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Alternate 2016: The electoral college has been abolished and a majority is required to win. Trump drops out of the Republican nomination and runs as an Independent. When Webb loses the nomination, he runs as an Independent as well. Sanders does the same, forming the new Progressive party. Bloomberg enters the race and surprisingly Johnson places last.

Round 2: Haley is 10.5% short of a majority. To ensure Haley could hypothetically reach a majority next time, the bottom four candidates are eliminated bringing the freed up vote to 11.7%. And then there were three.

Round 3: Sanders outdoes Clinton and makes it into the runoff.

I guess you altered an existing scenario to create this?

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The 2020 Election in The World Turned Upside Down

President Donald Trump/Secretary of State Michael Pence: 36.09%, 476 electoral votes.
Senator Mitt Romney/Vice President Tim Kaine: 31.90%, 62 electoral votes
Senator Elizabeth Warren/Senator Tammy Baldwin: 32.02%, 0 electoral votes
Anybody want to guess what happened here?

In 2016, the electoral college is tied. The Republican House selects Trump, the Democratic Senate selects Kaine. Trump chooses his running mate as Secretary of State as compensation. In 2020, Senator Mitt Romney declares an independent campaign and is joined by the Vice President, who adds an even higher profile to the ticket. The dems nominate Progressives Warren and Baldwin, who alienate many moderates who go for Romney. Many independents and moderate Republicans vote for Romney as well (though more dems than reps) and it results in a three-way split, with Trump gathering his loyal base, as well as most evangelicals and strong conservatives, resulting in a weak plurality but a huge electoral college victory.
Obviously though, you way underestimated the democrats. Trump would never win D.C. or Massachussetts in this scenario, and Warren would likely win the pacific coast, Hawaii and most of the northeast at the very least.

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Something completely random that I thought could interest at least someone here.



A short explanation: me and a few friends from abroad have long been writing buddies, and about a year ago we created our own world, first with one continent, and each of us made his own unique nation(s) with complex and different cultural characteristics. Mine is Kedumia, an island nation which already started fairly progressive in the medieval setting we first wrote in. Women were almost equal even back then (think Dorne in asoiaf), and while there obviously weren't any lgbt rights, there was a certain tolerance of it (think ancient Greece). Now, we decided to write in modern settings, which could be equated to WW1 in our world, so I finally got the chance to write some politics.

Basically the Kedumian electoral system resembles a mash of Britain and Israel, with a King (titled "Nasie"- posters with some Hebrew knowledge will understand why) as a figurehead and a Prime Minister leading the government. The Kedumian Senate has 330 seats- 110 are constituency seats, which you can see in this map, and 220 are distributed through a national vote to party lists.
Here are the full election results:

Results of the Parliamentary Election, 2938 AU
Liberal Party- 101 Seats (77 National, 24 Constituency)
Conservative Party- 81 Seats (60 National, 21 Constituency)
Social Democratic Party- 54 Seats (37 National, 17 Constituency)
Traditionalist Party- 26 Seats (15 National, 11 Constituency)
Mountain and Sea Party- 24 Seats (15 National, 9 Constituency)
Birathari Heritage Party- 15 Seats (1 National, 14 Constituency)
Socialist Worker’s Party-13 Seats (8 National, 5 Constituency)
Ryvog’s Frontier Party- 11 Seats (2 National, 9 Constituency)
People’s National Front Party- 5 Seats (5 National, 0 Constituency)

The Coalition:
Liberal Party (101 Seats) + Social Democratic Party (54 Seats) + Mountain and Sea Party (24 Seats) = 179 SEATS

The Opposition:
Conservative Party (81 Seats) + Traditionalist Party (26 Seats) + Birathari Heritage Party (15 Seats) + Socialist Worker’s Party (13 Seats) + Ryvog’s Frontier Party (11 Seats) + People’s National Front Party (5 Seats) = 151 SEATS

If there's any demand, I'd be glad to expand on the parties, their platforms and the meanings, other elections etc.

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If there's any demand, I'd be glad to expand on the parties, their platforms and the meanings, other elections etc.

please do.

