List of US Presidents, 1960 to 2020

President_Gore · Jun 10, 2012

The Frontiersmen
1952: Dwight D. Eisenhower/Richard M. Nixon (Republican) [1]
1956: Dwight D. Eisenhower/Richard M. Nixon (Republican)
1960: John F. Kennedy/George A. Smathers (Democratic)* [2]
1962: George A. Smathers/Vacant (Democratic)
1964: George A. Smathers/ Hubert Humphrey (Democratic)
1968: Tom Turnipseed / Seymore Trammell (American Conservative Party) [3]
1972: Robert F. Kennedy/Henry M. Jackson (Democratic) [4]
1976: Robert F. Kennedy/Robert Shriver (Democratic) [5]
1980: Howard Baker/John B. Connally (Republican Tories) [6]
1984: Howard Baker/James Baker (Republican Tories) [7]
1988: Mario Cuomo/Al Gore (Democratic) [8]
1992: Robert Dole/Pete Wilson (Republican Tories) [9]

[1] OTL: Former General Dwight Eisenhower wins out over Democratic candidate Adlai Stevenson, and governs a prosperous America for the remainder of the decade.
[2] Young Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy wins the nomination of his party in a heated battle against Lyndon Johnson. Kennedy thinks of bringing LBJ aboard as Vice President, but is dissuaded by his brother. Instead, Johnson is asked to come aboard as campaign manager, and Jack approaches his friend George Smathers to run as his vice president. Like Kennedy, Smathers is young, charismatic, and charming. Unlike Kennedy, he is a Southerner (from Florida), has Southern views on race, and Southern conservatisms in other areas, and is willing to bait the voters by casting their worst fears, such as Communism, on the opponent. Such balances the ticket, while allowing the promotion of youth and vitality for the 1960s. In 1960, the race is close between Nixon and Kennedy, and even with Johnson's management and Smather's Southern origin, Kennedy loses Texas (though by a surprisingly slim minority). Kennedy, however, does win over vice president Nixon. Though a nation wide recount is held, it finds no major changes in votes upon review, and after several weeks, Nixon ends the matter, publicly stating he does not want a crisis, while privately wishing to avoid embarrassment as even in the recount his is not winning.
Kennedy lead competently, and brought prestige to the White House that it had not seen in years. His largest failure, however, was the Bay of Pigs invasion, which failed miserably, though the country forgave him for the incident. This action would, however, lead do his undoing, as he was assassinated in late August 1962 by a group of Cuban exiles who felt betrayed by Kennedy. The assassination is still a subject of controversy as to whether or not there was a greater conspiracy.
[3] With the emergence of a highly politicized and violent civil rights movement throughout the previous Democratic terms, things began to become serious. Smathers soon faced the blame from an angry public terrorized by public bombings and constant threats from unprovoked attack. The two main parties were completely unfocused on their goals, leading to gains from the nationalist (and southern-centred) right in 1968. Turnipseed's American Conservative Party managed to narrowly scrape through into a shocking presidential victory - with barely 2% of the vote in it. Their main goal was simple - quell the terrorist menace. (OOC: This civil rights movement is crazy aggressive, although there are other pacifist movements as OTL led by MLK.)
[4] The American Conservative Party does not have enough support to remain significant in 1972. Senator Robert F. Kennedy narrowly edges Republican Governor Ronald Reagan in the election. President Kennedy spends much of his term mending the Civil Rights Crisis and uses so much of his political capital preserving civil rights peace that he is unable to do much else. Regardless he remains personally popular among the people going into 1976.
[5] The Democrats achieved a second victory in 1976, albeit small. Jackson had been dropped from the ticket for fear of him being too conservative for the 'modernizing' government. Robert Shriver, former Ambassador to France and a keen geopolitical figure, sought political freedom from the interior-based politics of RFK in order to combat the fear of Communism leaking from the USSR.
[6] Republicans and Conservatives merge to form the Republican Tories, though the most racist and far-right elements of the ACP withdraw and form their own but unelectable "Populist Party". Despite Kennedy's personal popularity, the economic downturn has made the Democrats unlikely to win. Howard Baker defeats Birch Bayh by a 52-44 margin, becoming the first president to win an absolute majority of votes since 1964.
[7] The Republican Tories remained popular, and consequently began a political renaissance for the American right. Under the economic and diplomatic isolationism that Baker proposed, the Peoples' Republic of China surpassed the Soviet Union in industrial capacity, and consequently began a three-sided Cold War. The Sino-Soviet split, prevalent ever since the '60s, worsened as both superpowers quarreled over the treatment of Mongolia and Tibet, and the USSR funded Uyghur terrorists in China. Baker's government believed that the two ideological enemies of the United States could destroy themselves and leave the US as the sole international power in what became known as the 'Baker Plan.'
[8] In late 1986, the Sino-Soviet tension erupted into full scale war, with minor nuclear exchange. While at first the United States believed this would benefit it by distracting and harming the other super powers, the war left environmental repercussions. By the time the peace treaty had been signed in 1989, the nuclear exchange had lead to a minor global cooling for almost five years following the start of the conflict, leading to irregular crop harvests world wide, resulting in famine in parts of the world and limited food supplies in others. Radioactive traces were also carried by the wind currents to other areas of Asia, such as Japan, requiring international clean up efforts. This all put pressure on the US economy, and helped lead to a recession in 1987.
Despite this, the election of 1988 would be close between James Baker and Democratic Governor of New York Mario Cuomo. Cuomo chose Southerner and "Atari Democrat" Al Gore as his running mate, and managed to win the election
[9] While Cuomo was able to achieve domestic success, such as by allowing gays to serve in the military and pushing through a mixed healthcare reform plan, part private/public, he was unable to control the failing economy with rising unemployment and the infamous collapse of Enron due to bad investment deals. These economic problems, coupled with the rise of insurgency in Bangladesh and Mongolia which led to India calling for US assistance that was refused by President Cuomo, making him be seen as a coward, led to his not so surprising defeat by Bob Dole in 1992.

Premier Taylerov · Jun 10, 2012

The Frontiersmen
1952: Dwight D. Eisenhower/Richard M. Nixon (Republican) [1]
1956: Dwight D. Eisenhower/Richard M. Nixon (Republican)
1960: John F. Kennedy/George A. Smathers (Democratic)* [2]
1962: George A. Smathers/Vacant (Democratic)
1964: George A. Smathers/ Hubert Humphrey (Democratic)
1968: Tom Turnipseed / Seymore Trammell (American Conservative Party) [3]
1972: Robert F. Kennedy/Henry M. Jackson (Democratic) [4]
1976: Robert F. Kennedy/Robert Shriver (Democratic) [5]
1980: Howard Baker/John B. Connally (Republican Tories) [6]
1984: Howard Baker/James Baker (Republican Tories) [7]
1988: Mario Cuomo/Al Gore (Democratic) [8]
1992: Robert Dole/Pete Wilson (Republican Tories) [9]
1996: Robert Dole/Arthur MacArthur IV (Republican Tories) [10]

[1] OTL: Former General Dwight Eisenhower wins out over Democratic candidate Adlai Stevenson, and governs a prosperous America for the remainder of the decade.
[2] Young Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy wins the nomination of his party in a heated battle against Lyndon Johnson. Kennedy thinks of bringing LBJ aboard as Vice President, but is dissuaded by his brother. Instead, Johnson is asked to come aboard as campaign manager, and Jack approaches his friend George Smathers to run as his vice president. Like Kennedy, Smathers is young, charismatic, and charming. Unlike Kennedy, he is a Southerner (from Florida), has Southern views on race, and Southern conservatisms in other areas, and is willing to bait the voters by casting their worst fears, such as Communism, on the opponent. Such balances the ticket, while allowing the promotion of youth and vitality for the 1960s. In 1960, the race is close between Nixon and Kennedy, and even with Johnson's management and Smather's Southern origin, Kennedy loses Texas (though by a surprisingly slim minority). Kennedy, however, does win over vice president Nixon. Though a nation wide recount is held, it finds no major changes in votes upon review, and after several weeks, Nixon ends the matter, publicly stating he does not want a crisis, while privately wishing to avoid embarrassment as even in the recount his is not winning.
Kennedy lead competently, and brought prestige to the White House that it had not seen in years. His largest failure, however, was the Bay of Pigs invasion, which failed miserably, though the country forgave him for the incident. This action would, however, lead do his undoing, as he was assassinated in late August 1962 by a group of Cuban exiles who felt betrayed by Kennedy. The assassination is still a subject of controversy as to whether or not there was a greater conspiracy.
[3] With the emergence of a highly politicized and violent civil rights movement throughout the previous Democratic terms, things began to become serious. Smathers soon faced the blame from an angry public terrorized by public bombings and constant threats from unprovoked attack. The two main parties were completely unfocused on their goals, leading to gains from the nationalist (and southern-centred) right in 1968. Turnipseed's American Conservative Party managed to narrowly scrape through into a shocking presidential victory - with barely 2% of the vote in it. Their main goal was simple - quell the terrorist menace. (OOC: This civil rights movement is crazy aggressive, although there are other pacifist movements as OTL led by MLK.)
[4] The American Conservative Party does not have enough support to remain significant in 1972. Senator Robert F. Kennedy narrowly edges Republican Governor Ronald Reagan in the election. President Kennedy spends much of his term mending the Civil Rights Crisis and uses so much of his political capital preserving civil rights peace that he is unable to do much else. Regardless he remains personally popular among the people going into 1976.
[5] The Democrats achieved a second victory in 1976, albeit small. Jackson had been dropped from the ticket for fear of him being too conservative for the 'modernizing' government. Robert Shriver, former Ambassador to France and a keen geopolitical figure, sought political freedom from the interior-based politics of RFK in order to combat the fear of Communism leaking from the USSR.
[6] Republicans and Conservatives merge to form the Republican Tories, though the most racist and far-right elements of the ACP withdraw and form their own but unelectable "Populist Party". Despite Kennedy's personal popularity, the economic downturn has made the Democrats unlikely to win. Howard Baker defeats Birch Bayh by a 52-44 margin, becoming the first president to win an absolute majority of votes since 1964.
[7] The Republican Tories remained popular, and consequently began a political renaissance for the American right. Under the economic and diplomatic isolationism that Baker proposed, the Peoples' Republic of China surpassed the Soviet Union in industrial capacity, and consequently began a three-sided Cold War. The Sino-Soviet split, prevalent ever since the '60s, worsened as both superpowers quarreled over the treatment of Mongolia and Tibet, and the USSR funded Uyghur terrorists in China. Baker's government believed that the two ideological enemies of the United States could destroy themselves and leave the US as the sole international power in what became known as the 'Baker Plan.'
[8] In late 1986, the Sino-Soviet tension erupted into full scale war, with minor nuclear exchange. While at first the United States believed this would benefit it by distracting and harming the other super powers, the war left environmental repercussions. By the time the peace treaty had been signed in 1989, the nuclear exchange had lead to a minor global cooling for almost five years following the start of the conflict, leading to irregular crop harvests world wide, resulting in famine in parts of the world and limited food supplies in others. Radioactive traces were also carried by the wind currents to other areas of Asia, such as Japan, requiring international clean up efforts. This all put pressure on the US economy, and helped lead to a recession in 1987.
Despite this, the election of 1988 would be close between James Baker and Democratic Governor of New York Mario Cuomo. Cuomo chose Southerner and "Atari Democrat" Al Gore as his running mate, and managed to win the election.
[9] While Cuomo was able to achieve domestic success, such as by allowing gays to serve in the military and pushing through a mixed healthcare reform plan, part private/public, he was unable to control the failing economy with rising unemployment and the infamous collapse of Enron due to bad investment deals. These economic problems, coupled with the rise of insurgency in Bangladesh and Mongolia which led to India calling for US assistance that was refused by President Cuomo, making him be seen as a coward, led to his not so surprising defeat by Bob Dole in 1992.
[10] As the Indian insurgencies began to consume the political capital of all of the major political parties, (especially after the attempted bombing of Air Force One in 1994), Dole's government began preparations for the mobilization of troops to support the Indians. After Wilson declined to run again after extensive throat surgery, Dole chose a highly controversial running mate in Arthur MacArthur IV. The Republican Tories, taking a further considerable (and not tremendously popular) step to the right, attempted to pass anti-terrorist legislation which was strongly opposed by the Democrats - who had seen a considerable rise in popularity from the anti-interventionist camp. Additionally, moves were made to incorporate Puerto Rico as a state of union after it approached the United States government officially, and this brought other potential states into consideration - largely the amalgamation of other American overseas territories.

Lincoln Lives, Johnson Dies

1864: Abraham Lincoln/Andrew Johnson (Republican)
1865: Abraham Lincoln/Vacant (Republican) [1]
1868: James Doolittle/Asa Packer (Democratic) [2]
1872: Abraham Lincoln/James G. Blaine (Republican) [3]
1876: William S. Groesbeck/William E. Cameron (Liberal Democratic) [4]

[1] An April assassination attempt leaves President Lincoln with minor injuries but manages to leave Vice President Andrew Johnson dead. Secretary of State William Seward was also attacked but managed to survive.
[2] Lincoln's radical reconstruction programme slipped rapidly into becoming highly unpopular amongst the electorate. Doolittle, formerly an advocate of the system, campaigned for its reform with the Democratic Party. Lincoln, who ran against him for an attempted third term, survived two more assassination attempts on his life.
[3] The Doolittle administration is even more unpopular due the rolling back of Lincoln-era reforms, too lenient treatment of the South and the Panic of 1872. Running on a rather moderate platform, Lincoln decides to run again, and defeats Doolittle by a 56-43 margin, the largest percentage of victory since 1820. With a commanding majority in both houses, the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1874 would be passed. The economy would gradually recover during Lincoln's third term, though he has decided not to run again in 1876.
[4] With Lincoln leaving office, the Republicans suffered a major political vacuum that Blaine failed to fill, resulting in an important yet complicated election in which many parties gained seats. Most signficant of these, however, was Groesbeck's Liberal Democratic Party - a newly amalgamated group formed from members of the Democrats supporting the 'New Direction,' as well as a few stray Republicans wanting to seperate themselves from post-Lincolnian Republicanism. The Liberal Democrats actually left the well-handled Republican economy largely untouched - a move that granted them much respect and credibility (if a little hypocrisy) as responsible leaders - and instead focused on 'Diplomatic Reconstruction' to improve relations with European colonial powers; especially the United Kingdom and France. Also of significant issue was the American protectorate of Liberia, which was encouraged to accept blacks emigrating from the United States in the aftermath of the Civil War, and consequently relations significantly improved. Liberia would become a major source of conflict between the European colonizers and the United States, but Groesbeck managed to secure a significant enlargement of its borders.

Vice_President_Nixon · Jun 10, 2012

The Frontiersmen
1952: Dwight D. Eisenhower/Richard M. Nixon (Republican) [1]
1956: Dwight D. Eisenhower/Richard M. Nixon (Republican)
1960: John F. Kennedy/George A. Smathers (Democratic)* [2]
1962: George A. Smathers/Vacant (Democratic)
1964: George A. Smathers/ Hubert Humphrey (Democratic)
1968: Tom Turnipseed / Seymore Trammell (American Conservative Party) [3]
1972: Robert F. Kennedy/Henry M. Jackson (Democratic) [4]
1976: Robert F. Kennedy/Robert Shriver (Democratic) [5]
1980: Howard Baker/John B. Connally (Republican Tories) [6]
1984: Howard Baker/James Baker (Republican Tories) [7]
1988: Mario Cuomo/Al Gore (Democratic) [8]
1992: Robert Dole/Pete Wilson (Republican Tories) [9]
1996: Robert Dole/Arthur MacArthur IV (Republican Tories) [10]
2000: Lamar Alexander/William J. Clinton (Republican Tories/Dems) [11]

[1] OTL: Former General Dwight Eisenhower wins out over Democratic candidate Adlai Stevenson, and governs a prosperous America for the remainder of the decade.
[2] Young Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy wins the nomination of his party in a heated battle against Lyndon Johnson. Kennedy thinks of bringing LBJ aboard as Vice President, but is dissuaded by his brother. Instead, Johnson is asked to come aboard as campaign manager, and Jack approaches his friend George Smathers to run as his vice president. Like Kennedy, Smathers is young, charismatic, and charming. Unlike Kennedy, he is a Southerner (from Florida), has Southern views on race, and Southern conservatisms in other areas, and is willing to bait the voters by casting their worst fears, such as Communism, on the opponent. Such balances the ticket, while allowing the promotion of youth and vitality for the 1960s. In 1960, the race is close between Nixon and Kennedy, and even with Johnson's management and Smather's Southern origin, Kennedy loses Texas (though by a surprisingly slim minority). Kennedy, however, does win over vice president Nixon. Though a nation wide recount is held, it finds no major changes in votes upon review, and after several weeks, Nixon ends the matter, publicly stating he does not want a crisis, while privately wishing to avoid embarrassment as even in the recount his is not winning.
Kennedy lead competently, and brought prestige to the White House that it had not seen in years. His largest failure, however, was the Bay of Pigs invasion, which failed miserably, though the country forgave him for the incident. This action would, however, lead do his undoing, as he was assassinated in late August 1962 by a group of Cuban exiles who felt betrayed by Kennedy. The assassination is still a subject of controversy as to whether or not there was a greater conspiracy.
[3] With the emergence of a highly politicized and violent civil rights movement throughout the previous Democratic terms, things began to become serious. Smathers soon faced the blame from an angry public terrorized by public bombings and constant threats from unprovoked attack. The two main parties were completely unfocused on their goals, leading to gains from the nationalist (and southern-centred) right in 1968. Turnipseed's American Conservative Party managed to narrowly scrape through into a shocking presidential victory - with barely 2% of the vote in it. Their main goal was simple - quell the terrorist menace. (OOC: This civil rights movement is crazy aggressive, although there are other pacifist movements as OTL led by MLK.)
[4] The American Conservative Party does not have enough support to remain significant in 1972. Senator Robert F. Kennedy narrowly edges Republican Governor Ronald Reagan in the election. President Kennedy spends much of his term mending the Civil Rights Crisis and uses so much of his political capital preserving civil rights peace that he is unable to do much else. Regardless he remains personally popular among the people going into 1976.
[5] The Democrats achieved a second victory in 1976, albeit small. Jackson had been dropped from the ticket for fear of him being too conservative for the 'modernizing' government. Robert Shriver, former Ambassador to France and a keen geopolitical figure, sought political freedom from the interior-based politics of RFK in order to combat the fear of Communism leaking from the USSR.
[6] Republicans and Conservatives merge to form the Republican Tories, though the most racist and far-right elements of the ACP withdraw and form their own but unelectable "Populist Party". Despite Kennedy's personal popularity, the economic downturn has made the Democrats unlikely to win. Howard Baker defeats Birch Bayh by a 52-44 margin, becoming the first president to win an absolute majority of votes since 1964.
[7] The Republican Tories remained popular, and consequently began a political renaissance for the American right. Under the economic and diplomatic isolationism that Baker proposed, the Peoples' Republic of China surpassed the Soviet Union in industrial capacity, and consequently began a three-sided Cold War. The Sino-Soviet split, prevalent ever since the '60s, worsened as both superpowers quarreled over the treatment of Mongolia and Tibet, and the USSR funded Uyghur terrorists in China. Baker's government believed that the two ideological enemies of the United States could destroy themselves and leave the US as the sole international power in what became known as the 'Baker Plan.'
[8] In late 1986, the Sino-Soviet tension erupted into full scale war, with minor nuclear exchange. While at first the United States believed this would benefit it by distracting and harming the other super powers, the war left environmental repercussions. By the time the peace treaty had been signed in 1989, the nuclear exchange had lead to a minor global cooling for almost five years following the start of the conflict, leading to irregular crop harvests world wide, resulting in famine in parts of the world and limited food supplies in others. Radioactive traces were also carried by the wind currents to other areas of Asia, such as Japan, requiring international clean up efforts. This all put pressure on the US economy, and helped lead to a recession in 1987.
Despite this, the election of 1988 would be close between James Baker and Democratic Governor of New York Mario Cuomo. Cuomo chose Southerner and "Atari Democrat" Al Gore as his running mate, and managed to win the election.
[9] While Cuomo was able to achieve domestic success, such as by allowing gays to serve in the military and pushing through a mixed healthcare reform plan, part private/public, he was unable to control the failing economy with rising unemployment and the infamous collapse of Enron due to bad investment deals. These economic problems, coupled with the rise of insurgency in Bangladesh and Mongolia which led to India calling for US assistance that was refused by President Cuomo, making him be seen as a coward, led to his not so surprising defeat by Bob Dole in 1992.
[10] As the Indian insurgencies began to consume the political capital of all of the major political parties, (especially after the attempted bombing of Air Force One in 1994), Dole's government began preparations for the mobilization of troops to support the Indians. After Wilson declined to run again after extensive throat surgery, Dole chose a highly controversial running mate in Arthur MacArthur IV. The Republican Tories, taking a further considerable (and not tremendously popular) step to the right, attempted to pass anti-terrorist legislation which was strongly opposed by the Democrats - who had seen a considerable rise in popularity from the anti-interventionist camp. Additionally, moves were made to incorporate Puerto Rico as a state of union after it approached the United States government officially, and this brought other potential states into consideration - largely the amalgamation of other American overseas territories.
[11] On Election Night Neither Lamar Alexander nor Joseph P. Kennedy II are able to win enough electoral votes to be named President due to candidate Ralph Nader winning Vermont and New Hampshire. The election was thrown to congress where the House elected Governor Lamar Alexander President-Elect while the Senate choose Democratic Senator William J. Clinton for Vice President.

Lincoln Lives, Johnson Dies

1864: Abraham Lincoln/Andrew Johnson (Republican)
1865: Abraham Lincoln/Vacant (Republican) [1]
1868: James Doolittle/Asa Packer (Democratic) [2]
1872: Abraham Lincoln/James G. Blaine (Republican) [3]
1876: William S. Groesbeck/William E. Cameron (Liberal Democratic) [4]
1880: John Sherman/Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican) [5]

[1] An April assassination attempt leaves President Lincoln with minor injuries but manages to leave Vice President Andrew Johnson dead. Secretary of State William Seward was also attacked but managed to survive.
[2] Lincoln's radical reconstruction programme slipped rapidly into becoming highly unpopular amongst the electorate. Doolittle, formerly an advocate of the system, campaigned for its reform with the Democratic Party. Lincoln, who ran against him for an attempted third term, survived two more assassination attempts on his life.
[3] The Doolittle administration is even more unpopular due the rolling back of Lincoln-era reforms, too lenient treatment of the South and the Panic of 1872. Running on a rather moderate platform, Lincoln decides to run again, and defeats Doolittle by a 56-43 margin, the largest percentage of victory since 1820. With a commanding majority in both houses, the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1874 would be passed. The economy would gradually recover during Lincoln's third term, though he has decided not to run again in 1876.
[4] With Lincoln leaving office, the Republicans suffered a major political vacuum that Blaine failed to fill, resulting in an important yet complicated election in which many parties gained seats. Most signficant of these, however, was Groesbeck's Liberal Democratic Party - a newly amalgamated group formed from members of the Democrats supporting the 'New Direction,' as well as a few stray Republicans wanting to seperate themselves from post-Lincolnian Republicanism. The Liberal Democrats actually left the well-handled Republican economy largely untouched - a move that granted them much respect and credibility (if a little hypocrisy) as responsible leaders - and instead focused on 'Diplomatic Reconstruction' to improve relations with European colonial powers; especially the United Kingdom and France. Also of significant issue was the American protectorate of Liberia, which was encouraged to accept blacks emigrating from the United States in the aftermath of the Civil War, and consequently relations significantly improved. Liberia would become a major source of conflict between the European colonizers and the United States, but Groesbeck managed to secure a significant enlargement of its borders.
[5] Senator John Sherman of Ohio managed to united the reeling Republicans in time to secure an upset over the popular Liberal Democrats. This election is a re-aligning election which while giving the Republicans the White House, established the Liberal Democrats as a clear major party. President Sherman continued and enhanced the economic prosperity of the country, but was rather lost in foreign policy especially over Liberia and the continuing tensions with the Europeans.

