The Yankee Commonwealth: 2017 Federal Election.

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Shaheen, but Klobucher sounds good too.

[America Needs R'hllor]

Voted PC, of course.

From the 1880’s to the 1960’s, what were the main differences between the major parties?

This was a collaborative project on AH.com, so the list of Prime Ministers and the party system is really out of whack. In fact, I actually replaced a random Socialist Party government led by Robert LaFollette (which seems nonsensical to me) with Theodore Roosevelt. 

The system was initially dominated by two major parties - the Liberals and the Conservatives. The Liberals were predominately supporters of free trade, abolitionism, etc. I have no idea why the original author choose to make Henry Clay a Liberal considering the fact that the Liberals are the successors of the Jeffersonite Whigs, and favor an empowered parliament in favor of an empowered monarch/Governor General.

By the way, I should at this point note that the alternate US here is basically part of the British Commonwealth, which means that Queen Elizabeth II is the head of state.

The Conservatives are the latter day heirs to the Tories, who took the place of the Federalists here. They were based around the principles of the American system, and favored a stronger central government until the Republican Revolts of the 1840s (which takes the place of the Civil War here), when they apparently shifted to a more skeptical approach to government. Beforehand, they were based in the south (leaders include John Calhoun, John Tyler, Lewis Cass) and were the party of the loyalists post independence.

Like I said, the American Commonwealth universe on AH.com is definitely an odd one, and the left-wing biases of the original writers made it even more unrealistic. But they did manage to touch upon almost every aspect of American life and how it differed in a "Canadian-ized" America.

I'm curious about how you'rr going to handle the upcoming progressive landslide in the reporting of the results

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A formula is necessary to ensure leftists don't win all the time. Thankfully Sanchez is using such a formula.

Another way that Lumine (and I when I did one of these series) used is moving the storyline in a way that splits the leftist vote by fracturing leftist parties. It can be quite effective.
In order to prevent Meretz from constantly winning in my Israeli series due to the fact that they're the only party popular with US leftists, I actually changed its name to Mapam. Worked like a charm