Liberal Party: Economically centrist (a small tilt left as of 2938 AU), socially liberal (though falling short of endorsing same-sex marriage), for the status-quo when it comes to monarchy.
Conservative Party: Economically right-wing, socially center-right. Fairly supportive of monarchy, but also for the status-quo.
Social Democratic Party: Economically left-wing, socially center-left. They've been a mid-size party (around the same size as the Green and Traditionalist parties) for years but has recently been gaining strength, and under its current leader, a promising female politician in her 40s, managed to do very well in the last election.
Traditionalist Party: Your friendly neighbourhood monarchists. Economically right-wing (even more than the Conservatives) and socially center-right (a bit to the left of conservatives), they support increasing the authority of the royal family (House Palamis), but are still for the current system of constitutional monarcy (other than a few fringe, extrme elements).
Mountain and Sea Party- economically center-left and socially left (even more than the Liberals), staunch environmentalists. In a marine nation that treasures the sea like Kedumia, they manage to gain quite a lot of popularity in the coasts because of their opposition to offshore drilling and their call for preserving the sea, as well as in the Birathari Mountains (the two inland seats you see for them in the biggest island), where coal and iron mining are frustrating the Mountainsfolk, whose culture treasures nature.
Birathari Heritage Party: The resident sectorial party for the Mountainsfolk. Their views are loosely economically center-left and socially center-right, but they concentrate on Birathari interests- they try to combine environmentalism to supporting the creation of jobs and paying more federal funds to the Birathari for their "huge contribution in natural sources".
Socialist Worker's Party: Pretty obvious- the commies. Economically far-left and socially conservative. Because Kedumia is a fairly rich nation, the biggest economic power in the world, they aren't managing to gain much traction, save for some rural areas in Pach Isle, the poorest island (the one where you can see them holding 4 seats). A different (more extreme) communist party swept the Birathari Mountains about three decades ago, because the Mountainsfolk were noteably poorer and felt their natural sources were being exploited, and managed to create a revolution there, which took more than a decade to put down, until it was finally defeated by a Conservative Prime Minister. Due to that, the Socialist Worker's Party is unable to contest any seats in the Mountains.
Ryvog's Frontier Party: Another sectorial party. The people of Sharamis (the city in the northeastern tip of the eastern island, Seadrak), and to a lesser extent of that whole island, were very independent-minded and... different for centuries, and thus have a party to represent their own interests. Their patron god is Ryvog, the god of Fire and Riches, whose tone is darker than that of the other gods in the Kedumian pantheon. The people of Sharamis are especially tolerant of magic (yes, this is a low-fantasy world) which is despised by the rest of Kedumians in an almost racist fervour, so the people of this city prefer as little government intevention as possible. Due to that, this party is socially libertarian and economically hard-right (though they do support disaster relief funds to their island, which has a huge, holy volcano, Tartakon, in its middle).
People's National Front: The resident far-right fascist party. Economically center-right and socially far-right, they're populist and authoritarian, but are unable to gain much strength in a progressive nation like Kedumia, especially with fascist regimes rising throughout Viscordia (the name of the main continent) and a looming war with them.

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I tried to imagine a scenario where a Democrat could win all 50 states in modern times, and this is what I came up with:

Hillary Clinton (D-NY)/Evan Bayh (D-IN) 72.9% Popular Vote 537 EV
David Duke (R-LA)/Steve King (R-IA) 25.7% Popular Vote 1 EV

I don't think "corporatists" like Clinton and Bayh are the right fit for this scenario. I'd say that Doug Jones at the top of the ticket would be the likeliest candidate to have such a widespread appeal.

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2018 election

Republican Party, Leader Barack Obama of Illinois (Leader since 2007)
Progressive-Conservative Party, Leader Mark Warner of Virginia (since 2010)
Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, Leader Eric Greitens of Missouri (since 2016)
Justice Party, Leader Hilda Solís of California (since 2008)
Silver Party, Leader Paulette Jordan of Idaho (since 2018)

Bold: Members of the Government coalition
White: Not in the Union

Interesting. So with Warner as the conservative leader of the country, we have a much more left-wing America?

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Demslide

Jesus Christ/Ghandi (D) vs. Adolf Hitler/Satan (R)?

Ghandi has way too much terrible baggage and Jesus would be very unhinged. I'd say Doug Jones/Conor Lamb (D) vs the R ticket you mentioned

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Back on topic, here's this thing


This is the electoral college of the United States after a census a few centuries from now. As you can see, a few things have changed.

Interesting. Dat Alaska. Any party leanings?

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2016 if we lived in a functioning Democracy:

I believe you misspelled "despotic dictatorship"