Tony · Jun 10, 2012

The Frontiersmen
1952: Dwight D. Eisenhower/Richard M. Nixon (Republican) [1]
1956: Dwight D. Eisenhower/Richard M. Nixon (Republican)
1960: John F. Kennedy/George A. Smathers (Democratic)* [2]
1962: George A. Smathers/Vacant (Democratic)
1964: George A. Smathers/ Hubert Humphrey (Democratic)
1968: Tom Turnipseed / Seymore Trammell (American Conservative Party) [3]
1972: Robert F. Kennedy/Henry M. Jackson (Democratic) [4]
1976: Robert F. Kennedy/Robert Shriver (Democratic) [5]
1980: Howard Baker/John B. Connally (Republican Tories) [6]
1984: Howard Baker/James Baker (Republican Tories) [7]
1988: Mario Cuomo/Al Gore (Democratic) [8]
1992: Robert Dole/Pete Wilson (Republican Tories) [9]
1996: Robert Dole/Arthur MacArthur IV (Republican Tories) [10]
2000: Lamar Alexander/William J. Clinton (Republican Tories/Dems) [11]
2004: Lamar Alexander / Oliver North (Republican Tories) [12]
[1] OTL: Former General Dwight Eisenhower wins out over Democratic candidate Adlai Stevenson, and governs a prosperous America for the remainder of the decade.
[2] Young Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy wins the nomination of his party in a heated battle against Lyndon Johnson. Kennedy thinks of bringing LBJ aboard as Vice President, but is dissuaded by his brother. Instead, Johnson is asked to come aboard as campaign manager, and Jack approaches his friend George Smathers to run as his vice president. Like Kennedy, Smathers is young, charismatic, and charming. Unlike Kennedy, he is a Southerner (from Florida), has Southern views on race, and Southern conservatisms in other areas, and is willing to bait the voters by casting their worst fears, such as Communism, on the opponent. Such balances the ticket, while allowing the promotion of youth and vitality for the 1960s. In 1960, the race is close between Nixon and Kennedy, and even with Johnson's management and Smather's Southern origin, Kennedy loses Texas (though by a surprisingly slim minority). Kennedy, however, does win over vice president Nixon. Though a nation wide recount is held, it finds no major changes in votes upon review, and after several weeks, Nixon ends the matter, publicly stating he does not want a crisis, while privately wishing to avoid embarrassment as even in the recount his is not winning.
Kennedy lead competently, and brought prestige to the White House that it had not seen in years. His largest failure, however, was the Bay of Pigs invasion, which failed miserably, though the country forgave him for the incident. This action would, however, lead do his undoing, as he was assassinated in late August 1962 by a group of Cuban exiles who felt betrayed by Kennedy. The assassination is still a subject of controversy as to whether or not there was a greater conspiracy.
[3] With the emergence of a highly politicized and violent civil rights movement throughout the previous Democratic terms, things began to become serious. Smathers soon faced the blame from an angry public terrorized by public bombings and constant threats from unprovoked attack. The two main parties were completely unfocused on their goals, leading to gains from the nationalist (and southern-centred) right in 1968. Turnipseed's American Conservative Party managed to narrowly scrape through into a shocking presidential victory - with barely 2% of the vote in it. Their main goal was simple - quell the terrorist menace. (OOC: This civil rights movement is crazy aggressive, although there are other pacifist movements as OTL led by MLK.)
[4] The American Conservative Party does not have enough support to remain significant in 1972. Senator Robert F. Kennedy narrowly edges Republican Governor Ronald Reagan in the election. President Kennedy spends much of his term mending the Civil Rights Crisis and uses so much of his political capital preserving civil rights peace that he is unable to do much else. Regardless he remains personally popular among the people going into 1976.
[5] The Democrats achieved a second victory in 1976, albeit small. Jackson had been dropped from the ticket for fear of him being too conservative for the 'modernizing' government. Robert Shriver, former Ambassador to France and a keen geopolitical figure, sought political freedom from the interior-based politics of RFK in order to combat the fear of Communism leaking from the USSR.
[6] Republicans and Conservatives merge to form the Republican Tories, though the most racist and far-right elements of the ACP withdraw and form their own but unelectable "Populist Party". Despite Kennedy's personal popularity, the economic downturn has made the Democrats unlikely to win. Howard Baker defeats Birch Bayh by a 52-44 margin, becoming the first president to win an absolute majority of votes since 1964.
[7] The Republican Tories remained popular, and consequently began a political renaissance for the American right. Under the economic and diplomatic isolationism that Baker proposed, the Peoples' Republic of China surpassed the Soviet Union in industrial capacity, and consequently began a three-sided Cold War. The Sino-Soviet split, prevalent ever since the '60s, worsened as both superpowers quarreled over the treatment of Mongolia and Tibet, and the USSR funded Uyghur terrorists in China. Baker's government believed that the two ideological enemies of the United States could destroy themselves and leave the US as the sole international power in what became known as the 'Baker Plan.'
[8] In late 1986, the Sino-Soviet tension erupted into full scale war, with minor nuclear exchange. While at first the United States believed this would benefit it by distracting and harming the other super powers, the war left environmental repercussions. By the time the peace treaty had been signed in 1989, the nuclear exchange had lead to a minor global cooling for almost five years following the start of the conflict, leading to irregular crop harvests world wide, resulting in famine in parts of the world and limited food supplies in others. Radioactive traces were also carried by the wind currents to other areas of Asia, such as Japan, requiring international clean up efforts. This all put pressure on the US economy, and helped lead to a recession in 1987.
Despite this, the election of 1988 would be close between James Baker and Democratic Governor of New York Mario Cuomo. Cuomo chose Southerner and "Atari Democrat" Al Gore as his running mate, and managed to win the election.
[9] While Cuomo was able to achieve domestic success, such as by allowing gays to serve in the military and pushing through a mixed healthcare reform plan, part private/public, he was unable to control the failing economy with rising unemployment and the infamous collapse of Enron due to bad investment deals. These economic problems, coupled with the rise of insurgency in Bangladesh and Mongolia which led to India calling for US assistance that was refused by President Cuomo, making him be seen as a coward, led to his not so surprising defeat by Bob Dole in 1992.
[10] As the Indian insurgencies began to consume the political capital of all of the major political parties, (especially after the attempted bombing of Air Force One in 1994), Dole's government began preparations for the mobilization of troops to support the Indians. After Wilson declined to run again after extensive throat surgery, Dole chose a highly controversial running mate in Arthur MacArthur IV. The Republican Tories, taking a further considerable (and not tremendously popular) step to the right, attempted to pass anti-terrorist legislation which was strongly opposed by the Democrats - who had seen a considerable rise in popularity from the anti-interventionist camp. Additionally, moves were made to incorporate Puerto Rico as a state of union after it approached the United States government officially, and this brought other potential states into consideration - largely the amalgamation of other American overseas territories.
[11] On Election Night Neither Lamar Alexander nor Joseph P. Kennedy II are able to win enough electoral votes to be named President due to candidate Ralph Nader winning Vermont and New Hampshire. The election was thrown to congress where the House elected Governor Lamar Alexander President-Elect while the Senate choose Democratic Senator William J. Clinton for Vice President.
[12] President Alexander picks General Oliver North, a hero of the Indian insurgencies as his running mate, and defeats Clinton and Nader by a 50-45-4 margin in the general election. The American sphere of influence has expanded into former East Europe except in civil war-stricken Romania, and that the former Soviet Union and China has entered a period of constant civil war. Ukraine, the Baltic States, Georgia, Chechnya, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Tibet, Hong Kong and East Turkey has gained full independence and become democratic states. At the same time, Taiwan has conquered Fujian and Guangdong, as well as a nuclear arsenal despite American opposition. Lee Teng-hui becomes the first democratically-elected president of the Republic of Hwanan (華南共和國), which replaces China as a permanent member of the Security Council, but it subsequently renounces claims of the remaining of China, leaving it in ruins and constant civil wars. India and united Germany, meanwhile, replace the Soviet Union and become permanent members of the Security Council. The world is at peace, with the United States as its undoubted leader. However, Pakistan and Hwanan, both democratized, have signed the Treaty of Taipei, hoping to unite non-aligned democratic countries to counter American influence.

Lincoln Lives, Johnson Dies

1864: Abraham Lincoln/Andrew Johnson (Republican)
1865: Abraham Lincoln/Vacant (Republican) [1]
1868: James Doolittle/Asa Packer (Democratic) [2]
1872: Abraham Lincoln/James G. Blaine (Republican) [3]
1876: William S. Groesbeck/William E. Cameron (Liberal Democratic) [4]
1880: John Sherman/Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican) [5]
1884: John Sherman/Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican) [6]
[1] An April assassination attempt leaves President Lincoln with minor injuries but manages to leave Vice President Andrew Johnson dead. Secretary of State William Seward was also attacked but managed to survive.
[2] Lincoln's radical reconstruction programme slipped rapidly into becoming highly unpopular amongst the electorate. Doolittle, formerly an advocate of the system, campaigned for its reform with the Democratic Party. Lincoln, who ran against him for an attempted third term, survived two more assassination attempts on his life.
[3] The Doolittle administration is even more unpopular due the rolling back of Lincoln-era reforms, too lenient treatment of the South and the Panic of 1872. Running on a rather moderate platform, Lincoln decides to run again, and defeats Doolittle by a 56-43 margin, the largest percentage of victory since 1820. With a commanding majority in both houses, the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1874 would be passed. The economy would gradually recover during Lincoln's third term, though he has decided not to run again in 1876.
[4] With Lincoln leaving office, the Republicans suffered a major political vacuum that Blaine failed to fill, resulting in an important yet complicated election in which many parties gained seats. Most signficant of these, however, was Groesbeck's Liberal Democratic Party - a newly amalgamated group formed from members of the Democrats supporting the 'New Direction,' as well as a few stray Republicans wanting to seperate themselves from post-Lincolnian Republicanism. The Liberal Democrats actually left the well-handled Republican economy largely untouched - a move that granted them much respect and credibility (if a little hypocrisy) as responsible leaders - and instead focused on 'Diplomatic Reconstruction' to improve relations with European colonial powers; especially the United Kingdom and France. Also of significant issue was the American protectorate of Liberia, which was encouraged to accept blacks emigrating from the United States in the aftermath of the Civil War, and consequently relations significantly improved. Liberia would become a major source of conflict between the European colonizers and the United States, but Groesbeck managed to secure a significant enlargement of its borders.
[5] Senator John Sherman of Ohio managed to united the reeling Republicans in time to secure an upset over the popular Liberal Democrats. This election is a re-aligning election which while giving the Republicans the White House, established the Liberal Democrats as a clear major party. President Sherman continued and enhanced the economic prosperity of the country, but was rather lost in foreign policy especially over Liberia and the continuing tensions with the Europeans.

Premier Taylerov · Jun 11, 2012

The Frontiersmen
1952: Dwight D. Eisenhower/Richard M. Nixon (Republican) [1]
1956: Dwight D. Eisenhower/Richard M. Nixon (Republican)
1960: John F. Kennedy/George A. Smathers (Democratic)* [2]
1962: George A. Smathers/Vacant (Democratic)
1964: George A. Smathers/ Hubert Humphrey (Democratic)
1968: Tom Turnipseed / Seymore Trammell (American Conservative Party) [3]
1972: Robert F. Kennedy/Henry M. Jackson (Democratic) [4]
1976: Robert F. Kennedy/Robert Shriver (Democratic) [5]
1980: Howard Baker/John B. Connally (Republican Tories) [6]
1984: Howard Baker/James Baker (Republican Tories) [7]
1988: Mario Cuomo/Al Gore (Democratic) [8]
1992: Robert Dole/Pete Wilson (Republican Tories) [9]
1996: Robert Dole/Arthur MacArthur IV (Republican Tories) [10]
2000: Lamar Alexander/William J. Clinton (Republican Tories/Dems) [11]
2004: Lamar Alexander / Oliver North (Republican Tories) [12]
2008: James Poniewozik/Maria Shriver (Democratic) [13]

[1] OTL: Former General Dwight Eisenhower wins out over Democratic candidate Adlai Stevenson, and governs a prosperous America for the remainder of the decade.
[2] Young Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy wins the nomination of his party in a heated battle against Lyndon Johnson. Kennedy thinks of bringing LBJ aboard as Vice President, but is dissuaded by his brother. Instead, Johnson is asked to come aboard as campaign manager, and Jack approaches his friend George Smathers to run as his vice president. Like Kennedy, Smathers is young, charismatic, and charming. Unlike Kennedy, he is a Southerner (from Florida), has Southern views on race, and Southern conservatisms in other areas, and is willing to bait the voters by casting their worst fears, such as Communism, on the opponent. Such balances the ticket, while allowing the promotion of youth and vitality for the 1960s. In 1960, the race is close between Nixon and Kennedy, and even with Johnson's management and Smather's Southern origin, Kennedy loses Texas (though by a surprisingly slim minority). Kennedy, however, does win over vice president Nixon. Though a nation wide recount is held, it finds no major changes in votes upon review, and after several weeks, Nixon ends the matter, publicly stating he does not want a crisis, while privately wishing to avoid embarrassment as even in the recount his is not winning.
Kennedy lead competently, and brought prestige to the White House that it had not seen in years. His largest failure, however, was the Bay of Pigs invasion, which failed miserably, though the country forgave him for the incident. This action would, however, lead do his undoing, as he was assassinated in late August 1962 by a group of Cuban exiles who felt betrayed by Kennedy. The assassination is still a subject of controversy as to whether or not there was a greater conspiracy.
[3] With the emergence of a highly politicized and violent civil rights movement throughout the previous Democratic terms, things began to become serious. Smathers soon faced the blame from an angry public terrorized by public bombings and constant threats from unprovoked attack. The two main parties were completely unfocused on their goals, leading to gains from the nationalist (and southern-centred) right in 1968. Turnipseed's American Conservative Party managed to narrowly scrape through into a shocking presidential victory - with barely 2% of the vote in it. Their main goal was simple - quell the terrorist menace. (OOC: This civil rights movement is crazy aggressive, although there are other pacifist movements as OTL led by MLK.)
[4] The American Conservative Party does not have enough support to remain significant in 1972. Senator Robert F. Kennedy narrowly edges Republican Governor Ronald Reagan in the election. President Kennedy spends much of his term mending the Civil Rights Crisis and uses so much of his political capital preserving civil rights peace that he is unable to do much else. Regardless he remains personally popular among the people going into 1976.
[5] The Democrats achieved a second victory in 1976, albeit small. Jackson had been dropped from the ticket for fear of him being too conservative for the 'modernizing' government. Robert Shriver, former Ambassador to France and a keen geopolitical figure, sought political freedom from the interior-based politics of RFK in order to combat the fear of Communism leaking from the USSR.
[6] Republicans and Conservatives merge to form the Republican Tories, though the most racist and far-right elements of the ACP withdraw and form their own but unelectable "Populist Party". Despite Kennedy's personal popularity, the economic downturn has made the Democrats unlikely to win. Howard Baker defeats Birch Bayh by a 52-44 margin, becoming the first president to win an absolute majority of votes since 1964.
[7] The Republican Tories remained popular, and consequently began a political renaissance for the American right. Under the economic and diplomatic isolationism that Baker proposed, the Peoples' Republic of China surpassed the Soviet Union in industrial capacity, and consequently began a three-sided Cold War. The Sino-Soviet split, prevalent ever since the '60s, worsened as both superpowers quarreled over the treatment of Mongolia and Tibet, and the USSR funded Uyghur terrorists in China. Baker's government believed that the two ideological enemies of the United States could destroy themselves and leave the US as the sole international power in what became known as the 'Baker Plan.'
[8] In late 1986, the Sino-Soviet tension erupted into full scale war, with minor nuclear exchange. While at first the United States believed this would benefit it by distracting and harming the other super powers, the war left environmental repercussions. By the time the peace treaty had been signed in 1989, the nuclear exchange had lead to a minor global cooling for almost five years following the start of the conflict, leading to irregular crop harvests world wide, resulting in famine in parts of the world and limited food supplies in others. Radioactive traces were also carried by the wind currents to other areas of Asia, such as Japan, requiring international clean up efforts. This all put pressure on the US economy, and helped lead to a recession in 1987.
Despite this, the election of 1988 would be close between James Baker and Democratic Governor of New York Mario Cuomo. Cuomo chose Southerner and "Atari Democrat" Al Gore as his running mate, and managed to win the election.
[9] While Cuomo was able to achieve domestic success, such as by allowing gays to serve in the military and pushing through a mixed healthcare reform plan, part private/public, he was unable to control the failing economy with rising unemployment and the infamous collapse of Enron due to bad investment deals. These economic problems, coupled with the rise of insurgency in Bangladesh and Mongolia which led to India calling for US assistance that was refused by President Cuomo, making him be seen as a coward, led to his not so surprising defeat by Bob Dole in 1992.
[10] As the Indian insurgencies began to consume the political capital of all of the major political parties, (especially after the attempted bombing of Air Force One in 1994), Dole's government began preparations for the mobilization of troops to support the Indians. After Wilson declined to run again after extensive throat surgery, Dole chose a highly controversial running mate in Arthur MacArthur IV. The Republican Tories, taking a further considerable (and not tremendously popular) step to the right, attempted to pass anti-terrorist legislation which was strongly opposed by the Democrats - who had seen a considerable rise in popularity from the anti-interventionist camp. Additionally, moves were made to incorporate Puerto Rico as a state of union after it approached the United States government officially, and this brought other potential states into consideration - largely the amalgamation of other American overseas territories.
[11] On Election Night Neither Lamar Alexander nor Joseph P. Kennedy II are able to win enough electoral votes to be named President due to candidate Ralph Nader winning Vermont and New Hampshire. The election was thrown to congress where the House elected Governor Lamar Alexander President-Elect while the Senate choose Democratic Senator William J. Clinton for Vice President.
[12] President Alexander picks General Oliver North, a hero of the Indian insurgencies as his running mate, and defeats Clinton and Nader by a 50-45-4 margin in the general election. The American sphere of influence has expanded into former East Europe except in civil war-stricken Romania, and that the former Soviet Union and China has entered a period of constant civil war. Ukraine, the Baltic States, Georgia, Chechnya, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Tibet, Hong Kong and East Turkey has gained full independence and become democratic states. At the same time, Taiwan has conquered Fujian and Guangdong, as well as a nuclear arsenal despite American opposition. Lee Teng-hui becomes the first democratically-elected president of the Republic of Hwanan (華南共和國), which replaces China as a permanent member of the Security Council, but it subsequently renounces claims of the remaining of China, leaving it in ruins and constant civil wars. India and united Germany, meanwhile, replace the Soviet Union and become permanent members of the Security Council. The world is at peace, with the United States as its undoubted leader. However, Pakistan and Hwanan, both democratized, have signed the Treaty of Taipei, hoping to unite non-aligned democratic countries to counter American influence.
[13] The concluding years of the Alexander presidency were marked by two major international events. Firstly, the official declaration of the International Asian Non-Aligned Movement, led by Pakistan and Hwanan and later joined by Siam, Cambodia and Burma in 2007 - a major blow to American ambitions in the Far East. Secondly, the Nuclear Proliferation Crisis, which began with the announcement of Japan's nuclear weapons programme in early 2008 and rapidly spread across Asia and the Middle East. Indeed, these programmes had been aided by the leaking of Soviet nuclear weapons and technology during the civil war (which still had no decisive victory). These two aspects caused a major leap in popularity for the Democrats - under the eloquent James Poniewozik who announced his presidency on the same day that Tibet announced it possessed a nuclear weapon. He also attracted a considerable female vote in his running-mate - the popular socialite Maria Shriver.

Lincoln Lives, Johnson Dies

1864: Abraham Lincoln/Andrew Johnson (Republican)
1865: Abraham Lincoln/Vacant (Republican) [1]
1868: James Doolittle/Asa Packer (Democratic) [2]
1872: Abraham Lincoln/James G. Blaine (Republican) [3]
1876: William S. Groesbeck/William E. Cameron (Liberal Democratic) [4]
1880: John Sherman/Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican) [5]
1884: John Sherman/Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican)
1888: William S. Groesbeck/Alfred H. Love (Liberal Democratic) [6]

[1] An April assassination attempt leaves President Lincoln with minor injuries but manages to leave Vice President Andrew Johnson dead. Secretary of State William Seward was also attacked but managed to survive.
[2] Lincoln's radical reconstruction programme slipped rapidly into becoming highly unpopular amongst the electorate. Doolittle, formerly an advocate of the system, campaigned for its reform with the Democratic Party. Lincoln, who ran against him for an attempted third term, survived two more assassination attempts on his life.
[3] The Doolittle administration is even more unpopular due the rolling back of Lincoln-era reforms, too lenient treatment of the South and the Panic of 1872. Running on a rather moderate platform, Lincoln decides to run again, and defeats Doolittle by a 56-43 margin, the largest percentage of victory since 1820. With a commanding majority in both houses, the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1874 would be passed. The economy would gradually recover during Lincoln's third term, though he has decided not to run again in 1876.
[4] With Lincoln leaving office, the Republicans suffered a major political vacuum that Blaine failed to fill, resulting in an important yet complicated election in which many parties gained seats. Most signficant of these, however, was Groesbeck's Liberal Democratic Party - a newly amalgamated group formed from members of the Democrats supporting the 'New Direction,' as well as a few stray Republicans wanting to seperate themselves from post-Lincolnian Republicanism. The Liberal Democrats actually left the well-handled Republican economy largely untouched - a move that granted them much respect and credibility (if a little hypocrisy) as responsible leaders - and instead focused on 'Diplomatic Reconstruction' to improve relations with European colonial powers; especially the United Kingdom and France. Also of significant issue was the American protectorate of Liberia, which was encouraged to accept blacks emigrating from the United States in the aftermath of the Civil War, and consequently relations significantly improved. Liberia would become a major source of conflict between the European colonizers and the United States, but Groesbeck managed to secure a significant enlargement of its borders.
[5] Senator John Sherman of Ohio managed to united the reeling Republicans in time to secure an upset over the popular Liberal Democrats. This election is a re-aligning election which while giving the Republicans the White House, established the Liberal Democrats as a clear major party. President Sherman continued and enhanced the economic prosperity of the country, but was rather lost in foreign policy especially over Liberia and the continuing tensions with the Europeans.
[6] The Monrovia bombing in 1886, argued by historians to have been a French attempt to destabilize the country, sparked anger across the United States. Sherman unfairly received much criticism, and in the 1888 election the strong Liberal Democrats, led by returning William S. Groesbeck, easily reclaimed the White House. Groesbeck announced his intentions for the Americans to possess a worldwide sphere to rival that of the major European powers - and Liberia lay at the centre of his policy. A policy dominator for the past decade, Groesbeck sought to enlarge the small African nation with aid from the British, to aid them in the rapidly growing Anglo-French Split. The Lib. Democrats would also continue the Republicans' economic growth, and admitted several new territories into the USA as fully-fledged states. There was also talk of the purchase of Russian Alaska and intervention in the Hawaiian civil war...

