President Lex Luthor

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In 2000, DC Comics published a one-shot featuring an independent "Tomorrow Party" ticket of Businessman Lex Luthor and former Kansas Senator Pete Ross narrowly winning that year's presidential election against Bush and Gore. This came in the aftermath of the previous administration's extremely unpopular mishandling of the 1999 Gotham City earthquake, which saw the New Jersey city declared a "no man's land" isolated by a military blockade. By the time of the comic, the city was still trying to reintegrate with the country and recover from being carved up by gangs and supervillains.

Candidate Luthor's survival of an assassination attempt at a Metropolis rally, and diplomatic solution to a feud with the Atlantean king, boosted his popularity. Senator Ross's small town roots contrasted with Lex's big city mogul background and appealed to Midwest voters. The gist of Luthor's platform was that it promoted technological progress, and his first action as president was to take a proposed moratorium on fossil fuels to congress.

The president would later be removed from office in 2003 when it is revealed that he had prior knowledge of a 2001 alien invasion which saw Topeka, Kansas destroyed, that he had traded living weapon of mass destruction Doomsday to alien tyrant Darkseid for the technology to create a personal warsuit, and that he had been maddened by what was essentially super-steroids. Vice President Ross assumed the presidency for a time as the wanted fugitive ex-president fled, his company having been sold to Wayne Enterprises. Vice President Ross did not run for reelection in 2004. They made a guy named Johnathan Horne president after that (I think Ross wound up resigning before Luthor's term ended), but he was forgotten about later on, so you can ignore him.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to map out the 2000 and 2004 elections in-universe. Theoretically the EC would be very different due to all the fictional cities (like Metropolis' 11 million in northern Delaware), but for this scenario just go with the regular EV allocation.

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Ouch, I guess we got a bunch of Marvel fans in here.

[President of the great nation of 🏳️‍⚧️]

Call me when you've got President Danielle Tozer.

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2000

Vice President Al Gore (D-TN) / Senator Joe Lieberman (D-CT)
Governor George Bush (R-TX) / Fmr. Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney (R-WY)
Businessman Lex Luthor (T-DE) / Fmr. Senator Pete Ross (T-KS) ✔

2004

President John Horne (R-PA)* / Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS) ✔
Congresswoman Barbara Gordon (D-NJ) / Governor Tom Vilsack (D-IA)

*Speaker of the House before 2003, ascended to the presidency after the resignation of Presidents Luthor and Ross