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Hitler vs Stalin
I recently found out there are politicians in India named Hitler and Stalin and I couldn't resist making this wikibox.
I recently found out there are politicians in India named Hitler and Stalin and I couldn't resist making this wikibox.
The least believable thing about that is that there's only two parties.
The percentages and seats don’t add up, so I assume there’s more. Although the only logical government is a Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
The President of the Great British Commonwealth
The President of the Great British Commonwealth is the head of state of Great Britain and the Commander-in-chief of the Great British Military.
The President holds office for eight years and can only be elected for a single term. The House of Commons Nominates at least five people over the age of 25 years and The President is directly elected by the people with the alternative vote. The presidency is largely a ceremonial office, but the President does exercise certain limited powers with absolute discretion. The President acts as a representative of the Great Britain and as the guardian of every Basic Law of the Commonwealth's Institutions. The President's official residence is 1 Downing Street, London; which was reconstructed in 2000. The office was established by the Basic Laws of the Presidency after the republican plebiscite of 1998 which abolished the Monarch as sovereign, the first president took office on the 1 August 1999,
The current President is Jeremy Ashdown, who was elected on 13 June 2015. His inauguration was held on 2 August 2015. President Ashdown is a popular progressive liberal politician and world peace campaigner. He had served in House of Commons for Yeovil until 2002 as a member of the Social Democratic Party.
The President of the Great British Commonwealth is the head of state of Great Britain and the Commander-in-chief of the Great British Military.
The President holds office for eight years and can only be elected for a single term. The House of Commons Nominates at least five people over the age of 25 years and The President is directly elected by the people with the alternative vote. The presidency is largely a ceremonial office, but the President does exercise certain limited powers with absolute discretion. The President acts as a representative of the Great Britain and as the guardian of every Basic Law of the Commonwealth's Institutions. The President's official residence is 1 Downing Street, London; which was reconstructed in 2000. The office was established by the Basic Laws of the Presidency after the republican plebiscite of 1998 which abolished the Monarch as sovereign, the first president took office on the 1 August 1999,
The current President is Jeremy Ashdown, who was elected on 13 June 2015. His inauguration was held on 2 August 2015. President Ashdown is a popular progressive liberal politician and world peace campaigner. He had served in House of Commons for Yeovil until 2002 as a member of the Social Democratic Party.
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I've been thinking about restarting my D'Hondte Presidential Election series. I've stored what I have done in my Junk Drawer starting here, and previously had 1828 to 1860 done. I redid 1860 below as I was at the time using the numbers for the incoming Congress rather than the outgoing Congress, and I also came to different conclusions as to how the various delegations would vote in the House. I'll always post a link to the 1828 election at the top in the future so that you can access the index from there, but I won't be attaching an index at the bottom anymore as I did in the past; it would get obnoxiously long after a certain point.
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Presidential Elections (Jeffersonian Method) - Part IX (1860)
Regarding the election itself, there isn't much to say that most wouldn't already know. Abraham Lincoln did not carry a majority of the electors, or come particularly close for that matter, with Douglas being the major beneficiary except in those States where fusion slates were put together. There was some initial concern that Douglas would still not clear the threshold and pass Bell because of said fusion slates, but the Unionists under-performed in the South compared to how well Douglas did in the North; indeed, had Bell managed to carry Missouri then he would have been (2) electors shy of surpassing Douglas.
As for the fusion slates themselves, I calculated how the fusion slates were divided by multiplying for the proportion of electors each candidate had pledged on that slate. For instance, the New York slate had (18) electors who were to be pledged to Douglas out of (35), or(51.428....%). The slate itself managed to win (15) electors, so I applied that same multiplier and, when accounting for rounding, ended up with (8) electors for Douglas.
So the election predictably gets thrown into the House and Senate, which is where things get interesting.