Vice_President_Nixon · Jun 11, 2012

The Frontiersmen
1952: Dwight D. Eisenhower/Richard M. Nixon (Republican) [1]
1956: Dwight D. Eisenhower/Richard M. Nixon (Republican)
1960: John F. Kennedy/George A. Smathers (Democratic)* [2]
1962: George A. Smathers/Vacant (Democratic)
1964: George A. Smathers/ Hubert Humphrey (Democratic)
1968: Tom Turnipseed / Seymore Trammell (American Conservative Party) [3]
1972: Robert F. Kennedy/Henry M. Jackson (Democratic) [4]
1976: Robert F. Kennedy/Robert Shriver (Democratic) [5]
1980: Howard Baker/John B. Connally (Republican Tories) [6]
1984: Howard Baker/James Baker (Republican Tories) [7]
1988: Mario Cuomo/Al Gore (Democratic) [8]
1992: Robert Dole/Pete Wilson (Republican Tories) [9]
1996: Robert Dole/Arthur MacArthur IV (Republican Tories) [10]
2000: Lamar Alexander/William J. Clinton (Republican Tories/Dems) [11]
2004: Lamar Alexander / Oliver North (Republican Tories) [12]
2008: James Poniewozik/Maria Shriver (Democratic) [13]
2012: James Poniewozik/Maria Shriver (Democratic)

[1] OTL: Former General Dwight Eisenhower wins out over Democratic candidate Adlai Stevenson, and governs a prosperous America for the remainder of the decade.
[2] Young Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy wins the nomination of his party in a heated battle against Lyndon Johnson. Kennedy thinks of bringing LBJ aboard as Vice President, but is dissuaded by his brother. Instead, Johnson is asked to come aboard as campaign manager, and Jack approaches his friend George Smathers to run as his vice president. Like Kennedy, Smathers is young, charismatic, and charming. Unlike Kennedy, he is a Southerner (from Florida), has Southern views on race, and Southern conservatisms in other areas, and is willing to bait the voters by casting their worst fears, such as Communism, on the opponent. Such balances the ticket, while allowing the promotion of youth and vitality for the 1960s. In 1960, the race is close between Nixon and Kennedy, and even with Johnson's management and Smather's Southern origin, Kennedy loses Texas (though by a surprisingly slim minority). Kennedy, however, does win over vice president Nixon. Though a nation wide recount is held, it finds no major changes in votes upon review, and after several weeks, Nixon ends the matter, publicly stating he does not want a crisis, while privately wishing to avoid embarrassment as even in the recount his is not winning.
Kennedy lead competently, and brought prestige to the White House that it had not seen in years. His largest failure, however, was the Bay of Pigs invasion, which failed miserably, though the country forgave him for the incident. This action would, however, lead do his undoing, as he was assassinated in late August 1962 by a group of Cuban exiles who felt betrayed by Kennedy. The assassination is still a subject of controversy as to whether or not there was a greater conspiracy.
[3] With the emergence of a highly politicized and violent civil rights movement throughout the previous Democratic terms, things began to become serious. Smathers soon faced the blame from an angry public terrorized by public bombings and constant threats from unprovoked attack. The two main parties were completely unfocused on their goals, leading to gains from the nationalist (and southern-centred) right in 1968. Turnipseed's American Conservative Party managed to narrowly scrape through into a shocking presidential victory - with barely 2% of the vote in it. Their main goal was simple - quell the terrorist menace. (OOC: This civil rights movement is crazy aggressive, although there are other pacifist movements as OTL led by MLK.)
[4] The American Conservative Party does not have enough support to remain significant in 1972. Senator Robert F. Kennedy narrowly edges Republican Governor Ronald Reagan in the election. President Kennedy spends much of his term mending the Civil Rights Crisis and uses so much of his political capital preserving civil rights peace that he is unable to do much else. Regardless he remains personally popular among the people going into 1976.
[5] The Democrats achieved a second victory in 1976, albeit small. Jackson had been dropped from the ticket for fear of him being too conservative for the 'modernizing' government. Robert Shriver, former Ambassador to France and a keen geopolitical figure, sought political freedom from the interior-based politics of RFK in order to combat the fear of Communism leaking from the USSR.
[6] Republicans and Conservatives merge to form the Republican Tories, though the most racist and far-right elements of the ACP withdraw and form their own but unelectable "Populist Party". Despite Kennedy's personal popularity, the economic downturn has made the Democrats unlikely to win. Howard Baker defeats Birch Bayh by a 52-44 margin, becoming the first president to win an absolute majority of votes since 1964.
[7] The Republican Tories remained popular, and consequently began a political renaissance for the American right. Under the economic and diplomatic isolationism that Baker proposed, the Peoples' Republic of China surpassed the Soviet Union in industrial capacity, and consequently began a three-sided Cold War. The Sino-Soviet split, prevalent ever since the '60s, worsened as both superpowers quarreled over the treatment of Mongolia and Tibet, and the USSR funded Uyghur terrorists in China. Baker's government believed that the two ideological enemies of the United States could destroy themselves and leave the US as the sole international power in what became known as the 'Baker Plan.'
[8] In late 1986, the Sino-Soviet tension erupted into full scale war, with minor nuclear exchange. While at first the United States believed this would benefit it by distracting and harming the other super powers, the war left environmental repercussions. By the time the peace treaty had been signed in 1989, the nuclear exchange had lead to a minor global cooling for almost five years following the start of the conflict, leading to irregular crop harvests world wide, resulting in famine in parts of the world and limited food supplies in others. Radioactive traces were also carried by the wind currents to other areas of Asia, such as Japan, requiring international clean up efforts. This all put pressure on the US economy, and helped lead to a recession in 1987.
Despite this, the election of 1988 would be close between James Baker and Democratic Governor of New York Mario Cuomo. Cuomo chose Southerner and "Atari Democrat" Al Gore as his running mate, and managed to win the election.
[9] While Cuomo was able to achieve domestic success, such as by allowing gays to serve in the military and pushing through a mixed healthcare reform plan, part private/public, he was unable to control the failing economy with rising unemployment and the infamous collapse of Enron due to bad investment deals. These economic problems, coupled with the rise of insurgency in Bangladesh and Mongolia which led to India calling for US assistance that was refused by President Cuomo, making him be seen as a coward, led to his not so surprising defeat by Bob Dole in 1992.
[10] As the Indian insurgencies began to consume the political capital of all of the major political parties, (especially after the attempted bombing of Air Force One in 1994), Dole's government began preparations for the mobilization of troops to support the Indians. After Wilson declined to run again after extensive throat surgery, Dole chose a highly controversial running mate in Arthur MacArthur IV. The Republican Tories, taking a further considerable (and not tremendously popular) step to the right, attempted to pass anti-terrorist legislation which was strongly opposed by the Democrats - who had seen a considerable rise in popularity from the anti-interventionist camp. Additionally, moves were made to incorporate Puerto Rico as a state of union after it approached the United States government officially, and this brought other potential states into consideration - largely the amalgamation of other American overseas territories.
[11] On Election Night Neither Lamar Alexander nor Joseph P. Kennedy II are able to win enough electoral votes to be named President due to candidate Ralph Nader winning Vermont and New Hampshire. The election was thrown to congress where the House elected Governor Lamar Alexander President-Elect while the Senate choose Democratic Senator William J. Clinton for Vice President.
[12] President Alexander picks General Oliver North, a hero of the Indian insurgencies as his running mate, and defeats Clinton and Nader by a 50-45-4 margin in the general election. The American sphere of influence has expanded into former East Europe except in civil war-stricken Romania, and that the former Soviet Union and China has entered a period of constant civil war. Ukraine, the Baltic States, Georgia, Chechnya, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Tibet, Hong Kong and East Turkey has gained full independence and become democratic states. At the same time, Taiwan has conquered Fujian and Guangdong, as well as a nuclear arsenal despite American opposition. Lee Teng-hui becomes the first democratically-elected president of the Republic of Hwanan (華南共和國), which replaces China as a permanent member of the Security Council, but it subsequently renounces claims of the remaining of China, leaving it in ruins and constant civil wars. India and united Germany, meanwhile, replace the Soviet Union and become permanent members of the Security Council. The world is at peace, with the United States as its undoubted leader. However, Pakistan and Hwanan, both democratized, have signed the Treaty of Taipei, hoping to unite non-aligned democratic countries to counter American influence.
[13] The concluding years of the Alexander presidency were marked by two major international events. Firstly, the official declaration of the International Asian Non-Aligned Movement, led by Pakistan and Hwanan and later joined by Siam, Cambodia and Burma in 2007 - a major blow to American ambitions in the Far East. Secondly, the Nuclear Proliferation Crisis, which began with the announcement of Japan's nuclear weapons programme in early 2008 and rapidly spread across Asia and the Middle East. Indeed, these programmes had been aided by the leaking of Soviet nuclear weapons and technology during the civil war (which still had no decisive victory). These two aspects caused a major leap in popularity for the Democrats - under the eloquent James Poniewozik who announced his presidency on the same day that Tibet announced it possessed a nuclear weapon. He also attracted a considerable female vote in his running-mate - the popular socialite Maria Shriver.

Lincoln Lives, Johnson Dies

1864: Abraham Lincoln/Andrew Johnson (Republican)
1865: Abraham Lincoln/Vacant (Republican) [1]
1868: James Doolittle/Asa Packer (Democratic) [2]
1872: Abraham Lincoln/James G. Blaine (Republican) [3]
1876: William S. Groesbeck/William E. Cameron (Liberal Democratic) [4]
1880: John Sherman/Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican) [5]
1884: John Sherman/Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican)
1888: William S. Groesbeck/Alfred H. Love (Liberal Democratic)[6]
1892: David B. Hill/Issac P. Gray (Liberal Democratic) [7]

[1] An April assassination attempt leaves President Lincoln with minor injuries but manages to leave Vice President Andrew Johnson dead. Secretary of State William Seward was also attacked but managed to survive.
[2] Lincoln's radical reconstruction programme slipped rapidly into becoming highly unpopular amongst the electorate. Doolittle, formerly an advocate of the system, campaigned for its reform with the Democratic Party. Lincoln, who ran against him for an attempted third term, survived two more assassination attempts on his life.
[3] The Doolittle administration is even more unpopular due the rolling back of Lincoln-era reforms, too lenient treatment of the South and the Panic of 1872. Running on a rather moderate platform, Lincoln decides to run again, and defeats Doolittle by a 56-43 margin, the largest percentage of victory since 1820. With a commanding majority in both houses, the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1874 would be passed. The economy would gradually recover during Lincoln's third term, though he has decided not to run again in 1876.
[4] With Lincoln leaving office, the Republicans suffered a major political vacuum that Blaine failed to fill, resulting in an important yet complicated election in which many parties gained seats. Most signficant of these, however, was Groesbeck's Liberal Democratic Party - a newly amalgamated group formed from members of the Democrats supporting the 'New Direction,' as well as a few stray Republicans wanting to seperate themselves from post-Lincolnian Republicanism. The Liberal Democrats actually left the well-handled Republican economy largely untouched - a move that granted them much respect and credibility (if a little hypocrisy) as responsible leaders - and instead focused on 'Diplomatic Reconstruction' to improve relations with European colonial powers; especially the United Kingdom and France. Also of significant issue was the American protectorate of Liberia, which was encouraged to accept blacks emigrating from the United States in the aftermath of the Civil War, and consequently relations significantly improved. Liberia would become a major source of conflict between the European colonizers and the United States, but Groesbeck managed to secure a significant enlargement of its borders.
[5] Senator John Sherman of Ohio managed to united the reeling Republicans in time to secure an upset over the popular Liberal Democrats. This election is a re-aligning election which while giving the Republicans the White House, established the Liberal Democrats as a clear major party. President Sherman continued and enhanced the economic prosperity of the country, but was rather lost in foreign policy especially over Liberia and the continuing tensions with the Europeans.
[6] The Monrovia bombing in 1886, argued by historians to have been a French attempt to destabilize the country, sparked anger across the United States. Sherman unfairly received much criticism, and in the 1888 election the strong Liberal Democrats, led by returning William S. Groesbeck, easily reclaimed the White House. Groesbeck announced his intentions for the Americans to possess a worldwide sphere to rival that of the major European powers - and Liberia lay at the centre of his policy. A policy dominator for the past decade, Groesbeck sought to enlarge the small African nation with aid from the British, to aid them in the rapidly growing Anglo-French Split. The Lib. Democrats would also continue the Republicans' economic growth, and admitted several new territories into the USA as fully-fledged states. There was also talk of the purchase of Russian Alaska and intervention in the Hawaiian civil war...
[7] After President Groesbeck decline to run for a third term, the Liberal Democratic nomination was won by Senator David B. Hill of New York who defeated the Speaker of the House Thomas B. Reed in the general election. President Hill began his term with the Purchase of Alaska, and the overthrow of the Hawaiian Queen followed shortly by annexation of Hawaii which narrowly passed in the Senate. Unfortunately, the economic prosperity which the country had enjoyed since the Civil War was ended with the Panic of 1894, a large recession had the public clamoring for the end of the Hill Presidency and as such many big name Republicans were planning on throwing their hat into the 1896 Election.

Tony · Jun 11, 2012

The Frontiersmen
1952: Dwight D. Eisenhower/Richard M. Nixon (Republican) [1]
1956: Dwight D. Eisenhower/Richard M. Nixon (Republican)
1960: John F. Kennedy/George A. Smathers (Democratic)* [2]
1962: George A. Smathers/Vacant (Democratic)
1964: George A. Smathers/ Hubert Humphrey (Democratic)
1968: Tom Turnipseed / Seymore Trammell (American Conservative Party) [3]
1972: Robert F. Kennedy/Henry M. Jackson (Democratic) [4]
1976: Robert F. Kennedy/Robert Shriver (Democratic) [5]
1980: Howard Baker/John B. Connally (Republican Tories) [6]
1984: Howard Baker/James Baker (Republican Tories) [7]
1988: Mario Cuomo/Al Gore (Democratic) [8]
1992: Robert Dole/Pete Wilson (Republican Tories) [9]
1996: Robert Dole/Arthur MacArthur IV (Republican Tories) [10]
2000: Lamar Alexander/William J. Clinton (Republican Tories/Dems) [11]
2004: Lamar Alexander / Oliver North (Republican Tories) [12]
2008: James Poniewozik/Maria Shriver (Democratic) [13]
2012: James Poniewozik/Maria Shriver (Democratic)
2016: Franklin Graham / Dan Boren (Republican Tories) [14]
[1] OTL: Former General Dwight Eisenhower wins out over Democratic candidate Adlai Stevenson, and governs a prosperous America for the remainder of the decade.
[2] Young Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy wins the nomination of his party in a heated battle against Lyndon Johnson. Kennedy thinks of bringing LBJ aboard as Vice President, but is dissuaded by his brother. Instead, Johnson is asked to come aboard as campaign manager, and Jack approaches his friend George Smathers to run as his vice president. Like Kennedy, Smathers is young, charismatic, and charming. Unlike Kennedy, he is a Southerner (from Florida), has Southern views on race, and Southern conservatisms in other areas, and is willing to bait the voters by casting their worst fears, such as Communism, on the opponent. Such balances the ticket, while allowing the promotion of youth and vitality for the 1960s. In 1960, the race is close between Nixon and Kennedy, and even with Johnson's management and Smather's Southern origin, Kennedy loses Texas (though by a surprisingly slim minority). Kennedy, however, does win over vice president Nixon. Though a nation wide recount is held, it finds no major changes in votes upon review, and after several weeks, Nixon ends the matter, publicly stating he does not want a crisis, while privately wishing to avoid embarrassment as even in the recount his is not winning.
Kennedy lead competently, and brought prestige to the White House that it had not seen in years. His largest failure, however, was the Bay of Pigs invasion, which failed miserably, though the country forgave him for the incident. This action would, however, lead do his undoing, as he was assassinated in late August 1962 by a group of Cuban exiles who felt betrayed by Kennedy. The assassination is still a subject of controversy as to whether or not there was a greater conspiracy.
[3] With the emergence of a highly politicized and violent civil rights movement throughout the previous Democratic terms, things began to become serious. Smathers soon faced the blame from an angry public terrorized by public bombings and constant threats from unprovoked attack. The two main parties were completely unfocused on their goals, leading to gains from the nationalist (and southern-centred) right in 1968. Turnipseed's American Conservative Party managed to narrowly scrape through into a shocking presidential victory - with barely 2% of the vote in it. Their main goal was simple - quell the terrorist menace. (OOC: This civil rights movement is crazy aggressive, although there are other pacifist movements as OTL led by MLK.)
[4] The American Conservative Party does not have enough support to remain significant in 1972. Senator Robert F. Kennedy narrowly edges Republican Governor Ronald Reagan in the election. President Kennedy spends much of his term mending the Civil Rights Crisis and uses so much of his political capital preserving civil rights peace that he is unable to do much else. Regardless he remains personally popular among the people going into 1976.
[5] The Democrats achieved a second victory in 1976, albeit small. Jackson had been dropped from the ticket for fear of him being too conservative for the 'modernizing' government. Robert Shriver, former Ambassador to France and a keen geopolitical figure, sought political freedom from the interior-based politics of RFK in order to combat the fear of Communism leaking from the USSR.
[6] Republicans and Conservatives merge to form the Republican Tories, though the most racist and far-right elements of the ACP withdraw and form their own but unelectable "Populist Party". Despite Kennedy's personal popularity, the economic downturn has made the Democrats unlikely to win. Howard Baker defeats Birch Bayh by a 52-44 margin, becoming the first president to win an absolute majority of votes since 1964.
[7] The Republican Tories remained popular, and consequently began a political renaissance for the American right. Under the economic and diplomatic isolationism that Baker proposed, the Peoples' Republic of China surpassed the Soviet Union in industrial capacity, and consequently began a three-sided Cold War. The Sino-Soviet split, prevalent ever since the '60s, worsened as both superpowers quarreled over the treatment of Mongolia and Tibet, and the USSR funded Uyghur terrorists in China. Baker's government believed that the two ideological enemies of the United States could destroy themselves and leave the US as the sole international power in what became known as the 'Baker Plan.'
[8] In late 1986, the Sino-Soviet tension erupted into full scale war, with minor nuclear exchange. While at first the United States believed this would benefit it by distracting and harming the other super powers, the war left environmental repercussions. By the time the peace treaty had been signed in 1989, the nuclear exchange had lead to a minor global cooling for almost five years following the start of the conflict, leading to irregular crop harvests world wide, resulting in famine in parts of the world and limited food supplies in others. Radioactive traces were also carried by the wind currents to other areas of Asia, such as Japan, requiring international clean up efforts. This all put pressure on the US economy, and helped lead to a recession in 1987.
Despite this, the election of 1988 would be close between James Baker and Democratic Governor of New York Mario Cuomo. Cuomo chose Southerner and "Atari Democrat" Al Gore as his running mate, and managed to win the election.
[9] While Cuomo was able to achieve domestic success, such as by allowing gays to serve in the military and pushing through a mixed healthcare reform plan, part private/public, he was unable to control the failing economy with rising unemployment and the infamous collapse of Enron due to bad investment deals. These economic problems, coupled with the rise of insurgency in Bangladesh and Mongolia which led to India calling for US assistance that was refused by President Cuomo, making him be seen as a coward, led to his not so surprising defeat by Bob Dole in 1992.
[10] As the Indian insurgencies began to consume the political capital of all of the major political parties, (especially after the attempted bombing of Air Force One in 1994), Dole's government began preparations for the mobilization of troops to support the Indians. After Wilson declined to run again after extensive throat surgery, Dole chose a highly controversial running mate in Arthur MacArthur IV. The Republican Tories, taking a further considerable (and not tremendously popular) step to the right, attempted to pass anti-terrorist legislation which was strongly opposed by the Democrats - who had seen a considerable rise in popularity from the anti-interventionist camp. Additionally, moves were made to incorporate Puerto Rico as a state of union after it approached the United States government officially, and this brought other potential states into consideration - largely the amalgamation of other American overseas territories.
[11] On Election Night Neither Lamar Alexander nor Joseph P. Kennedy II are able to win enough electoral votes to be named President due to candidate Ralph Nader winning Vermont and New Hampshire. The election was thrown to congress where the House elected Governor Lamar Alexander President-Elect while the Senate choose Democratic Senator William J. Clinton for Vice President.
[12] President Alexander picks General Oliver North, a hero of the Indian insurgencies as his running mate, and defeats Clinton and Nader by a 50-45-4 margin in the general election. The American sphere of influence has expanded into former East Europe except in civil war-stricken Romania, and that the former Soviet Union and China has entered a period of constant civil war. Ukraine, the Baltic States, Georgia, Chechnya, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Tibet, Hong Kong and East Turkey has gained full independence and become democratic states. At the same time, Taiwan has conquered Fujian and Guangdong, as well as a nuclear arsenal despite American opposition. Lee Teng-hui becomes the first democratically-elected president of the Republic of Hwanan (華南共和國), which replaces China as a permanent member of the Security Council, but it subsequently renounces claims of the remaining of China, leaving it in ruins and constant civil wars. India and united Germany, meanwhile, replace the Soviet Union and become permanent members of the Security Council. The world is at peace, with the United States as its undoubted leader. However, Pakistan and Hwanan, both democratized, have signed the Treaty of Taipei, hoping to unite non-aligned democratic countries to counter American influence.
[13] The concluding years of the Alexander presidency were marked by two major international events. Firstly, the official declaration of the International Asian Non-Aligned Movement, led by Pakistan and Hwanan and later joined by Siam, Cambodia and Burma in 2007 - a major blow to American ambitions in the Far East. Secondly, the Nuclear Proliferation Crisis, which began with the announcement of Japan's nuclear weapons programme in early 2008 and rapidly spread across Asia and the Middle East. Indeed, these programmes had been aided by the leaking of Soviet nuclear weapons and technology during the civil war (which still had no decisive victory). These two aspects caused a major leap in popularity for the Democrats - under the eloquent James Poniewozik who announced his presidency on the same day that Tibet announced it possessed a nuclear weapon. He also attracted a considerable female vote in his running-mate - the popular socialite Maria Shriver.
[14] Far-right conservative Senator Franklin Graham of North Carolina defeats Jane M. Swift for the RT presidential nomination. Meanwhile, Dennis Kucinich clinches the Democratic nomination in a eight-way race between him, Maria Shriver, Jerry Brown, Michael Bloomberg, Lincoln Chafee, Russ Feingold, Gayle McLaughlin and Brian Schweitzer. President Poniewozik refuses to endorse Kucinich, while Bloomberg, choosing former Governor Mark Warner of Virginia as his running mate, runs a third-party ticket under the name of the Moderate Party. Graham defeats Kucinich and Bloomberg by a 43-31-25 margin. In his inaugural speech, President Graham promises to spread Christianity and American values to areas affected by the "evil nature of Islam". Pakistan recalls its ambassador in protest.

Lincoln Lives, Johnson Dies
1864: Abraham Lincoln/Andrew Johnson (Republican)
1865: Abraham Lincoln/Vacant (Republican) [1]
1868: James Doolittle/Asa Packer (Democratic) [2]
1872: Abraham Lincoln/James G. Blaine (Republican) [3]
1876: William S. Groesbeck/William E. Cameron (Liberal Democratic) [4]
1880: John Sherman/Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican) [5]
1884: John Sherman/Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican)
1888: William S. Groesbeck/Alfred H. Love (Liberal Democratic)[6]
1892: David B. Hill/Issac P. Gray (Liberal Democratic) [7]
1896: Robert T. Lincoln / William McKinley (Republican)
[1] An April assassination attempt leaves President Lincoln with minor injuries but manages to leave Vice President Andrew Johnson dead. Secretary of State William Seward was also attacked but managed to survive.
[2] Lincoln's radical reconstruction programme slipped rapidly into becoming highly unpopular amongst the electorate. Doolittle, formerly an advocate of the system, campaigned for its reform with the Democratic Party. Lincoln, who ran against him for an attempted third term, survived two more assassination attempts on his life.
[3] The Doolittle administration is even more unpopular due the rolling back of Lincoln-era reforms, too lenient treatment of the South and the Panic of 1872. Running on a rather moderate platform, Lincoln decides to run again, and defeats Doolittle by a 56-43 margin, the largest percentage of victory since 1820. With a commanding majority in both houses, the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1874 would be passed. The economy would gradually recover during Lincoln's third term, though he has decided not to run again in 1876.
[4] With Lincoln leaving office, the Republicans suffered a major political vacuum that Blaine failed to fill, resulting in an important yet complicated election in which many parties gained seats. Most signficant of these, however, was Groesbeck's Liberal Democratic Party - a newly amalgamated group formed from members of the Democrats supporting the 'New Direction,' as well as a few stray Republicans wanting to seperate themselves from post-Lincolnian Republicanism. The Liberal Democrats actually left the well-handled Republican economy largely untouched - a move that granted them much respect and credibility (if a little hypocrisy) as responsible leaders - and instead focused on 'Diplomatic Reconstruction' to improve relations with European colonial powers; especially the United Kingdom and France. Also of significant issue was the American protectorate of Liberia, which was encouraged to accept blacks emigrating from the United States in the aftermath of the Civil War, and consequently relations significantly improved. Liberia would become a major source of conflict between the European colonizers and the United States, but Groesbeck managed to secure a significant enlargement of its borders.
[5] Senator John Sherman of Ohio managed to united the reeling Republicans in time to secure an upset over the popular Liberal Democrats. This election is a re-aligning election which while giving the Republicans the White House, established the Liberal Democrats as a clear major party. President Sherman continued and enhanced the economic prosperity of the country, but was rather lost in foreign policy especially over Liberia and the continuing tensions with the Europeans.
[6] The Monrovia bombing in 1886, argued by historians to have been a French attempt to destabilize the country, sparked anger across the United States. Sherman unfairly received much criticism, and in the 1888 election the strong Liberal Democrats, led by returning William S. Groesbeck, easily reclaimed the White House. Groesbeck announced his intentions for the Americans to possess a worldwide sphere to rival that of the major European powers - and Liberia lay at the centre of his policy. A policy dominator for the past decade, Groesbeck sought to enlarge the small African nation with aid from the British, to aid them in the rapidly growing Anglo-French Split. The Lib. Democrats would also continue the Republicans' economic growth, and admitted several new territories into the USA as fully-fledged states. There was also talk of the purchase of Russian Alaska and intervention in the Hawaiian civil war...
[7] After President Groesbeck decline to run for a third term, the Liberal Democratic nomination was won by Senator David B. Hill of New York who defeated the Speaker of the House Thomas B. Reed in the general election. President Hill began his term with the Purchase of Alaska, and the overthrow of the Hawaiian Queen followed shortly by annexation of Hawaii which narrowly passed in the Senate. Unfortunately, the economic prosperity which the country had enjoyed since the Civil War was ended with the Panic of 1894, a large recession had the public clamoring for the end of the Hill Presidency and as such many big name Republicans were planning on throwing their hat into the 1896 Election.

