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LAHistorian15

Luxembourgish Jane said:

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is this realistic? no. is this very well thought out? also no. but i spent making this because of a one off comment and spent like... 10+ hours thunking and getting help. shoutout to CTTeller for extra insperation
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Reminds me of This Post from a little over a year ago.
 
King of the Uzbeks

King of the Uzbeks

King of the Uzbeks said:
Light of the Nation - Part 11: Rights and Wrongs

Light of the Nation - Part 11: Rights and Wrongs

Ronald Reagan’s defeat stung for Republicans. It stung for evangelicals even more. Their man had gone down, and was now clearly too old for 1984. What was the right to do?

Well the Far-Right had Bob Dornan, a Californian Christian Rep with a penchant for tax cuts, and an acting background that gave him a charismatic touch. Unfortunately he came across as a bomb thrower. He lacked Reagan’s polish and was known do be overly aggressive. Jack Kemp was a shiny face, who had gained a following among conservative intellectuals for his dogged support of supply side economics. Tax Cuts Tax Cuts Tax Cuts. He was a former professional Quarterback and certainly looked the part. And finally, Bob Dole. Bob Dole was a classic Republican. Tough on the Cold War. For lower taxes, but was willing to raise them to balance the budget. Not the favorite of the Religious Rights, but not the most hated either. Bob Dole was Bob Dole: a Conservative for all seasons.

Bob Dole and Kemp vied for establishment support, while Dornan roused the Right to a frenzy. Kemp did well in the Northeast, but this “bleeding heart Republican” seemed to melt in the South. Meanwhile Dornan scared more respectable types with his rhetoric. Bod Dole marched on. At a debate Dornan implied Kemp was Gay. Kemp implied Dornan was a Nazi. Both lost their tempers. Bob Dole talked about God and Small Government and Defense. Bob Dole shook hands in the farms and in the suburbs and in the cities with donors.

Bob Dole kept on marching.

Bob Dole was rewarded. Bob Dole was no moderate, but Bob Dole had a demeanor that just seemed so Presidential. So Bob Dole got the money and Bob Dole got the votes and Bob Dole got the nomination.

The race was on to follow Mondale.

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Light of the Nation - Part 12: Of Vice and Women

Both Jimmy Carter and Bob Dole strove to portray their party as strong and unified as they hosted the conventions in 1984. Both largely succeeded. Polls were tight, although Dole was optimistic. In a bold move, the Republicans went to Detroit. One hundred years ago the party had been founded in Michigan and now it was coming home. The UAW howled, but the convention fired up the party, ready to return to the White House after 8 years out of power.

Bob Dole landed quickly on Dick Thornburgh, midway through his second term as Governor of Pennsylvania, for Vice President. Thornburgh brought a reputation as a reasonable, able administrator, while avoiding the dreaded “moderate” label, as well as rust belt representation.

Later in Baltimore, the Democrats rallied for Carter. It was an impressive display of party unity. Mondale sent off his Presidency to implore the nation to for for Jimmy, who moderates arranged to sing his praises. There was even time for minority speakers in the hubbub. Gary Hart’s keynote was not, however, the prelude to the Vice Presidency he had hoped for. Instead Carter’s team took a different tack. Rosalynn Carter held no public like Elizabeth Dole, but was no less close with her husband. And she proved a decisive factor in his VP choice.

Carter knew “change” would be a hard sell as the incumbent VP. A historic pick would energize the party. Jesse Jackson had no chance. His outspokenness had alienated parts of the party less accepting than they would admit. But he would be offended by another minority choice. Despite some lobbying from San Francisco, the party was not yet ready for a gay man on the ticket. Instead Mayor Harvey Milk used the media attention to press for research into the ongoing health crisis, to no small effect.

And so it was to the women the choice fell. And of the women, Congresswoman Pat Schroeder of Colorado stood out. A mother and a strong presence on the House Floor, she’d been in Washington longer than Carter had been. And so she was approached about the offer, which she accepted.

Both conventions led to bumps in polling, which more or less canceled each other out, leaving the race back where it had started. At least at first. There would be debates, and gaffes, and October Surprises. But most of all, the economy was improving. Finally.

