List of US Elections 1968 - 2008

United States Presidential Election, 1968

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Senator Richard Nixon (R-CA) / Govenor Nelson Rockefeller(R-NY)
President Lyndon B. Johnson (D-TX0)/ Vice President Hubert Humphrey (D-MN)
Govenor George Wallace (AI-AL) / Curtis LeMay (AI-OH)

Johnson's unpopularity grows. The economy crashes, Vietnam seems like a total failure, and crime rates spike nation wide. Both the Republicans and American Independents promised a plan to fix the ecoonomy, a winning strategy in Nam', and bringing back law and order. Most people thought that LBJ's prescidency was doomed, and on election night their thoughts were confirmed.

Electoral vote: 327-125-86
Popular vote: 44,3%-35.3%-20,4%

United States House of Representatives Elections, 1968
Democrat: 217
Republican: 212
American Independent: 5
Speaker: John McCormack
There is no overall control in the house. Behind closed doors the Republicans and American independents form a coalition against bills passed by the Democrats.
United States Senate Elections, 1968
Republican: 50
Democrat: 49
American Independent: 1
Majority Leader: Barry Goldwater
The Republicans take control of the Senate. Yet the one American Independent can control the fate of partisan laws passed by the Republicans.
 
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US Presidential election, 1972

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President Richard Nixon (R-CA) / Vice President Nelson Rockefeller(R-NY)
Former Vice President Hubert Humphrey (D-MN) / Former Governor Terry Sanford (D-NC)

Winner: Richard Nixon (R-CA)

Electoral vote: 511 (R) vs. 27 (D)

Popular vote: 60.1% (R) vs. 38.1% (D)

Apart from the survival of Robert F. Kennedy, there won't be much changes from OTL. Kissinger would still become Secretary of State, and Nixon would still visit China. RFK would certainly stay out of the race, since no one could really beat Nixon in 1972. Humphrey was crushed. Muskie had no base at all, what he had was just name recognition. In TTL, George Wallace was killed by an insane person who escaped from a mental hospital. Also, in TTL, Watergate still happened, but the evidence had already been destroyed in October 1972, so it really became known as a third rate burglary.

United States House of Representatives Elections, 1970
Democrat: 234
Republican: 199
American Independent: 2
Incumbent Speaker: John McCormack (D)
Speaker-elect: Carl Albert (D)

OOC: Please edit the Congress election results of 1968, there were 435 not 428 seats in the House of Representatives.

United States Senate Elections, 1970
Republican: 52 (+2)
Democrat: 45 (-4)
American Independent: 1
Independent: 2 (+2)
Incumbent Majority Leader: Barry Goldwater (R)
Majority Leader-elect: Robert P. Griffin (R)

United States House of Representatives Elections, 1972
Democrat: 221 (-13)
Republican: 213 (+14)
Independent: 1 (+1)
Incumbent Speaker: Carl Albert (D)

United States Senate Elections, 1972
Republican: 52
Democrat: 47 (+2)
American Independent: 1
Majority Leader: Robert P. Griffin (R)
 
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Presidential Election 1976

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Former Vice President Nelson Rockefeller (R-NY) / Govenor Ronald Reagan (R-CA)
Govenor Jimmy Carter (D-GA) / Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV)

Electoral Vote: 318-220
Popular Vote: 51.8%-48.2%

Well in TTL scince there was no Watergate scandal, there was no disastorous VP prescidnecy. Thus Rockefeller managed to win this election. Carter called a recount in California and Ohio, two states witch Rockefeller won by less than 7,000 votes. Rockefeller won both states, even with a recount called. The Democrats and Carter supporters belived that this election was fixed. And that now it should be Carter in the White House.