Tayya · Jun 11, 2012

The Frontiersmen
1952: Dwight D. Eisenhower/Richard M. Nixon (Republican) [1]
1956: Dwight D. Eisenhower/Richard M. Nixon (Republican)
1960: John F. Kennedy/George A. Smathers (Democratic)* [2]
1962: George A. Smathers/Vacant (Democratic)
1964: George A. Smathers/ Hubert Humphrey (Democratic)
1968: Tom Turnipseed / Seymore Trammell (American Conservative Party) [3]
1972: Robert F. Kennedy/Henry M. Jackson (Democratic) [4]
1976: Robert F. Kennedy/Robert Shriver (Democratic) [5]
1980: Howard Baker/John B. Connally (Republican Tories) [6]
1984: Howard Baker/James Baker (Republican Tories) [7]
1988: Mario Cuomo/Al Gore (Democratic) [8]
1992: Robert Dole/Pete Wilson (Republican Tories) [9]
1996: Robert Dole/Arthur MacArthur IV (Republican Tories) [10]
2000: Lamar Alexander/William J. Clinton (Republican Tories/Dems) [11]
2004: Lamar Alexander / Oliver North (Republican Tories) [12]
2008: James Poniewozik/Maria Shriver (Democratic) [13]
2012: James Poniewozik/Maria Shriver (Democratic)
2016: Franklin Graham / Dan Boren (Republican Tories) [14]
2020: Sherrod Brown/Amy Klobuchar (Democratic) [15]

[1] OTL: Former General Dwight Eisenhower wins out over Democratic candidate Adlai Stevenson, and governs a prosperous America for the remainder of the decade.
[2] Young Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy wins the nomination of his party in a heated battle against Lyndon Johnson. Kennedy thinks of bringing LBJ aboard as Vice President, but is dissuaded by his brother. Instead, Johnson is asked to come aboard as campaign manager, and Jack approaches his friend George Smathers to run as his vice president. Like Kennedy, Smathers is young, charismatic, and charming. Unlike Kennedy, he is a Southerner (from Florida), has Southern views on race, and Southern conservatisms in other areas, and is willing to bait the voters by casting their worst fears, such as Communism, on the opponent. Such balances the ticket, while allowing the promotion of youth and vitality for the 1960s. In 1960, the race is close between Nixon and Kennedy, and even with Johnson's management and Smather's Southern origin, Kennedy loses Texas (though by a surprisingly slim minority). Kennedy, however, does win over vice president Nixon. Though a nation wide recount is held, it finds no major changes in votes upon review, and after several weeks, Nixon ends the matter, publicly stating he does not want a crisis, while privately wishing to avoid embarrassment as even in the recount his is not winning.
Kennedy lead competently, and brought prestige to the White House that it had not seen in years. His largest failure, however, was the Bay of Pigs invasion, which failed miserably, though the country forgave him for the incident. This action would, however, lead do his undoing, as he was assassinated in late August 1962 by a group of Cuban exiles who felt betrayed by Kennedy. The assassination is still a subject of controversy as to whether or not there was a greater conspiracy.
[3] With the emergence of a highly politicized and violent civil rights movement throughout the previous Democratic terms, things began to become serious. Smathers soon faced the blame from an angry public terrorized by public bombings and constant threats from unprovoked attack. The two main parties were completely unfocused on their goals, leading to gains from the nationalist (and southern-centred) right in 1968. Turnipseed's American Conservative Party managed to narrowly scrape through into a shocking presidential victory - with barely 2% of the vote in it. Their main goal was simple - quell the terrorist menace. (OOC: This civil rights movement is crazy aggressive, although there are other pacifist movements as OTL led by MLK.)
[4] The American Conservative Party does not have enough support to remain significant in 1972. Senator Robert F. Kennedy narrowly edges Republican Governor Ronald Reagan in the election. President Kennedy spends much of his term mending the Civil Rights Crisis and uses so much of his political capital preserving civil rights peace that he is unable to do much else. Regardless he remains personally popular among the people going into 1976.
[5] The Democrats achieved a second victory in 1976, albeit small. Jackson had been dropped from the ticket for fear of him being too conservative for the 'modernizing' government. Robert Shriver, former Ambassador to France and a keen geopolitical figure, sought political freedom from the interior-based politics of RFK in order to combat the fear of Communism leaking from the USSR.
[6] Republicans and Conservatives merge to form the Republican Tories, though the most racist and far-right elements of the ACP withdraw and form their own but unelectable "Populist Party". Despite Kennedy's personal popularity, the economic downturn has made the Democrats unlikely to win. Howard Baker defeats Birch Bayh by a 52-44 margin, becoming the first president to win an absolute majority of votes since 1964.
[7] The Republican Tories remained popular, and consequently began a political renaissance for the American right. Under the economic and diplomatic isolationism that Baker proposed, the Peoples' Republic of China surpassed the Soviet Union in industrial capacity, and consequently began a three-sided Cold War. The Sino-Soviet split, prevalent ever since the '60s, worsened as both superpowers quarreled over the treatment of Mongolia and Tibet, and the USSR funded Uyghur terrorists in China. Baker's government believed that the two ideological enemies of the United States could destroy themselves and leave the US as the sole international power in what became known as the 'Baker Plan.'
[8] In late 1986, the Sino-Soviet tension erupted into full scale war, with minor nuclear exchange. While at first the United States believed this would benefit it by distracting and harming the other super powers, the war left environmental repercussions. By the time the peace treaty had been signed in 1989, the nuclear exchange had lead to a minor global cooling for almost five years following the start of the conflict, leading to irregular crop harvests world wide, resulting in famine in parts of the world and limited food supplies in others. Radioactive traces were also carried by the wind currents to other areas of Asia, such as Japan, requiring international clean up efforts. This all put pressure on the US economy, and helped lead to a recession in 1987.
Despite this, the election of 1988 would be close between James Baker and Democratic Governor of New York Mario Cuomo. Cuomo chose Southerner and "Atari Democrat" Al Gore as his running mate, and managed to win the election.
[9] While Cuomo was able to achieve domestic success, such as by allowing gays to serve in the military and pushing through a mixed healthcare reform plan, part private/public, he was unable to control the failing economy with rising unemployment and the infamous collapse of Enron due to bad investment deals. These economic problems, coupled with the rise of insurgency in Bangladesh and Mongolia which led to India calling for US assistance that was refused by President Cuomo, making him be seen as a coward, led to his not so surprising defeat by Bob Dole in 1992.
[10] As the Indian insurgencies began to consume the political capital of all of the major political parties, (especially after the attempted bombing of Air Force One in 1994), Dole's government began preparations for the mobilization of troops to support the Indians. After Wilson declined to run again after extensive throat surgery, Dole chose a highly controversial running mate in Arthur MacArthur IV. The Republican Tories, taking a further considerable (and not tremendously popular) step to the right, attempted to pass anti-terrorist legislation which was strongly opposed by the Democrats - who had seen a considerable rise in popularity from the anti-interventionist camp. Additionally, moves were made to incorporate Puerto Rico as a state of union after it approached the United States government officially, and this brought other potential states into consideration - largely the amalgamation of other American overseas territories.
[11] On Election Night Neither Lamar Alexander nor Joseph P. Kennedy II are able to win enough electoral votes to be named President due to candidate Ralph Nader winning Vermont and New Hampshire. The election was thrown to congress where the House elected Governor Lamar Alexander President-Elect while the Senate choose Democratic Senator William J. Clinton for Vice President.
[12] President Alexander picks General Oliver North, a hero of the Indian insurgencies as his running mate, and defeats Clinton and Nader by a 50-45-4 margin in the general election. The American sphere of influence has expanded into former East Europe except in civil war-stricken Romania, and that the former Soviet Union and China has entered a period of constant civil war. Ukraine, the Baltic States, Georgia, Chechnya, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Tibet, Hong Kong and East Turkey has gained full independence and become democratic states. At the same time, Taiwan has conquered Fujian and Guangdong, as well as a nuclear arsenal despite American opposition. Lee Teng-hui becomes the first democratically-elected president of the Republic of Hwanan (華南共和國), which replaces China as a permanent member of the Security Council, but it subsequently renounces claims of the remaining of China, leaving it in ruins and constant civil wars. India and united Germany, meanwhile, replace the Soviet Union and become permanent members of the Security Council. The world is at peace, with the United States as its undoubted leader. However, Pakistan and Hwanan, both democratized, have signed the Treaty of Taipei, hoping to unite non-aligned democratic countries to counter American influence.
[13] The concluding years of the Alexander presidency were marked by two major international events. Firstly, the official declaration of the International Asian Non-Aligned Movement, led by Pakistan and Hwanan and later joined by Siam, Cambodia and Burma in 2007 - a major blow to American ambitions in the Far East. Secondly, the Nuclear Proliferation Crisis, which began with the announcement of Japan's nuclear weapons programme in early 2008 and rapidly spread across Asia and the Middle East. Indeed, these programmes had been aided by the leaking of Soviet nuclear weapons and technology during the civil war (which still had no decisive victory). These two aspects caused a major leap in popularity for the Democrats - under the eloquent James Poniewozik who announced his presidency on the same day that Tibet announced it possessed a nuclear weapon. He also attracted a considerable female vote in his running-mate - the popular socialite Maria Shriver.
[14] Far-right conservative Senator Franklin Graham of North Carolina defeats Jane M. Swift for the RT presidential nomination. Meanwhile, Dennis Kucinich clinches the Democratic nomination in a eight-way race between him, Maria Shriver, Jerry Brown, Michael Bloomberg, Lincoln Chafee, Russ Feingold, Gayle McLaughlin and Brian Schweitzer. President Poniewozik refuses to endorse Kucinich, while Bloomberg, choosing former Governor Mark Warner of Virginia as his running mate, runs a third-party ticket under the name of the Moderate Party. Graham defeats Kucinich and Bloomberg by a 43-31-25 margin. In his inaugural speech, President Graham promises to spread Christianity and American values to areas affected by the "evil nature of Islam". Pakistan recalls its ambassador in protest.
[15] Graham involves himself in a war with Pakistan only a year after being inaugurated. The war escalates and soon involves most of the Middle East. Casualties are high and anti-war candidate Sherrod Brown boots out Graham with 57% of the vote.

Lincoln Lives, Johnson Dies
1864: Abraham Lincoln/Andrew Johnson (Republican)
1865: Abraham Lincoln/Vacant (Republican) [1]
1868: James Doolittle/Asa Packer (Democratic) [2]
1872: Abraham Lincoln/James G. Blaine (Republican) [3]
1876: William S. Groesbeck/William E. Cameron (Liberal Democratic) [4]
1880: John Sherman/Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican) [5]
1884: John Sherman/Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican)
1888: William S. Groesbeck/Alfred H. Love (Liberal Democratic)[6]
1892: David B. Hill/Issac P. Gray (Liberal Democratic) [7]
1896: Robert T. Lincoln / William McKinley (Republican)
1900: Robert T. Lincoln / William McKinley (Republican)
[1] An April assassination attempt leaves President Lincoln with minor injuries but manages to leave Vice President Andrew Johnson dead. Secretary of State William Seward was also attacked but managed to survive.
[2] Lincoln's radical reconstruction programme slipped rapidly into becoming highly unpopular amongst the electorate. Doolittle, formerly an advocate of the system, campaigned for its reform with the Democratic Party. Lincoln, who ran against him for an attempted third term, survived two more assassination attempts on his life.
[3] The Doolittle administration is even more unpopular due the rolling back of Lincoln-era reforms, too lenient treatment of the South and the Panic of 1872. Running on a rather moderate platform, Lincoln decides to run again, and defeats Doolittle by a 56-43 margin, the largest percentage of victory since 1820. With a commanding majority in both houses, the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1874 would be passed. The economy would gradually recover during Lincoln's third term, though he has decided not to run again in 1876.
[4] With Lincoln leaving office, the Republicans suffered a major political vacuum that Blaine failed to fill, resulting in an important yet complicated election in which many parties gained seats. Most signficant of these, however, was Groesbeck's Liberal Democratic Party - a newly amalgamated group formed from members of the Democrats supporting the 'New Direction,' as well as a few stray Republicans wanting to seperate themselves from post-Lincolnian Republicanism. The Liberal Democrats actually left the well-handled Republican economy largely untouched - a move that granted them much respect and credibility (if a little hypocrisy) as responsible leaders - and instead focused on 'Diplomatic Reconstruction' to improve relations with European colonial powers; especially the United Kingdom and France. Also of significant issue was the American protectorate of Liberia, which was encouraged to accept blacks emigrating from the United States in the aftermath of the Civil War, and consequently relations significantly improved. Liberia would become a major source of conflict between the European colonizers and the United States, but Groesbeck managed to secure a significant enlargement of its borders.
[5] Senator John Sherman of Ohio managed to united the reeling Republicans in time to secure an upset over the popular Liberal Democrats. This election is a re-aligning election which while giving the Republicans the White House, established the Liberal Democrats as a clear major party. President Sherman continued and enhanced the economic prosperity of the country, but was rather lost in foreign policy especially over Liberia and the continuing tensions with the Europeans.
[6] The Monrovia bombing in 1886, argued by historians to have been a French attempt to destabilize the country, sparked anger across the United States. Sherman unfairly received much criticism, and in the 1888 election the strong Liberal Democrats, led by returning William S. Groesbeck, easily reclaimed the White House. Groesbeck announced his intentions for the Americans to possess a worldwide sphere to rival that of the major European powers - and Liberia lay at the centre of his policy. A policy dominator for the past decade, Groesbeck sought to enlarge the small African nation with aid from the British, to aid them in the rapidly growing Anglo-French Split. The Lib. Democrats would also continue the Republicans' economic growth, and admitted several new territories into the USA as fully-fledged states. There was also talk of the purchase of Russian Alaska and intervention in the Hawaiian civil war...
[7] After President Groesbeck decline to run for a third term, the Liberal Democratic nomination was won by Senator David B. Hill of New York who defeated the Speaker of the House Thomas B. Reed in the general election. President Hill began his term with the Purchase of Alaska, and the overthrow of the Hawaiian Queen followed shortly by annexation of Hawaii which narrowly passed in the Senate. Unfortunately, the economic prosperity which the country had enjoyed since the Civil War was ended with the Panic of 1894, a large recession had the public clamoring for the end of the Hill Presidency and as such many big name Republicans were planning on throwing their hat into the 1896 Election.

Super Mario
1992: Mario Cuomo/Al Gore (Democratic)

Premier Taylerov · Jun 11, 2012

Lincoln Lives, Johnson Dies
1864: Abraham Lincoln/Andrew Johnson (Republican)
1865: Abraham Lincoln/Vacant (Republican) [1]
1868: James Doolittle/Asa Packer (Democratic) [2]
1872: Abraham Lincoln/James G. Blaine (Republican) [3]
1876: William S. Groesbeck/William E. Cameron (Liberal Democratic) [4]
1880: John Sherman/Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican) [5]
1884: John Sherman/Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican)
1888: William S. Groesbeck/Alfred H. Love (Liberal Democratic)[6]
1892: David B. Hill/Issac P. Gray (Liberal Democratic) [7]
1896: Robert T. Lincoln/William McKinley (Republican)
1900: Robert T. Lincoln/William McKinley (Republican)
1901: William McKinley/Vacant (Republican) [8]*
1905: John Tyler Morgan/Cornelius Vanderbilt III (Liberal Democratic) [8]

[1] An April assassination attempt leaves President Lincoln with minor injuries but manages to leave Vice President Andrew Johnson dead. Secretary of State William Seward was also attacked but managed to survive.
[2] Lincoln's radical reconstruction programme slipped rapidly into becoming highly unpopular amongst the electorate. Doolittle, formerly an advocate of the system, campaigned for its reform with the Democratic Party. Lincoln, who ran against him for an attempted third term, survived two more assassination attempts on his life.
[3] The Doolittle administration is even more unpopular due the rolling back of Lincoln-era reforms, too lenient treatment of the South and the Panic of 1872. Running on a rather moderate platform, Lincoln decides to run again, and defeats Doolittle by a 56-43 margin, the largest percentage of victory since 1820. With a commanding majority in both houses, the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1874 would be passed. The economy would gradually recover during Lincoln's third term, though he has decided not to run again in 1876.
[4] With Lincoln leaving office, the Republicans suffered a major political vacuum that Blaine failed to fill, resulting in an important yet complicated election in which many parties gained seats. Most signficant of these, however, was Groesbeck's Liberal Democratic Party - a newly amalgamated group formed from members of the Democrats supporting the 'New Direction,' as well as a few stray Republicans wanting to seperate themselves from post-Lincolnian Republicanism. The Liberal Democrats actually left the well-handled Republican economy largely untouched - a move that granted them much respect and credibility (if a little hypocrisy) as responsible leaders - and instead focused on 'Diplomatic Reconstruction' to improve relations with European colonial powers; especially the United Kingdom and France. Also of significant issue was the American protectorate of Liberia, which was encouraged to accept blacks emigrating from the United States in the aftermath of the Civil War, and consequently relations significantly improved. Liberia would become a major source of conflict between the European colonizers and the United States, but Groesbeck managed to secure a significant enlargement of its borders.
[5] Senator John Sherman of Ohio managed to united the reeling Republicans in time to secure an upset over the popular Liberal Democrats. This election is a re-aligning election which while giving the Republicans the White House, established the Liberal Democrats as a clear major party. President Sherman continued and enhanced the economic prosperity of the country, but was rather lost in foreign policy especially over Liberia and the continuing tensions with the Europeans.
[6] The Monrovia bombing in 1886, argued by historians to have been a French attempt to destabilize the country, sparked anger across the United States. Sherman unfairly received much criticism, and in the 1888 election the strong Liberal Democrats, led by returning William S. Groesbeck, easily reclaimed the White House. Groesbeck announced his intentions for the Americans to possess a worldwide sphere to rival that of the major European powers - and Liberia lay at the centre of his policy. A policy dominator for the past decade, Groesbeck sought to enlarge the small African nation with aid from the British, to aid them in the rapidly growing Anglo-French Split. The Lib. Democrats would also continue the Republicans' economic growth, and admitted several new territories into the USA as fully-fledged states. There was also talk of the purchase of Russian Alaska and intervention in the Hawaiian civil war...
[7] After President Groesbeck decline to run for a third term, the Liberal Democratic nomination was won by Senator David B. Hill of New York who defeated the Speaker of the House Thomas B. Reed in the general election. President Hill began his term with the Purchase of Alaska, and the overthrow of the Hawaiian Queen followed shortly by annexation of Hawaii which narrowly passed in the Senate. Unfortunately, the economic prosperity which the country had enjoyed since the Civil War was ended with the Panic of 1894, a large recession had the public clamoring for the end of the Hill Presidency and as such many big name Republicans were planning on throwing their hat into the 1896 Election.
[8] The 1901 assassination of Lincoln in Buffalo, New York, proved too be too much of a strain on McKinley. Despite appearing firm at the beginning of his office, his popularity declined rapidly. In 1904, a landmark election, the Liberal Democrats were ruthless - they campaigned for increased civil rights, as well as (forced) negotiation with Spain about selling its Caribbean assets (namely Cuba). In an American populace eager for expansion (yet keen to take advantage of the Anglo-Russian War that had broken out on the Dogger Bank in 1904) they proved popular. This would be a serious blow to the Republicans - who splintered into various factions with only a rump group representing the central party led by former Presidental aide and secretary George B. Cortelyou.

Super Mario
1992: Mario Cuomo/Al Gore (Democratic)
1996: Al Gore/Hugh Carey (Democratic)

A Multi-Party America
Seeming as 'Super Mario' won't last too long: using the election of 1824 as a starting point (as it was then when the D. Republicans were the only dominant force) your aim is to create a fullblown multi-party system in the USA which doesn't necessary feature the recognizable Democratic and Republican parties of today.

1824: Andrew Jackson/John Quincy Adams (Democratic Republican) [1]

[1] With the Democratic Republicans the only dominant political party in the United States after the dissolution of the Federalists, there was some confusion as to what would come after the election of John Quincy Adams by the House of Representatives in 1824.

Vice_President_Nixon · Jun 11, 2012

Lincoln Lives, Johnson Dies
1864: Abraham Lincoln/Andrew Johnson (Republican)
1865: Abraham Lincoln/Vacant (Republican) [1]
1868: James Doolittle/Asa Packer (Democratic) [2]
1872: Abraham Lincoln/James G. Blaine (Republican) [3]
1876: William S. Groesbeck/William E. Cameron (Liberal Democratic) [4]
1880: John Sherman/Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican) [5]
1884: John Sherman/Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican)
1888: William S. Groesbeck/Alfred H. Love (Liberal Democratic)[6]
1892: David B. Hill/Issac P. Gray (Liberal Democratic) [7]
1896: Robert T. Lincoln/William McKinley (Republican)
1900: Robert T. Lincoln/William McKinley (Republican)
1901: William McKinley/Vacant (Republican) [8]*
1904: John Tyler Morgan/Cornelius Vanderbilt III (Liberal Democratic) [8]
1908: Theodore Roosevelt/Charles Evans Hughes (Nationalist) [9]

[1] An April assassination attempt leaves President Lincoln with minor injuries but manages to leave Vice President Andrew Johnson dead. Secretary of State William Seward was also attacked but managed to survive.
[2] Lincoln's radical reconstruction programme slipped rapidly into becoming highly unpopular amongst the electorate. Doolittle, formerly an advocate of the system, campaigned for its reform with the Democratic Party. Lincoln, who ran against him for an attempted third term, survived two more assassination attempts on his life.
[3] The Doolittle administration is even more unpopular due the rolling back of Lincoln-era reforms, too lenient treatment of the South and the Panic of 1872. Running on a rather moderate platform, Lincoln decides to run again, and defeats Doolittle by a 56-43 margin, the largest percentage of victory since 1820. With a commanding majority in both houses, the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1874 would be passed. The economy would gradually recover during Lincoln's third term, though he has decided not to run again in 1876.
[4] With Lincoln leaving office, the Republicans suffered a major political vacuum that Blaine failed to fill, resulting in an important yet complicated election in which many parties gained seats. Most signficant of these, however, was Groesbeck's Liberal Democratic Party - a newly amalgamated group formed from members of the Democrats supporting the 'New Direction,' as well as a few stray Republicans wanting to seperate themselves from post-Lincolnian Republicanism. The Liberal Democrats actually left the well-handled Republican economy largely untouched - a move that granted them much respect and credibility (if a little hypocrisy) as responsible leaders - and instead focused on 'Diplomatic Reconstruction' to improve relations with European colonial powers; especially the United Kingdom and France. Also of significant issue was the American protectorate of Liberia, which was encouraged to accept blacks emigrating from the United States in the aftermath of the Civil War, and consequently relations significantly improved. Liberia would become a major source of conflict between the European colonizers and the United States, but Groesbeck managed to secure a significant enlargement of its borders.
[5] Senator John Sherman of Ohio managed to united the reeling Republicans in time to secure an upset over the popular Liberal Democrats. This election is a re-aligning election which while giving the Republicans the White House, established the Liberal Democrats as a clear major party. President Sherman continued and enhanced the economic prosperity of the country, but was rather lost in foreign policy especially over Liberia and the continuing tensions with the Europeans.
[6] The Monrovia bombing in 1886, argued by historians to have been a French attempt to destabilize the country, sparked anger across the United States. Sherman unfairly received much criticism, and in the 1888 election the strong Liberal Democrats, led by returning William S. Groesbeck, easily reclaimed the White House. Groesbeck announced his intentions for the Americans to possess a worldwide sphere to rival that of the major European powers - and Liberia lay at the centre of his policy. A policy dominator for the past decade, Groesbeck sought to enlarge the small African nation with aid from the British, to aid them in the rapidly growing Anglo-French Split. The Lib. Democrats would also continue the Republicans' economic growth, and admitted several new territories into the USA as fully-fledged states. There was also talk of the purchase of Russian Alaska and intervention in the Hawaiian civil war...
[7] After President Groesbeck decline to run for a third term, the Liberal Democratic nomination was won by Senator David B. Hill of New York who defeated the Speaker of the House Thomas B. Reed in the general election. President Hill began his term with the Purchase of Alaska, and the overthrow of the Hawaiian Queen followed shortly by annexation of Hawaii which narrowly passed in the Senate. Unfortunately, the economic prosperity which the country had enjoyed since the Civil War was ended with the Panic of 1894, a large recession had the public clamoring for the end of the Hill Presidency and as such many big name Republicans were planning on throwing their hat into the 1896 Election.
[8] The 1901 assassination of Lincoln in Buffalo, New York, proved too be too much of a strain on McKinley. Despite appearing firm at the beginning of his office, his popularity declined rapidly. In 1904, a landmark election, the Liberal Democrats were ruthless - they campaigned for increased civil rights, as well as (forced) negotiation with Spain about selling its Caribbean assets (namely Cuba). In an American populace eager for expansion (yet keen to take advantage of the Anglo-Russian War that had broken out on the Dogger Bank in 1904) they proved popular. This would be a serious blow to the Republicans - who splintered into various factions with only a rump group representing the central party led by former Presidental aide and secretary George B. Cortelyou.
[9] New York Governor Theodore Roosevelt was the most popular politician in America by 1908, even more popular than the president. With his Republican party splintered Governor Roosevelt was able to form a coalition of populists, former Republicans and expansionist Liberal Democrats who felt that the President had failed to live up to 1904 campaign promises and Roosevelt was elected in a landslide. President Roosevelt succeeded in 1909 in purchasing Cuba and other Atlantic assets from Spain

Super Mario
1992: Mario Cuomo/Al Gore (Democratic)
1996: Al Gore/Hugh Carey (Democratic)
2000: Colin Powell/John Ashcroft (Republican)

A Multi-Party America
Seeming as 'Super Mario' won't last too long: using the election of 1824 as a starting point (as it was then when the D. Republicans were the only dominant force) your aim is to create a fullblown multi-party system in the USA which doesn't necessary feature the recognizable Democratic and Republican parties of today.