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James Aggrey (1875-1935) was an American politician and the first African-born person to serve in the United States House of Representatives. Aggrey was born in 1875 to the Chief Linguist in the court of King Amonoo IV of Anomabu in the British Gold Coast. Educated by Methodists in Africa, Aggrey traveled to North Carolina to study to be a missionary at Salisbury College in 1898. A gifted student, Aggrey received three degrees at graduation in 1902. While at Salisbury, he became involved in radical politics and participated in underground plotting against the Custer dictatorship. Rather than return to the Gold Coast, Aggrey took up ministry in North Carolina and married a woman from Virginia. As the Custer dictatorship was deposed and the revolution against the Cannon government began, Aggrey renewed his political activities and joined the Party of Southern Labor. He provided covert support for the revolutionaries but took up arms in the last months of 1909, being commissioned as a major in a volunteer unit of the YMLA. Aggrey saw service in the final actions of the war, participating in the captures of Charlotte and Raleigh. After the war, he returned to the ministry, but entered politics, being elected to the County Council in 1920. In 1930, he was elected to the United States House of Representatives to succeed longtime Congressman James B. Dudley, representing the division of Jackson in North Carolina[1] Aggrey’s election made him the first African-born member of Congress. There, he became known for his interest in foreign affairs and pushed for humanitarian considerations in American foreign politics and for pressure on the European empires to release their colonies. Aggrey died suddenly in 1935 while in Salisbury.


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[1] After the Second Revolution, infatuation with Australia led to giving names to seats in the US Congress.
 

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Note: The map is not fully accurate to the actuals borders of this alt-USA. The exclusion of Washington is meant to roughly approximate the borders of this TL, which follows the Columbia River, which unfortunately I could not superimpose on the map.

The 1848 United States presidential election was held on November 7, 1848, the first US presidential election to take place on the same day in all states. Vice-President Willie Mangum of North Carolina, running for the incumbent Whig Party, defeated William R. King of Alabama, the Democratic candidate.

Incumbent President William Henry Harrison had overseen a term that was considered fairly successful; as the first Whig president, he had enacted the platform of his party to great success, spending much of 1845 allocating funds for internal improvements, raising tariffs, and chartering the Third Bank of the United States. The depression that had followed the Panic of 1837 was fully a thing of the past, which enhanced Harrison's popularity. However, the looming issue of Texas became a growing problem. While during Van Buren's second term the issue had largely been fought on the Senate floor by Vice-President Tyler and John C. Calhoun, the campaign of 1844 had brought the issue to the fore; in particular, Harrison's victory had rested on the backs of considerable southern support, which left many Whigs feeling indebted to the region. Henry Clay, the foremost legislator among the Whigs, had some personal antipathy around the issue because mostly due to Tyler's constant forcing of the issue during his term severely annoying him, but lacked any ideological opposition to it; ultimately, Clay, along with the rest of the Whigs and the Democratic leadership, concluded that a treaty of annexation needed to be drawn up, and despite Van Buren's considerable lobbying against it, the Texas annexation treaty was able to muster two-thirds of the Senate to pass, overcoming northeastern opposition by attracting northwestern support by promising them a resolution to the shared Anglo-American occupation of Oregon. They also threaded the needle of Senate balance by admitting Texas and Florida, both slave states, alongside the new free states of Wisconsin and Iowa.

The problem, ultimately, was that Harrison, a former military man, worked faster than Clay or his Secretary of State, Daniel Webster. Clay and Webster, for all their differences, wanted to negotiate peaceful resolutions with Mexico and the United Kingdom to establish the borders with them; Harrison, however, quickly moved to occupy and annex Texas. In the confusion, a diplomatic incident occurred when some Texans and Mexicans both tried to occupy disputed land and a scuffle in which the Mexicans were killed broke out. Mexico demanded reparations for the incident; Harrison refused. Ultimately, this ended in the breakout of the Mexican-American War, which the US handily won. Harrison negotiated a huge concession of land from Mexico, which made him very popular. However, he had not yet negotiated the settlement of the Oregon issue when the war broke out. During the war, Britain had demanded the border follow the Columbia River; Webster had tried to negotiate them back to the 40th parallel but failed, and with the small US army embroiled in Mexico, they were forced to accept a border that followed the 40th parallel to the Columbia River before following in to the Pacific Ocean. In any case, Harrison did succeed in gaining a Pacific coast for the US, though some northwesterners did feel betrayed by the deal with the British.

