This is the 2052 Electoral Map-What happened?

[PRESIDENT STANTON II]

This an election map from the future, let's say 2052, 100 years since Eisenhower's election, after eight years of Democratic control of the White House, Republicans select as their nominee, a former Secretary of State from the previous Republican administration. What has happened with the electoral map?

[PRESIDENT STANTON II]

[Blow by blow, the passion dies]

Republicans become a protectionist party which is fiscally and socially moderate, focusing on economics.

The Democratic administration had gone poorly in their second term.

[PRESIDENT STANTON II]

That is an good description, the Democrats are likely infected with that sense of hubris in the aftermath of big electoral victory and Republicans are exploiting that sense of disconnect and will likely exploit this to their electoral advantage four years in the future. They just need the right candidate who can deliver the message and the individual in question, emerges from left-field, a Trump like figure, but minus the narcisstic tendencies; more intelligent and coherent. And as 2052 can claim that he or she is not part of the mess or drift that is besetting the incumbent Democratic administration.
Or Perhaps the incumbent President, a Democrat faces a more dynamic Republican nominee, perhaps the same guy who ultimately wins in 2052.

[PRESIDENT STANTON II]

The wheels come off for the Republican party. After 12 years of controlling the Executive Branch, the one-term president, formerly a two-term Vice President, was elected in 2040 but possesses neither the vision nor staying power and by 2044, he faces a charismatic woman, from Texas and loses the battle to retain the presidency, let's say this is the outcome.

[PRESIDENT STANTON II]

This is the 2040 election, a sort of redux of 1988, a two-term Vice President, from Florida, hopes that three times will be a charm. His strongest argument is experience, plus peace and prosperity and the identity of the Democratic nominee, a Latino Governor of Nevada, the Vice President select as his running mate, an attractive Senator from Nevada. With the support of the popular outgoing two-term President, the Republicans hold the White House for another four years.

Note: The new President unwittingly has selected a future president, by selecting a well regarded Senator from Texas, as U.S. Secretary of State.

[PRESIDENT STANTON II]

The Republicans hold the White House for another four years, the incumbent President faces an out-of-touch liberal, Governor from Massachusetts, who is demonized as a leftist, and because he is identified to be progressive, the labels stick and the Republicans hold the White House in a 44-state landslide.

[PRESIDENT STANTON II]

After 16 years of controlling the White House, Democrats are fatigued and the Republicans are able to coalesce around a charismatic veteran Senator from Virginia, of Hispanic extraction. He was his party's Vice Presidential nominee, 16 years before and his appeal is that his message of inclusiveness and Reaganite positivity has cache and appeal. The Democrats' nominee, is the sitting two-term Vice President, but she's confronted with accusations of elitism and of being out of touch and her electoral defeat is convincing, so much so, that even her home state of New Jersey votes for her challenger.

[PRESIDENT STANTON II]

The Democrats hold the White House for a fourth consecutive time, and the incumbent President benefits from the twin advantages of incumbency, reasonable popularity and experience, even if his Republican opponent, a former Secretary of Defense and retired two-term Senator from Nebraska has commendable strengths. It would be another 16 years before Democrats win a presidential contest.

[PRESIDENT STANTON II]

After eight years in control of the White House, the popular two-term president was ineligible under the 22nd Amendment to seek the Presidency again. So the Democrats selected as their party's presidential nominee, the incumbent Vice President. After serving a single term, and prior to the Vice Presidency had served as Governor of Virginia and previously before that as Speaker of the House. The Republicans selected the attractive Governor of Ohio as their standard bearer. The outcome was another victory at the Presidential level for the Democrats.

Note: The outgoing President, would subsequently serve as U.S. Secretary of State under his successor, while the outgoing First Lady, would be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas (an echo of Hillary Clinton, but more likeable) and would twenty years later win the Presidency in her own right.

[PRESIDENT STANTON II]

In the 2020 President Election (using the Holland Scenario model, map, popular vote majority and percentages), the popular young President minus his Vice President who dies under mysterious circumstances, is seeking re-election to a second term as the nation's 45th President (he was elected as the nation's youngest Chief Executive at only 35 years old!). He selects as his new running mate, an equally attractive Governor of Virginia, and they face the Republican nominee, a Senator from Montana, who is a rock-ribbed conservative, who has embraced QAnon and refers to the media as "fake news", and has embraced extreme right-wing and nationalist elements, his inflammatory remarks in the wake of the infamous 2017 Charlottesville riots, marks him as the most toxic member of his party. He has voted against the President's popular criminal justice reform act. His running mate is a moderate Congressman from the President's home state of Connecticut. The president's second wife (he was widowed ten months after assuming the Presidency in 2017), is a popular first lady and her parentage (her father once was President, who died on 9/11). The President is regarded more as a centrist, than liberal, but still appeals to the Progressive elements within the Democratic party, capably mouthing nuanced platitudes.
The Democrats retain the White House in a 49-state landslide, winning 66.1% to 32.1% for his opponent. Winning 90,571,82 votes to 44,502,030, a 46,069,352 vote majority. The president's extensive coat-tails, ensure that his victory won't be a "lonely landslide", as he has very generous coat-tails, meaning Democrats recapture the House of Representatives. His victory is compared to that of FDR's 1936 and LBJ's 1964 victories.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Oh look, 7 electoral votes. One for each day of the week. What a...week...performance.

[PRESIDENT STANTON]

Oh look, 7 electoral votes. One for each day of the week. What a...week...performance.

If one is going to criticize, one shouldn't do so with weak spelling! Go back to school and learn how to spell Gomer! Is that all you can do regarding contributing? Make idiotic and weak comments? Paleeze! Already 🙄 besides I haven't finished my post! But some people have to work!

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Oh look, 7 electoral votes. One for each day of the week. What a...week...performance.

If one is going to criticize, one shouldn't do so with weak spelling! Go back to school and learn how to spell Gomer! Is that all you can do regarding contributing? Make idiotic and weak comments? Paleeze! Already 🙄 besides I haven't finished my post! But some people have to work!

I was mocking the GOP candidate's performance and making a pun at the same time. Your posts here are nice to see, and you should keep doing, and refine, what you are doing. This is a nice thread.

[PRESIDENT STANTON]

My sincerest apologies! My sense of humor, needs some working! Anyway regarding the 2020 map, it's set in an alternative time line (ATL) where there's no Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and certainly no Donald Trump! There's no Covid-19 pandemic; but there is a BLM, due to the endemic racism within the police; cancel culture is a problem and because of the reaction to the attempt to removal of a confederate statue in Charlottesville in Virginia, there was a riot that led to the deaths of protests. The Republican that runs in 2020, I am calling him George Keith, "state's that "there were many fine people on both side's". The young President at the time, I call him James Alexander is able to demonize Keith. He has the empathy of a Bill Clinton, the good looks of the actor Greg Kinnear, the abilities and charisma of Barack Obama and "campaigns in poetry", makes good speeches.  Anyway the storyline will be fleshed out over the coming weeks or months.