1824: Andrew Jackson/John Quincy Adams (Democratic Republican) [1]
1828: Andrew Jackson/John Quincy Adams (Democratic Republican)
[1] With the Democratic Republicans the only dominant political party in the United States after the dissolution of the Federalists, there was some confusion as to what would come after the election of John Quincy Adams by the House of Representatives in 1824.

Tony · Jun 12, 2012

Lincoln Lives, Johnson Dies
1864: Abraham Lincoln/Andrew Johnson (Republican)
1865: Abraham Lincoln/Vacant (Republican) [1]
1868: James Doolittle/Asa Packer (Democratic) [2]
1872: Abraham Lincoln/James G. Blaine (Republican) [3]
1876: William S. Groesbeck/William E. Cameron (Liberal Democratic) [4]
1880: John Sherman/Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican) [5]
1884: John Sherman/Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican)
1888: William S. Groesbeck/Alfred H. Love (Liberal Democratic)[6]
1892: David B. Hill/Issac P. Gray (Liberal Democratic) [7]
1896: Robert T. Lincoln/William McKinley (Republican)
1900: Robert T. Lincoln/William McKinley (Republican)
1901: William McKinley/Vacant (Republican) [8]*
1904: John Tyler Morgan/Cornelius Vanderbilt III (Liberal Democratic) [8]
1908: Theodore Roosevelt/Charles Evans Hughes (Nationalist) [9]
1912: Theodore Roosevelt/Charles Evans Hughes (Nationalist)

[1] An April assassination attempt leaves President Lincoln with minor injuries but manages to leave Vice President Andrew Johnson dead. Secretary of State William Seward was also attacked but managed to survive.
[2] Lincoln's radical reconstruction programme slipped rapidly into becoming highly unpopular amongst the electorate. Doolittle, formerly an advocate of the system, campaigned for its reform with the Democratic Party. Lincoln, who ran against him for an attempted third term, survived two more assassination attempts on his life.
[3] The Doolittle administration is even more unpopular due the rolling back of Lincoln-era reforms, too lenient treatment of the South and the Panic of 1872. Running on a rather moderate platform, Lincoln decides to run again, and defeats Doolittle by a 56-43 margin, the largest percentage of victory since 1820. With a commanding majority in both houses, the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1874 would be passed. The economy would gradually recover during Lincoln's third term, though he has decided not to run again in 1876.
[4] With Lincoln leaving office, the Republicans suffered a major political vacuum that Blaine failed to fill, resulting in an important yet complicated election in which many parties gained seats. Most signficant of these, however, was Groesbeck's Liberal Democratic Party - a newly amalgamated group formed from members of the Democrats supporting the 'New Direction,' as well as a few stray Republicans wanting to seperate themselves from post-Lincolnian Republicanism. The Liberal Democrats actually left the well-handled Republican economy largely untouched - a move that granted them much respect and credibility (if a little hypocrisy) as responsible leaders - and instead focused on 'Diplomatic Reconstruction' to improve relations with European colonial powers; especially the United Kingdom and France. Also of significant issue was the American protectorate of Liberia, which was encouraged to accept blacks emigrating from the United States in the aftermath of the Civil War, and consequently relations significantly improved. Liberia would become a major source of conflict between the European colonizers and the United States, but Groesbeck managed to secure a significant enlargement of its borders.
[5] Senator John Sherman of Ohio managed to united the reeling Republicans in time to secure an upset over the popular Liberal Democrats. This election is a re-aligning election which while giving the Republicans the White House, established the Liberal Democrats as a clear major party. President Sherman continued and enhanced the economic prosperity of the country, but was rather lost in foreign policy especially over Liberia and the continuing tensions with the Europeans.
[6] The Monrovia bombing in 1886, argued by historians to have been a French attempt to destabilize the country, sparked anger across the United States. Sherman unfairly received much criticism, and in the 1888 election the strong Liberal Democrats, led by returning William S. Groesbeck, easily reclaimed the White House. Groesbeck announced his intentions for the Americans to possess a worldwide sphere to rival that of the major European powers - and Liberia lay at the centre of his policy. A policy dominator for the past decade, Groesbeck sought to enlarge the small African nation with aid from the British, to aid them in the rapidly growing Anglo-French Split. The Lib. Democrats would also continue the Republicans' economic growth, and admitted several new territories into the USA as fully-fledged states. There was also talk of the purchase of Russian Alaska and intervention in the Hawaiian civil war...
[7] After President Groesbeck decline to run for a third term, the Liberal Democratic nomination was won by Senator David B. Hill of New York who defeated the Speaker of the House Thomas B. Reed in the general election. President Hill began his term with the Purchase of Alaska, and the overthrow of the Hawaiian Queen followed shortly by annexation of Hawaii which narrowly passed in the Senate. Unfortunately, the economic prosperity which the country had enjoyed since the Civil War was ended with the Panic of 1894, a large recession had the public clamoring for the end of the Hill Presidency and as such many big name Republicans were planning on throwing their hat into the 1896 Election.
[8] The 1901 assassination of Lincoln in Buffalo, New York, proved too be too much of a strain on McKinley. Despite appearing firm at the beginning of his office, his popularity declined rapidly. In 1904, a landmark election, the Liberal Democrats were ruthless - they campaigned for increased civil rights, as well as (forced) negotiation with Spain about selling its Caribbean assets (namely Cuba). In an American populace eager for expansion (yet keen to take advantage of the Anglo-Russian War that had broken out on the Dogger Bank in 1904) they proved popular. This would be a serious blow to the Republicans - who splintered into various factions with only a rump group representing the central party led by former Presidental aide and secretary George B. Cortelyou.
[9] New York Governor Theodore Roosevelt was the most popular politician in America by 1908, even more popular than the president. With his Republican party splintered Governor Roosevelt was able to form a coalition of populists, former Republicans and expansionist Liberal Democrats who felt that the President had failed to live up to 1904 campaign promises and Roosevelt was elected in a landslide. President Roosevelt succeeded in 1909 in purchasing Cuba and other Atlantic assets from Spain

Super Mario
1992: Mario Cuomo/Al Gore (Democratic)
1996: Al Gore/Hugh Carey (Democratic)
2000: Colin Powell/John Ashcroft (Republican)
2004: Colin Powell/John Ashcroft (Republican)

A Multi-Party America
Seeming as 'Super Mario' won't last too long: using the election of 1824 as a starting point (as it was then when the D. Republicans were the only dominant force) your aim is to create a fullblown multi-party system in the USA which doesn't necessary feature the recognizable Democratic and Republican parties of today.

1824: Andrew Jackson/John Quincy Adams (Democratic Republican) [1]
1828: Andrew Jackson/John Quincy Adams (Democratic Republican)
[1] With the Democratic Republicans the only dominant political party in the United States after the dissolution of the Federalists, there was some confusion as to what would come after the election of John Quincy Adams by the House of Representatives in 1824.

Premier Taylerov · Jun 12, 2012

Lincoln Lives, Johnson Dies
1864: Abraham Lincoln/Andrew Johnson (Republican)
1865: Abraham Lincoln/Vacant (Republican) [1]
1868: James Doolittle/Asa Packer (Democratic) [2]
1872: Abraham Lincoln/James G. Blaine (Republican) [3]
1876: William S. Groesbeck/William E. Cameron (Liberal Democratic) [4]
1880: John Sherman/Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican) [5]
1884: John Sherman/Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican)
1888: William S. Groesbeck/Alfred H. Love (Liberal Democratic)[6]
1892: David B. Hill/Issac P. Gray (Liberal Democratic) [7]
1896: Robert T. Lincoln/William McKinley (Republican)
1900: Robert T. Lincoln/William McKinley (Republican)
1901: William McKinley/Vacant (Republican) [8]*
1904: John Tyler Morgan/Cornelius Vanderbilt III (Liberal Democratic) [8]
1908: Theodore Roosevelt/Charles Evans Hughes (Nationalist) [9]
1912: Theodore Roosevelt/Charles Evans Hughes (Nationalist)
1916: Theodore Roosevelt/Charles Evans Hughes (Nationalist) [10]

[1] An April assassination attempt leaves President Lincoln with minor injuries but manages to leave Vice President Andrew Johnson dead. Secretary of State William Seward was also attacked but managed to survive.
[2] Lincoln's radical reconstruction programme slipped rapidly into becoming highly unpopular amongst the electorate. Doolittle, formerly an advocate of the system, campaigned for its reform with the Democratic Party. Lincoln, who ran against him for an attempted third term, survived two more assassination attempts on his life.
[3] The Doolittle administration is even more unpopular due the rolling back of Lincoln-era reforms, too lenient treatment of the South and the Panic of 1872. Running on a rather moderate platform, Lincoln decides to run again, and defeats Doolittle by a 56-43 margin, the largest percentage of victory since 1820. With a commanding majority in both houses, the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1874 would be passed. The economy would gradually recover during Lincoln's third term, though he has decided not to run again in 1876.
[4] With Lincoln leaving office, the Republicans suffered a major political vacuum that Blaine failed to fill, resulting in an important yet complicated election in which many parties gained seats. Most signficant of these, however, was Groesbeck's Liberal Democratic Party - a newly amalgamated group formed from members of the Democrats supporting the 'New Direction,' as well as a few stray Republicans wanting to seperate themselves from post-Lincolnian Republicanism. The Liberal Democrats actually left the well-handled Republican economy largely untouched - a move that granted them much respect and credibility (if a little hypocrisy) as responsible leaders - and instead focused on 'Diplomatic Reconstruction' to improve relations with European colonial powers; especially the United Kingdom and France. Also of significant issue was the American protectorate of Liberia, which was encouraged to accept blacks emigrating from the United States in the aftermath of the Civil War, and consequently relations significantly improved. Liberia would become a major source of conflict between the European colonizers and the United States, but Groesbeck managed to secure a significant enlargement of its borders.
[5] Senator John Sherman of Ohio managed to united the reeling Republicans in time to secure an upset over the popular Liberal Democrats. This election is a re-aligning election which while giving the Republicans the White House, established the Liberal Democrats as a clear major party. President Sherman continued and enhanced the economic prosperity of the country, but was rather lost in foreign policy especially over Liberia and the continuing tensions with the Europeans.
[6] The Monrovia bombing in 1886, argued by historians to have been a French attempt to destabilize the country, sparked anger across the United States. Sherman unfairly received much criticism, and in the 1888 election the strong Liberal Democrats, led by returning William S. Groesbeck, easily reclaimed the White House. Groesbeck announced his intentions for the Americans to possess a worldwide sphere to rival that of the major European powers - and Liberia lay at the centre of his policy. A policy dominator for the past decade, Groesbeck sought to enlarge the small African nation with aid from the British, to aid them in the rapidly growing Anglo-French Split. The Lib. Democrats would also continue the Republicans' economic growth, and admitted several new territories into the USA as fully-fledged states. There was also talk of the purchase of Russian Alaska and intervention in the Hawaiian civil war...
[7] After President Groesbeck decline to run for a third term, the Liberal Democratic nomination was won by Senator David B. Hill of New York who defeated the Speaker of the House Thomas B. Reed in the general election. President Hill began his term with the Purchase of Alaska, and the overthrow of the Hawaiian Queen followed shortly by annexation of Hawaii which narrowly passed in the Senate. Unfortunately, the economic prosperity which the country had enjoyed since the Civil War was ended with the Panic of 1894, a large recession had the public clamoring for the end of the Hill Presidency and as such many big name Republicans were planning on throwing their hat into the 1896 Election.
[8] The 1901 assassination of Lincoln in Buffalo, New York, proved too be too much of a strain on McKinley. Despite appearing firm at the beginning of his office, his popularity declined rapidly. In 1904, a landmark election, the Liberal Democrats were ruthless - they campaigned for increased civil rights, as well as (forced) negotiation with Spain about selling its Caribbean assets (namely Cuba). In an American populace eager for expansion (yet keen to take advantage of the Anglo-Russian War that had broken out on the Dogger Bank in 1904) they proved popular. This would be a serious blow to the Republicans - who splintered into various factions with only a rump group representing the central party led by former Presidental aide and secretary George B. Cortelyou.
[9] New York Governor Theodore Roosevelt was the most popular politician in America by 1908, even more popular than the president. With his Republican party splintered Governor Roosevelt was able to form a coalition of populists, former Republicans and expansionist Liberal Democrats who felt that the President had failed to live up to 1904 campaign promises and Roosevelt was elected in a landslide. President Roosevelt succeeded in 1909 in purchasing Cuba and other Atlantic assets from Spain.
[10] With the war in Europe coming to an end in 1913 - after an unimaginable nine years of conflict - Roosevelt's government was requested to represent the neutral United States at the Confederence of Amsterdam in early 1914 which sought to establish a formal peace treaty between the Allies of the United Kingdom, France and the Ottoman Empire and the victorious Dreikaiserbund of the German Empire, the Austrian Imperial Commonwealth, and the Russian Empire. Despite European relations worsening after Germany forced the Allies to claim responsiblity for the war, Roosevelt's participation secured major American contracts to the defeated west, and as a result a post-war boom began in the United States which resulted in an unprecedented third term for the majority of Roosevelt's cabinet.

Super Mario
1992: Mario Cuomo/Al Gore (Democratic)
1996: Al Gore/Hugh Carey (Democratic)
2000: Colin Powell/John Ashcroft (Republican)
2004: Colin Powell/John Ashcroft (Republican)
2008: Tom Vilsack/Tim Heaphy (Democratic)

A Multi-Party America
Seeming as 'Super Mario' won't last too long: using the election of 1824 as a starting point (as it was then when the D. Republicans were the only dominant force) your aim is to create a fullblown multi-party system in the USA which doesn't necessary feature the recognizable Democratic and Republican parties of today.

1824: Andrew Jackson/John Quincy Adams (Democratic Republican) [1]
1828: Andrew Jackson/John Quincy Adams (Democratic Republican)
1832: Amos Ellmaker/Richard Rush (Anti-Masonic) [2]

[1] With the Democratic Republicans the only dominant political party in the United States after the dissolution of the Federalists, there was some confusion as to what would come after the election of by the House of Representatives in 1824.
[2] Anti-public sentiment against Jackson was exacerbated in the 1828 election, which he only just managed to win. However, in 1832 determination of Jackson's political opponents to oust him (particuarly Henry Clay) resulted in a surprise election for Amos Ellmaker and Richard Rush, with the Anti-Masonic Party (even at Clay and his allies' expense!). The Anti-Masonic Party, whilst campaigned primarily on the issues that its name suggested, was also highly protectionist and championed 'internal improvements' to the United States.

Tony · Jun 12, 2012

Lincoln Lives, Johnson Dies
1864: Abraham Lincoln/Andrew Johnson (Republican)
1865: Abraham Lincoln/Vacant (Republican) [1]
1868: James Doolittle/Asa Packer (Democratic) [2]
1872: Abraham Lincoln/James G. Blaine (Republican) [3]
1876: William S. Groesbeck/William E. Cameron (Liberal Democratic) [4]
1880: John Sherman/Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican) [5]
1884: John Sherman/Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican)
1888: William S. Groesbeck/Alfred H. Love (Liberal Democratic)[6]
1892: David B. Hill/Issac P. Gray (Liberal Democratic) [7]
1896: Robert T. Lincoln/William McKinley (Republican)
1900: Robert T. Lincoln/William McKinley (Republican)
1901: William McKinley/Vacant (Republican) [8]*
1904: John Tyler Morgan/Cornelius Vanderbilt III (Liberal Democratic) [8]
1908: Theodore Roosevelt/Charles Evans Hughes (Nationalist) [9]
1912: Theodore Roosevelt/Charles Evans Hughes (Nationalist)
1916: Theodore Roosevelt/Charles Evans Hughes (Nationalist) [10]
1920: Abraham Lincoln II / Irvine Lenroot (Nationalist) [11]

[1] An April assassination attempt leaves President Lincoln with minor injuries but manages to leave Vice President Andrew Johnson dead. Secretary of State William Seward was also attacked but managed to survive.
[2] Lincoln's radical reconstruction programme slipped rapidly into becoming highly unpopular amongst the electorate. Doolittle, formerly an advocate of the system, campaigned for its reform with the Democratic Party. Lincoln, who ran against him for an attempted third term, survived two more assassination attempts on his life.
[3] The Doolittle administration is even more unpopular due the rolling back of Lincoln-era reforms, too lenient treatment of the South and the Panic of 1872. Running on a rather moderate platform, Lincoln decides to run again, and defeats Doolittle by a 56-43 margin, the largest percentage of victory since 1820. With a commanding majority in both houses, the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1874 would be passed. The economy would gradually recover during Lincoln's third term, though he has decided not to run again in 1876.
[4] With Lincoln leaving office, the Republicans suffered a major political vacuum that Blaine failed to fill, resulting in an important yet complicated election in which many parties gained seats. Most signficant of these, however, was Groesbeck's Liberal Democratic Party - a newly amalgamated group formed from members of the Democrats supporting the 'New Direction,' as well as a few stray Republicans wanting to seperate themselves from post-Lincolnian Republicanism. The Liberal Democrats actually left the well-handled Republican economy largely untouched - a move that granted them much respect and credibility (if a little hypocrisy) as responsible leaders - and instead focused on 'Diplomatic Reconstruction' to improve relations with European colonial powers; especially the United Kingdom and France. Also of significant issue was the American protectorate of Liberia, which was encouraged to accept blacks emigrating from the United States in the aftermath of the Civil War, and consequently relations significantly improved. Liberia would become a major source of conflict between the European colonizers and the United States, but Groesbeck managed to secure a significant enlargement of its borders.
[5] Senator John Sherman of Ohio managed to united the reeling Republicans in time to secure an upset over the popular Liberal Democrats. This election is a re-aligning election which while giving the Republicans the White House, established the Liberal Democrats as a clear major party. President Sherman continued and enhanced the economic prosperity of the country, but was rather lost in foreign policy especially over Liberia and the continuing tensions with the Europeans.
[6] The Monrovia bombing in 1886, argued by historians to have been a French attempt to destabilize the country, sparked anger across the United States. Sherman unfairly received much criticism, and in the 1888 election the strong Liberal Democrats, led by returning William S. Groesbeck, easily reclaimed the White House. Groesbeck announced his intentions for the Americans to possess a worldwide sphere to rival that of the major European powers - and Liberia lay at the centre of his policy. A policy dominator for the past decade, Groesbeck sought to enlarge the small African nation with aid from the British, to aid them in the rapidly growing Anglo-French Split. The Lib. Democrats would also continue the Republicans' economic growth, and admitted several new territories into the USA as fully-fledged states. There was also talk of the purchase of Russian Alaska and intervention in the Hawaiian civil war...
[7] After President Groesbeck decline to run for a third term, the Liberal Democratic nomination was won by Senator David B. Hill of New York who defeated the Speaker of the House Thomas B. Reed in the general election. President Hill began his term with the Purchase of Alaska, and the overthrow of the Hawaiian Queen followed shortly by annexation of Hawaii which narrowly passed in the Senate. Unfortunately, the economic prosperity which the country had enjoyed since the Civil War was ended with the Panic of 1894, a large recession had the public clamoring for the end of the Hill Presidency and as such many big name Republicans were planning on throwing their hat into the 1896 Election.
[8] The 1901 assassination of Lincoln in Buffalo, New York, proved too be too much of a strain on McKinley. Despite appearing firm at the beginning of his office, his popularity declined rapidly. In 1904, a landmark election, the Liberal Democrats were ruthless - they campaigned for increased civil rights, as well as (forced) negotiation with Spain about selling its Caribbean assets (namely Cuba). In an American populace eager for expansion (yet keen to take advantage of the Anglo-Russian War that had broken out on the Dogger Bank in 1904) they proved popular. This would be a serious blow to the Republicans - who splintered into various factions with only a rump group representing the central party led by former Presidental aide and secretary George B. Cortelyou.
[9] New York Governor Theodore Roosevelt was the most popular politician in America by 1908, even more popular than the president. With his Republican party splintered Governor Roosevelt was able to form a coalition of populists, former Republicans and expansionist Liberal Democrats who felt that the President had failed to live up to 1904 campaign promises and Roosevelt was elected in a landslide. President Roosevelt succeeded in 1909 in purchasing Cuba and other Atlantic assets from Spain.
[10] With the war in Europe coming to an end in 1913 - after an unimaginable nine years of conflict - Roosevelt's government was requested to represent the neutral United States at the Confederence of Amsterdam in early 1914 which sought to establish a formal peace treaty between the Allies of the United Kingdom, France and the Ottoman Empire and the victorious Dreikaiserbund of the German Empire, the Austrian Imperial Commonwealth, and the Russian Empire. Despite European relations worsening after Germany forced the Allies to claim responsiblity for the war, Roosevelt's participation secured major American contracts to the defeated west, and as a result a post-war boom began in the United States which resulted in an unprecedented third term for the majority of Roosevelt's cabinet.
[11] Roosevelt initially plans to run for a 4th term, but declines to do so after suffering from a minor stroke. After Hughes refuses to run, Roosevelt endorses progressive-leaning Governor Abraham Lincoln II of Illinois for President. In one of the closest races in US history, Lincoln defeats blackhorse candidate Albert Ritchie by a 46-45 popular vote margin.

Super Mario
1992: Mario Cuomo/Al Gore (Democratic)
1996: Al Gore/Hugh Carey (Democratic)
2000: Colin Powell/John Ashcroft (Republican)
2004: Colin Powell/John Ashcroft (Republican)
2008: Tom Vilsack/Tim Heaphy (Democratic)
2012: Michael Bloomberg / Charlie Crist (Independent)
A Multi-Party America
Seeming as 'Super Mario' won't last too long: using the election of 1824 as a starting point (as it was then when the D. Republicans were the only dominant force) your aim is to create a fullblown multi-party system in the USA which doesn't necessary feature the recognizable Democratic and Republican parties of today.