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The election in the Senate is fairly open and shut as the Democrats have a massive advantage (38-26-2), and Joseph Lane would be able to lose five Democratic votes to Hannibal Hamlin and still win selection with Breckinridges support, (34-33) . There is a problem in determining exactly where any defectors would come from, as the Democratic split was very real, and there were a lot of Democrats and Unionists in the House who were willing to abstain rather than vote for Breckinridge given the platform he ran under, the conduct of the campaign, so on and so forth. I tried to the best of my ability draw up a map illustrating the division.
Dark Green are those States which had two Democratic Senators which would have definitively vote for Lane as far as I could determine, and the Light Green are those were the single Democratic Senator would likely have voted in favor of Lane. The remainder are question marks, in that it becomes harder to determine. Darker shades of Red are those with two Democratic Senators, lighter shades are those with only one Democratic Senator.
In the case of Indiana, I would fully expect Jesse Bright to vote for Lane, leaving the questionable loyalty to Graham Fitch, which leaves the number of potential defections at five, which wouldn't be enough to prevent Lane's election. Of those, the only one I am certain would defect would be George Pugh of Ohio, who by that was wholly opposed to most of what Breckinridge and Lane stood for. Stephen Douglas likely wouldn't have defected, but I figured I'd mark him as questionable regardless.
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The election in the House is less clean cut, and much of it comes to, again, the bad blood that resulted from the Democratic Conventions and the Presidential Campaign between the Constitutional (Southern) Democrats and the (Northern) Democrats. Many of the Americans/Opposition members of Congress are also going to be strongly in favor of Douglas given he was running on more platform more in line with their views, though not all of them. The delegations according to a piece in the New York Times were lined up as follows.
Blue are those favorable to Lincoln, Green to Breckinridge, Red to Douglas, Yellow to Bell. In the case of Arkansas, the delegation was equally divided between a Breckinridge Democrat and a Douglas Democrat. In the cases of Kentucky, Virginia and Maryland, the delegations were equally divided between American/Opposition Congressmen and Democrats. No one has a majority, with Lincoln the closest at (17), with Breckinridge following behind at (12).
Now, if we take Bell out of the running, I fully expect that the delegations would vote as follows:
Douglas picks up (2), Breckinridge picks up (2).
The problem from this point however is that, because Lane will become Acting President, there is no incentive for Southerners to break and support Douglas, and they also realize that those who support Douglas are in a pickle as few if any of them are willing to help swing their delegations to Lincoln. It has also been brought up on occasion that Stephen Douglas planned on withdrawing his name from contention so as to endorse Breckinridge should such a deadlock occur, but I personally don't believe it would have any major effect on the results; his name would still be presented, and I can't believe that many would willingly follow his lead in endorsing Breckinridge. Illinois for example would almost certainly flip to Lincoln as Democratic Rep. John Logan would have refused to do so, John Brown of Kentucky may well have opted to still cast his vote for Douglas.
After much thought, I came to the following conclusion:
Few of those that may have voted for Douglas would have favored Lincoln, and there is nothing forcing them to vote; many may well have just abstained in protest to Breckinridge but in deference to Douglas's wishes, which would have still allowed Breckinridge to capture the remaining delegations minus Illinois. Had the new incoming Congress been the one to run the election in the House, the addition of George P. Fisher of Delaware, as well as the defection George T. Cobb in New Jersey, would have resulted in the election of Abraham Lincoln instead.
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Presidential Elections (Jeffersonian Method) - Part IX (1860)
Regarding the election itself, there isn't much to say that most wouldn't already know. Abraham Lincoln did not carry a majority of the electors, or come particularly close for that matter, with Douglas being the major beneficiary except in those States where fusion slates were put together. There was some initial concern that Douglas would still not clear the threshold and pass Bell because of said fusion slates, but the Unionists under-performed in the South compared to how well Douglas did in the North; indeed, had Bell managed to carry Missouri then he would have been (2) electors shy of surpassing Douglas.
