In the spirit of the
AU Presidential Elections with Maps thread (thanks to RadishPumpkinsForever for coming up with the idea), I'd be interested in someone doing the maps for the US presidential elections in "
Superpower Empire". As a reminder, though the POD is in 1912, the butterflies only begin to affect federal American politics in a noticeable way in the late 1950s. The elections go as follows:
- 1960: Richard Nixon R vs. John F. Kennedy D: Nixon wins
- 1964: Richard Nixon R vs. Eugene McCarthy D: McCarthy wins
- 1968: Eugene McCarthy D vs. Harold Stassen R: McCarthy wins
- 1972: William Walsh D* vs. Nelson Rockefeller R: Walsh wins
- 1976: William Walsh D vs. George H. W. Bush R: Bush wins
- 1980: George H. W. Bush vs. Terry Sanford D: Bush wins
- 1984: Robert Dole R vs. Robert Kennedy D: Kennedy wins
- 1988: Robert Kennedy D vs. Jim Jeffords R: Kennedy wins
- 1992: Henry Courtney III vs. Michael C. Rockefeller R**: Rockefeller wins
- 1996: Michael C. Rockefeller vs. Richard Gephardt D: Rockefeller wins
- 2000: Steven Avery R*** vs. Albert Gore D****: Gore wins
- 2004: Albert Gore D vs. Thomas Gilmore***** R: Gore wins
* In OTL, William Walsh was a gunnery sergeant in the Marine Corps who died heroically on February 27, 1945 during the battle of Iwo Jima. In TTL, with the Japanese surrender taking place on January 3, he lived on and entered politics after the war, becoming part of the Massachusetts Democratic establishment. He was McCarthy's running mate from 1965 to 1973, and was elected in November 1972. However, his popularity suffered from the economic slowdown of the 1970s, and he lost the 1976 election to Republican challenger George H. W. Bush.
** In OTL, Michael C. Rockefeller disappeared at sea during an archaeological expedition to New Guinea for Harvard's Peabody Museum in 1961. In TTL, that expedition was a joint project with Beijing University and was marred by no particular incident. Michael later followed his father's footsteps in the Republican establishment. He was Governor of New York State from 1983 to 1993, and won the 1992 election against Democratic Vice President Henry Courtney III.
*** Possibly the son that Sen. William H. Avery didn't have in OTL.
**** This isn't quite the same Al Gore as in OTL. He's still the eldest son of Senator Albert Gore Sr., but his genotype and personality are slightly different, as a result of the "twitch rule".
***** That one I simply made up. By that point American politicians who were never born in OTL have had time to become presidential hopefuls.
Careful readers may notice some modifications since I last brought up the issue of US elections in my TL. But the general idea remains the same.