United States Midterm Elections, 1974:
House of Representatives
Democrat: 219 (-3)
Republican: 215 (+2)
Independent: 2 (+1)
Speaker: Carl Albert (D)
Senate
Republican: 52
Democrat: 48 (+1)
Majority Leader: Robert P. Griffin (R)

United States House of Representatives Elections, 1976
Democrat: 218 (-1)
Republican: 217 (+3)
Speaker: Carl Albert (D)

United States Senate Elecctions, 1976
Republican: 51 (-1)
Democrat: 46 (-2)
Independent: 3 (+3)
Former Majortiy Leader: Robert P. Griffin (R)
Majority Leader: Bob Dole (R)
 
1980 Presidential Election

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Former Governor Jimmy Carter (D - GA) / Senator Charles Heston (D - CA) 312

President Nelson Rockefeller (R - NY) / Vice President Ronald Reagan (R - CA) 252

After being "robbed" of their election previously, but gaining footholds in the close miss of California (particularly young liberal Governor Jerry Brown), the Democrats renominate Carter - who has focused entirely on campaigning and building up the party in the past 4 years. They also make inroads into the industrial areas of the Midwest - recapturing blue collar caucasians that Lyndon Johnson began to lose after 60's riots and urban decay.
Interestingly, the African-American voter turnout suggests a gradual shift beginning towards supporting the Republicans, though not enough to turn this election.
In other news, Zell Miller just won a Senate seat on a platform of decrying the inherited wealth of President Rockefeller and appealing to a working class populism that works great on capturing Republican leaning whites but doesn't do much for African American voters.
The RNC blames the loss of California on Reagan being more interested in backseat driving the presidency than on securing his home state for Rocky. While Republicans are stronger than ever in the West as a whole, the coast has gone thoroughly Democrat (( in this timeline there has been no split or bad blood between upper middle class liberal New Left types and Carter's New South - in fact, having been "robbed" of one presidential election has made Carter into something of a Howard Dean or Al Gore type figure with lots of liberal support despite his centrist policy proposals ))
 
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JUST ONE QUESTION:p

WHY WOULD CARTER STILL BE NOMINATED IN 1976 WITHOUT WATERGATE:p

I don't know why Els did it, but I'm guessing that with a stronger Rockefeller Republican wing, the Democrats have been doing crappier up North than they'd like and want to concentrate on reunifying the party down South?

Or, that is, a Nixon with VP Nelson is probably not playing the Southern Strategy, which means the Democrats are pursuing /a/ southern strategy, though probably not /THE/ southern strategy.
 
I don't know why Els did it, but I'm guessing that with a stronger Rockefeller Republican wing, the Democrats have been doing crappier up North than they'd like and want to concentrate on reunifying the party down South?

Or, that is, a Nixon with VP Nelson is probably not playing the Southern Strategy, which means the Democrats are pursuing /a/ southern strategy, though probably not /THE/ southern strategy.
Exactly. The Democrats are hopless to any victory in the north with Rockefeller Republicans in power. Thus the Democrats must play a Southern stratagey.
 
Plus any timeline that has Wallace's AI run will probably have Carter step up with his vision of a New South as a non-racist alternative. The LBJ wing of the party would, if they have to go Southern focus, rather have a moderate like Carter than a segregationist populist or a Bourbon conservative.
 
1984 Presidential Election

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Senator Jesse Helms (R-NC) / Senator Paul Laxalt (R-NV)
President Jimmy Carter (D-GA) / Vice President Charles Heston (D-CA)

Winner: Senator Jesse Helms (R-NC)

Electoral Vote: 535-3
Popular Vote: 66.4%-32.7%

United States Midterm Elections, 1982:
House of Representatives
Republican: 220
Democrat: 213
Independent: 2
Incumbent Speaker: Tip O'Neill (D)
Speaker-elect: Robert H. Michel (R)

Senate
Democrat: 50
Republican: 48
Independent: 2
Incumbent Majority Leader: Robert F. Kennedy (D)

United States House of Representatives Elections, 1984
Republican: 380 (+160)
Democrat: 35 (-178)
Ecologist: 10 (NEW)
Constitution: 3 (+3)
Libertarian: 2 (+2)
Independent: 5 (+3)
Incumbent Speaker: Robert H. Michel (R)