As for the fusion slates themselves, I calculated how the fusion slates were divided by multiplying for the proportion of electors each candidate had pledged on that slate. For instance, the New York slate had (18) electors who were to be pledged to Douglas out of (35), or(51.428....%). The slate itself managed to win (15) electors, so I applied that same multiplier and, when accounting for rounding, ended up with (8) electors for Douglas.
So the election predictably gets thrown into the House and Senate, which is where things get interesting.
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The election in the Senate is fairly open and shut as the Democrats have a massive advantage (38-26-2), and Joseph Lane would be able to lose five Democratic votes to Hannibal Hamlin and still win selection with Breckinridges support, (34-33) . There is a problem in determining exactly where any defectors would come from, as the Democratic split was very real, and there were a lot of Democrats and Unionists in the House who were willing to abstain rather than vote for Breckinridge given the platform he ran under, the conduct of the campaign, so on and so forth. I tried to the best of my ability draw up a map illustrating the division.
Dark Green are those States which had two Democratic Senators which would have definitively vote for Lane as far as I could determine, and the Light Green are those were the single Democratic Senator would likely have voted in favor of Lane. The remainder are question marks, in that it becomes harder to determine. Darker shades of Red are those with two Democratic Senators, lighter shades are those with only one Democratic Senator.
In the case of Indiana, I would fully expect Jesse Bright to vote for Lane, leaving the questionable loyalty to Graham Fitch, which leaves the number of potential defections at five, which wouldn't be enough to prevent Lane's election. Of those, the only one I am certain would defect would be George Pugh of Ohio, who by that was wholly opposed to most of what Breckinridge and Lane stood for. Stephen Douglas likely wouldn't have defected, but I figured I'd mark him as questionable regardless.
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The election in the House is less clean cut, and much of it comes to, again, the bad blood that resulted from the Democratic Conventions and the Presidential Campaign between the Constitutional (Southern) Democrats and the (Northern) Democrats. Many of the Americans/Opposition members of Congress are also going to be strongly in favor of Douglas given he was running on more platform more in line with their views, though not all of them. The delegations according to a piece in the New York Times were lined up as follows.
Blue are those favorable to Lincoln, Green to Breckinridge, Red to Douglas, Yellow to Bell. In the case of Arkansas, the delegation was equally divided between a Breckinridge Democrat and a Douglas Democrat. In the cases of Kentucky, Virginia and Maryland, the delegations were equally divided between American/Opposition Congressmen and Democrats. No one has a majority, with Lincoln the closest at (17), with Breckinridge following behind at (12).
Now, if we take Bell out of the running, I fully expect that the delegations would vote as follows:
Douglas picks up (2), Breckinridge picks up (2).
The problem from this point however is that, because Lane will become Acting President, there is no incentive for Southerners to break and support Douglas, and they also realize that those who support Douglas are in a pickle as few if any of them are willing to help swing their delegations to Lincoln. It has also been brought up on occasion that Stephen Douglas planned on withdrawing his name from contention so as to endorse Breckinridge should such a deadlock occur, but I personally don't believe it would have any major effect on the results; his name would still be presented, and I can't believe that many would willingly follow his lead in endorsing Breckinridge. Illinois for example would almost certainly flip to Lincoln as Democratic Rep. John Logan would have refused to do so, John Brown of Kentucky may well have opted to still cast his vote for Douglas.
After much thought, I came to the following conclusion:
Few of those that may have voted for Douglas would have favored Lincoln, and there is nothing forcing them to vote; many may well have just abstained in protest to Breckinridge but in deference to Douglas's wishes, which would have still allowed Breckinridge to capture the remaining delegations minus Illinois. Had the new incoming Congress been the one to run the election in the House, the addition of George P. Fisher of Delaware, as well as the defection George T. Cobb in New Jersey, would have resulted in the election of Abraham Lincoln instead.
