson / Eugene McCarthy (Democratic)
    1964: Robert B. Anderson / Thruston Morton (Republican)
    1968: Thruston Morton / Winthrop Rockefeller (Republican)
    1973-1977: Eugene McCarthy / Reubin Askew (Democratic)
    1972: Barry Goldwater / William Scranton (Republican)

    Vetting Volpe
    1969-1973: Richard Nixon / Spiro Agnew (Republican)

    1968: Hubert Humphrey / Edmund Muskie (Democratic), George Wallace / Curtis LeMay (American Independent)
    1973-1974: Richard Nixon / John Volpe (Republican)
    1972: George McGovern / Sargent Shriver (Democratic)
    1974-1975: John Volpe / vacant (Republican)
    1975-1977: John Volpe / George Bush (Republican)

    Carternation
    1977-1981: Gerald Ford / Bob Dole (Republican)

    1976: Jimmy Carter / Frank Church (Democratic)
    1981-1989: Jimmy Carter / Walter Mondale (Democratic)
    1980: Ronald Reagan / Paul Laxalt (Republican)
    1984: Bob Dole / Jack Kemp (Republican)
     
    dw93 - Tragedy Strikes in '81
  • Tragedy Strikes in '81:

    40. Ronald Reagan* | George HW Bush (Republican): 1981-1981

    41.
    George HW Bush | Vacant (Republican): 1981-1981
    41. George HW Bush | Paul Laxalt (Republican): 1981-1989

    42.
    Bill Bradley | Dale Bumpers (Democratic): 1989-1993

    43. Dick Lugar | Tom Kean (Republican): 1993-2001

    44.
    Tom Kean | Trent Lott (Republican): 2001-2005

    45.
    Howard Dean | Max Cleland (Democratic): 2005-2013

    46.
    George Allen | Mitch Daniels (Republican): 2013-2017

    47.
    Sherrod Brown | Xavier Becerra (Democratic): 2017-Present
     
    Mumby - Hueytopia
  • HUEYTOPIA

    1933-1933: Huey Long / vacant (Democratic)
    1932 def. Herbert Hoover / Charles Curtis (Republican)
    1933-1945: Huey Long / James Farley (Democratic)
    1936 def. William Borah / Styles Bridges (Republican)
    1940 def. William H. Vandenburg / Charles L. McNary (Republican)


    After Al Smith's untimely death before his inauguration, Long implemented what became known as 'The Every Man A King Plan' which would come to define 20th century America. It involved sweeping economic reform which was condemned from the right as socialist, and from the left as only tweaking the mechanisms of capitalism. Long, in alliance with the mechanically minded Farley, spread his vote-winning and more importantly power-keeping apparatus across the United States, using the recruitment of legions of unemployed into Keynesian public works programmes to displace local political patronage machines and build his own national machine. He narrowly reachieved victory against the elderly but insurgent Borah and won by a much wider margin in 1940 as he correctly predicted American isolationist instincts would be outweighed by concerns over events in Europe. America finally entered the war over German submarine warfare in the Atlantic that eventually sank an American vessel in Greenlander waters.

    1945-1949: Huey Long / Henry A. Wallace (Democratic)
    1944 def. Thomas E. Dewey / John W. Bricker (Republican)
    1949-1953: Huey Long / James F. Byrnes (Democratic)
    1948 def. Robert A. Taft / John W. Bricker (Republican), Henry A. Wallace / Glen H. Taylor (Progressive)

    In 1944, many expected Long to stand aside. After all he had been President for twelve years, even if he had only won two terms himself. But at the last minute, with war still roiling in Europe and the Far East, he decided to stay on and see out the war. Farley resigned in disgust and there were fears a Democratic split could let an isolationist Republican into the White House. It came to nothing as it turned out Americans broadly approved of Long's decision to see through the war. He had been planning to groom the progressive, agrarian and former Republican Wallace to take his place in 1948 but it was not to be. Wallace's own eccentricities rubbed up Democrats the wrong way, and in lieu of a worthy successor, Long selected a fellow Southerner and ally of his economic agenda. With the Republicans swinging sharply right and against Long's involvement in international affairs (particularly his involvement in opposing the expansion of Communism abroad), he was able to win comfortably despite losing a couple of Northern states to the Progressives.

    1952-1961: Huey Long / Lyndon B. Johnson (Democratic)
    1952 def. Douglas MacArthur / Joseph McCarthy (Republican)
    1956 def. Joseph McCarthy / Harold Stassen (Republican), Wayne Morse / Estes Kefauver (Progressive)

    1961-1965: Huey Long / Richard Nixon (Democratic / Republican)
    1960 def. Nelson Rockefeller / Richard Nixon (Republican), George Smathers / Orval E. Faubus (State's Rights), Wayne Morse / Stuart Symington (Progressive)

    By 1952, the wheels were starting to come off Long's machine. The disparate coalition which had held him in power for two decades was falling apart. He realised that for the Democrats to continue to hold the Presidency they had to choose a side in the growing Civil Rights battle, lest they lose the North or the South. Kicking out Byrnes, he selected another Southerner, but one firmly on the opposite side of the aisle when it came to segregation. Long and Johnson's battle to overcome the South's prejudices was long and hard, and was frustrating to those on both sides who believed it was either a battle that shouldn't be fought in the first place, or was taking too long. The White House wanted to win the battle in such a way that they could still hold Democratic heartlands in the South. Meanwhile the Republicans went from isolationism to hawkishness, condemning Long's lack of vigour in preventing the growth of Communism in Southeast Asia or in Africa. Long himself was growing tired of his long reign, and saw in LBJ a worthy and suitable successor, and hoped to hand over to him once the Civil Rights battle was won to their mutual satisfaction. His best laid plans fell apart in the hung election of 1960 where no party emerged triumphant and Long was forced to accept a Republican Vice President.

    1965-1966: John Connally / vacant (Independent)
    1964 def. Lyndon B. Johnson / Eugene McCarthy (Democratic), Richard Nixon / John Connally (Independent), Barry Goldwater / George Wallace (Official 'Conservative' Republican / State's Rights), Nelson Rockefeller / Hubert H. Humphrey ('Liberal' Republican / Progressive)
    1966-1969: Huey Long / John Connally (Democratic / Independent)

    After four years of a bipartisan White House, Long made his decision to retire. He saw something of himself in Nixon and what satisfied with endorsing Johnson for the Democratic ticket, and felt that Nixon was a shoe in for the Republican nomination. No matter who won, he felt, Longism would be the victor. As it was, the Republicans fragmented horribly, as conservatives and liberals alike refused to endorse Nixon who was tainted by association with Long, but was nevertheless popular with the grassroots. His Independent candidacy nearly won through, and after the House could not choose a President, his V-P Connally became Acting President. After many stressful months in the House, it was eventually decided to bring Long out of retirement and back to the Presidency, after Democrats, Liberal Republicans and Progressives all agreed.

    1969-1972: Huey Long / Robert F. Kennedy (Democratic)
    1968 def. Richard Nixon / George W. Romney (Republican), John Connally / Curtis LeMay (Conservative)
    1972-1973: Huey Long / vacant (Democratic)
    1973-1975: Huey Long / Lyndon B. Johnson (Democratic)
    1972 def. John M. Ashbrook / Spiro Agnew (Republican)
    1975-1975: Huey Long / vacant (Democratic)
    1975-1978: Huey Long / Ronald Reagan (Democratic)
    1976 def. Charles Mathias / Richard Schweiker (Republican)
    1978-0000: Ronald Reagan / vacant (Democratic)

    The last nine years of Long's Presidency were a farce of a man trying to retire and annoint a successor but that successor always dying. Long himself was now an institution, an embodiment of the Presidency itself, at the centre of the vast web of patronage, and state/federal bodies that implemented the 'Every Man A King' agenda. After RFK's death at the end of assassin's gun barrel and Johnson's return cut short by heart failure, Long plumped for a man much like himself in terms of showmanship and cutting a charismatic dash through the establishment. Long never got his retirement, passing away at the age of eighty-five, matching his father in age, having served as President for a total of forty-four of the past forty-five years.
     
