November: But then! But then. Timothy Dalton -- who the movie still wants us to pretend we don't yet know is our new Bond––he looks over, and who. do. we. see.
Devon (deadpan): It's fuckin' Alan Rickman, baby.
November: Yes! Alan––
Abigail (leaning away from microphone): Yippeekiyayy...
This is a possible issue that I think about every now and then: that if it ever looked like U.S. statehood for DC or (say) Puerto Rico might really happen, at some point people would start doing apportionment math to assess the relative potential impact to each major party. Presumably this would...
This is very impressive, and amazingly detailed! I think I love everything about this. The 1995 election even has Prior's Conservatives in a minority government with, I'm guessing, UUP?
I'm curious where the Democrats and Hope and Glory fit on an ideological spectrum? Are the Democrats sort of...
My own example was for POTUS since that's what I know the most trivia about, but I did want to keep it open to any political office people could think of :)
First: I'm grateful to everyone who's replied for replying; I'm usually just a lurker here, and it's really encouraging to see so many jumping in :)
Until I maybe think of anything better to add: Clay is additionally interesting because IOTL he ran with a real chance of winning so many times...
Grover Cleveland came back after just one term, and many others tried to do this. Martin Van Buren ran as a third-party candidate eight years after leaving office. What's the longest gap we can come up with?
My thought was that Jerry Brown could run and win in 1976, then lose in 1980 as Carter...
Hat's off (if I wore hats) to RySenkari and everyone else who contributed to this TL!! I've been following for years and have loved it :extremelyhappy: Thank you, thank you, all.
If this isn't too grabby an ask, I always wonder about preservation––is it possible to find the TL (or I guess...
I know I'm coming very late to this, but OP since shwi days often has fascinating and provocative ideas, obviously well-informed theoretically :) And so much of the present IOTL is contingent on the neoliberal turn, of course. So, if there's still interest I'd love to kick this around a little...
Speaking only for myself: the official red/blue scheme seems only to have solidified around, or maybe just after, the 2000 election. Both major parties' pre-2000s logos included red, white, and blue, for the obvious reason I guess. Before then I seem to recall blue associated with the Republican...
Early in I thought, for whatever reason, that this could be a list of presidents as reconstructed by one of the post-nuclear American kingdoms depicted in A Canticle For Leibowitz. With perhaps one of the virtuous late kings just before the Beast heavily hinted to be ancestor to the king...