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The United States presidential election, 2004 was held on November 2, 2004 to determine the President of the United States. Incumbent President John Rowland of the Liberal Republican Party won re-election through winning the Electoral Vote, despite losing the Popular Vote, which he had also lost in the 2000 presidential election. He defeated Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone of the Progressive-Farmer-Labor Party. John Breaux of the Movement for Acadia was able to capture the states of Île-Royale and Prince-Jean, the first electoral votes ever won by the advocacy party.
The election was considered a toss-up due to the country's sluggish economy and unpopular support for the Texan Intervention in Mexico, which at that time it had been discovered that the Texans began the war on false pretenses, and that they had deceived the United States of their true intentions. Despite this, President Rowland maintained committed to the war effort, drawing a lot of fire from the PFL caucus in the House of Representatives. The President was also under siege from his own party, where Conservatives believed he was not far enough to the right. In early 2004, the American Alliance was formed to act as this right-wing alternative to the Liberal Republicans. They rallied around former Congressman Pat Buchanan and ran a slate of candidates for the United States House in many of the western states. While the American Alliance was only able to capture 1.8% of the vote, several of their candidates won election to the House of Representatives, becoming the third largest party behind the Liberal Republicans and ahead of the Movement for Acadia.
The election was considered an upset, with Rowland winning the battleground state of Quebec by only 514 votes, which led to an extensive recount effort. Likewise, he also won Pennsylvania by only 4,086 votes. Senator Wellstone was going to contest several of the results, and was going to contest the results in Illinois. However, during his plane ride from Washington, D.C. to Chicago his campaign plane lost an engine and crashed in central Ohio, killing the Senator and his family members. PFL Vice Presidential Nominee Bob Clement then decided against contesting the election, not wanting to be seen trying to sue his way into the Presidency. John Rowland was sworn in for his second term on January 20th, 2005.
To Be Continued?...
The election was considered a toss-up due to the country's sluggish economy and unpopular support for the Texan Intervention in Mexico, which at that time it had been discovered that the Texans began the war on false pretenses, and that they had deceived the United States of their true intentions. Despite this, President Rowland maintained committed to the war effort, drawing a lot of fire from the PFL caucus in the House of Representatives. The President was also under siege from his own party, where Conservatives believed he was not far enough to the right. In early 2004, the American Alliance was formed to act as this right-wing alternative to the Liberal Republicans. They rallied around former Congressman Pat Buchanan and ran a slate of candidates for the United States House in many of the western states. While the American Alliance was only able to capture 1.8% of the vote, several of their candidates won election to the House of Representatives, becoming the third largest party behind the Liberal Republicans and ahead of the Movement for Acadia.
The election was considered an upset, with Rowland winning the battleground state of Quebec by only 514 votes, which led to an extensive recount effort. Likewise, he also won Pennsylvania by only 4,086 votes. Senator Wellstone was going to contest several of the results, and was going to contest the results in Illinois. However, during his plane ride from Washington, D.C. to Chicago his campaign plane lost an engine and crashed in central Ohio, killing the Senator and his family members. PFL Vice Presidential Nominee Bob Clement then decided against contesting the election, not wanting to be seen trying to sue his way into the Presidency. John Rowland was sworn in for his second term on January 20th, 2005.
To Be Continued?...
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Part 1 of a ridiculous 4-part saga.