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    Cevolian - The Comeback Kid
  • The Comeback Kid
    "When your back is against the wall there is only one thing to do, and that is to turn around and fight."
    - John Major

    1990-1992: John Major (Conservative Majority)
    1992-1993: Neil Kinnock (Labour)
    1992: (Coalition with Liberal Democrats) def - John Major (Conservative), Paddy Ashdown (Liberal Democrats)
    1993-1997: Gerald Kaufman (Labour Minority with SDLP Confidence and Supply)
    1997-2003: Sir John Major (Conservative)
    1997: (Majority) def - Gerald Kaufman (Labour), Paddy Ashdown (Liberal Democrats), Alan Sked (UKIP)
    2001: (Majority) def - Robin Cooke (Labour), Charles Kennedy (Liberal Democrats), Nigel Farage (UKIP)

    2003-2005: Ken Clarke (Conservative Majority)
    2005-2014: Alan Johnson (Labour)
    2005: (Majority) def - Ken Clarke (Conservative), Charles Kennedy (Liberal Democrats), Nigel Farage (UKIP)
    2009: (Majority) def - Tim Collins (Conservative), Simon Hughes (Liberal Democrats), Gerard Batten (UKIP)
    2013: (Majority) def - Douglas Carswell (Conservative), Aaron Banks (UKIP), Simon Hughes (Liberal Democrats)

    2014-2017: Ed Miliband (Labour Majority)
    2017-0000: Steve Hilton (Conservative)
    2017: (New Deal Coalition with Patriotic Alliance) def - Ed Miliband (Labour), David Laws (Liberal Democrats), Aaron Banks (New Deal - Patriotic Alliance), Nigel Farage (National)


    Ok, this is my attempt at a "John Major comeback" TL. The POD is that Sir John loses the 1992 election to Kinnock, but decides to stay on until 1993 and before he can be challenged for the eadership a worse Black Wednesday fells Kinnock and John Smith. Major, who jumped to criticise the Crisis early on races ahead in the opinion polls, especially after the Lib Dems exit their coalition with Labour and leave a weak minority government under Kaufman, which Major beats in 1997, winning a comfortable majority. Benefiting from an economy which seems to perform better after Black Wednesday Major wins again in 2001, and retires comfortably in 2003 in part thanks to "Currie-Gate". Ken Clarke then proceeds to lose the election as Nigel Farage's UKIP surges in Conservative Thatcherite heartlands. We get 12 years of Labour Government which sees sweeping reform, but also rising inequality after the 2009 recession, and though Labour manage to win in 2013 (partly because Aaron Banks' UKIP massively outperforms expectations on an economically "populist" message), Ed Miliband loses in 2017 to Tory Radical Steve Hilton who, in alliance with Banks (who's abandoning of explicitly Free Market principles led UKIP to split) forms a government promoting a radical, populist, agenda...

    (P.S. pls don't hurt me @Japhy I provided notes just like you asked <3 )
     
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    Nofix - List of Premiers to the Scottish House of Assembly
  • List of Premiers to the Scottish House of Assembly

    1985-1987: Janet Ray Michie (Alliance) [1]
    def. Dennis Canavan (Labour), William McRae (Nationalist), Barry Henderson (Conservative)
    1987-1991: Dennis Canavan (Labour) [2]
    def. Janet Ray Michie (Alliance), Barry Henderson (Conservative), William McRae (Nationalist),
    1991-1995: Dennis Canavan (Labour) [3]
    def. Malcom Bruce (Alliance), Winnie Ewing (Nationalist), Barry Henderson (Conservative), various (Ind. Labour)
    1995-1999
    : James White (Labour) [4]
    def. Dick Douglas (Democratic) [5], Jackson Carlaw (Unionist) [6], Jim Wallace (Alliance), Neil MacCormick (Nationalist)
    1999-????: David Mundell (Alliance) [7]
    def. Stephen Maxwell (Democratic), Ian Lang (Labour), Jackson Carlaw (Unionist)

    [1] Stood down from her MP seat to take an Assembly seat. As one of the lead Alliance MP's who shepherded through Scottish home rule, she was chosen as party leader and to serve as the first Premier after elections in 1985. While holding a plurality of seats, she had enough members that she could comfortably lead her party for the first two years. She and the First Alliance Government in Scotland were brought down by the Local Rate's Incident.

    [2] Lead the First Labour Government in Scotland. Notably had difficult relations with the national Labour Party under Prime Minister Cook and earned quite a large amount of votes from disaffected Nationalist voters. Was almost assassinated in 1990.

    [3] Lead the Second Labour Government in Scotland with a much reduced majority. Lead negotiations with Parliament over the proposed Scottish Senate, which was turned down in a 1994 referendum.

    [4] One of the alleged "6 Bastards" who were influential in blocking Canavan from a third term as Premier, and ending his political career. Formed coalition with the rump Scottish Nationalists and the two Independents.

    [5] Lead an exodus of left-wing Nationalist Party members out to form a new party.

    [6] Oversaw the independence of the Scottish Conservative Party as the Scottish Unionist Party, along the lines of the Bavarian Christian Social Union.

    [7] Mundell won a narrow majority over the distant second, third, and fourth parties. Formed a coalition with the Unionists.
     
    Gorrister - A Little Bit Of Wank
  • A Little Bit Of Wank

    MPs for East (London)derry
    2001-2010: Gregory Campbell (DUP)
    2001 def: William Ross (UUP), John Dallat (SDLP), Francie Brolly (Sinn Féin), Yvonne Boyle (Alliance)
    2005 def: David McClarty (UUP), John Dallat (SDLP), Billy Leonard (Sinn Féin), Yvonne Boyle (Alliance), Malcolm Samuel (Independent)

    2010-2016: Wililam Ross (TUV)
    2010 def: Gregory Campbell (DUP), David Harding (UUP), John Dallat (SDLP), Billy Leonard (Sinn Féin), Barney Fitzpatrick (Alliance)
    2015 def: Claire Sugden (UUP), Gregory Campbell (DUP), Gerry Mullan (SDLP),
    Cathal Ó hOisín (Sinn Féin), Yvonne Boyle (Alliance), David McClarty (Independent), Russell Watton (PUP), Neil Paine (CISTA), Liz St. Clair-Legge (NI Conservative), Allison Watson (Green)
    2016-2020: William Ross (NIPA)
    2020-: Claire Sugden (UUP)

    2020 def: Ruth Patterson (NIPA), John Dallat (SDLP), Gregory Campbell (Independent), Bernadette Archibald (Sinn Féin), George Robinson (DUP), Chris McCaw (Alliance), Gerry Mullan (Independent)

    POD here is that the UUP elect Alan McFarland rather than Reg Empey in 2005. McFarland is at least slightly better at keeping the party above water for the 2007 Assembly Elections, not managing a complete disaster. As such, McFarland explicitly rules out a pact with the Tories for 2010, instead hoping to retake the mantle of unionism from the ascendant DUP and bring the party back from the cold. In East Londonderry this manifests itself in a very strong campaign from local candidate David Harding, who manages to cut into Gregory Campbell's voteshare. In addition, William Ross, attempting a comeback on the TUV bandwagon, was able to overcome concerns about his age to give Campbell a serious scare. The TUV surge was already giving DUP leaders at Stormont some amount of dread, but here it looked as if it could actually outpace them and steal a seat from under their noses. In addition to an apparently resurgent UUP, concerns were growing. And in the end, the fears were realised as William Ross scraped past Campbell on a recount, winning by what was perhaps one of the election's slimmest margins on 50 votes. The SDLP and Sinn Féin were dead even while the UUP was only peeking behind the DUP. The TUV double down on their success by winning three seats in 2011's Assembly elections, including one in their 'shining star' seat. Part of the TUV's extra influence at Stormont lead to a ban on double jobbing, which caused controversy for Campbell, who was not so secretly looking for his old seat back. As well as that, he attempted to contest the DUP's leadership election in 2014, called after Peter Robinson's resignation as a result of On The Runs. Nigel Dodds won the eventual contest but Campbell's relations with the party were soured somewhat, resulting in a testy selection contest for 2015 as the Stormont Government went in unpopular. Ross re-entered parliament even with a severely divided unionist opposition, leading calls for a pact between Sinn Féin and the SDLP whose united voteshare would've overtaken the unionists. The 2015 election also marked the first occassion of the TUV's electoral alliance with UKIP, who were on the rise both in Northern Ireland as an anti-corrpution force and nationally. This was later reinforced by a merger between the two parties in late 2016, done after UKIP's surge in the polls following Britain's vote to Remain in the EU. The two parties would become the Northern Irish Patriotic Alliance, led by Ruth Patterson.

    Ross retired in 2020, well past the age of 80. Patterson dropped herself in what was seen as the party's most winnable seat, angering the local association. Campbell tried one last time but after being told he wouldn't be selected decided to stand as an independent. The SDLP would face a splinter of its own as former candidate Gerry Mullan broke off to run his own campaign. The UUP's 2015 candidate, Claire Sugden, ran a tough campaign against Patterson, aiming to win on a broad coalition of unionists and nationalists. She succeeded in doing so, just about pipping Patterson to the post while Dallat ran a close third. Patterson would resign, to be replaced on a temporary basis by party grandee Lord Allister, with the likely successor being North Belfast MLA Jolene Bunting.
     