1824: Andrew Jackson/John Quincy Adams (Democratic Republican) [1]
1828: Andrew Jackson/John Quincy Adams (Democratic Republican)
1832: Amos Ellmaker/Richard Rush (Anti-Masonic) [2]

[1] With the Democratic Republicans the only dominant political party in the United States after the dissolution of the Federalists, there was some confusion as to what would come after the election of by the House of Representatives in 1824.
[2] Anti-public sentiment against Jackson was exacerbated in the 1828 election, which he only just managed to win. However, in 1832 determination of Jackson's political opponents to oust him (particuarly Henry Clay) resulted in a surprise election for Amos Ellmaker and Richard Rush, with the Anti-Masonic Party (even at Clay and his allies' expense!). The Anti-Masonic Party, whilst campaigned primarily on the issues that its name suggested, was also highly protectionist and championed 'internal improvements' to the United States.

Premier Taylerov · Jun 12, 2012

Lincoln Lives, Johnson Dies
1864: Abraham Lincoln/Andrew Johnson (Republican)
1865: Abraham Lincoln/Vacant (Republican) [1]
1868: James Doolittle/Asa Packer (Democratic) [2]
1872: Abraham Lincoln/James G. Blaine (Republican) [3]
1876: William S. Groesbeck/William E. Cameron (Liberal Democratic) [4]
1880: John Sherman/Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican) [5]
1884: John Sherman/Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican)
1888: William S. Groesbeck/Alfred H. Love (Liberal Democratic)[6]
1892: David B. Hill/Issac P. Gray (Liberal Democratic) [7]
1896: Robert T. Lincoln/William McKinley (Republican)
1900: Robert T. Lincoln/William McKinley (Republican)
1901: William McKinley/Vacant (Republican) [8]*
1904: John Tyler Morgan/Cornelius Vanderbilt III (Liberal Democratic) [8]
1908: Theodore Roosevelt/Charles Evans Hughes (Nationalist) [9]
1912: Theodore Roosevelt/Charles Evans Hughes (Nationalist)
1916: Theodore Roosevelt/Charles Evans Hughes (Nationalist) [10]
1920: Abraham Lincoln II / Irvine Lenroot (Nationalist) [11]
1924: Albert Ritchie/Oscar Underwood (Liberal Democratic) [12]

[1] An April assassination attempt leaves President Lincoln with minor injuries but manages to leave Vice President Andrew Johnson dead. Secretary of State William Seward was also attacked but managed to survive.
[2] Lincoln's radical reconstruction programme slipped rapidly into becoming highly unpopular amongst the electorate. Doolittle, formerly an advocate of the system, campaigned for its reform with the Democratic Party. Lincoln, who ran against him for an attempted third term, survived two more assassination attempts on his life.
[3] The Doolittle administration is even more unpopular due the rolling back of Lincoln-era reforms, too lenient treatment of the South and the Panic of 1872. Running on a rather moderate platform, Lincoln decides to run again, and defeats Doolittle by a 56-43 margin, the largest percentage of victory since 1820. With a commanding majority in both houses, the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1874 would be passed. The economy would gradually recover during Lincoln's third term, though he has decided not to run again in 1876.
[4] With Lincoln leaving office, the Republicans suffered a major political vacuum that Blaine failed to fill, resulting in an important yet complicated election in which many parties gained seats. Most signficant of these, however, was Groesbeck's Liberal Democratic Party - a newly amalgamated group formed from members of the Democrats supporting the 'New Direction,' as well as a few stray Republicans wanting to seperate themselves from post-Lincolnian Republicanism. The Liberal Democrats actually left the well-handled Republican economy largely untouched - a move that granted them much respect and credibility (if a little hypocrisy) as responsible leaders - and instead focused on 'Diplomatic Reconstruction' to improve relations with European colonial powers; especially the United Kingdom and France. Also of significant issue was the American protectorate of Liberia, which was encouraged to accept blacks emigrating from the United States in the aftermath of the Civil War, and consequently relations significantly improved. Liberia would become a major source of conflict between the European colonizers and the United States, but Groesbeck managed to secure a significant enlargement of its borders.
[5] Senator John Sherman of Ohio managed to united the reeling Republicans in time to secure an upset over the popular Liberal Democrats. This election is a re-aligning election which while giving the Republicans the White House, established the Liberal Democrats as a clear major party. President Sherman continued and enhanced the economic prosperity of the country, but was rather lost in foreign policy especially over Liberia and the continuing tensions with the Europeans.
[6] The Monrovia bombing in 1886, argued by historians to have been a French attempt to destabilize the country, sparked anger across the United States. Sherman unfairly received much criticism, and in the 1888 election the strong Liberal Democrats, led by returning William S. Groesbeck, easily reclaimed the White House. Groesbeck announced his intentions for the Americans to possess a worldwide sphere to rival that of the major European powers - and Liberia lay at the centre of his policy. A policy dominator for the past decade, Groesbeck sought to enlarge the small African nation with aid from the British, to aid them in the rapidly growing Anglo-French Split. The Lib. Democrats would also continue the Republicans' economic growth, and admitted several new territories into the USA as fully-fledged states. There was also talk of the purchase of Russian Alaska and intervention in the Hawaiian civil war...
[7] After President Groesbeck decline to run for a third term, the Liberal Democratic nomination was won by Senator David B. Hill of New York who defeated the Speaker of the House Thomas B. Reed in the general election. President Hill began his term with the Purchase of Alaska, and the overthrow of the Hawaiian Queen followed shortly by annexation of Hawaii which narrowly passed in the Senate. Unfortunately, the economic prosperity which the country had enjoyed since the Civil War was ended with the Panic of 1894, a large recession had the public clamoring for the end of the Hill Presidency and as such many big name Republicans were planning on throwing their hat into the 1896 Election.
[8] The 1901 assassination of Lincoln in Buffalo, New York, proved too be too much of a strain on McKinley. Despite appearing firm at the beginning of his office, his popularity declined rapidly. In 1904, a landmark election, the Liberal Democrats were ruthless - they campaigned for increased civil rights, as well as (forced) negotiation with Spain about selling its Caribbean assets (namely Cuba). In an American populace eager for expansion (yet keen to take advantage of the Anglo-Russian War that had broken out on the Dogger Bank in 1904) they proved popular. This would be a serious blow to the Republicans - who splintered into various factions with only a rump group representing the central party led by former Presidental aide and secretary George B. Cortelyou.
[9] New York Governor Theodore Roosevelt was the most popular politician in America by 1908, even more popular than the president. With his Republican party splintered Governor Roosevelt was able to form a coalition of populists, former Republicans and expansionist Liberal Democrats who felt that the President had failed to live up to 1904 campaign promises and Roosevelt was elected in a landslide. President Roosevelt succeeded in 1909 in purchasing Cuba and other Atlantic assets from Spain.
[10] With the war in Europe coming to an end in 1913 - after an unimaginable nine years of conflict - Roosevelt's government was requested to represent the neutral United States at the Confederence of Amsterdam in early 1914 which sought to establish a formal peace treaty between the Allies of the United Kingdom, France and the Ottoman Empire and the victorious Dreikaiserbund of the German Empire, the Austrian Imperial Commonwealth, and the Russian Empire. Despite European relations worsening after Germany forced the Allies to claim responsiblity for the war, Roosevelt's participation secured major American contracts to the defeated west, and as a result a post-war boom began in the United States which resulted in an unprecedented third term for the majority of Roosevelt's cabinet.
[11] Roosevelt initially plans to run for a 4th term, but declines to do so after suffering from a minor stroke. After Hughes refuses to run, Roosevelt endorses progressive-leaning Governor Abraham Lincoln II of Illinois for President. In one of the closest races in US history, Lincoln defeats blackhorse candidate Albert Ritchie by a 46-45 popular vote margin.
[12] Lincoln's term was dominated by economic growth and a significant increase in American geopolitical influence - dominated by the alliance with Japan signed at Honolulu in 1923. However, at election-time, Ritchie's Liberal Democrats narrowly snatched the vote. His presidency would be dominate with an extension and modification of American industries, and was particuarly notable for the Hydroelectric Power Projects which began with the Congowingo Dam in 1925. This projected influx of electrical power was predicted to substantially raise national standards of living, as well as employing thousands. However, there was a rift between the aspects of government on how to deal with the growing Klu Klux Klan in the deep south, and whether it should be banned.

Super Mario
1992: Mario Cuomo/Al Gore (Democratic)
1996: Al Gore/Hugh Carey (Democratic)
2000: Colin Powell/John Ashcroft (Republican)
2004: Colin Powell/John Ashcroft (Republican)
2008: Tom Vilsack/Tim Heaphy (Democratic)
2012: Michael Bloomberg / Charlie Crist (Independent)
2016: Michael Bloomberg / Charlie Crist (Independent)

A Multi-Party America
Seeming as 'Super Mario' won't last too long: using the election of 1824 as a starting point (as it was then when the D. Republicans were the only dominant force) your aim is to create a fullblown multi-party system in the USA which doesn't necessary feature the recognizable Democratic and Republican parties of today.

1824: Andrew Jackson/John Quincy Adams (Democratic Republican) [1]
1828: Andrew Jackson/John Quincy Adams (Democratic Republican)
1832: Amos Ellmaker/Richard Rush (Anti-Masonic) [2]

[1] With the Democratic Republicans the only dominant political party in the United States after the dissolution of the Federalists, there was some confusion as to what would come after the election of by the House of Representatives in 1824.
[2] Anti-public sentiment against Jackson was exacerbated in the 1828 election, which he only just managed to win. However, in 1832 determination of Jackson's political opponents to oust him (particuarly Henry Clay) resulted in a surprise election for Amos Ellmaker and Richard Rush, with the Anti-Masonic Party (even at Clay and his allies' expense!). The Anti-Masonic Party, whilst campaigned primarily on the issues that its name suggested, was also highly protectionist and championed 'internal improvements' to the United States.

Tony · Jun 12, 2012

Lincoln Lives, Johnson Dies
1864: Abraham Lincoln/Andrew Johnson (Republican)
1865: Abraham Lincoln/Vacant (Republican) [1]
1868: James Doolittle/Asa Packer (Democratic) [2]
1872: Abraham Lincoln/James G. Blaine (Republican) [3]
1876: William S. Groesbeck/William E. Cameron (Liberal Democratic) [4]
1880: John Sherman/Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican) [5]
1884: John Sherman/Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican)
1888: William S. Groesbeck/Alfred H. Love (Liberal Democratic)[6]
1892: David B. Hill/Issac P. Gray (Liberal Democratic) [7]
1896: Robert T. Lincoln/William McKinley (Republican)
1900: Robert T. Lincoln/William McKinley (Republican)
1901: William McKinley/Vacant (Republican) [8]*
1904: John Tyler Morgan/Cornelius Vanderbilt III (Liberal Democratic) [8]
1908: Theodore Roosevelt/Charles Evans Hughes (Nationalist) [9]
1912: Theodore Roosevelt/Charles Evans Hughes (Nationalist)
1916: Theodore Roosevelt/Charles Evans Hughes (Nationalist) [10]
1920: Abraham Lincoln II / Irvine Lenroot (Nationalist) [11]
1924: Albert Ritchie/Oscar Underwood (Liberal Democratic) [12]
1928: Albert Ritchie/Oscar Underwood (Liberal Democratic) [13]
[1] An April assassination attempt leaves President Lincoln with minor injuries but manages to leave Vice President Andrew Johnson dead. Secretary of State William Seward was also attacked but managed to survive.
[2] Lincoln's radical reconstruction programme slipped rapidly into becoming highly unpopular amongst the electorate. Doolittle, formerly an advocate of the system, campaigned for its reform with the Democratic Party. Lincoln, who ran against him for an attempted third term, survived two more assassination attempts on his life.
[3] The Doolittle administration is even more unpopular due the rolling back of Lincoln-era reforms, too lenient treatment of the South and the Panic of 1872. Running on a rather moderate platform, Lincoln decides to run again, and defeats Doolittle by a 56-43 margin, the largest percentage of victory since 1820. With a commanding majority in both houses, the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1874 would be passed. The economy would gradually recover during Lincoln's third term, though he has decided not to run again in 1876.
[4] With Lincoln leaving office, the Republicans suffered a major political vacuum that Blaine failed to fill, resulting in an important yet complicated election in which many parties gained seats. Most signficant of these, however, was Groesbeck's Liberal Democratic Party - a newly amalgamated group formed from members of the Democrats supporting the 'New Direction,' as well as a few stray Republicans wanting to seperate themselves from post-Lincolnian Republicanism. The Liberal Democrats actually left the well-handled Republican economy largely untouched - a move that granted them much respect and credibility (if a little hypocrisy) as responsible leaders - and instead focused on 'Diplomatic Reconstruction' to improve relations with European colonial powers; especially the United Kingdom and France. Also of significant issue was the American protectorate of Liberia, which was encouraged to accept blacks emigrating from the United States in the aftermath of the Civil War, and consequently relations significantly improved. Liberia would become a major source of conflict between the European colonizers and the United States, but Groesbeck managed to secure a significant enlargement of its borders.
[5] Senator John Sherman of Ohio managed to united the reeling Republicans in time to secure an upset over the popular Liberal Democrats. This election is a re-aligning election which while giving the Republicans the White House, established the Liberal Democrats as a clear major party. President Sherman continued and enhanced the economic prosperity of the country, but was rather lost in foreign policy especially over Liberia and the continuing tensions with the Europeans.
[6] The Monrovia bombing in 1886, argued by historians to have been a French attempt to destabilize the country, sparked anger across the United States. Sherman unfairly received much criticism, and in the 1888 election the strong Liberal Democrats, led by returning William S. Groesbeck, easily reclaimed the White House. Groesbeck announced his intentions for the Americans to possess a worldwide sphere to rival that of the major European powers - and Liberia lay at the centre of his policy. A policy dominator for the past decade, Groesbeck sought to enlarge the small African nation with aid from the British, to aid them in the rapidly growing Anglo-French Split. The Lib. Democrats would also continue the Republicans' economic growth, and admitted several new territories into the USA as fully-fledged states. There was also talk of the purchase of Russian Alaska and intervention in the Hawaiian civil war...
[7] After President Groesbeck decline to run for a third term, the Liberal Democratic nomination was won by Senator David B. Hill of New York who defeated the Speaker of the House Thomas B. Reed in the general election. President Hill began his term with the Purchase of Alaska, and the overthrow of the Hawaiian Queen followed shortly by annexation of Hawaii which narrowly passed in the Senate. Unfortunately, the economic prosperity which the country had enjoyed since the Civil War was ended with the Panic of 1894, a large recession had the public clamoring for the end of the Hill Presidency and as such many big name Republicans were planning on throwing their hat into the 1896 Election.
[8] The 1901 assassination of Lincoln in Buffalo, New York, proved too be too much of a strain on McKinley. Despite appearing firm at the beginning of his office, his popularity declined rapidly. In 1904, a landmark election, the Liberal Democrats were ruthless - they campaigned for increased civil rights, as well as (forced) negotiation with Spain about selling its Caribbean assets (namely Cuba). In an American populace eager for expansion (yet keen to take advantage of the Anglo-Russian War that had broken out on the Dogger Bank in 1904) they proved popular. This would be a serious blow to the Republicans - who splintered into various factions with only a rump group representing the central party led by former Presidental aide and secretary George B. Cortelyou.
[9] New York Governor Theodore Roosevelt was the most popular politician in America by 1908, even more popular than the president. With his Republican party splintered Governor Roosevelt was able to form a coalition of populists, former Republicans and expansionist Liberal Democrats who felt that the President had failed to live up to 1904 campaign promises and Roosevelt was elected in a landslide. President Roosevelt succeeded in 1909 in purchasing Cuba and other Atlantic assets from Spain.
[10] With the war in Europe coming to an end in 1913 - after an unimaginable nine years of conflict - Roosevelt's government was requested to represent the neutral United States at the Confederence of Amsterdam in early 1914 which sought to establish a formal peace treaty between the Allies of the United Kingdom, France and the Ottoman Empire and the victorious Dreikaiserbund of the German Empire, the Austrian Imperial Commonwealth, and the Russian Empire. Despite European relations worsening after Germany forced the Allies to claim responsiblity for the war, Roosevelt's participation secured major American contracts to the defeated west, and as a result a post-war boom began in the United States which resulted in an unprecedented third term for the majority of Roosevelt's cabinet.
[11] Roosevelt initially plans to run for a 4th term, but declines to do so after suffering from a minor stroke. After Hughes refuses to run, Roosevelt endorses progressive-leaning Governor Abraham Lincoln II of Illinois for President. In one of the closest races in US history, Lincoln defeats blackhorse candidate Albert Ritchie by a 46-45 popular vote margin.
[12] Lincoln's term was dominated by economic growth and a significant increase in American geopolitical influence - dominated by the alliance with Japan signed at Honolulu in 1923. However, at election-time, Ritchie's Liberal Democrats narrowly snatched the vote. His presidency would be dominate with an extension and modification of American industries, and was particuarly notable for the Hydroelectric Power Projects which began with the Congowingo Dam in 1925. This projected influx of electrical power was predicted to substantially raise national standards of living, as well as employing thousands. However, there was a rift between the aspects of government on how to deal with the growing Klu Klux Klan in the deep south, and whether it should be banned.
[13] Ritchie attemps to repeal the RTL-era civil rights legislation on the grounds of state rights, so as to appease the KKK. However, the plan fails. The Nationalalist-dominated Congress refuses to cooperate. After that, Ritchie is determined to crack down on KKK groups. The Great Recession has yet to happen in 1928, and Ritchie defeats Irvine Lenroot by a 49-45 popular vote margin (the electoral college has been abolished in 1920) and becomes the first Liberal Democrat to win a consecutive second term.

Super Mario
1992: Mario Cuomo/Al Gore (Democratic)
1996: Al Gore/Hugh Carey (Democratic)
2000: Colin Powell/John Ashcroft (Republican)
2004: Colin Powell/John Ashcroft (Republican)
2008: Tom Vilsack/Tim Heaphy (Democratic)
2012: Michael Bloomberg / Charlie Crist (Independent)
2016: Michael Bloomberg / Charlie Crist (Independent)
2020: Mario Diaz-Balart / Scott Brown (Republican)
And that's how Super Mario comes to the end, with another Super Mario

A Multi-Party America
Seeming as 'Super Mario' won't last too long: using the election of 1824 as a starting point (as it was then when the D. Republicans were the only dominant force) your aim is to create a fullblown multi-party system in the USA which doesn't necessary feature the recognizable Democratic and Republican parties of today.

1824: Andrew Jackson/John Quincy Adams (Democratic Republican) [1]
1828: Andrew Jackson/John Quincy Adams (Democratic Republican)
1832: Amos Ellmaker/Richard Rush (Anti-Masonic) [2]
1836: Amos Ellmaker/Richard Rush (Anti-Masonic)
[1] With the Democratic Republicans the only dominant political party in the United States after the dissolution of the Federalists, there was some confusion as to what would come after the election of by the House of Representatives in 1824.
[2] Anti-public sentiment against Jackson was exacerbated in the 1828 election, which he only just managed to win. However, in 1832 determination of Jackson's political opponents to oust him (particuarly Henry Clay) resulted in a surprise election for Amos Ellmaker and Richard Rush, with the Anti-Masonic Party (even at Clay and his allies' expense!). The Anti-Masonic Party, whilst campaigned primarily on the issues that its name suggested, was also highly protectionist and championed 'internal improvements' to the United States.

Premier Taylerov · Jun 12, 2012

Lincoln Lives, Johnson Dies
1864: Abraham Lincoln/Andrew Johnson (Republican)
1865: Abraham Lincoln/Vacant (Republican) [1]
1868: James Doolittle/Asa Packer (Democratic) [2]
1872: Abraham Lincoln/James G. Blaine (Republican) [3]
1876: William S. Groesbeck/William E. Cameron (Liberal Democratic) [4]
1880: John Sherman/Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican) [5]
1884: John Sherman/Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican)
1888: William S. Groesbeck/Alfred H. Love (Liberal Democratic)[6]
1892: David B. Hill/Issac P. Gray (Liberal Democratic) [7]
1896: Robert T. Lincoln/William McKinley (Republican)
1900: Robert T. Lincoln/William McKinley (Republican)
1901: William McKinley/Vacant (Republican) [8]*
1904: John Tyler Morgan/Cornelius Vanderbilt III (Liberal Democratic) [8]
1908: Theodore Roosevelt/Charles Evans Hughes (Nationalist) [9]
1912: Theodore Roosevelt/Charles Evans Hughes (Nationalist)
1916: Theodore Roosevelt/Charles Evans Hughes (Nationalist) [10]
1920: Abraham Lincoln II / Irvine Lenroot (Nationalist) [11]
1924: Albert Ritchie/Oscar Underwood (Liberal Democratic) [12]
1928: Albert Ritchie/Oscar Underwood (Liberal Democratic) [13]
1932: Charles G. Dawes/Frank Orren Lowden (Social Republican) [14]