With the success of the American Progressive Party in the 2008 and 2012 Presidential Elections (in addition to a slew of Congressional, Gubernatorial and state legislative elections), disaffected conservatives unwilling to accept the increasing centrism of the Democratic Party desperately sought an alternative. Yet, in the early days of the Patriotic Conservative Party, the far-right brainchild of two-time Presidential candidate Pat Buchanan and a number of associated activists, few considered them to be much more than a protest vote. They had lost rather decisively in 2012 (the first election in which they had run a candidate), running controversial business mogul Herman Cain of Georgia against incumbent APP President Barack Obama, and despite gains made in the 2016 Election with FOX News personality Sean Hannity as their candidate, seemed unable to capture the White House. That was, however, until the rise of Allen West. West was among one of the earliest beneficiaries of the Democratic/Progressive split, serving as a Congressman from Florida for eight years in a district which would have normally been a Safe-D. Although considered by many to have been as controversial as Herman Cain, West's experience in government gave him distinct advantages which his predecessors had lacked; a formal understanding of governmental functions, personal relationships with a number of fellow far-right Congressmen, and perhaps most importantly, a sense of poise that allowed his message to resonate with a larger group of voters. West's military credentials, having served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the US Army, also played to his advantage during a time of increased US military involvement around the globe. Despite his having been discharged from the military over accusations of having tortured an Iraqi policeman, many saw this not as a negative, but a positive; the War on Terror was, in their view, one that could not be fought neatly. Running on a promise to defeat Radical Islam worldwide, to reform a corrupt civil service (a perception exacerbated by investigations into then-Vice President Andrew Cuomo's alleged accepting of millions of dollars in bribes), and to "Make America Great Again", West sailed to the PC party's nomination with no real opposition. In an apparent nod to the Hannity-wing of the party, West selected popular political personality Glenn Beck as his running mate.
At the time of West's nomination, few (if any) believed that he had a real chance at the Presidency. Much of the mainstream media, which West derided as being "enemies of free thought", believed that Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown, of the APP, would be the winner of a close election in 2020. Democratic President Nikki Haley, the first Democrat to recapture the White House since Bill Clinton in 1996, had faced months of scrutiny over her VP's numerous scandals, and had infuriated what little remained of her party's liberal wing by tilting further to the right in an attempt to capture some small percentage of PCP voters. Ultimately, in an election which stunned the nation, the West-Beck ticket triumphed taking the bare minimum number EC votes, 270, while losing the popular vote. Despite uproar from members of the APP nation wide, Allen West was sworn in as President the following January, having become the 2nd African American President, and the first from the still young Patriotic Conservative Party.
On the whole, President West's term was rather uneventful. With an uncooperative Congress at best, and one which adamantly opposed him at worst, the far-right ideologue found himself routinely utilizing executive orders (a practice which he had previously criticized President Haley for) in order to chart a new course for the nation. When confronted on this issue by members of the media, West claimed that "Until, or unless, the Democrats reclaim their sanity and choose to stand with the American people, instead of a fringe party made up of Socialist lunatics, I have no choice but to work around them. I am the duly elected President of the United States, and I will continue to implement the agenda on which I was elected. Period." However, even lacking Congressional support, West escalated the War on Terror by sending troops to combat Muslim insurgents across the world, including those in the Philippines, Syria, and Iran. As the war fell in popularity, so too did the President's standing in the polls. Having all but ignored the domestic front, his chances of reelection nearing the 2024 Election seemed near zero; and while they would ultimately drop to actually being zero, fate seemed to have other ideas for the PCP at large.
With less than two weeks before the election, President West sought to energize his base in many of the most important swing states. At a rally in Columbus, Ohio, the President spoke about his alleged successes in combating Radical Islam worldwide, and warned the American people that his opponents, Democratic Nominee Governor Cory Booker of New Jersey, and APP Nominee Senator Chelsea Rodham of Illinois, would not be "up to completing the mission." It was, at that moment, that fate intervened; Abdul Rasul, an American-born Filipino Nationalist, and supporter of the Moro Muslim rebels in his ancestral home, shot and killed the President (alongside one Secret Service agent, who had attempted to disarm Rasul) as he descended the stage. Within minutes, the President died of blood loss. Vice President Glenn Beck, then visiting his hometown of Everett, Washington, was immediately returned to D.C. and sworn in as the 48th President of the United States.