    Cevolian - First Minister of the English Parliament
  • WiP

    First Minister of the English Parliament (2000-Present):

    2000-2005: John Prescott (Labour)
    2000: (Minority with Liberal Democrat Confidence and Supply) def - Frank Dobson (Conservative), Nigel Farage (UKIP)
    2005-2014: David Cameron (Conservative)
    2005: (Coalition with Liberal Democrats) def - John Prescott (Labour), Simon Hughes (Liberal Democrats), Malcolm Pearson (UKIP), Nick Griffin (BNP)
    2009 (JAN): (Grand Coalition with Labour) def - Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrats), Malcolm Pearson (UKIP), Nick Griffin (BNP), collective (Abolish The Assembly), Steve Radford (Liberal)

    2009 (OCT): (Coalition with Liberal Democrats) def - James Purnell (Labour), Malcolm Pearson (UKIP), collective (Abolish The Assembly), Steve Radford (Liberal), Nick Griffin (BNP)
    2014-2014: Priti Patel (Conservative-UKIP-Abolish The Assembly-Liberal Coalition)
    2014-2016: Malcolm Pearson, Baron Pearson of Ranoch (UKIP)
    2014: (Coalition with Abolish The Assembly and Liberals) def - Jon Crudas (Labour), Priti Patel (Conservative), Jo Swinson (Liberal Democrats), Tommy Robinson (English Democrats), Nick Griffin (Continuity BNP)
    2015: Should the English Assembly be abolished and all powers returned to the Westminster Parliament? - No, 58.2%

    2016-0000: Aaron Banks (Patriotic Union of Britons)
    2016: (Coalition with Abolish The Assembly and Liberals with English Democrats Confidence and Supply) def - Jon Crudas (Labour), Malcolm Pearson (Official UKIP and "Brexit" Conservative Parliamentary Group), David Cameron ("Government" Conservative), Tim Farron (Liberal Democrats), collective (The Yorkshire Party)
     
    Turquoise Blue - The People's Democracy?
  • I once did a list called "The People's Democracy". Now I'm doing a different version of it, seeing how the dream can become a nightmare.

    The People's Democracy?
    PoD: McCarthy is shot in 1974 and declines to run for a second term.

    42: Gore Vidal (Social Democratic) 1976-1981
    1975: def. Arvo Halberg (Communist), Jack McCain (Liberal-Moderate), Spiro Agnew (Constitution)
    - The presidency of Gore Vidal was one of missed opportunities. Elected as McCarthy's successor, he initially appeared to be a good and competent president, his barbed attacks on rivals such as William F. Buckley, Jr. sank his presidency into controversy, and as a nation wished it could have a president who would unite the country, not divide it, they turned to an alternative.

    43: Elvis Presley (United) 1981-1991
    1980: def. Jeane Jordan (Communist), Gore Vidal (Social Democratic)
    1985: def. Ronald Reagan (Communist), Birch Bayh (Social Democratic)
    - The charismatic Southern preacher Elvis Presley struck a well-balanced tone. Decidely conservative, yet rejecting the "heartless ideological commitment" of Barry Goldwater in favour of a more "adaptive" view towards the economy, he created the modern American right, a very religious and socially conservative movement, yet one pragmatic on wallet issues.

    44: Joe Biden (Communist) 1991-1993
    1990: def. Pat Buchanan (United), Bernard Sanders (Social Democratic)
    - Perhaps it was inevitable, but with the SDP languishing at twenty percent and Presley getting more extreme over time, the Communists won with the youthful revolutionary Joe Biden. But investigations into deals with the Soviet Union forced the military to step in a second time and remove the president - "for the good of the Republic".

    45: Walter Mondale (Military) 1993-2001
    - Admiral Mondale would not be known as the hero of the Republic like George Washington or George McGovern, but rather a deeply controversial figure. Realizing that the Communists' ties to Moscow went deep, he decided to root out the "communist menace" and when Congress voted against his actions, he sent in the troops, in what is known as "Powell's Purge" where General Powell forcibly disbanded Congress. Declaring the Third Republic dead, he oversaw a new convention that effectively made the military a fourth branch of government in the "Fourth Republic". Stepping down in 2001, he left the country far more austere and depressed than when he seized power.

    46: Jefferson Blythe (Reform) 2001-2011
    2000: def. Elizabeth Herring (Social Democratic), Donald Trump (Freedom)
    2005: def. Condoleezza Rice (Social Democratic), John McCain (Freedom)
    - Blythe was the ideal austere president for austere times. A solemn man who was rarely known for doing anything more pleasurable than finishing work, he was the ideal candidate for the conservative Reform Party, to show that America was finished with communist experimentation. His presidency was much like the man himself - boring, uncomplicated, insular.

    47: Anthony Weiner (Social Democratic) 2011-2014
    2010: def. Mitt Romney (Reform), Orrin Hatch (Freedom)
    - A nation chafed under austere governance and wished for new hope for a new millennium. Governor Weiner, a fresh-faced and charismatic Social Democrat, promised that new hope. And for the first two years of his presidency, everything seemed to go well, moderate liberal reforms were passed and the country seemed to be slowly shifting to the left. But then it happened.

    - As a country was in shock at the sexting scandal, President Weiner first denied it and then vowed never to do it again. When he was caught a second time, he was forced to resign in disgrace.

    48: Evan Bayh (Social Democratic) 2014-2016
    - President Bayh struggled to gather up the pieces after the SDP's popularity plummeted in the light of Weiner's scandals and resignation. The country shifted more and more to the right. His defeat was inevitable.

    49: John Bush (Reform) 2016-present
    2015: def. Ed Cruz (Freedom), Evan Bayh (Social Democratic)
    - As the conservative establishment took control, the SDP fell to third a second time. President Bush, known for being a conservative crusader, is determined to crush out "liberal corruption" in American politics and an American populace heavily distrustful of the left after it disgraced itself twice [Biden and Weiner] is willing to let Bush return the country to conservative values for a conservative country. And the alternative to Bush? Even worse! As Social Democrats look over what went wrong, they wish things were back in the days of Eugene McCarthy. Things could have been better...
     
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    Uhura's Mazda - List of NZ Liberal Party Leaders
  • List of NZ Liberal Party Leaders
    1995-1996: Michael Laws


    The establishment of the Liberal Party was a brave move, but one which had a great potential to pay off. For the previous five years, there had been no third parties in Parliament - Les Hunter (Social Credit) had lost his Bay of Islands seat back to National in 1990 in one of Bill Birch's few gains of the night. And the heyday of third parties, in the early 80s, had not ended well: Social Credit had become embroiled in a coalition with Brian Talboys which forced them to compromise all of their ideals in order to follow a harsh economic policy of austerity in the face of a sovereign debt crisis, and had paid the price; meanwhile, the Social Democrats, established by Nelson MP Mel Courtney and taken to the heights of popularity (five seats) by the embittered David Lange, had been completely wiped out by infighting. The less said about the Values Party, the better.

    So two-party politics had returned. The 1993 election, indeed, had seen Bob Jones and Russell Marshall take home a combined 97% of the vote, the highest since 1951, with Social Credit being unable to find candidates for even half the seats in the House. But Jones was a divisive figure: while the 84-87 Talboys Government had been harsh, Jones as Minister of Railways was the only privatiser to look as if he genuinely enjoyed his work. And two years into his first term as Prime Minister, he found that all his eloquence and brusque charisma wasn't enough to keep his caucus on-side. A small number of young National MPs (namely Michael Laws, Hamish MacIntyre, John Robertson, Peter McCardle and Bruce Cliffe) at first conspired to replace Jones with the Muldoonite Winston Peters, and then when Jones headed them off by creating Peters Minister of Finance, they saw the writing on the wall and split off to form the Liberal Party. In truth, Peters had always been his own man, swaying in the ideological breeze with an eye to the main chance. A brief leadership challenge from former leader Robert Muldoon in early 1996 was swept aside with ease when Peters attacked his former mentor's record as Prime Minister in the 1975-1978 term.

    So, with Laws duly elected Leader of the new Party, a manifesto was produced which owed much to the British Liberal Democrats (including the call for electoral reform to the 'STV' system) and possibly even more to European liberal parties, namely the market-liberal economic policies. These were, of course, more moderate than Jonesism, but many in the media were visibly wondering what the point of the split was. It was an oft-stated fact in the run-up to the 1996 election that there was no room in New Zealand for a centrist party - this was not entirely disproved by the fact that the Liberals' defensive, targeted campaign only managed to save the seats of MacIntyre and Robertson. Laws resigned as Liberal Leader the following morning.