[1] An April assassination attempt leaves President Lincoln with minor injuries but manages to leave Vice President Andrew Johnson dead. Secretary of State William Seward was also attacked but managed to survive.
[2] Lincoln's radical reconstruction programme slipped rapidly into becoming highly unpopular amongst the electorate. Doolittle, formerly an advocate of the system, campaigned for its reform with the Democratic Party. Lincoln, who ran against him for an attempted third term, survived two more assassination attempts on his life.
[3] The Doolittle administration is even more unpopular due the rolling back of Lincoln-era reforms, too lenient treatment of the South and the Panic of 1872. Running on a rather moderate platform, Lincoln decides to run again, and defeats Doolittle by a 56-43 margin, the largest percentage of victory since 1820. With a commanding majority in both houses, the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1874 would be passed. The economy would gradually recover during Lincoln's third term, though he has decided not to run again in 1876.
[4] With Lincoln leaving office, the Republicans suffered a major political vacuum that Blaine failed to fill, resulting in an important yet complicated election in which many parties gained seats. Most signficant of these, however, was Groesbeck's Liberal Democratic Party - a newly amalgamated group formed from members of the Democrats supporting the 'New Direction,' as well as a few stray Republicans wanting to seperate themselves from post-Lincolnian Republicanism. The Liberal Democrats actually left the well-handled Republican economy largely untouched - a move that granted them much respect and credibility (if a little hypocrisy) as responsible leaders - and instead focused on 'Diplomatic Reconstruction' to improve relations with European colonial powers; especially the United Kingdom and France. Also of significant issue was the American protectorate of Liberia, which was encouraged to accept blacks emigrating from the United States in the aftermath of the Civil War, and consequently relations significantly improved. Liberia would become a major source of conflict between the European colonizers and the United States, but Groesbeck managed to secure a significant enlargement of its borders.
[5] Senator John Sherman of Ohio managed to united the reeling Republicans in time to secure an upset over the popular Liberal Democrats. This election is a re-aligning election which while giving the Republicans the White House, established the Liberal Democrats as a clear major party. President Sherman continued and enhanced the economic prosperity of the country, but was rather lost in foreign policy especially over Liberia and the continuing tensions with the Europeans.
[6] The Monrovia bombing in 1886, argued by historians to have been a French attempt to destabilize the country, sparked anger across the United States. Sherman unfairly received much criticism, and in the 1888 election the strong Liberal Democrats, led by returning William S. Groesbeck, easily reclaimed the White House. Groesbeck announced his intentions for the Americans to possess a worldwide sphere to rival that of the major European powers - and Liberia lay at the centre of his policy. A policy dominator for the past decade, Groesbeck sought to enlarge the small African nation with aid from the British, to aid them in the rapidly growing Anglo-French Split. The Lib. Democrats would also continue the Republicans' economic growth, and admitted several new territories into the USA as fully-fledged states. There was also talk of the purchase of Russian Alaska and intervention in the Hawaiian civil war...
[7] After President Groesbeck decline to run for a third term, the Liberal Democratic nomination was won by Senator David B. Hill of New York who defeated the Speaker of the House Thomas B. Reed in the general election. President Hill began his term with the Purchase of Alaska, and the overthrow of the Hawaiian Queen followed shortly by annexation of Hawaii which narrowly passed in the Senate. Unfortunately, the economic prosperity which the country had enjoyed since the Civil War was ended with the Panic of 1894, a large recession had the public clamoring for the end of the Hill Presidency and as such many big name Republicans were planning on throwing their hat into the 1896 Election.
[8] The 1901 assassination of Lincoln in Buffalo, New York, proved too be too much of a strain on McKinley. Despite appearing firm at the beginning of his office, his popularity declined rapidly. In 1904, a landmark election, the Liberal Democrats were ruthless - they campaigned for increased civil rights, as well as (forced) negotiation with Spain about selling its Caribbean assets (namely Cuba). In an American populace eager for expansion (yet keen to take advantage of the Anglo-Russian War that had broken out on the Dogger Bank in 1904) they proved popular. This would be a serious blow to the Republicans - who splintered into various factions with only a rump group representing the central party led by former Presidental aide and secretary George B. Cortelyou.
[9] New York Governor Theodore Roosevelt was the most popular politician in America by 1908, even more popular than the president. With his Republican party splintered Governor Roosevelt was able to form a coalition of populists, former Republicans and expansionist Liberal Democrats who felt that the President had failed to live up to 1904 campaign promises and Roosevelt was elected in a landslide. President Roosevelt succeeded in 1909 in purchasing Cuba and other Atlantic assets from Spain.
[10] With the war in Europe coming to an end in 1913 - after an unimaginable nine years of conflict - Roosevelt's government was requested to represent the neutral United States at the Confederence of Amsterdam in early 1914 which sought to establish a formal peace treaty between the Allies of the United Kingdom, France and the Ottoman Empire and the victorious Dreikaiserbund of the German Empire, the Austrian Imperial Commonwealth, and the Russian Empire. Despite European relations worsening after Germany forced the Allies to claim responsiblity for the war, Roosevelt's participation secured major American contracts to the defeated west, and as a result a post-war boom began in the United States which resulted in an unprecedented third term for the majority of Roosevelt's cabinet.
[11] Roosevelt initially plans to run for a 4th term, but declines to do so after suffering from a minor stroke. After Hughes refuses to run, Roosevelt endorses progressive-leaning Governor Abraham Lincoln II of Illinois for President. In one of the closest races in US history, Lincoln defeats blackhorse candidate Albert Ritchie by a 46-45 popular vote margin.
[12] Lincoln's term was dominated by economic growth and a significant increase in American geopolitical influence - dominated by the alliance with Japan signed at Honolulu in 1923. However, at election-time, Ritchie's Liberal Democrats narrowly snatched the vote. His presidency would be dominate with an extension and modification of American industries, and was particuarly notable for the Hydroelectric Power Projects which began with the Congowingo Dam in 1925. This projected influx of electrical power was predicted to substantially raise national standards of living, as well as employing thousands. However, there was a rift between the aspects of government on how to deal with the growing Klu Klux Klan in the deep south, and whether it should be banned.
[13] Ritchie attemps to repeal the RTL-era civil rights legislation on the grounds of state rights, so as to appease the KKK. However, the plan fails. The Nationalalist-dominated Congress refuses to cooperate. After that, Ritchie is determined to crack down on KKK groups. The Great Recession has yet to happen in 1928, and Ritchie defeats Irvine Lenroot by a 49-45 popular vote margin (the electoral college has been abolished in 1920) and becomes the first Liberal Democrat to win a consecutive second term.
[14] Since the election of Theodore Roosevelt's Nationalists in 1908, the Republicans had been largely a third party of truly minor significance. However, during the first years of the Liberal Democratic government (and, to an extent, during Lincoln II's) the party had been re-establishing itself and had aligned itself further to the left to compensate for the loss of its support for the Nationalists amongst its former vote base. The issues outlined under Ritchie, largely the civil crisis caused by the prominence of the KKK, had drawn more to the party, and after the Great Recession (1928) its popularity rose above the Liberal Democrats. Ritchie's government, whilst well-intentioned, failed to prevent mass financial losses amongst the population, and Charles G. Dawes (already a prominent figure in the world of economics) took the helm of the country under the Social Republicans. (The party had been renamed shortly after the beginning of the Recession to appeal to a more liberal and leftward vote.)

Super Mario
1992: Mario Cuomo/Al Gore (Democratic)
1996: Al Gore/Hugh Carey (Democratic)
2000: Colin Powell/John Ashcroft (Republican)
2004: Colin Powell/John Ashcroft (Republican)
2008: Tom Vilsack/Tim Heaphy (Democratic)
2012: Michael Bloomberg/Charlie Crist (Independent)
2016: Michael Bloomberg/Charlie Crist (Independent)
2020: Mario Diaz-Balart/Scott Brown (Republican)
And that's how Super Mario comes to the end, with another Super Mario!

A Multi-Party America

1824: Andrew Jackson/John Quincy Adams (Democratic Republican) [1]
1828: Andrew Jackson/John Quincy Adams (Democratic Republican)
1832: Amos Ellmaker/Richard Rush (Anti-Masonic) [2]
1836: Amos Ellmaker/Richard Rush (Anti-Masonic)
1840: James K. Polk/William H. Harrison (Federal Democrat) [3]

[1] With the Democratic Republicans the only dominant political party in the United States after the dissolution of the Federalists, there was some confusion as to what would come after the election of by the House of Representatives in 1824.
[2] Anti-public sentiment against Jackson was exacerbated in the 1828 election, which he only just managed to win. However, in 1832 determination of Jackson's political opponents to oust him (particuarly Henry Clay) resulted in a surprise election for Amos Ellmaker and Richard Rush, with the Anti-Masonic Party (even at Clay and his allies' expense!). The Anti-Masonic Party, whilst campaigned primarily on the issues that its name suggested, was also highly protectionist and championed 'internal improvements' to the United States.
[3] The 1840 election was monumentally close. Henry Clay, who had constructed his National Democratic Party almost from scratch, looked close to stealing the presidency. However, at the last moment, a surge of support for Polk's Federal Democrats (one of the many Democratic-branch offs from the First Party System) guaranteed him the White House. The Anti-Masonic Party had been deeply wounded by Harrison joining the S. Democrats, and with him in the White House it was deeply disconcerting for the party. Polk wanted rapid expansion of the United States - and it was about to get it.

Vice_President_Nixon · Jun 12, 2012

Lincoln Lives, Johnson Dies
1864: Abraham Lincoln/Andrew Johnson (Republican)
1865: Abraham Lincoln/Vacant (Republican) [1]
1868: James Doolittle/Asa Packer (Democratic) [2]
1872: Abraham Lincoln/James G. Blaine (Republican) [3]
1876: William S. Groesbeck/William E. Cameron (Liberal Democratic) [4]
1880: John Sherman/Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican) [5]
1884: John Sherman/Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican)
1888: William S. Groesbeck/Alfred H. Love (Liberal Democratic)[6]
1892: David B. Hill/Issac P. Gray (Liberal Democratic) [7]
1896: Robert T. Lincoln/William McKinley (Republican)
1900: Robert T. Lincoln/William McKinley (Republican)
1901: William McKinley/Vacant (Republican) [8]*
1904: John Tyler Morgan/Cornelius Vanderbilt III (Liberal Democratic) [8]
1908: Theodore Roosevelt/Charles Evans Hughes (Nationalist) [9]
1912: Theodore Roosevelt/Charles Evans Hughes (Nationalist)
1916: Theodore Roosevelt/Charles Evans Hughes (Nationalist) [10]
1920: Abraham Lincoln II / Irvine Lenroot (Nationalist) [11]
1924: Albert Ritchie/Oscar Underwood (Liberal Democratic) [12]
1928: Albert Ritchie/Oscar Underwood (Liberal Democratic) [13]
1932: Charles G. Dawes/Frank Orren Lowden (Social Republican) [14]
1936: Abraham Lincoln II/William E. Borah (Nationalist) [15]

[1] An April assassination attempt leaves President Lincoln with minor injuries but manages to leave Vice President Andrew Johnson dead. Secretary of State William Seward was also attacked but managed to survive.
[2] Lincoln's radical reconstruction programme slipped rapidly into becoming highly unpopular amongst the electorate. Doolittle, formerly an advocate of the system, campaigned for its reform with the Democratic Party. Lincoln, who ran against him for an attempted third term, survived two more assassination attempts on his life.
[3] The Doolittle administration is even more unpopular due the rolling back of Lincoln-era reforms, too lenient treatment of the South and the Panic of 1872. Running on a rather moderate platform, Lincoln decides to run again, and defeats Doolittle by a 56-43 margin, the largest percentage of victory since 1820. With a commanding majority in both houses, the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1874 would be passed. The economy would gradually recover during Lincoln's third term, though he has decided not to run again in 1876.
[4] With Lincoln leaving office, the Republicans suffered a major political vacuum that Blaine failed to fill, resulting in an important yet complicated election in which many parties gained seats. Most signficant of these, however, was Groesbeck's Liberal Democratic Party - a newly amalgamated group formed from members of the Democrats supporting the 'New Direction,' as well as a few stray Republicans wanting to seperate themselves from post-Lincolnian Republicanism. The Liberal Democrats actually left the well-handled Republican economy largely untouched - a move that granted them much respect and credibility (if a little hypocrisy) as responsible leaders - and instead focused on 'Diplomatic Reconstruction' to improve relations with European colonial powers; especially the United Kingdom and France. Also of significant issue was the American protectorate of Liberia, which was encouraged to accept blacks emigrating from the United States in the aftermath of the Civil War, and consequently relations significantly improved. Liberia would become a major source of conflict between the European colonizers and the United States, but Groesbeck managed to secure a significant enlargement of its borders.
[5] Senator John Sherman of Ohio managed to united the reeling Republicans in time to secure an upset over the popular Liberal Democrats. This election is a re-aligning election which while giving the Republicans the White House, established the Liberal Democrats as a clear major party. President Sherman continued and enhanced the economic prosperity of the country, but was rather lost in foreign policy especially over Liberia and the continuing tensions with the Europeans.
[6] The Monrovia bombing in 1886, argued by historians to have been a French attempt to destabilize the country, sparked anger across the United States. Sherman unfairly received much criticism, and in the 1888 election the strong Liberal Democrats, led by returning William S. Groesbeck, easily reclaimed the White House. Groesbeck announced his intentions for the Americans to possess a worldwide sphere to rival that of the major European powers - and Liberia lay at the centre of his policy. A policy dominator for the past decade, Groesbeck sought to enlarge the small African nation with aid from the British, to aid them in the rapidly growing Anglo-French Split. The Lib. Democrats would also continue the Republicans' economic growth, and admitted several new territories into the USA as fully-fledged states. There was also talk of the purchase of Russian Alaska and intervention in the Hawaiian civil war...
[7] After President Groesbeck decline to run for a third term, the Liberal Democratic nomination was won by Senator David B. Hill of New York who defeated the Speaker of the House Thomas B. Reed in the general election. President Hill began his term with the Purchase of Alaska, and the overthrow of the Hawaiian Queen followed shortly by annexation of Hawaii which narrowly passed in the Senate. Unfortunately, the economic prosperity which the country had enjoyed since the Civil War was ended with the Panic of 1894, a large recession had the public clamoring for the end of the Hill Presidency and as such many big name Republicans were planning on throwing their hat into the 1896 Election.
[8] The 1901 assassination of Lincoln in Buffalo, New York, proved too be too much of a strain on McKinley. Despite appearing firm at the beginning of his office, his popularity declined rapidly. In 1904, a landmark election, the Liberal Democrats were ruthless - they campaigned for increased civil rights, as well as (forced) negotiation with Spain about selling its Caribbean assets (namely Cuba). In an American populace eager for expansion (yet keen to take advantage of the Anglo-Russian War that had broken out on the Dogger Bank in 1904) they proved popular. This would be a serious blow to the Republicans - who splintered into various factions with only a rump group representing the central party led by former Presidental aide and secretary George B. Cortelyou.
[9] New York Governor Theodore Roosevelt was the most popular politician in America by 1908, even more popular than the president. With his Republican party splintered Governor Roosevelt was able to form a coalition of populists, former Republicans and expansionist Liberal Democrats who felt that the President had failed to live up to 1904 campaign promises and Roosevelt was elected in a landslide. President Roosevelt succeeded in 1909 in purchasing Cuba and other Atlantic assets from Spain.
[10] With the war in Europe coming to an end in 1913 - after an unimaginable nine years of conflict - Roosevelt's government was requested to represent the neutral United States at the Confederence of Amsterdam in early 1914 which sought to establish a formal peace treaty between the Allies of the United Kingdom, France and the Ottoman Empire and the victorious Dreikaiserbund of the German Empire, the Austrian Imperial Commonwealth, and the Russian Empire. Despite European relations worsening after Germany forced the Allies to claim responsiblity for the war, Roosevelt's participation secured major American contracts to the defeated west, and as a result a post-war boom began in the United States which resulted in an unprecedented third term for the majority of Roosevelt's cabinet.
[11] Roosevelt initially plans to run for a 4th term, but declines to do so after suffering from a minor stroke. After Hughes refuses to run, Roosevelt endorses progressive-leaning Governor Abraham Lincoln II of Illinois for President. In one of the closest races in US history, Lincoln defeats blackhorse candidate Albert Ritchie by a 46-45 popular vote margin.
[12] Lincoln's term was dominated by economic growth and a significant increase in American geopolitical influence - dominated by the alliance with Japan signed at Honolulu in 1923. However, at election-time, Ritchie's Liberal Democrats narrowly snatched the vote. His presidency would be dominate with an extension and modification of American industries, and was particuarly notable for the Hydroelectric Power Projects which began with the Congowingo Dam in 1925. This projected influx of electrical power was predicted to substantially raise national standards of living, as well as employing thousands. However, there was a rift between the aspects of government on how to deal with the growing Klu Klux Klan in the deep south, and whether it should be banned.
[13] Ritchie attemps to repeal the RTL-era civil rights legislation on the grounds of state rights, so as to appease the KKK. However, the plan fails. The Nationalalist-dominated Congress refuses to cooperate. After that, Ritchie is determined to crack down on KKK groups. The Great Recession has yet to happen in 1928, and Ritchie defeats Irvine Lenroot by a 49-45 popular vote margin (the electoral college has been abolished in 1920) and becomes the first Liberal Democrat to win a consecutive second term.
[14] Since the election of Theodore Roosevelt's Nationalists in 1908, the Republicans had been largely a third party of truly minor significance. However, during the first years of the Liberal Democratic government (and, to an extent, during Lincoln II's) the party had been re-establishing itself and had aligned itself further to the left to compensate for the loss of its support for the Nationalists amongst its former vote base. The issues outlined under Ritchie, largely the civil crisis caused by the prominence of the KKK, had drawn more to the party, and after the Great Recession (1928) its popularity rose above the Liberal Democrats. Ritchie's government, whilst well-intentioned, failed to prevent mass financial losses amongst the population, and Charles G. Dawes (already a prominent figure in the world of economics) took the helm of the country under the Social Republicans. (The party had been renamed shortly after the beginning of the Recession to appeal to a more liberal and leftward vote.)
[15] Former President Lincoln returned to run for office again in 1936, his path to the nomination was made clear by most major candidates declining to run against the popular President Dawes. Unfortunately for Dawes the Liberal Democrats recovered enough to split the Center-left vote and Lincoln won 45-39-11. As a result of this election the Liberal Democrats and the Social Republicans have started an attempt to merge their two parties into one. President Lincoln continued the economic policies of his predecessor and when the Second Great War broke out in 1940, he prepared his nation for war while declining to run for a third term.
A Multi-Party America

1824: Andrew Jackson/John Quincy Adams (Democratic Republican) [1]
1828: Andrew Jackson/John Quincy Adams (Democratic Republican)
1832: Amos Ellmaker/Richard Rush (Anti-Masonic) [2]
1836: Amos Ellmaker/Richard Rush (Anti-Masonic)
1840: James K. Polk/William H. Harrison (Federal Democrat) [3]
1844: Henry Clay/John Tyler (National Democrat) [4]

[1] With the Democratic Republicans the only dominant political party in the United States after the dissolution of the Federalists, there was some confusion as to what would come after the election of by the House of Representatives in 1824.
[2] Anti-public sentiment against Jackson was exacerbated in the 1828 election, which he only just managed to win. However, in 1832 determination of Jackson's political opponents to oust him (particuarly Henry Clay) resulted in a surprise election for Amos Ellmaker and Richard Rush, with the Anti-Masonic Party (even at Clay and his allies' expense!). The Anti-Masonic Party, whilst campaigned primarily on the issues that its name suggested, was also highly protectionist and championed 'internal improvements' to the United States.
[3] The 1840 election was monumentally close. Henry Clay, who had constructed his National Democratic Party almost from scratch, looked close to stealing the presidency. However, at the last moment, a surge of support for Polk's Federal Democrats (one of the many Democratic-branch offs from the First Party System) guaranteed him the White House. The Anti-Masonic Party had been deeply wounded by Harrison joining the S. Democrats, and with him in the White House it was deeply disconcerting for the party. Polk wanted rapid expansion of the United States - and it was about to get it.
[4] President Polk declined to run for a second term and this gave Henry Clay and his National Democrats the White House. With the Senate dominated by an Anti-National Democrat coalition, President Clay had no choice but to continue to seek expansion especially in regards to Texas which started the First Mexican-American War in 1843.

Premier Taylerov · Jun 12, 2012

Lincoln Lives, Johnson Dies
1864: Abraham Lincoln/Andrew Johnson (Republican)
1865: Abraham Lincoln/Vacant (Republican) [1]
1868: James Doolittle/Asa Packer (Democratic) [2]
1872: Abraham Lincoln/James G. Blaine (Republican) [3]
1876: William S. Groesbeck/William E. Cameron (Liberal Democratic) [4]
1880: John Sherman/Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican) [5]
1884: John Sherman/Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican)
1888: William S. Groesbeck/Alfred H. Love (Liberal Democratic)[6]
1892: David B. Hill/Issac P. Gray (Liberal Democratic) [7]
1896: Robert T. Lincoln/William McKinley (Republican)
1900: Robert T. Lincoln/William McKinley (Republican)
1901: William McKinley/Vacant (Republican) [8]*
1904: John Tyler Morgan/Cornelius Vanderbilt III (Liberal Democratic) [8]
1908: Theodore Roosevelt/Charles Evans Hughes (Nationalist) [9]
1912: Theodore Roosevelt/Charles Evans Hughes (Nationalist)
1916: Theodore Roosevelt/Charles Evans Hughes (Nationalist) [10]
1920: Abraham Lincoln II / Irvine Lenroot (Nationalist) [11]
1924: Albert Ritchie/Oscar Underwood (Liberal Democratic) [12]
1928: Albert Ritchie/Oscar Underwood (Liberal Democratic) [13]
1932: Charles G. Dawes/Frank Orren Lowden (Social Republican) [14]
1936: Abraham Lincoln II/William E. Borah (Nationalist) [15]
1940: Charles G. Dawes/James Farley (Social Republican/Liberal Democratic) [16]

[1] An April assassination attempt leaves President Lincoln with minor injuries but manages to leave Vice President Andrew Johnson dead. Secretary of State William Seward was also attacked but managed to survive.
[2] Lincoln's radical reconstruction programme slipped rapidly into becoming highly unpopular amongst the electorate. Doolittle, formerly an advocate of the system, campaigned for its reform with the Democratic Party. Lincoln, who ran against him for an attempted third term, survived two more assassination attempts on his life.
[3] The Doolittle administration is even more unpopular due the rolling back of Lincoln-era reforms, too lenient treatment of the South and the Panic of 1872. Running on a rather moderate platform, Lincoln decides to run again, and defeats Doolittle by a 56-43 margin, the largest percentage of victory since 1820. With a commanding majority in both houses, the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1874 would be passed. The economy would gradually recover during Lincoln's third term, though he has decided not to run again in 1876.
[4] With Lincoln leaving office, the Republicans suffered a major political vacuum that Blaine failed to fill, resulting in an important yet complicated election in which many parties gained seats. Most signficant of these, however, was Groesbeck's Liberal Democratic Party - a newly amalgamated group formed from members of the Democrats supporting the 'New Direction,' as well as a few stray Republicans wanting to seperate themselves from post-Lincolnian Republicanism. The Liberal Democrats actually left the well-handled Republican economy largely untouched - a move that granted them much respect and credibility (if a little hypocrisy) as responsible leaders - and instead focused on 'Diplomatic Reconstruction' to improve relations with European colonial powers; especially the United Kingdom and France. Also of significant issue was the American protectorate of Liberia, which was encouraged to accept blacks emigrating from the United States in the aftermath of the Civil War, and consequently relations significantly improved. Liberia would become a major source of conflict between the European colonizers and the United States, but Groesbeck managed to secure a significant enlargement of its borders.
[5] Senator John Sherman of Ohio managed to united the reeling Republicans in time to secure an upset over the popular Liberal Democrats. This election is a re-aligning election which while giving the Republicans the White House, established the Liberal Democrats as a clear major party. President Sherman continued and enhanced the economic prosperity of the country, but was rather lost in foreign policy especially over Liberia and the continuing tensions with the Europeans.
[6] The Monrovia bombing in 1886, argued by historians to have been a French attempt to destabilize the country, sparked anger across the United States. Sherman unfairly received much criticism, and in the 1888 election the strong Liberal Democrats, led by returning William S. Groesbeck, easily reclaimed the White House. Groesbeck announced his intentions for the Americans to possess a worldwide sphere to rival that of the major European powers - and Liberia lay at the centre of his policy. A policy dominator for the past decade, Groesbeck sought to enlarge the small African nation with aid from the British, to aid them in the rapidly growing Anglo-French Split. The Lib. Democrats would also continue the Republicans' economic growth, and admitted several new territories into the USA as fully-fledged states. There was also talk of the purchase of Russian Alaska and intervention in the Hawaiian civil war...
[7] After President Groesbeck decline to run for a third term, the Liberal Democratic nomination was won by Senator David B. Hill of New York who defeated the Speaker of the House Thomas B. Reed in the general election. President Hill began his term with the Purchase of Alaska, and the overthrow of the Hawaiian Queen followed shortly by annexation of Hawaii which narrowly passed in the Senate. Unfortunately, the economic prosperity which the country had enjoyed since the Civil War was ended with the Panic of 1894, a large recession had the public clamoring for the end of the Hill Presidency and as such many big name Republicans were planning on throwing their hat into the 1896 Election.
[8] The 1901 assassination of Lincoln in Buffalo, New York, proved too be too much of a strain on McKinley. Despite appearing firm at the beginning of his office, his popularity declined rapidly. In 1904, a landmark election, the Liberal Democrats were ruthless - they campaigned for increased civil rights, as well as (forced) negotiation with Spain about selling its Caribbean assets (namely Cuba). In an American populace eager for expansion (yet keen to take advantage of the Anglo-Russian War that had broken out on the Dogger Bank in 1904) they proved popular. This would be a serious blow to the Republicans - who splintered into various factions with only a rump group representing the central party led by former Presidental aide and secretary George B. Cortelyou.
[9] New York Governor Theodore Roosevelt was the most popular politician in America by 1908, even more popular than the president. With his Republican party splintered Governor Roosevelt was able to form a coalition of populists, former Republicans and expansionist Liberal Democrats who felt that the President had failed to live up to 1904 campaign promises and Roosevelt was elected in a landslide. President Roosevelt succeeded in 1909 in purchasing Cuba and other Atlantic assets from Spain.
[10] With the war in Europe coming to an end in 1913 - after an unimaginable nine years of conflict - Roosevelt's government was requested to represent the neutral United States at the Confederence of Amsterdam in early 1914 which sought to establish a formal peace treaty between the Allies of the United Kingdom, France and the Ottoman Empire and the victorious Dreikaiserbund of the German Empire, the Austrian Imperial Commonwealth, and the Russian Empire. Despite European relations worsening after Germany forced the Allies to claim responsiblity for the war, Roosevelt's participation secured major American contracts to the defeated west, and as a result a post-war boom began in the United States which resulted in an unprecedented third term for the majority of Roosevelt's cabinet.
[11] Roosevelt initially plans to run for a 4th term, but declines to do so after suffering from a minor stroke. After Hughes refuses to run, Roosevelt endorses progressive-leaning Governor Abraham Lincoln II of Illinois for President. In one of the closest races in US history, Lincoln defeats blackhorse candidate Albert Ritchie by a 46-45 popular vote margin.
[12] Lincoln's term was dominated by economic growth and a significant increase in American geopolitical influence - dominated by the alliance with Japan signed at Honolulu in 1923. However, at election-time, Ritchie's Liberal Democrats narrowly snatched the vote. His presidency would be dominate with an extension and modification of American industries, and was particuarly notable for the Hydroelectric Power Projects which began with the Congowingo Dam in 1925. This projected influx of electrical power was predicted to substantially raise national standards of living, as well as employing thousands. However, there was a rift between the aspects of government on how to deal with the growing Klu Klux Klan in the deep south, and whether it should be banned.
[13] Ritchie attemps to repeal the RTL-era civil rights legislation on the grounds of state rights, so as to appease the KKK. However, the plan fails. The Nationalalist-dominated Congress refuses to cooperate. After that, Ritchie is determined to crack down on KKK groups. The Great Recession has yet to happen in 1928, and Ritchie defeats Irvine Lenroot by a 49-45 popular vote margin (the electoral college has been abolished in 1920) and becomes the first Liberal Democrat to win a consecutive second term.
[14] Since the election of Theodore Roosevelt's Nationalists in 1908, the Republicans had been largely a third party of truly minor significance. However, during the first years of the Liberal Democratic government (and, to an extent, during Lincoln II's) the party had been re-establishing itself and had aligned itself further to the left to compensate for the loss of its support for the Nationalists amongst its former vote base. The issues outlined under Ritchie, largely the civil crisis caused by the prominence of the KKK, had drawn more to the party, and after the Great Recession (1928) its popularity rose above the Liberal Democrats. Ritchie's government, whilst well-intentioned, failed to prevent mass financial losses amongst the population, and Charles G. Dawes (already a prominent figure in the world of economics) took the helm of the country under the Social Republicans. (The party had been renamed shortly after the beginning of the Recession to appeal to a more liberal and leftward vote.)
[15] Former President Lincoln returned to run for office again in 1936, his path to the nomination was made clear by most major candidates declining to run against the popular President Dawes. Unfortunately for Dawes the Liberal Democrats recovered enough to split the Center-left vote and Lincoln won 45-39-11. As a result of this election the Liberal Democrats and the Social Republicans have started an attempt to merge their two parties into one. President Lincoln continued the economic policies of his predecessor and when the Second Great War broke out in 1940, he prepared his nation for war while declining to run for a third term.
[16] The 1940 election was largely concerned with whether the United States would remain neutral in the war. The general opinion was that the Allies of the United Kingdom, Germany and Italy would easily defeat France and the Russian Empire, and as a result most of the parties ran a 'normal' election regardless. The Social Republicans and Liberal Democrats campaigned on a joint ticket - whilst not officially united parties, they formed a political alliance in the months running up to the election, led by the returning Dawes and his Liberal Democratic ally James Farley.

