Was gonna write a big thing about gender polarization for TNV, but okay.
President Tom Parrotstein (VA)Governor Emily Peebleton (NC)Governor Peebleton only applied for the North Carolina ballot as a joke, and won in an upset against President Parrotstein.
Anyway, here's what I had in mind for TNV: The Duality of Angry Woman
Congresswoman Marla T. Treasurer (R-MT) / Businessman Oswald Ramarhkrishnan (R-OR) (replacing Senator Xavier Treme (R-TN)) - 299/50.2%Governor Emily Peebleton (D-NC) / Senator Tom Parrotstein (D-VA) - 239/49.8%In a contested convention, Martin Treasurer was picked as the Republican nominee, and he picked Tea Party champion Xavier Treme. Peebleton won in a tough, yet decisive victory against Senator Corey Crane of Washington. She picked Senator Tom Parrotstein as her running mate.
Beyond that, it was an average election... until the debates. Peebleton was confronted about a rumor that had recently surfaced. A former neighbor mentioned in an interview that he knew the now-Governor Peebleton as a young
boy.
When she was about to confirm or deny the rumor, a woman named Ann Grey (nee Angerson) jumped onto the debate stage and castrated Treasurer, shouting "Heil Hassan, the Fuhrer of New Hampshire! The Reich of Angry Women will last for 78,779 years!" Her twin brother, Walter Heisenberg (again, ne Angerson), forced to take his wife's name, jumped on as well, shouting "Not if the Angry Men can help it! Sic semper trannies!" as he shot Peebleton.
From the hospital, Peebleton confirmed that she was indeed a trans woman, while Treasurer legally changed her gender and name to fit herself post-castration. Despite her previous remarks, this caused Treasurer to rise in polling of women.
Treme, believing that he had been running with a mentally ill (read: transgender) person this whole time, withdraws his name from the ticket, and is replaced by businessman Oswald Ramarhkrishnan by the RNC in spite of Treasurer's disavowal of his ""moderate" positions", in her own words.
By the end, polarization, the D next to Peebleton's name, and the Ds that used to be in both candidates' pants had combined to provide the map of a lifetime and the angriest victory speech in history.