    1996-2000: John Robertson

    Robertson won an uncontested leadership election (MacIntyre refused to stand due to the slimness of his majority in Manawatu) and set about touring the breakfast news shows, touting is party's success in becoming the most successful third party since 1984. However, Robertson was unable to make much headway in the polls, even falling behind the Values Party. However, the great success of this period was the merger with Social Credit in 1997 due to the older party's perilous financial situation (there was a fight on the Socred side to name the merged party 'The Social Liberals', until it was pointed out that they weren't). This gave the Liberals some much-needed organisational lifeblood, although unfortunately it also filled the party with elderly economic reform kooks.

    Any boost that could come from this merger was set at naught by the resignation of Bob Jones in 1998, due to "boredom", and the election of Winston Peters as his successor. Although Peters had lost the support of hardcore moderates in the National Party by pursuing Jonesism in the Finance portfolio, he still had the support of those drawn to his bullish charisma. With Labour labouring under the dubious leadership of Austin Mitchell, it looked impossible for National to be defeated, until, suddenly, he was rolled by a shaky alliance between Jonesites and the Auckland Nats after talking about "jafas" at a Rotary Club dinner. He was replaced by John Banks, but the polls collapsed, and in 1999, Mitchell became Prime Minister in after only two terms in Opposition.

    The main story for the Liberals in 1999, though, was Peters' shock defection to their banner two months before the election. He had been denied a Cabinet post by Banks, and his ego forbade him to sit on the backbenches. He sat uncomfortably behind Robertson for the duration of the campaign, and was one of three Liberal MPs elected in 1999: Robertson and Peters were re-elected for Papakura and Tauranga, respectively, while MacIntyre's defeat in Manawatu was offset by ex-Social Crediter Terry Heffernan's victory in Wanganui. Heffernan, as it turned out, was a supporter of Peters, and encouraged him (as if he needed to be encouraged) to challenge Robertson after the election. Peters won handily in the first all-membership internal election in the history of New Zealand.

    2000-2002: Winston Peters

    The tenure of Winston Peters as Liberal Leader, who had been Prime Minister only a year before, was one fraught with infighting and controversy. Whereas, under Laws and Robertson, the Party had fought for a moderate and open economic policy, Peters and his ex-Socred backers sought to reshape the party into an economically nationalist and thoroughly anti-Jonesist movement, a sort of successor to the old guard of the Labour Party. Austin Mitchell's Deputy, Richard Northey, called them a "band of oddballs with no relevance to New Zealand", and up to a point, he was right. The Liberals fell behind Values (who were at that stage touting their chances of getting into Parliament in the next election, which was obviously nonsense in hindsight) until Waitangi Day 2001, when Peters refused to visit Te Tii in favour of delivering a speech in Kelston, criticising Maori tribal leaders for corruption and an "extremist and greedy" focus on Waitangi Treaty claims. This speech united Pakeha racists and urban Maori in support for Peters, and shortly afterwards, the Liberals rose above 10% in the polls for the first time.

    This was at the expense of the already shaky unity of the Party. Robertson publicly criticised the Kelston speech and was kicked out for his troubles. He contested Papakura in 2002 as an Independent but was defeated by Labour. If Robertson had established a new party, perhaps he might have taken a proportion of the Liberal membership with him, but he didn't: this left his supporters inside the party, their internal struggling detracting from the campaign effort. In the end, Peters and Heffernan were re-elected, but their expected storming of the four Maori seats was headed off by Labour. They did, however, gain seats in Auckland: Social Credit veteran Grant Gillon gained Glenfield, while Mayor of Waitakere Tim Shadbolt won Henderson. Shadbolt was, if anything, even more of a 'character' than Peters, and (in a repeat of Peters' actions) challenged for the leadership as soon as he was elected, cutting a deal with the liberals in the membership. For the second time in three years, Winston Peters was defeated by Auckland interests. He spent his final Parliamentary term casting thinly veiled aspersions against the city and those who called it home, only stopping to become Mayor of Tauranga in 2004, where he has continued this train of thought ever since. The Tauranga by-election to replace him was won by National.

    2002-2007: Tim Shadbolt


    It was under Tim Shadbolt that the Liberal Party ventured into new ideological ground: it had been economically liberal under Laws and Robertson, autarchic and xenophobic under Peters, and now it became a force for social liberalism. Shadbolt, supported by Grant Gillon and much of the membership, and opposed by Winston Peters, Terry Heffernan, and most of their existing voters, embarked on a rebrand of the Liberals to become the cool version of the Values Party. Shadbolt called for an end to the war on soft drugs, the legalisation of prostitution, equality for women and homosexuals, and a renewed interest in climate change. No longer were such issues the domain of aging hippies and students with silly hair: now, a slightly more mainstream party was pushing for socially liberal policies.

    It was expected that Peters' supporters on the Social Credit wing of the party would be stringent opponents of such matters, but their old party had changed its ideological spots so effortlessly and so often in the 1970s and 80s that this new shift was an easy move to make. And it paid dividends: the membership retained many of the elderly loons and disaffected Nats that had characterised it up until that point, and added a cadre of idealistic young people who were bored of the traditional Labour government of Austin Mitchell (who was replaced by Richard Northey in 2003, not that anybody noticed at first).

    In 2005, then, the Liberals crossed a threshold: they were included in the pre-election leaders' debates on TVNZ and on SPTV. Between Northey and Clem Simich, Shadbolt shone, and 'the worm' of live public reaction showed him ahead of both of them. In response, Labour stole and rebadged his popular drug law reform policy, and carried it through into law in the next session after their re-election. Nowadays, state-owned drugstores (a confusing term for Americans) are known colloquially as 'Dunne Depots' after Northey's Minister for Internal Affairs, although 'Shad Sheds' enjoyed some early popularity.

    Unfortunately for Shadbolt, the phrase "enjoyed some early popularity" can be used to describe his entire career. After coming away with only Henderson, Glenfield and Wanganui in 2005, losing Tauranga, and falling further behind in rural and Maori electorates, the magic wore off quite quickly. The clownish behaviour on TV and the incessant egotism lost him popular support. He was even defeated in the inaugural Auckland 'MegaCity' Mayoral elections in 2007, netting only 8% of the vote and not even coming second in his old Waitakere heartland. He resigned as leader soon afterwards, and lost his seat in 2008.

    2007-2017: Grant Gillon

    Grant Gillon, a Shadbolt loyalist, was the obvious choice to succeed him. As an ex-Social Crediter, he had the support of the old guard. As a social liberal, he had the support (at least at first) of the new members who had joined under Shadbolt. And as a Pakeha man from the North Shore, the ex-Nats learned to like him. He was only opposed by Tau Henare, a follower of Peters, who won the Maori vote but not much else. The other MP, Terry Heffernan, endorsed Gillon for an easy life in caucus despite them having been on opposite wings of Social Credit - and ever since.

    With such a unifying figure at the helm, it was hoped that progress would be made in 2008, but as it happened, the bluff old campaigner was nowhere near as exciting as his two predecessors - and without the attention of the media, the survival of a third party is an uphill struggle. The worm that had wriggled for Shadbolt in the '05 debate remained sluggish for Gillon. Northey was victorious yet again, this time over Ruth Richardson, while the Liberals fell down to just 4% of the national vote and fourth place behind Values. Unlike Values, however (who lost the Mount Albert seat they had won the previous year at a by-election upon the retirement of Helen Clark) they remained in Parliament. Just. Tim Shadbolt narrowly lost Henderson, Terry Heffernan's putative successor in Wanganui came third, and the provincial cities joined the rural electorates in becoming entirely unresponsive to the Liberal message.

    The only seat left was Gillon's own, in Glenfield. This, of course, made it very difficult to take the fight to National and Labour on such issues as the nationalisation (and fluoridation) of water and the Arabian War. And that was just for starters: in 2008, the Great Recession hit New Zealand as John Howard refused to bail out ANZ and ASB. Financial crisis engulfed the country, although Kiwis weren't hit nearly as badly as most developed countries. Gillon was nowhere to be seen - he allowed the National Party to take the initiative and score open goals on Labour's more divisive economic policies (for instance, the 2004 reintroduction of compulsory unionisation which was now crippling the Government's attempts to restructure the economy).

    Northey resigned in 2009, to be replaced by arch-protectionist Ron Mark for the final years of the Sixth Labour Government. Gillon focused on nursing his own electorate and spreading his influence, bit by bit, across the North Shore and the city of Auckland, leaving the Liberals in Wellington and Christchurch to their own devices. The Liberals had been one of the only parties to put forward local candidates under the party banner, and had therefore been successful in quite a few places due to simple name recognition. Now, though, the Christchurch Liberals went in with the centre-right Independent Citizens slate, while the Wellington Liberals sat the 2010 local elections out. Even the Party's machines in major cities were now dying, which led to an abject failure to make any impression whatsoever in the 2011 general. The Liberal collapse in Wellington is often pointed to as a reason for the National Party gaining four seats in the city that year, as Heather Roy defeated Ron Mark for the Premiership.

