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  1. 2018 Presidential Election

    Something I realized I hadn't done anything about since last October revealed to most Americans that there was a "speaker pro tempore" rule that had been adopted since 9/11. So here's TTL's most recent non-scheduled election for the other person who sits behind the President during States of...
  2. 2018 Presidential Election

    June. Yes, the Senate is still 51 Democrats to 49 Republicans. . Well, that and that Ashland was clearly losing it towards the end, to the point where Bartlet was warning him privately that all of the associate justices were prepared to wrestle control over the court away from him. I had...
  3. 2018 Presidential Election

    King claims "deep state actors" are giving conservative Supreme Court justices cancer Tuesday, May 21st, 2024 Congresswoman Patty King, who is challenging incumbent senator Charlie Forrester for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination in Georgia, claimed on social media that "deep state actors"...
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    BREAKING: Quincy announces cancer diagnosis, retirement from Court Monday, May 21st, 2024 Supreme Court Justice Joe Quincy has just announced that he will resign from the Supreme Court, effective upon the confirmation of his successor, after being diagnosed with advanced pancreatic cancer...
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    Disputed established Walken as a Vietnam vet years before I began contributing, so I have no idea if Goodman's role in The Big Lebowski factored into having Walken serve in 'Nam or if it was just Goodman/Walken being old enough to have served in Vietnam and the character seeming like someone who...
  6. 2018 Presidential Election

    Warnick defeats Rudden in Indiana primary Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 NBS can confirm that Indiana State Treasurer Todd Warnick has defeated former governor Emily Rudden in the Republican primary for the United States Senate race in Indiana. With 95% of the vote counted, Warnick is projected to...
  7. 2018 Presidential Election

    Tuesday, May 14th 2024 Agreement reached on new Israeli government that would rotate prime minister position Tel Aviv — An agreement has been reached to form a new government in Israel, one that would see the position of prime minister rotate halfway through the government's four year term...
  8. 2018 Presidential Election

    OOC: Yes, this is obviously based on Kristi "Cricket Had It Coming" Noem being a complete sociopath and expecting to be politically rewarded for it. It's important to point out, though, that Johnson didn't actually kill any cats, unlike Noem taking out any unfortunate pets and petting zoo...
  9. 2018 Presidential Election

    Tim Johnson in Qumar, 2016:
  10. 2018 Presidential Election

    Likely Republican Senate nominee claims he asked military superiors for permission to shoot feral cats in Qumar Friday, May 9th, 2024 Congressman Tim Johnson (R-FL), the likely Republican Senate nominee in Florida, attracted outrage after a video of a Thursday town hall was released where the...
  11. 2018 Presidential Election

    New page, new collection of gubernatorial maps. This time: the Santos era of state chief executive elections. -------------------------------------------------------------- Gubernatorial Election Maps (1985-2023) Reagan/Bush (1985-1986) • Newman (1987-1990) • Lassiter (1991-1998) • Bartlet...
  12. 2018 Presidential Election

    Senate confirms Schubert as Treasury Secretary Wednesday, May 1st, 2024 President of the New York Federal Reserve Bank Daniel Schubert was confirmed to be the nation's next Secretary of the Treasury by the United States Senate today, two months after he was nominated to the position by...
  13. 2018 Presidential Election

    Correct. The Constitution is the exact same in both OTL & TTL, so earlier contributors sensibly changed it to be that Willis was named a candidate by the local party for an effectively uncontested (IIRC) special election that was held quickly after his wife's death.
  14. 2018 Presidential Election

    Top Stories This Week Doron offers national unity government after Israeli election Tuesday, April 23rd, 2024 Israeli Prime Minister Gilad Doron formally offered to form a national unity government with his two main centrist rivals after a third general election in less than a year returned...
  15. 2018 Presidential Election

    Before I spend the next few days travelling, here are the gubernatorial maps of the show era (1999-2006) elections. A note that this is the only batch (AKA the most recent time ITTL) where an actual third party (not an independent) won a gubernatorial election (the Minnesota Independence Party...
  16. 2018 Presidential Election

    Monday, April 22nd 2024 Konanova wins re-election in Ukraine; Yuchenko concedes but calls for investigation into election conduct Kiev — President Nastia Konanova won a second five-year term as Ukraine president on Sunday, even as her opponent Yevgen Yurchenko has called for investigations...
  17. 2018 Presidential Election

    OOC: The Assault Weapons Ban (AWB) was established as having existed, since Leo quotes Bartlet mentioning it expiring in his second inaugural address in "365 Days". I'm guessing this was an oversight on the show's writers part because the RL Assault Weapons Ban expired in 2004, and Bartlet's...
  18. 2018 Presidential Election

    Senate passes gun control bill Tuesday, April 16th, 2024 The United States Senate today passed the Protect Our Communities Act (POCA), marking the first time in three decades that the upper chamber has passed a law amending federal gun control laws. "Every person in this country should be...
  19. 2018 Presidential Election

    Part III of the governor maps, covering most of the '90s -------------------------------------------------------------- Gubernatorial Election Maps (1985-2023) Reagan/Bush (1985-1986) • Newman (1987-1990) • Lassiter (1991-1998) • Bartlet (1999-2006) • Santos (2007-2010) • Walken (2011-2018) •...
  20. 2018 Presidential Election

    Part II of the governor maps -------------------------------------------------------------- Gubernatorial Election Maps (1985-2023) Reagan/Bush (1985-1986) • Newman (1987-1990) • Lassiter (1991-1998) • Bartlet (1999-2006) • Santos (2007-2010) • Walken (2011-2018) • Seaborn (2019-2023)...
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