At the time of West's nomination, few (if any) believed that he had a real chance at the Presidency. Much of the mainstream media, which West derided as being "enemies of free thought", believed that Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown, of the APP, would be the winner of a close election in 2020. Democratic President Nikki Haley, the first Democrat to recapture the White House since Bill Clinton in 1996, had faced months of scrutiny over her VP's numerous scandals, and had infuriated what little remained of her party's liberal wing by tilting further to the right in an attempt to capture some small percentage of PCP voters. Ultimately, in an election which stunned the nation, the West-Beck ticket triumphed taking the bare minimum number EC votes, 270, while losing the popular vote. Despite uproar from members of the APP nation wide, Allen West was sworn in as President the following January, having become the 2nd African American President, and the first from the still young Patriotic Conservative Party.
On the whole, President West's term was rather uneventful. With an uncooperative Congress at best, and one which adamantly opposed him at worst, the far-right ideologue found himself routinely utilizing executive orders (a practice which he had previously criticized President Haley for) in order to chart a new course for the nation. When confronted on this issue by members of the media, West claimed that "Until, or unless, the Democrats reclaim their sanity and choose to stand with the American people, instead of a fringe party made up of Socialist lunatics, I have no choice but to work around them. I am the duly elected President of the United States, and I will continue to implement the agenda on which I was elected. Period." However, even lacking Congressional support, West escalated the War on Terror by sending troops to combat Muslim insurgents across the world, including those in the Philippines, Syria, and Iran. As the war fell in popularity, so too did the President's standing in the polls. Having all but ignored the domestic front, his chances of reelection nearing the 2024 Election seemed near zero; and while they would ultimately drop to actually being zero, fate seemed to have other ideas for the PCP at large.
With less than two weeks before the election, President West sought to energize his base in many of the most important swing states. At a rally in Columbus, Ohio, the President spoke about his alleged successes in combating Radical Islam worldwide, and warned the American people that his opponents, Democratic Nominee Governor Cory Booker of New Jersey, and APP Nominee Senator Chelsea Rodham of Illinois, would not be "up to completing the mission." It was, at that moment, that fate intervened; Abdul Rasul, an American-born Filipino Nationalist, and supporter of the Moro Muslim rebels in his ancestral home, shot and killed the President (alongside one Secret Service agent, who had attempted to disarm Rasul) as he descended the stage. Within minutes, the President died of blood loss. Vice President Glenn Beck, then visiting his hometown of Everett, Washington, was immediately returned to D.C. and sworn in as the 48th President of the United States.
Henry Ford Becomes President
POD: Henry Ford runs for the senate seat of Michigan in 1918. He succeeds, becomes senator of Michigan, and runs for president in 1924. He is elected narrowly against incumbent president Calvin Coolidge. (Part One of Six)
The next part will be out on Tuesday, September 4.
POD: Henry Ford runs for the senate seat of Michigan in 1918. He succeeds, becomes senator of Michigan, and runs for president in 1924. He is elected narrowly against incumbent president Calvin Coolidge. (Part One of Six)
The next part will be out on Tuesday, September 4.
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This wikibox is from a game I played with myself called Random Senators turned into presidents. I would find a random state to pick the president from, starting off with the 13 original colonies and gradually expanding with the addition of new states. Once I chose a state, I would then pick between Class I or Class II senators, utilizing the one that was relevant to the time period (for example I would not pick Henry Clay if it was in the 1900s). As for the political party, I would pick the one that they were under during their senatorial term of office. In order to determine the chances they had of winning a second term as president, I flipped a coin, with heads meaning they got it and the latter meaning they were a single term. I also decided on the vice president by looking either at the opposite list of the senator I chose or I decided for it myself when I wasn't satisfied with the senator choices. The Political Party affiliation of the presidents is such:
3 Federalists
3 Democratic-Republicans
1 Jacksonian
1 Anti-Jacksonian
1 Know Nothing
1 Whig
14 Republicans
17 Democrats
3 Federalists
3 Democratic-Republicans
1 Jacksonian
1 Anti-Jacksonian
1 Know Nothing
1 Whig
14 Republicans
17 Democrats
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