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 ==== Relevant links ====
 **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=207680|AA2]]**
   * [[shared_worlds:AA2 Sample Results]]
-  * [[shared_worlds:AA2 Sample Turn]]
   * [[shared_worlds:AA2 Orders]]
   * [[shared_worlds:AA2 Character Sheets]]
   * [[shared_worlds:AA2 Draft]] - For Proposals to the Final Orders
   * [[shared_worlds:AA2 Timer]]
+[[http://www.counter-factual.net/upload/showthread.php?t=16410|Eagle Primary]]  Please respect the confidentiality of the Eagle Primary.  Do not leak private information between threads.  Thank you.
 **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=155220|AA1]]**
   * [[shared_worlds:american_administration]]
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 Tragically, Bluth would be murdered while campaigning in his home state of Arizona in a shooting spree (Tuscon Massacre). Adhering to both Bluth's wishes as well as a concession to President Yankee, Patrick choose Alexis Papadopoulos as his new VP nominee. Together they would go on to win a sizable electoral victory against Eagle Party Nominee Theodore Crow (E-IA).
+=== The Patrick Presidency ===
+A darkhorse candidate, indeed, never holding high office before, Seattle Mayor John Patrick could have been an anemic President.  Fortunately, several capable aides (Kar Thorn, Chelsea Jordan and Katherine Tyminsky) would quickly dispel any doubt that a Mayor couldn't handle the responsibilities as President.
+President Patrick passage of tax reforms reduced their burden on the lower and middle classes, and the hotly disputed **Dabford-Richards Labor Law** greatly empowered union rights to organize and strike.  Unfortunately, as a result of this law, business elites completely sided against Patrick, leading to a media siege of the Presidency.
+Adding to this volatile situation was the political rise of a maverick moderate, Chris MacLohain (Sen-MT).  Growing in prominence in the years of Kevin Yankee, MacLohain promptly pounced on the wide and lukewarm support of President Patrick.  Unable to ride the tide he had created, the Falcon movement was joined by several Eagles as a serious effort to offer another means to oppose President Patrick.
+As both of these issues grew, a series of scandals rocked Washington.  The St. Louis Police connected Infrastructure Secretary John G. Galen to an act of prostitution.  FBI investigators discovered that the Attorney General, Abraham Joles, had quashed previous investigations.  If this was not all enough, Illinois Governor Randall Sparkman was revealed to be misappropriating government monies, possibly in connection with Galen.
+And then somehow, both issues took each other out.  Questions from the President over a lack of High Speed Rail monies were spun into Presidential involvement in the scandal, and a member of the Swollen Falcon caucus demanded impeachment.  The Media, initially fully supportive of the move to legally lynch the President, had somehow overlooked the baselessness of their reporting.
+The Falcons, thus humiliated, ended by returning to pre-Falcon ranks, more than happy to bury any involvement in proposing Impeachment on a whim.  The Media, chastened by popular outrage, sacked some of its top management.  For his part, Chris MacLohain became an independent.
+With a still hostile media and popularity remaining too low, the Freedom Party is doomed to lose somewhat in Congress.  The question is, how much?
 ==== Characters/Players ====
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 | Lindsay Bluth           | Party Whip (Sen-AZ) | CCA |
 | Chelsea Jordan          | Secretary of State  | Siren         |
-| Lewis Hill              | Secretary of Defense| Rule Britannia|
+| Sam Franklin              | Secretary of Defense| G.C Marshall|
-| Vacant                  | Secretary of the Treasury |  |
+| Richard Castle          | Secretary of Economic Affairs | Broader Liberty |
-| Katherine Tyminsky      | Secretary of National Intelligence  |       |
+| Vacant                  | Secretary of National Intelligence  |       |
-| Vacant                  | Attorney General    |        |
+| Abraham Daniel Joles    | Attorney General    |  Magus1108      |
 | Kar Thorn               | Secretary of Social Services | MKN  |
 | John Jethro Galen       |Secretary of Infrastructure | John Galt |
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 | Casey Mungbean          | Senator from California         |
 | Dion Conifer            | Governor of Ohio                |
+| Michael Johnson         | Senator from Wyoming                |
+| Erwin "Tigers" McClellan    | Senator from Maryland                |
 | Randolph Dure           | Senator from New Jersey                |
 | Brian Le Ber            | Senator from Mississippi                |