Overall, the Whig position for 1848 was considered strong. President Harrison had pledged in his inauguration speech to serve only a single term, and so their nomination was wide open. As their convention gathered at Philadelphia, most considered Henry Clay, the eldest statesman of the party, the likely nominee. Clay indeed led on the first ballot, but was short of majority, to his own surprise; as it turned, a large number of southern delegates he had been counting on had instead chosen to back Zachary Taylor, an apolitical general of the Mexican-American War who had little interest in the Whig nomination. He also lost support to Winfield Scott, another Mexican-American War general who was a more doctrinaire Whig than Taylor, and to Webster, who commanded most northeastern delegates. As the ballots went on, Clay failed to make gains but instead lost support; southerners considered him to have been insufficiently supportive of Texas annexation, while northern delegates were more receptive to him but, after a number of health scares during Harrison's tenure, were put off by Clay's age. Clay, acutely aware this might be his last chance at the presidency, stubbornly persisted; meanwhile, none of the other candidates were able to take advantage of Clay's weakness, as Scott and Taylor were both too disinterested in the nomination to seriously pursue it and the former too closely associated with free-soil Whigs like William Seward for southerners. Webster, meanwhile, had no appeal outside the northeast. The deadlock persisted until the fifteenth ballot, when the North Carolina delegation switched its votes to Vice-President Willie Mangum; many southern Taylor delegates moved to him on the sixteenth ballot. His agents consolidated the support of northwestern and southern delegations as he decided whether or not he wanted the nomination, as he was reluctant to betray his friend Clay. Ultimately, the Senator from Kentucky accepted he could not gain the nomination and endorsed Mangum once he had secured the promise of a Cabinet spot; the vice-presidential nomination was given to Millard Fillmore, a moderate Whig from New York.

The Democratic convention, in comparison, was chaos. The party was increasingly divided by the severe disagreements between the northern Van Buren-dominated wing and its planter-dominated southern wing. The proposal of popular sovereignty regarding slavery in the Mexican cession was the compromise that both sides hated; Van Buren, for the rest of his life, would at least be satisfied he managed to sideline champions of that policy, like Lewis Cass, at the 1848 convention. Nonetheless, Van Buren was not in a strong position for the convention; many believed the south had to be given an olive branch. Van Buren further hurt himself by exploring the possibility of nominating him for a third term, which did not go over well on the convention floor. Ultimately, it had little effect beyond hurting the campaign of Levi Woodbury, the primary Van Burenite candidate. As the convention continued, it became clear that, with the compromise of popular sovereignty unable to gain a majority, the Van Burenites and the slavers would have to slug it out. However, the process of finding a candidate was less simple than it should've been. Van Buren's trial lead balloons over his potential third term wasted time that could have helped Woodbury, while the southerners struggled to find one acceptable to the whole country; dark horse James K. Polk was facing a bout of ill health (but ultimately lived until 1870), while John Tyler and Richard M. Johnson were unable to attract support. Ultimately, around the fiftieth ballot, William R. King of Alabama, a moderate southerner who had entered the convention hoping for the vice-presidential nomination, gained steam as a presidential candidate; while he was circumspect about the prospect of running, once the nomination had been secured for him on the fifty-fourth ballot, King elected to accept it, with Woodbury being given the vice-presidential nomination as a sop to Van Buren. The ex-president, for his part, was furious with the result of the convention and considered organizing a third party run, but instead elected to remain outside of the contest, pointedly refusing to endorse King.

In the end, the Democrats fell completely flat on their faces. Harrison was a successful and popular president, which aided his party; and the gamble of gaining southern support failed, as gaining Mississippi and Alabama was more than made up for by the loss of New York and Pennsylvania, even when accounting for gains in Texas, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Indiana. Moreover, Mangum held closely contested southern states like Georgia and Virginia and gained the new state of Florida, so King failed to deliver much in his home region. Ultimately, the party was too divided and the Harrison too popular, and so it is little surprise that they lost the 1848 election.
 