    Gillon held his seat, as he did when Roy was re-elected in 2014, and continued to preside over the decline of the Liberal Party, which fell below 1,000 members nationwide in 2013 (the last time membership figures were published). There were, however, positive developments in this period: for one thing, the Liberals captured control of the Northcote Local Board in 2010 and Devonport-Takapuna Local Board in 2013, as well as the Auckland City Council seats for North Shore on both occasions. On the other hand, the fact that most of these victories were for candidates with the surname 'Gillon' attracted some criticism. Another positive story was the near-passage of Gillon's Electoral Reform Bill in 2014 with the support of Grant Robertson's Labour Party - this was the closest New Zealand has ever come to ditching First Past the Post in favour of STV.

    2017-present: Chloe Swarbrick

    The highlight, though, of the Gillon leadership came in 2016, when Auckland University student Chloe Swarbrick was elected as Mayor of Auckland on the Liberal ticket in a major upset, boosting the profile of the party - and attracting the first large donor in many years, Gareth Morgan. The Swarbrick-Morgan pairing quickly became media favourites, and defeated the Gillon clan in a confidence vote at the Party Conference in 2017. There is hope of a resurgence in the party's fortunes under Swarbrick, but older Liberals warn that they have gotten their hopes up over nothing many times before now. At the very least, though, the Liberal Party is the longest-lasting third party in Parliament since Labour itself.
     
    Mumby - OO-OOOH MIII-CHHAAEELLL FOOO-OOOOT
  • OO-OOOH MIII-CHHAAEELLL FOOO-OOOOT

    1979-1984: Margaret Thatcher (Conservative)
    1979 (Majority) def. Jim Callaghan (Labour), David Steel (Liberal)
    1984 (Minority with UUP confidence and supply) def. Michael Foot (Labour), Roy Jenkins (Liberal-SDP Alliance), James Molyneaux (Ulster Unionist)

    1984-1985: Ian Gilmour (Conservative minority with Liberal-SDP confidence and supply)
    1985-1990: Michael Foot (Labour)
    1985 (Majority) def. Ian Gilmour (Conservative), Enoch Powell (National Unionist), David Steel (Liberal), David Owen (Social Democratic)
     
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    nezza - Callaghan calls an Election in 1978
  • Callaghan calls an Election in 1978

    1978 Jim Callaghan (Labour Minority) 1
    1978-1979
    Margaret Thatcher (Conservative Minority) 2
    1979-1982
    Denis Healey (Labour Majority) 3
    1982-1985
    Denis Healey (Labour Minority with Liberal Confidence and Supply) 4
    1985-1989
    Norman Tebbitt (Conservative Majority) 5


    1. Callaghan calls an election in 1978. The Tories win 304 seats to Labour's 303. The IMF saga is blamed for the loss
    2. Thatcher enacts swingeing cuts in expenditure and tries to impose strict anti-trade union laws with support from the UUP. Widespread industrial action leads to a no-confidence vote in 1979 which Thatcher loses by 1 vote (Gerry Fitt)
    3. Healey wins a slender majority and sticks with expenditure cuts. Unions threaten action but threats of a Tory return brings them into line.
    4. The UK wins the Falklands War but with over 300 military deaths. Labour calls an election but loses its overall majority. Healey gets support from the Liberals
    5. Loss of Liberal support leads to an election which The Tories win. Tebbitt orders the IRA leadership assassinated following the Brighton Bombing as well as announcing coal mine cuts. Scargill calls a strike in 1986 but miners in the Midlands breakaway due to fears of economic hardship.
     
    InfernoMole - A Bonaparte as a President, or We Were Progressive and Stuff
  • A Bonaparte as a President, or We Were Progressive and Stuff:
    1909-1917: Charles Joseph Bonaparte (Republican)
    1908: (with L. M. Shaw as VP) def. William Jennings Bryan/John Kern (Democratic)
    1912: (with Robert M. La Follette Sr. as VP) def. Eugene Foss/George E. Chamberlain (Democratic), Eugene V. Debs/Emil Seidel (Socialist)

    1917-1921: Hiram Johnson/Calvin Coolidge (Republican)
    1916: def. Champ Clark/Edwin T. Cummings (Democratic)
    1921-1925: Giffard Pinchot/Leonard Wood (Republican)
    1920: def. James M. Cox/Al Smith (Democratic)
    1925-1933: James M. Cox (Democratic)
    1924: (with Franklin D. Roosevelt as VP) def. Leonard Wood/Herbert Hoover (Republican)
    1928: (with John J. Pershing as VP) def. Charles Curtis/James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. (Republican)

    1933-1941: Charles Lindbergh (Republican)
    1932: (with Alf Landon as VP) def. John J. Pershing/Paul McNutt (Democratic)
    1936: (with Arthur H. Vanderberg as VP) def. John Nance Garner/Cordell Hull (Democratic)

    1941-1945: Henry Morgenthau Jr./John Nance Garner (Democratic)
    1940: def. Arthur H. Vanderberg/Frank J. Loesch (Republican)
    1945-1949: John Nance Garner/Fielding L. Wright (Democratic)
    1944: def. Thomas E. Dewey/Wallace White (Republican), Phillip La Follette/Harold Stassen (Progressive)
    1949-1957: Phillip La Follette (Republican)
    1948: (with Earl Warren as VP) def. Fielding L. Wright/Russell B. Long (Democratic), Hubert Humphrey/Adlai Stevenson (Northern Democratic)
    1952: (with Robert A. Taft as VP) def. Adlai Stevenson/Averell Harriman (Democratic)

    1957-19XX: James Wetherington/Estes Kefauver (Democratic)
    1956: def. Nelson Rockefeller/Richard Nixon (Republican)
     
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    Mumby - Fascism Isn't In The British Character
  • 'Fascism Isn't In The British Character'

    1997-2007: Tony Blair (Labour)
    1997 GE (Labour majority) def. John Major (Conservative), Paddy Ashdown (Liberal Democrat), David Trimble (UUP)
    2001 PME 1st round def. William Hague (Conservative), Charles Kennedy (Liberal Democrat)
    2001 PME 2nd round def. William Hague (Conservative)
    2001 LE (Labour majority) def. William Hague (Conservative), Charles Kennedy (Liberal Democrat)
    2005 PME 1st round def. Michael Howard (Conservative), Charles Kennedy (Liberal Democrat), Roger Knapman (UKIP)
    2005 PME 2nd round def. Michael Howard (Conservative)
    2005 LE (Labour majority) def. Michael Howard (Conservative), Charles Kennedy (Liberal Democrat), Ian Paisley (DUP)

    2007-2009: Gordon Brown (Labour)
    2009-2013: David Cameron (Conservative)
    2009 PME 1st round def. Nick Griffin (BNP), Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrat), Gordon Brown (Labour)
    2009 PME 2nd round def. Nick Griffin (BNP)
    2009 LE (Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition) def. Nick Griffin (BNP), Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrat)
    , Harriet Harman (Labour), Peter Robinson (DUP)
    2013-2017: Jim Dowson (Patriotic Alliance)
    2013 PME 1st round def. David Cameron (Conservative), Michael Meacher (Labour)
    2013 PME 2nd round def. David Cameron (Conservative)
    2013 LE (Patriotic Alliance majority) def. Michael Meacher (Labour), Theresa May (Conservative), Peter Robinson (DUP)
    , Vince Cable (Liberal Democrat)

    'The Patriotic Alliance government was blissfully shortlived as their fragile electoral coalition quickly crumbled under the pressure of government. The alliance of countryside traditionalists, working class discontents, a young generation of ultranationalist internet warriors, and of course the firm ideologues of fascism, proved unstable. The divisions were generally on the lines of biological vs cultural racism and piety vs atheism. The Alliance lost their majority in 2014, after the reconstituted New Tory Party was formed, and what ensued was the National Government of the mid 10s and early 20s. The Patriotic Alliance entirely collapsed in Opposition, with the New Tories remaining the only group to retain a significant presence in the Commons after the 2017 elections. Shards of the Alliance retain a presence in British politics however, even now well into the 2040s.'
     