United States Senate Elecctions, 1984
Republican: 67 (+19)
Democrat: 28 (-22)
Ecologist: 1 (+1)
Constitution: 1 (+1)
Libertarian: 1 (+1)

Independent: 2
Incumbent Majortiy Leader: Robert F. Kennedy (D)
Majority Leader: Howard Baker (R)

On 26 September 1983, Stanislav Petrov, a lieutenant colonel in the Soviet Air Defence Forces, was the officer on duty at the Serpukhov-15 bunker near Moscow which housed the command center of the Soviet early warning system, code-named Oko. Shortly after midnight, the bunker's computers reported that an intercontinental ballistic missile was heading toward the Soviet Union from China. Petrov immediate reported the situation to his superiors regarding the incoming Chinese missiles, and his superiors abruptly launched an assault against China, precipitating a corresponding nuclear response from China. It would be later revealed in 2010 that the system's indications were a false alarm. China was totally screwed up by the nuclear war, though the Chinese managed to nuke Krasnodar, Vladivostok and Saint Petersburg. China, by the way, lost Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Chongqing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Wuhan, Shenyang, Chengdu, Xi'an, Guiyang, Nanjing, Harbin, Changchun, Dalian, Hangzhou, Zibo, Kunming, Qingdao, Urumqi, Lhasa, Jinan, Xiamen, Fuzhou, Changsha, Lanzhou, Shijiazhuang, Jilin City, Nanchang, Wenzhou, Nanchong, Nanning, Yantai, Xuzhou, Zaozhuang, Baotou, Linyi, Suzhou, Nanyang, Ningbo and Datong. Taiyuan, became the temporary capital of China, and the mayor of Taiyuan surrendered on behalf of China to the Soviet authorities and was executed. China collapses, refugees tried to enter nearby countries like North Korea, Mongolia, India, Thailand and Vietnam. Hong Kong and Macao locked themselves up to avoid the entry of refugees, and shot at least 400,000 refugees to death near the border.

The Soviet Union also collapses within a year. Eastern Europe entered a prolong period of wars, but Carter failed to response sensitively. The US economy collapses, General Motors and Lehman Brothers went bankrupt. Obviously, he stood no chance against the Republican ticket of Jesse Helms and Paul Laxalt. The Helms-Laxalt ticket was elected with 66% of vote.

OOC: Please do a better version of 1984, AND IGNORE THIS ASBish DYSTOPIAN MAP SINCE DEMOCRACY IS EFFECTIVELY FINISHED WITH A REPUBLICAN SUPERMAJORITY AND PRESIDENT JESSE HELMS ALTOGETHER, or you may well get President Pat Buchanan, Oliver North or perhaps David Duke:p
 

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The special election of 1974
Kennedy/Carter 452
Ashbrook/Laxalt 70
Wallace/Williams 16

Following the resignation of Richard Nixon in November 1973 speaker of the house Carl Albert took office and unwilling to serve as president with the desire to respect the will of the people called for a special presidential election to be held the following November. The plan was approved by both houses of congress and the supreme court. Almost immediately a dozen different Democrats entered the race, since this was almost certain to be a Democratic victory. On the Republican side most big names were unwilling to enter for precisely the same reason. John Ashbrook of Ohio, a conservative however entered the race and won the nomination easily. He was able to best distance himself from the Nixon administration since he had campaigned against Nixon himself. The Democrats however found themselves deadlocked going into the convention between upstart Georgia governor Jimmy Carter and liberal Mo Udall. Although he had originally refused to run a "Draft Ted" movement had sprung up and with Democrats deadlocked on the third ballot Kennedy entered the race and won on the next ballot, choosing Carter as his running mate. Although the Ashbrook campaign attempted to use the issue of Chappaquadick to dismiss Kennedy, the Watergate scandal was enough to propel him to a landslide victory. George Wallace running from his wheelchair managed to win Alabama and Mississippi with the rest of the south split between Kennedy and Ashbrook.
 
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