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Anarcho-Occultist said:
This American Century-Part 1
The great realigning event that would define the 21st century may have technically began with the victory of John McCain in the 2000 election. McCain was something of a maverick among Republicans, having a more moderate set of beliefs than his main rival George W. Bush. McCain worked with Democrats on things like education and campaign finance reform and negotiated a tax bill focusing on cuts for the middle class while doing less for the wealthy. The moment that would define his presidency, however, came on September 11th, 2001. Terrorists attacked the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and the White House with hijacked airplanes, killing around 3,000 people. Among the dead were First Lady Cindy McCain, Vice President Tommy Thompson and several cabinet members. McCain was enraged by this and vowed to hunt the ‘scum behind this atrocity to the ends of the earth.’ Thus marked the beginning of the War on Terror.

McCain declared there was no room for the usual petty partisanship in the post-9/11 world. Now was the time for the country to unite. And unite it did. McCain boasted 91% approval in the immediate aftermath of the attacks and few in Congress objected when the McCain administration made its demands. First, McCain shocked many by announcing a ‘new National Union coalition’. He selected Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman as his new Vice President and appointed a number of Democrats to fill cabinet vacancies as a show of bringing America together. It wasn’t all just these overtures, of course. The National Union coalition in Congress passed sweeping expansion of government surveillance powers, gave McCain’s administration to detain suspected enemy combatants indefinitely (albeit with some protections against torture or other abuses) and empowered McCain to pursue the terrorists behind the attacks by almost any means necessary. McCain launched an invasion of Afghanistan in 2002. By 2003, the war had expanded to include Iraq and Libya. In 2004, an attack on a US naval vessel in the Persian Gulf led to the U.S. launching a war in Iran. The wars were not without critics, but the National Union coalition, while not fully formalized, helped stifle much dissent and were broadly supported going into 2004.

The 2004 election saw the new National Union truly formalized. McCain entered both the Democratic and Republican primaries with support from the vast majority of party leadership. Only a few candidates emerged to challenge McCain in the primaries. In the Republican field, McCain was challenged by right-wing commentator Pat Buchanan and businessman Herman Cain. In the end, the two failed to make much of a dent in his support on that side. In the Democratic field, meanwhile, McCain faced more organized opposition from Senator Paul Wellstone, who challenged McCain on foreign policy, civil liberties and economics. Wellstone managed to crack 20% and even won 5 states, but McCain still ended up the official nominee of both parties. Wellstone encouraged his supporters to vote their conscience, but this did not mean that McCain would go unchallenged.
Texas Representative Ron Paul was one of McCain’s only vocal critics among elected GOP officials. He had endorsed Buchanan’s challenge, but when it failed announced a bid for the Presidency as an independent. As his running mate, Paul selected fellow Representative Dennis Kucinich-a left-wing Democrat likewise disgruntled by the National Unionists. Ironically, the Paul/Kucinich ticket built a party coalition of their own-getting cross-endorsed by the Libertarian, Green, Constitution and Reform Parties alongside a few even more minor ones. The ticket had the support of 2000 Green nominee Ralph Nader, former Governor Jesse Ventura, San Francisco Mayor Matt Gonzalez and the majority of antiwar activists. This was not universal, however. More fundamentally leftist antiwar figures were completely unwilling to rally around the paleoconservative Paul and instead chose to rally around the Socialist Party nominee David Cobb (a failed Green Party candidate left disgruntled by what he claimed was Kucinich interfering in the nomination process).

As a result of this unprecedented development, the Commission on Presidential Debates originally announced the cancellation of any official debates with their replacement by a townhall-style event featuring McCain. However, amidst backlash from Paul and Cobb supporters as well as Paul cracking 15% in multiple polls, the CPD restored their original debate schedule, albeit only inviting Paul to debate against McCain. The first debate was a brutal one, with Paul attacking McCain as a warmongering tyrant and McCain at one point losing his temper and threatening to physically fight Paul. The second debate was a comparatively more muted affair, though generally agreed to have been a win for McCain. The Vice Presidential debate, however, was seen as going well for Kucinich compared to Lieberman, though topline numbers didn’t move very much. The third debate was canceled, however, following a civil disobedience action spearheaded by the Cobb campaign that disrupted logistics at the original planned debate site. The event led to Cobb’s arrest, which ultimately may have helped his popular vote total.