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    Mumby - For Want Of A Nigel
  • For Want Of A Nigel

    2008-2010: Gordon Brown (Labour)
    2010 (Coalition with Liberal Democrats) def. David Davis (Conservative), Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrat), Peter Robinson (Democratic Unionist)
    2010-2015: David Miliband (Labour-Liberal Democrat Coalition)
    2015-2020: Boris Johnson (Conservative)
    2015 (Majority) def. David Miliband (Labour), Nicola Sturgeon (Scottish Nationalist), Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrat), Peter Robinson (Democratic Unionist)
     
    Nazi Space Spy - True North Revival
  • Here is something I sorta wrote up for a potential True North revival that I don't think is probably going to happen.

    Credit to Canadian Tory and TB along with many others for the inspiration.

    Prime Ministers of the Dominion of Canada
    1861-1867: Abraham Lincoln (Liberal-Conservative) (1)

    1861: Liberal-Conservative (Abraham Lincoln) def. Reform (George Brown), Anti-Confederation (Edward Everett)
    1866: Liberal-Conservative (Abraham Lincoln) def. Reform (George Brown), Anti-Confederation (Joseph Howe)

    1867-1875: John MacDonald (Liberal-Conservative) (2)
    1871: Liberal-Conservative (Abraham Lincoln) def. Reform (Edward Blake), Provincial (Charles Francis Adams)
    1875-1879: Alexander Mackenzie (Reform) (3)
    1875: Reform (Alexander Mackenzie) def. Liberal-Conservative (John MacDonald)
    1879-1891: John MacDonald (Liberal-Conservative) (4)*
    1879: Liberal-Conservative (John MacDonald) def. Reform (Alexander Mackenzie)
    1884: Liberal-Conservative (John MacDonald) def. Reform (Grover Cleveland)
    1889: Liberal-Conservative (John MacDonald) def. Reform (Grover Cleveland)

    1991-1895: William McKinley (Liberal-Conservative) (5)
    1892: Liberal Conservative (William McKinley) def. Reform (Grover Cleveland), Populist (James Weaver)
    1895-1899: Edward Blake (Reform) (6)
    1895: Reform (Edward Blake) def. Liberal-Conservative (William McKinley), Populist (William J. Bryan)
    1899-1906: Robert Todd Lincoln (Liberal-Conservative) (7)
    1899: Liberal-Conservative (Robert Todd Lincoln) def. Reform (Wilfrid Laurier), Populist (William J. Bryan)
    1904: Liberal-Conservative (Robert Todd Lincoln) def. Liberal (William J. Bryan), Progressive (Theodore Roosevelt Sr.)

    1906-1914: Joseph Cannon (Liberal) (8)
    1906: Liberal (Joseph Cannon) def. Progressive (Theodore Roosevelt Sr.), Unionist (Robert Todd Lincoln)
    1910: Liberal (Joseph Cannon) def. Progressive Conservative (Theodore Roosevelt Sr.)

    1914-1925: Theodore Roosevelt Sr. (Progressive Conservative) (9)*
    1914: Progressive Conservative (Theodore Roosevelt Sr.) def. Liberal (Joseph Cannon)
    1919: Progressive Conservative (Theodore Roosevelt Sr.) def. Liberal (Eugene Foss), Socialist (Eugene Debbs)
    1924: Progressive Conservative (Theodore Roosevelt Sr.) def. Liberal (Henry Bourassa), Farmer-Laborer (Thomas Crerar), Socialist (Eugene Debbs)

    1925-1931: William Thomas White (Progressive Conservative) (10)
    1926: Progressive Conservative (William Thomas White) def. Liberal (Henry Bourassa), Social Democratic & Labour (Norman Thomas)
    1930: Progressive Conservative (William Thomas White) def. Social Democratic & Labour (Norman Thomas), Liberal (Herbert Hoover)

    1931-1933: Richard Bennett (Progressive Conservative) (11)
    1933-1938: Norman Thomas (Social Democratic & Labour) (12)

    1933: Social Democratic & Labour (Norman Thomas) def. Liberal (Alfred Landon), Progressive Conservative (Richard Bennett), Reconstruction (William Borah)
    1938-1944: Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (Progressive Conservative) (13)*
    1938: Progressive Conservative (Theodore Roosevelt Jr.) def. Social Democratic & Labour (Norman Thomas), Liberal (Alfred Landon)
    1943: Progressive Conservative (Theodore Roosevelt Jr.) def. Social Democratic & Labour (Norman Thomas), Liberal (Joe Kennedy Sr.)

    1944-1948: Louis St. Laurent (Progressive Conservative) (14)
    1948-1955: Clarence Gillis (Social Democratic & Labour) (15)

    1948: Social Democratic & Labour (Clarence Gillis) def. Progressive Conservative (Louis St. Laurent), Liberal (Joe Kennedy Sr.)
    1953: Social Democratic & Labour (Clarence Gillis) def. Progressive Conservative (George Drew), Liberal (Joe Kennedy Sr.)

    1955-1960: George Drew (Progressive Conservative) (16)
    1955: Progressive Conservative (George Drew) def. Social Democratic & Labour (Clarence Gillis), Liberal (Maurice Duplessis)
    1960-1968: Hubert Humphrey (Social Democratic & Labour) (17)
    1960: Social Democratic & Labour (Hubert Humphrey) def. Progressive Conservative (George Drew), Liberal (John F. Kennedy)
    1965: Social Democratic & Labour (Hubert Humphrey) def. Liberal (John F. Kennedy), Progressive Conservative (Harold Stassen)

    1968-1973: Pierre Trudeau (Social Democratic & Labour) (18)
    1969: Social Democratic & Labour (Pierre Trudeau) def. Progressive Conservative (Nelson Rockefeller), Liberal (Robert Kennedy)
    1973-1976: Robert Stanfield (Progressive Conservative) (19)
    1973: Progressive Conservative (Robert Stanfield) def. Social Democratic & Labour (Pierre Trudeau), Liberal (Paul Hellyer)
    1976-1979: Pierre Trudeau (Social Democratic & Labour-Liberal coalition) (20)
    1976: Social Democratic & Labour (Pierre Trudeau) def. Progressive Conservative (Robert Stanfield), Liberal (Paul Hellyer), Solidarity (George McGovern)
    1979-1981: Flora Macdonald (Progressive Conservative) (21)
    1979: Progressive Conservative (Flora Macdonald) def. Social Democratic & Labour (Pierre Trudeau), Liberal (Jean Chretien), Green (Ralph Nader), Solidarity (George McGovern)
    1981-1985: Walter Mondale (Social Democratic & Labour) (22)
    1981: Social Democratic & Labour (Walter Mondale) def. Progressive Conservative (Flora Macdonald), Liberal (Jean Chretien), Green (Ralph Nader)
    1985-1993: George HW. Bush (Progressive Conservative) (23)
    1985: Progressive Conservative (George HW. Bush) def. Liberal (Jean Chretien), Social Democratic & Labour (Walter Mondale), Green (Ralph Nader)
    1989: Progressive Conservative (George HW. Bush) def. Liberal (Jean Chretien), Social Democratic & Labour (Edward Broadbent), Reform (Preston Manning), Green (Ralph Nader)

    1993-1993: Kim Campbell (Progressive Conservative) (24)
    1993-1996: Ed Broadbent (Social Democratic & Labour-Liberal-Green coalition) (25)

    1993: Social Democratic & Labour (Edward Broadbent) def. Bloc Quebecois (Lucien Bouchard), Reform (Preston Manning), Liberal (Sheila Copps), Green (Ralph Nader), Progressive Conservative (Kim Campbell)
    1996-2000: Patricia Carney (Reform-Progressive Conservative coalition) (26)
    1996: Reform (Patricia Carney) def. Social Democratic & Labour (Edward Broadbent), Liberal (Sheila Copps), Bloc Quebecois (Lucien Bouchard), Progressive Conservative (Jean Charest), Green (Ralph Nader)
    2000-2003: Paul Wellstone (Social Democratic & Labour) (27)*
    2000: Social Democratic & Labour (Paul Wellstone) def. Reform (Patricia Carney), Liberal (Sheila Copps), Progressive Conservative (Jean Charest), Bloc Quebecois (Lucien Bouchard), Green (Ralph Nader)
    2003-2005: Howard Dean (Social Democratic & Labour-Liberal coalition) (28)
    2003: Social Democratic & Labour (Howard Dean) def. Reform (Stephen Harper), Liberal (John Kerry), Progressive Conservative (William Weld), Bloc Quebecois (Gilles Duceppe), Green (Jill Stein)
    2005-2017: Stephen Harper (Reform-Progressive Conservative coalition) (29)
    2005: Reform (Stephen Harper) def. Liberal (John Kerry), Social Democratic & Labour (Howard Dean), Progressive Conservative (William Weld), Bloc Quebecois (Gilles Duceppe), Green (Jill Stein)
    2009: Reform (Stephen Harper) def. Liberal (Barack Obama), Social Democratic & Labour (Howard Dean), Progressive Conservative (Lincoln Chaffee), Bloc Quebecois (Gilles Duceppe), Green (Elizabeth May)
    2013: Reform (Stephen Harper) def. Social Democratic & Labour (Bernie Sanders), Progressive Conservative (Susan Collins), Bloc Quebecois (Gilles Duceppe), Liberal (Hillary Rodham), Green (Elizabeth May)

