Collaborative Election Timeline

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The premise of this is simple, you make a map and a write-up of the administration of the previous posters Presidential election victor.  It must be at least a paragraph to stop ye fools that would try to pass off a sentence and a half as a proper explanation.  It would be nice if you could include info on the most important players in the cabinet and world affairs.  A map is mandatory.  The game starts in 1944.

Go!

US Presidential Election, 1944

Thomas Dewey (R-NY) / Arthur Vandenburg (R-MI) (Republican) - 337 EVs
Harry Byrd (D-VA) / Walter Burgwyn Jones (D-AL) (States Rights Democratic) - 128 EVs
Henry Wallace (D-IA) / Alben Barkley (D-KY) - 76 EVs (Democratic)

Next person covers 1948.

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I forgot to say that you should only do four years.  You can set up reelection by having the candidate win, but you don't write their administration.

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Great posts!  Haslam, you could have written up the Dewey Administration from 1944-1948.

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President Humphrey's second term was considered much worse than his first.  Despite pressure from the Republicans and hawkish Democrats, Humphrey refused to authorize the deployment of US troops to French Indochina to fight the Communists there.  The fall of South Vietnam in 1958 galvanized public opinion.  Uprisings in Cuba the next year, followed by US deployment, which appeared unhelpful, gave the Republicans more support.  Humphrey refused to run for a third term.  His Vice President and Illinois Senator Adlai Stevenson battled.  Johnson aligned with conservative and hawkish Democrats while Stevenson represented the liberals.  Stevenson won the nomination on the 83rd ballot at the Convention.  Johnson was convinced to run under the Independent Democratic label.  They both faced Republican Senator Frederick A. Seaton, a moderate who leaned conservative.  Seaton portrayed Stevenson as an out-of-touch liberal in Humphrey's mold with Johnson attacked as a segregationist.  In November, Seaton won in a landslide.  The fate of the Independent Democrats, who had the endorsement of most Democratic candidates in the South in 1960, is to be seen.


US Presidential Election, 1960:

Senator Frederick A. Seaton (R-NE) / Senator Thurston B. Morris (R-KY) (Republican) - 378 EVs
Senator Adlai Stevenson (D-IL) / Governor Joseph P. Kennedy (D-MA) - 96 EVs(Democratic)
Vice President Lyndon Johnson (D-TX) / Senator Albert Gore (D-TN) (Independent Democratic) - 63 EVs

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Wesley Clark became the first Democratic President since 1989 when he won the 2004 election.  He withdrew US troops from many foreign engagements and doubled down on the financial sector.  Clark gained the support of the Democratic Party and Reform, which came under the rule of Trumpite protectionists.  In the midterms, the increasingly libertarian Republicans lost handily.  Disaster struck in January 2007 when Vice President Kerry was shot by a crazed sniper.  Kerry was in the hospital for twenty-five days, but stayed in office, but decided not to run for the Vice Presidency in 2008.  The Republicans nominated New Mexico Senator Gary Johnson, while Donald Trump won the Reform Primary.  President Clark, with a booming economy and the US out of foreign affairs, won reelection by a large margin.

US Presidential Election, 2008:

President Wesley Clark (D-AR) / Senator Paul Wellstone (D-MN) (Democratic) - 338 EVs
Former Vice President Donald Trump (Ref-NY) / Lt. Gov Walter Jones (Ref-NC) (Reform) - 200 EVs
Senator Gary Johnson (R-NM) / Businessman Charles Koch (R-TX) (Republican) - 0 EVs

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I suppose someone can do 2020 then we can start over at 1796.

The next time around, we should have it a lot less convergent.

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I suppose someone can do 2020 then we can start over at 1796.

The next time around, we should have it a lot less convergent.

I'm down with that

Alright.  I'll start it.

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1840 US Presidential Election

William Henry Harrison (W-OH) / John Tyler (W-VA) (Whig)
Martin van Buren (D-NY) / NONE (Democratic)

The 1840 election goes the same as it did in our world.  How will its effects be felt?