In the end, the election’s final results were never truly in doubt. While Paul managed to animate a decently sized antiwar coalition and achieved a better electoral performance than Ross Perot in 1992, his 21% of the popular vote was nowhere close to McCain’s 76%. While Paul did win the states of Idaho, Wyoming and Vermont and was within Cobb’s margin in Hawaii, West Virginia, Alabama and Minnesota, McCain still won over 500 electoral college votes. Paul did not win a majority of any demographic, with the closest being winning 46% of white men aged 18-29. Cobb’s 2.5% was respectable for a third party as well, but still quite weak overall. In the aftermath of the 2004 election, the National Union Party’s dominance seemed quite stable. Paul and Kucinich both narrowly lost re-election against National Union-backed rivals. And yet, a small hint of what was to come could be seen with the formation of the Coalition for the Constitution bloc in Congress by those Democrats and Republicans who rejected the National Union Party and the McCain administration.
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Y'know, I had an idea for basically the same scenario (worse 9/11 leads to one-party system) except that Gore was the one to win the 2000 election, only to be killed in alt-9/11, propelling Joe Lieberman to the presidency.
 

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The 1864 United States presidential election was the 20th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 1864, near the end of the American Civil War. Former General George B. McClellan of the Democratic Party defeated incumbent president Abraham Lincoln of the National Union Party. It was one of the most contentious election results in American history, due to the fact that the Union-occupied states of Tennessee and Louisiana had held elections in which President Lincoln won the states' electoral votes, but were rejected due to war issues. Also, one of Nevada's electors was snowbound and unable to cast a vote for President or Vice President.

Despite significant intra-party opposition from Salmon Chase and John C. Fremont, the latter briefly launching a third-party bid before withdrawing in October 1864, Lincoln won the National Union Party nomination. Lincoln, who deeply worried for his chances to win non-republican votes, chose to extend an olive branch to War Democrats, with the convention selecting Andrew Johnson of Tennessee, a prominent War Democrat, as his running mate. The Democrats were divided between the War Democrat and the Copperhead factions of the party. George B. McClellan was nominated in order to secure the War Democrat vote, but his running mate was Copperhead leader George H. Pendleton, and the party convention called for a peaceful resolution to the Civil War, something that McClellan personally opposed.

In the summer of 1864, the Confederacy seemed to have a fighting chance of survival despite being on the defensive for months, however Lincoln and Union military leadership had great confidence that the war would be won. General William Tecumseh Sherman had since May held a siege of Atlanta, Georgia, and looked to be on the cusp of capture in late August. However, in a crippling blow to Union morale, Confederate generals John Bell Hood and William J. Hardee launched a devastating rout of Sherman's forces on August 31, dealing significant casualties and forcing Sherman to retreat. After continued failures to siege Atlanta, Lincoln's popularity continued to plummet as the Union lost much more morale than before. With increased public pressure on McClellan to shift his tone, he finally acquiesced and ran on a platform of peace with honor, seeing the war as a war of attrition that would only generate more casualties and supply losses for both sides. Historians believe he implied a peaceful re-union with the South instead of a peaceful separation, but the Democratic base was impressed nevertheless.

Due to Lincoln being perceived as continuing a pointless war despite more victories than losses, Lincoln lost the election to McClellan, but the election itself was still controversial. Republicans in congress argued that the electoral votes of Louisiana and Tennessee, as well as the snowbound elector in Nevada, should be counted, and if they had been, Lincoln would have won by a slim 126 to 125 electoral vote margin. However, the votes in Louisiana and Tennessee were rejected due to issues certifying results and sending those results to congress, while in Nevada's case, the state did not have a law permitting the replacement of electors. Not only were these pushes rejected by Congress, Lincoln himself called upon his Republican colleagues to stand down from these challenges in order to meet the higher call of national unity in time of war, and thus these challenges quickly lost steam. McClellan's win would be certified when the electoral college met in December 1864, and McClellan was inaugurated on March 4, 1865. McClellan's election directly led to the Peace of Richmond, signed on May 21, 1865, which saw the reunification of the Confederate states into the Union under the guise of a constitutional amendment to protect the state's right to slavery in the former Confederate states. The Thirteenth Amendment, which set in place this protection, was officially ratified on November 4, 1865, officially re-unifying the United States of America.
 
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