    2017-20XX: Paul Ryan (Reform) (30)

    Parties as of 2017
    Reform (Paul Ryan):
    Economic liberalism, conservatism, social conservatism, "Blue Toryism".
    Social Democratic & Labour (Bernie Sanders): Social Democracy, left-wing populism, trade unionism.
    Progressive Conservative (Susan Collins): Progressive conservatism, centrism, Christian Democracy, "Red Toryism."
    Liberal (Joseph Kennedy III): Centrism, progressivism, third way politics. Shifting slightly leftward under the new revitalized leadership.
    Bloc Quebecois (Gilles Duceppe): Quebec nationalism, separatism, anti-federalism, left-wing populism, social democracy.
    Green (Elizabeth May): Green politics, community politics, environentalism, eco-socialism, alter-globalization.
     
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  • Shuffling The Decks: Opposition Edition

    1963-1966: Sir Alec Douglas-Home (Conservative majority)

    "The Peer"
    Narrowly winning a fourth term for the Conservatives, Douglas-Home's time in office would be rather... unfortunate. Coming under attack for taking Britain into Vietnam, the economy started to look dicey and thus the Tories decided it was best to replace Douglas-Home with someone who could possibly lead the Tories to a fifth election.

    1966-1971: Edward Heath (Conservative majority, then minority)
    "The Captain"
    George Brown seemed to be nailed-on to win 1968 for Labour. But as the campaign went on, his alcoholism was revealed and the Tories pressed on it, subtly implying that Brown couldn't be trusted to lead the nation. In the end, Brown resigned as leader on the campaign trail, throwing Labour in disarray. But it wouldn't keep the Tory majority, as ultimately the people were just plain tired of the Tories. Shambling with a minority for three years, Heath decided to call another election. Which he lost to Labour, throwing the Tories to the opposition for the first time in twenty years.

    1971-1975: James Callaghan (Labour majority)
    "The Leader"
    In his four years, Callaghan marked himself out as someone who would unite the party and the country. Decidely a leader, he worked well with President Humphrey, but after he was succeeded by George McGovern in '73, the "special relationship" became frosty. But nobody would remember him for that, nor for his competent leadership. His assassination in 1975 overshadows everything else.

    1975-1977: Harold Wilson (Labour majority)
    "The Quiet One"
    Always awkward on television, Wilson was seen as a frosty figure, and the contrast between him and the personable Callaghan only made that worse. And in the 1977 election, with union strikes being a major issue he ended up losing Labour's only majority in twenty years and stepped down, replaced by someone who could lead them back to victory.

    1977-1981: Edward Heath (Conservative majority)
    "The Captain Returns"
    Heath, after six years at Opposition, was determined to lead the Tories into a new era of dominance. But in the end, it was Europe that undermined him. Taking Britain into the EC created new divisions in both the Tories and Labour and in the end the 1981 election showed that the Tories were more divided than Labour was. Hence Labour won their second majority in only thirty years.

    1981-1986: Michael Foot (Labour majority)
    "The Intellectual"
    Decidely an Eurosceptic, he ended up withdrawing Britain from the EC after a referendum narrowly went Leave. Very much seen as on the "soft-left" in contrast with Tony Benn's "hard-left", after a series of party-dividing policies such as full-on fighting the Falklands War [which is commonly accepted as why Labour won a landslide in 1985], he ended up being pushed out in favour of a two-term MP.

    1986-1989: Jeremy Corbyn (Labour majority)
    "The Radical"
    A Bennite and decidely on the hard-left of Labour, he was commonly seen as an inexperienced leader and a puppet of Tony Benn. His bringing Gerry Adams into Parliament and talking openly of "Irish unification" and rumours that he was working with the Soviets forced the deep state to put on its glove and push him out. This would later be characterised as a fictional novel - "A Very British Coup".

    1989-1990: John Smith (Labour majority, then minority)
    "The Brief One"
    Between Corbyn and Thatcher, nobody remembers John Smith. Handed a very, very unpopular party, the man did all he could, but couldn't salvage the party to save it at the 1990 election, not when a lot defected to form the Social Democrats - "a new party, clean of Communism" declared Tony Blair. Labour ended up wiped out as Britain voted against what they saw as a Moscow-controlled party.

    1990-1993: Margaret Thatcher (Conservative majority)
    "The Bronze Lady"
    Thatcher would be remembered as someone who was handed an opportunity to radically transform British politics, and screwed it all up. Starting her ministry in high hopes, the issue of Europe rose its head again as the SDP was decidely pro-Europe. In the end, a referendum was held, one that divided the Tory Party and (temporarily) united the SDP behind Blair. She resigned after losing the referendum as Britain voted to "stay out".

    1993-1995: Iain Duncan Smith (Conservative majority)
    "The Social Justice Warrior"
    Publically dubbing himself a "Social Justice Warrior" at the Tory conference in 1993, IDS shifted the party into a more socially conservative direction. Publicly backing President Bush's aggressively anti-Soviet foreign policy [abandoning the detente of President Mondale], he pushed for policies that would make it harder for people to divorce, implementing the controversial "Section 29" that made it illegal for councils to "support or encourage homosexuality" and got Britain into the Pakistani War. All this got him acclaims from his party's base, but alienated him from 'moderates'.

    1995-1997: Tony Blair (Social Democratic-Labour coalition)
    "The Flower Power Kid"
    Blair's victory in 1995 was far smaller than expected, and he had to enter in a coalition with the much-smaller and still-unpopular Labour Party under Dennis Skinner. Seen as following a very "New Left" kind of ideology, he pushed for the complete reversal of IDS' social policies and going further with liberalising Britain, and the withdrawal of Britain from Pakistan, which made the deep state uneasy and they considered shifting him in favour of Gordon Brown, before the second assassination of a British PM in the 20th century happened. After his death, he became a martyr similar to Callaghan. Even now in the aftermath of the Final War, the Left still adores him as "the people's Prime Minister" and the label "Blairite" is still worn with pride twenty years after his untimely death.

    1997-2003: Neil Kinnock (Social Democratic-Labour coalition, then Social Democratic majority)
    "The Uniter"
    After the brief premiership of Dennis Skinner, Kinnock took over. As a former Labour MP who only defected after the 1990 election [which he held Islwyn by the skin of his teeth], he pushed for the rump Labour Party to be merged into the bigger SDP "to unite the left", He committed Britain to "non-interventionist" ways of aiding President Clinton's Pakistan War, a clear shift from Blair's outright pacifism. With the Tories still hurt by IDS' legacy, Kinnock easily defeated Portillo in 1999. In 2001, there was a refugee crisis which created tensions about immigration, which led to him losing 2003.

    2003-2007: Michael Howard (Conservative majority)
    "The Disaster"
    It is commonly accepted that the "West"'s part of the blame for the Final War goes all the way back to Prime Minister Howard and President Bush and their belligerent policies against the Soviet Union contributed to turning tension up to an unsustainable level in which it could only blow. Howard's policies were more or less a reheat of IDS' own policies with more of a focus on immigration [which after all, was why he won 2003]. As the Cold War "became a Hot War" according to Time, he led Britain into invasions of Egypt and Thailand following President Clinton's own "hawkish" aims to "finish off Soviet influence for once and all". This got him much criticism from the new Opposition Leader Ted Miliband who led the SDP to a bare lead over the Tories. Seeing the writing on the wall, Howard resigned in 2007.

    2007-2008: William Hague (Conservative majority)
    "The Disuniter"
    Hague's time in office was more or less "driving the ship into the iceberg". With Britain becoming somewhat tired of all those wars, thank you, the Tories stagnated in the polls as Miliband led the SDP to a big lead. But as the campaign went on, Hague successfully said that if people vote for Labour, they'll get the Green Liberals as their coalition partner. This was successful because the Green Liberals was not a popular party, they were seen as a party of kooks and immature students. But like IDS, he couldn't save the Tories from the backlash.

    2008-2013: Ted Miliband (Social Democratic-Green Liberal coalition)
    "The Uneasy Feeling"
    Ironically, Hague's fearmongering of a SDP-GLA coalition only made it more likely as the Tories were too back down to actually win a majority. As Miliband stood next to David Icke in the Rose Garden and tried his best to smile and bear it, his government was already living on borrowed time. As John McCain was replaced by former President Hillary Clinton in 2009, it was clear that America fully intended on fighting the heating Cold War. And that his SDP was willing to follow America into it. Originally elected as a "new Blair", he nevertheless backed military intervention in Egypt and Thailand [however he described his support as "ending human rights violating dictatorships"], he claimed to oppose further wars ["Read my lips: no more wars"], but after a hard-left terrorist organization based in Ghana successfully hit the Louvre in France, he backed an intervention in Ghana which lost him supporters. Icke and the Green Liberals threatened to withdraw from the coalition ten times over his support of the "Hot War", but they ended up bottling every time.

    2013-2017: John Major (Conservative majority, then Conservative-Social Democratic-Green Liberal "Ministry of All the Talents")
    "The New Tory, the Same Old Story" [credit to @Thande for coining the term]
    Unlike previous leaders of the Conservative Party, Major claimed he was "a new leader for a new era", publicly breaking with the party's old social conservative stances. Winning a majority over the unstable Miliband-Icke coalition [which only ended up undermining both parties], he ended up proving that he was more of the same belligerent Tory policies on foreign policy. Working with President Kerry, he amplified up military interventions, even as more Tories and SDP started saying "erm, hold on, we should go back to detente, that sounds safe". And then in January 2016, the balloon went up.

    As President Kerry and General-Secretary Zyuganov were killed in the resulting exchange, Major was in the country and was left unscathed. Once he was made aware of the Final War, he declared a state of emergency, he reached out to the SDP and Green Liberals to form a "national unity government, a ministry of all the talents if you will". With Owen Smith and Norman Lamb agreeing to the coalition, he began "Britain's time of recovery". Overnight, he became an austere leader and incredibly withdrawn. His Cabinet became critical of this approach, which he defended as "no need to talk politics, we have more important stuff to think about". And while he did all of this, his popularity with the British people went down to a record low in polling history...

    2017-: David Cameron (Conservative-Social Democratic-Green Liberal "Ministry of All the Talents")
    "The Survivor"
    In June 2017, it proved too much. Britain clearly did not want, in its period of recovery from a nuclear war, a premier who was both blamed for the war itself and then withdrew from the public. They wanted a new leader, one who they could genuinely trust. And thus the Conservative Party knifed Major and elected a new leader, the nuclear-blemished David Cameron who was lucky enough to escape the full blast, but not lucky enough to escape unscathed. Presenting himself as a defiant figure and his scarred complexion as a sign of authenicity and transparency, a clear contrast to previous "polished" PMs, he gained the people's trust. Under him, the rebuilding of Britain from the horrors of the Final War truly began. After all, as the new Prime Minister said in his first speech, "things can only get better". Right?
     
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    Turquoise Blue - Shuffling The Decks: Opposition Edition (U.S. List)
  • And here's a quick America list to go with it.

    1961-1965: Richard Nixon (Republican)
    1965-1973: Hubert Humphrey (Democratic)
    1973-1980: George McGovern (Democratic) - killed by a car bomb that drove straight at a campaign rally of his -

    1980: Jimmy Carter (Democratic) - barely escaped the bomb with his life, lived a week in agony before finally dying -
    1980-1981: Gerald Ford (Republican) - as Speaker of the House of Representatives, he ascended to office upon Carter's death -
    1981-1985: Barry Goldwater (Republican)
    1985-1986: Bob Dole (Republican) - As elected Vice-President by the Senate, he became Acting President while the Presidency was vacant -
    1986-1989: Michael Dukakis (Democratic) - Declined to run for a second term due to ill-health -
    1989-1993: Walter Mondale (Democratic)
    1993-1997: George H. W. Bush (Republican)
    1997-2001: Hillary Clinton (Democratic)
    2001: Mitt Romney (Republican) - died in an analogue to 9/11 -
    2001-2009: John McCain (Republican)
    2009-2013: Hillary Clinton (Democratic)
    2013-2016: John Kerry (Democratic)
    - Died in the nuclear exchange that became known as the "Final War" -
    2016-: Al Gore (Democratic)
     
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    Shuffling the Deck with Upside Down Cards


    1945-1945: Franklin D. Roosevelt/Lyndon B. Johnson (Democratic)
    1944: Thomas Dewey/John W. Bricker (Republican)
    1945-1949: Lyndon B. Johnson/Vacant (Democratic) [1]
    1949-1952: Dwight D. Eisenhower/Alben W. Barkley (Democratic) [2]

    1948: Harold Stassen/Arthur Vandenberg (Republican) , Strom Thurmond/Fielding L. Wright (States' Rights) , Henry A. Wallace/Glen H. Taylor (Progressive)
    1952-1953: Dwight D. Eisenhower/Vacant (Democratic)
    1953-1956: Dwight D. Eisenhower/Harry Truman (Democratic)

    1952: Robert A. Taft/Charles A. Halleck (Republican) , Harry F. Byrd/Richard Russell Jr. (States' Rights)
    1956-1957: Harry Truman/Vacant (Democratic) [3]
    1957-1965:
    Richard Nixon/Walter Judd (Republican) [4]

    1956: Harry Truman/Estes Kefauver (Democratic) , Harry F. Byrd/J. William Fulbright (States' Rights)
    1960: Adlai Stevenson/John F. Kennedy (Democratic) , Strom Thurmond/James O. Eastland (States' Rights)

    1965-1969: Richard Nixon/Margaret Chase Smith (Republican)
    1964: Hubert Humphrey/George Wallace (Democratic) , Barry Goldwater/Herman Talmadge (States' Rights)
    1969-1973: Gerald Ford/James A. Rhodes (Republican) [5]
    1968: John Wayne/John Tower (States' Rights) , Richard Nixon/Margaret Chase Smith (Independent) , Edmund Muskie/Robert F. Kennedy (Democratic)
    1973-1979: Ronald Reagan/John F. Kennedy (Democratic) [6]
    1972: Richard Nixon/Ed Brooke (National Union) , John G. Schmitz/Lester Maddox (States' Rights) , Gerald Ford/James A. Rhodes (Republican)
    1976: Robert Dole/George H. W. Bush (Republican) , Richard Nixon/Elliot Richardson (National Union) , John Rarick/Jesse Helms (States' Rights)

    1979-1979: John F. Kennedy/Vacant (Democratic) [7]
    1979-1981:
    John F. Kennedy/Terry Sanford (Democratic)
    1981-1989: George H. W. Bush/James B. Edwards (Republican) [8]

    1980: Terry Sanford/Edward M. Kennedy (Democratic) , Richard Nixon/John B. Anderson (National Union) , Jesse Helms/Evan Mecham (States' Rights)
    1984: Alan Cranston/Adlai Stevenson III (Democratic) , Richard Nixon/Ed Brooke (National Union) , Jesse Helms/Larry McDonald (States' Rights)

    1989-1993: William J. Clinton/Jack Kemp (Republican) [9]
    1988: Walter Mondale/John C. West (Democratic) , Ron Paul/Dick Mountjoy (States' Rights) , John B. Anderson/Ed Zschau (National Union)
    1993-2001: James E. Carter/Joseph Biden (Democratic) [10]
    1992: William J. Clinton/Jack Kemp (Republican) , Ron Paul/Bob Barr (States' Rights)
    1996: Dan Quayle/Richard B. Cheney (Republican) , Ron Paul/Various (States' Rights)

    2001-2009: George W. Bush/John Ashcroft (Republican) [11]
    2000: Joseph Biden/Skip Humphrey (Democratic)
    2004: Al Gore/Howard Dean (Democratic)

    2009-2013: Donald Trump/Sam Brownback (Republican) [12]
    2008: Bill Richardson/Russ Feingold (Democratic)
    2013-0000: Barack Obama/Kathleen Sebelius (Democratic) [13]
    2012: Donald Trump/Sam Brownback (Republican)
    2016: Chris Christie/Ben Carson (Republican)



    [1] A young man in over his head

    [2] A military man's administration plagued by war and instability

    [3] A political insider finally given his chance to shine

    [4]
    A modern day Founding Father revered for his commitment to serving the people

    [5] An ardent opponent of his predecessor who made the worst of a good situation

    [6] A stiff politician hardened by years of experience

    [7] A tired old man who couldn't wait to leave

    [8] A charismatic man who saved his party's electoral chances

    [9] An inexperienced man who quickly found himself unpopular

    [10] An experienced statesman who came in to save the day

    [11] A man universally known for his popularity and political success

    [12]
    A boring suit with decades of political experience and a seemingly inevitable victory

    [13] A basic and average politician with few distinguishable qualities
     
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