A Multi-Party America

1824: Andrew Jackson/John Quincy Adams (Democratic Republican) [1]
1828: Andrew Jackson/John Quincy Adams (Democratic Republican)
1832: Amos Ellmaker/Richard Rush (Anti-Masonic) [2]
1836: Amos Ellmaker/Richard Rush (Anti-Masonic)
1840: James K. Polk/William H. Harrison (Federal Democrat) [3]
1844: Henry Clay/John Tyler (National Democrat) [4]
1848: Henry Clay/John Tyler (National Democrat) [5]

[1] With the Democratic Republicans the only dominant political party in the United States after the dissolution of the Federalists, there was some confusion as to what would come after the election of by the House of Representatives in 1824.
[2] Anti-public sentiment against Jackson was exacerbated in the 1828 election, which he only just managed to win. However, in 1832 determination of Jackson's political opponents to oust him (particuarly Henry Clay) resulted in a surprise election for Amos Ellmaker and Richard Rush, with the Anti-Masonic Party (even at Clay and his allies' expense!). The Anti-Masonic Party, whilst campaigned primarily on the issues that its name suggested, was also highly protectionist and championed 'internal improvements' to the United States.
[3] The 1840 election was monumentally close. Henry Clay, who had constructed his National Democratic Party almost from scratch, looked close to stealing the presidency. However, at the last moment, a surge of support for Polk's Federal Democrats (one of the many Democratic-branch offs from the First Party System) guaranteed him the White House. The Anti-Masonic Party had been deeply wounded by Harrison joining the S. Democrats, and with him in the White House it was deeply disconcerting for the party. Polk wanted rapid expansion of the United States - and it was about to get it.
[4] President Polk declined to run for a second term and this gave Henry Clay and his National Democrats the White House. With the Senate dominated by an Anti-National Democrat coalition, President Clay had no choice but to continue to seek expansion especially in regards to Texas which started the First Mexican-American War in 1843.
[5] As the war against Mexico came to a bitter close, the 1848 election was dominated by the 'All-Mexico' movement. Whilst Clay opposed the move, many in his government (with rumours of John Tyler, too) supported the complete annexation of Mexico. This would lead to a major crisis in politics, and Clay was only narrowly re-elected. However, the rift between Clay and Tyler continued, and actually looked like a threat to the stability of government.

Tony · Jun 13, 2012

Lincoln Lives, Johnson Dies
1864: Abraham Lincoln/Andrew Johnson (Republican)
1865: Abraham Lincoln/Vacant (Republican) [1]
1868: James Doolittle/Asa Packer (Democratic) [2]
1872: Abraham Lincoln/James G. Blaine (Republican) [3]
1876: William S. Groesbeck/William E. Cameron (Liberal Democratic) [4]
1880: John Sherman/Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican) [5]
1884: John Sherman/Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican)
1888: William S. Groesbeck/Alfred H. Love (Liberal Democratic)[6]
1892: David B. Hill/Issac P. Gray (Liberal Democratic) [7]
1896: Robert T. Lincoln/William McKinley (Republican)
1900: Robert T. Lincoln/William McKinley (Republican)
1901: William McKinley/Vacant (Republican) [8]*
1904: John Tyler Morgan/Cornelius Vanderbilt III (Liberal Democratic) [8]
1908: Theodore Roosevelt/Charles Evans Hughes (Nationalist) [9]
1912: Theodore Roosevelt/Charles Evans Hughes (Nationalist)
1916: Theodore Roosevelt/Charles Evans Hughes (Nationalist) [10]
1920: Abraham Lincoln II / Irvine Lenroot (Nationalist) [11]
1924: Albert Ritchie/Oscar Underwood (Liberal Democratic) [12]
1928: Albert Ritchie/Oscar Underwood (Liberal Democratic) [13]
1932: Charles G. Dawes / Frank Orren Lowden (Social Republican) [14]
1936: Abraham Lincoln II / William E. Borah (Nationalist) [15]
1940: Charles G. Dawes/James Farley (Social Republican/Liberal Democratic) [16]
1944: Harry S. Truman / George M. Grant (Progressive Conservative) [17]

[1] An April assassination attempt leaves President Lincoln with minor injuries but manages to leave Vice President Andrew Johnson dead. Secretary of State William Seward was also attacked but managed to survive.
[2] Lincoln's radical reconstruction programme slipped rapidly into becoming highly unpopular amongst the electorate. Doolittle, formerly an advocate of the system, campaigned for its reform with the Democratic Party. Lincoln, who ran against him for an attempted third term, survived two more assassination attempts on his life.
[3] The Doolittle administration is even more unpopular due the rolling back of Lincoln-era reforms, too lenient treatment of the South and the Panic of 1872. Running on a rather moderate platform, Lincoln decides to run again, and defeats Doolittle by a 56-43 margin, the largest percentage of victory since 1820. With a commanding majority in both houses, the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1874 would be passed. The economy would gradually recover during Lincoln's third term, though he has decided not to run again in 1876.
[4] With Lincoln leaving office, the Republicans suffered a major political vacuum that Blaine failed to fill, resulting in an important yet complicated election in which many parties gained seats. Most signficant of these, however, was Groesbeck's Liberal Democratic Party - a newly amalgamated group formed from members of the Democrats supporting the 'New Direction,' as well as a few stray Republicans wanting to seperate themselves from post-Lincolnian Republicanism. The Liberal Democrats actually left the well-handled Republican economy largely untouched - a move that granted them much respect and credibility (if a little hypocrisy) as responsible leaders - and instead focused on 'Diplomatic Reconstruction' to improve relations with European colonial powers; especially the United Kingdom and France. Also of significant issue was the American protectorate of Liberia, which was encouraged to accept blacks emigrating from the United States in the aftermath of the Civil War, and consequently relations significantly improved. Liberia would become a major source of conflict between the European colonizers and the United States, but Groesbeck managed to secure a significant enlargement of its borders.
[5] Senator John Sherman of Ohio managed to united the reeling Republicans in time to secure an upset over the popular Liberal Democrats. This election is a re-aligning election which while giving the Republicans the White House, established the Liberal Democrats as a clear major party. President Sherman continued and enhanced the economic prosperity of the country, but was rather lost in foreign policy especially over Liberia and the continuing tensions with the Europeans.
[6] The Monrovia bombing in 1886, argued by historians to have been a French attempt to destabilize the country, sparked anger across the United States. Sherman unfairly received much criticism, and in the 1888 election the strong Liberal Democrats, led by returning William S. Groesbeck, easily reclaimed the White House. Groesbeck announced his intentions for the Americans to possess a worldwide sphere to rival that of the major European powers - and Liberia lay at the centre of his policy. A policy dominator for the past decade, Groesbeck sought to enlarge the small African nation with aid from the British, to aid them in the rapidly growing Anglo-French Split. The Lib. Democrats would also continue the Republicans' economic growth, and admitted several new territories into the USA as fully-fledged states. There was also talk of the purchase of Russian Alaska and intervention in the Hawaiian civil war...
[7] After President Groesbeck decline to run for a third term, the Liberal Democratic nomination was won by Senator David B. Hill of New York who defeated the Speaker of the House Thomas B. Reed in the general election. President Hill began his term with the Purchase of Alaska, and the overthrow of the Hawaiian Queen followed shortly by annexation of Hawaii which narrowly passed in the Senate. Unfortunately, the economic prosperity which the country had enjoyed since the Civil War was ended with the Panic of 1894, a large recession had the public clamoring for the end of the Hill Presidency and as such many big name Republicans were planning on throwing their hat into the 1896 Election.
[8] The 1901 assassination of Lincoln in Buffalo, New York, proved too be too much of a strain on McKinley. Despite appearing firm at the beginning of his office, his popularity declined rapidly. In 1904, a landmark election, the Liberal Democrats were ruthless - they campaigned for increased civil rights, as well as (forced) negotiation with Spain about selling its Caribbean assets (namely Cuba). In an American populace eager for expansion (yet keen to take advantage of the Anglo-Russian War that had broken out on the Dogger Bank in 1904) they proved popular. This would be a serious blow to the Republicans - who splintered into various factions with only a rump group representing the central party led by former Presidental aide and secretary George B. Cortelyou.
[9] New York Governor Theodore Roosevelt was the most popular politician in America by 1908, even more popular than the president. With his Republican party splintered Governor Roosevelt was able to form a coalition of populists, former Republicans and expansionist Liberal Democrats who felt that the President had failed to live up to 1904 campaign promises and Roosevelt was elected in a landslide. President Roosevelt succeeded in 1909 in purchasing Cuba and other Atlantic assets from Spain.
[10] With the war in Europe coming to an end in 1913 - after an unimaginable nine years of conflict - Roosevelt's government was requested to represent the neutral United States at the Confederence of Amsterdam in early 1914 which sought to establish a formal peace treaty between the Allies of the United Kingdom, France and the Ottoman Empire and the victorious Dreikaiserbund of the German Empire, the Austrian Imperial Commonwealth, and the Russian Empire. Despite European relations worsening after Germany forced the Allies to claim responsiblity for the war, Roosevelt's participation secured major American contracts to the defeated west, and as a result a post-war boom began in the United States which resulted in an unprecedented third term for the majority of Roosevelt's cabinet.
[11] Roosevelt initially plans to run for a 4th term, but declines to do so after suffering from a minor stroke. After Hughes refuses to run, Roosevelt endorses progressive-leaning Governor Abraham Lincoln II of Illinois for President. In one of the closest races in US history, Lincoln defeats blackhorse candidate Albert Ritchie by a 46-45 popular vote margin.
[12] Lincoln's term was dominated by economic growth and a significant increase in American geopolitical influence - dominated by the alliance with Japan signed at Honolulu in 1923. However, at election-time, Ritchie's Liberal Democrats narrowly snatched the vote. His presidency would be dominate with an extension and modification of American industries, and was particuarly notable for the Hydroelectric Power Projects which began with the Congowingo Dam in 1925. This projected influx of electrical power was predicted to substantially raise national standards of living, as well as employing thousands. However, there was a rift between the aspects of government on how to deal with the growing Klu Klux Klan in the deep south, and whether it should be banned.
[13] Ritchie attemps to repeal the RTL-era civil rights legislation on the grounds of state rights, so as to appease the KKK. However, the plan fails. The Nationalalist-dominated Congress refuses to cooperate. After that, Ritchie is determined to crack down on KKK groups. The Great Recession has yet to happen in 1928, and Ritchie defeats Irvine Lenroot by a 49-45 popular vote margin (the electoral college has been abolished in 1920) and becomes the first Liberal Democrat to win a consecutive second term.
[14] Since the election of Theodore Roosevelt's Nationalists in 1908, the Republicans had been largely a third party of truly minor significance. However, during the first years of the Liberal Democratic government (and, to an extent, during Lincoln II's) the party had been re-establishing itself and had aligned itself further to the left to compensate for the loss of its support for the Nationalists amongst its former vote base. The issues outlined under Ritchie, largely the civil crisis caused by the prominence of the KKK, had drawn more to the party, and after the Great Recession (1928) its popularity rose above the Liberal Democrats. Ritchie's government, whilst well-intentioned, failed to prevent mass financial losses amongst the population, and Charles G. Dawes (already a prominent figure in the world of economics) took the helm of the country under the Social Republicans. (The party had been renamed shortly after the beginning of the Recession to appeal to a more liberal and leftward vote.)
[15] Former President Lincoln returned to run for office again in 1936, his path to the nomination was made clear by most major candidates declining to run against the popular President Dawes. Unfortunately for Dawes the Liberal Democrats recovered enough to split the Center-right vote and Lincoln won 45-39-11. As a result of this election the Liberal Democrats and the Social Republicans have started an attempt to merge their two parties into one. President Lincoln continued the economic policies of his predecessor and when the Second Great War broke out in 1940, he prepared his nation for war while declining to run for a third term.
[16] The 1940 election was largely concerned with whether the United States would remain neutral in the war. The general opinion was that the Allies of the United Kingdom, Germany and Italy would easily defeat France and the Russian Empire, and as a result most of the parties ran a 'normal' election regardless. The Social Republicans and Liberal Democrats campaigned on a joint ticket - whilst not officially united parties, they formed a political alliance in the months running up to the election, led by the returning Dawes and his Liberal Democratic ally James Farley.
[17] In 1941, China launches a surprise attack on the Pearl Harbor, drawing the United States into the war against the Global Treaty. China, still led by the 70-year-old Guangxu Emperor, has transformed China into a greatpower following Cixi's sudden death in 1898. Two years earlier in 1939, Prime Minister Chiang Kai-shek signs the Global Treaty with his French and Russian counterparts. Not long afterwards, China and Russia invade Korea, and democratic Japan mobilizes troops to defend her ally. Meanwhile, Russia invades Poland, leading to the outbreak of the 2nd Great War.

At the same time, the Social Republicans and Liberal Democrats finally merge into the Progressive Conservative Party. Refusing to run for a third term after a failed assassination attempt, the Progressive Conservatives rally behind Secretary of State and former Senator Harry S. Truman of Missouri, to continue the war effort. Failing to include a state rights' platform, Senator Richard Russell, Jr. of Georgia decides to run under the banner of the States' Rights Party, calling for the termination of federal inspection of local voter registration polls, put into practice since the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1921. The Nationalists nominate liberal Senator Emanuel Celler of New York for President.

Unwilling to change the ruling party in the middle of a war near victory, Truman is elected by comfortable margins despite Russell's candidacy. Truman defeats Celler and Russell by a 52-41-6 margin.

A Multi-Party America

1824: Andrew Jackson/John Quincy Adams (Democratic Republican) [1]
1828: Andrew Jackson/John Quincy Adams (Democratic Republican)
1832: Amos Ellmaker/Richard Rush (Anti-Masonic) [2]
1836: Amos Ellmaker/Richard Rush (Anti-Masonic)
1840: James K. Polk/William H. Harrison (Federal Democrat) [3]
1844: Henry Clay/John Tyler (National Democrat) [4]
1848: Henry Clay/John Tyler (National Democrat) [5]

[1] With the Democratic Republicans the only dominant political party in the United States after the dissolution of the Federalists, there was some confusion as to what would come after the election of by the House of Representatives in 1824.
[2] Anti-public sentiment against Jackson was exacerbated in the 1828 election, which he only just managed to win. However, in 1832 determination of Jackson's political opponents to oust him (particuarly Henry Clay) resulted in a surprise election for Amos Ellmaker and Richard Rush, with the Anti-Masonic Party (even at Clay and his allies' expense!). The Anti-Masonic Party, whilst campaigned primarily on the issues that its name suggested, was also highly protectionist and championed 'internal improvements' to the United States.
[3] The 1840 election was monumentally close. Henry Clay, who had constructed his National Democratic Party almost from scratch, looked close to stealing the presidency. However, at the last moment, a surge of support for Polk's Federal Democrats (one of the many Democratic-branch offs from the First Party System) guaranteed him the White House. The Anti-Masonic Party had been deeply wounded by Harrison joining the S. Democrats, and with him in the White House it was deeply disconcerting for the party. Polk wanted rapid expansion of the United States - and it was about to get it.
[4] President Polk declined to run for a second term and this gave Henry Clay and his National Democrats the White House. With the Senate dominated by an Anti-National Democrat coalition, President Clay had no choice but to continue to seek expansion especially in regards to Texas which started the First Mexican-American War in 1843.
[5] As the war against Mexico came to a bitter close, the 1848 election was dominated by the 'All-Mexico' movement. Whilst Clay opposed the move, many in his government (with rumours of John Tyler, too) supported the complete annexation of Mexico. This would lead to a major crisis in politics, and Clay was only narrowly re-elected. However, the rift between Clay and Tyler continued, and actually looked like a threat to the stability of government.

achilles483 · Jun 13, 2012

Lincoln Lives, Johnson Dies
1864: Abraham Lincoln/Andrew Johnson (Republican)
1865: Abraham Lincoln/Vacant (Republican) [1]
1868: James Doolittle/Asa Packer (Democratic) [2]
1872: Abraham Lincoln/James G. Blaine (Republican) [3]
1876: William S. Groesbeck/William E. Cameron (Liberal Democratic) [4]
1880: John Sherman/Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican) [5]
1884: John Sherman/Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican)
1888: William S. Groesbeck/Alfred H. Love (Liberal Democratic)[6]
1892: David B. Hill/Issac P. Gray (Liberal Democratic) [7]
1896: Robert T. Lincoln/William McKinley (Republican)
1900: Robert T. Lincoln/William McKinley (Republican)
1901: William McKinley/Vacant (Republican) [8]*
1904: John Tyler Morgan/Cornelius Vanderbilt III (Liberal Democratic) [8]
1908: Theodore Roosevelt/Charles Evans Hughes (Nationalist) [9]
1912: Theodore Roosevelt/Charles Evans Hughes (Nationalist)
1916: Theodore Roosevelt/Charles Evans Hughes (Nationalist) [10]
1920: Abraham Lincoln II / Irvine Lenroot (Nationalist) [11]
1924: Albert Ritchie/Oscar Underwood (Liberal Democratic) [12]
1928: Albert Ritchie/Oscar Underwood (Liberal Democratic) [13]
1932: Charles G. Dawes / Frank Orren Lowden (Social Republican) [14]
1936: Abraham Lincoln II / William E. Borah (Nationalist) [15]
1940: Charles G. Dawes/James Farley (Social Republican/Liberal Democratic) [16]
1944: Harry S. Truman / George M. Grant (Progressive Conservative) [17]
1948: Earl Warren / Thomas Dewey (Nationalist)

[1] An April assassination attempt leaves President Lincoln with minor injuries but manages to leave Vice President Andrew Johnson dead. Secretary of State William Seward was also attacked but managed to survive.
[2] Lincoln's radical reconstruction programme slipped rapidly into becoming highly unpopular amongst the electorate. Doolittle, formerly an advocate of the system, campaigned for its reform with the Democratic Party. Lincoln, who ran against him for an attempted third term, survived two more assassination attempts on his life.
[3] The Doolittle administration is even more unpopular due the rolling back of Lincoln-era reforms, too lenient treatment of the South and the Panic of 1872. Running on a rather moderate platform, Lincoln decides to run again, and defeats Doolittle by a 56-43 margin, the largest percentage of victory since 1820. With a commanding majority in both houses, the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1874 would be passed. The economy would gradually recover during Lincoln's third term, though he has decided not to run again in 1876.
[4] With Lincoln leaving office, the Republicans suffered a major political vacuum that Blaine failed to fill, resulting in an important yet complicated election in which many parties gained seats. Most signficant of these, however, was Groesbeck's Liberal Democratic Party - a newly amalgamated group formed from members of the Democrats supporting the 'New Direction,' as well as a few stray Republicans wanting to seperate themselves from post-Lincolnian Republicanism. The Liberal Democrats actually left the well-handled Republican economy largely untouched - a move that granted them much respect and credibility (if a little hypocrisy) as responsible leaders - and instead focused on 'Diplomatic Reconstruction' to improve relations with European colonial powers; especially the United Kingdom and France. Also of significant issue was the American protectorate of Liberia, which was encouraged to accept blacks emigrating from the United States in the aftermath of the Civil War, and consequently relations significantly improved. Liberia would become a major source of conflict between the European colonizers and the United States, but Groesbeck managed to secure a significant enlargement of its borders.
[5] Senator John Sherman of Ohio managed to united the reeling Republicans in time to secure an upset over the popular Liberal Democrats. This election is a re-aligning election which while giving the Republicans the White House, established the Liberal Democrats as a clear major party. President Sherman continued and enhanced the economic prosperity of the country, but was rather lost in foreign policy especially over Liberia and the continuing tensions with the Europeans.
[6] The Monrovia bombing in 1886, argued by historians to have been a French attempt to destabilize the country, sparked anger across the United States. Sherman unfairly received much criticism, and in the 1888 election the strong Liberal Democrats, led by returning William S. Groesbeck, easily reclaimed the White House. Groesbeck announced his intentions for the Americans to possess a worldwide sphere to rival that of the major European powers - and Liberia lay at the centre of his policy. A policy dominator for the past decade, Groesbeck sought to enlarge the small African nation with aid from the British, to aid them in the rapidly growing Anglo-French Split. The Lib. Democrats would also continue the Republicans' economic growth, and admitted several new territories into the USA as fully-fledged states. There was also talk of the purchase of Russian Alaska and intervention in the Hawaiian civil war...
[7] After President Groesbeck decline to run for a third term, the Liberal Democratic nomination was won by Senator David B. Hill of New York who defeated the Speaker of the House Thomas B. Reed in the general election. President Hill began his term with the Purchase of Alaska, and the overthrow of the Hawaiian Queen followed shortly by annexation of Hawaii which narrowly passed in the Senate. Unfortunately, the economic prosperity which the country had enjoyed since the Civil War was ended with the Panic of 1894, a large recession had the public clamoring for the end of the Hill Presidency and as such many big name Republicans were planning on throwing their hat into the 1896 Election.
[8] The 1901 assassination of Lincoln in Buffalo, New York, proved too be too much of a strain on McKinley. Despite appearing firm at the beginning of his office, his popularity declined rapidly. In 1904, a landmark election, the Liberal Democrats were ruthless - they campaigned for increased civil rights, as well as (forced) negotiation with Spain about selling its Caribbean assets (namely Cuba). In an American populace eager for expansion (yet keen to take advantage of the Anglo-Russian War that had broken out on the Dogger Bank in 1904) they proved popular. This would be a serious blow to the Republicans - who splintered into various factions with only a rump group representing the central party led by former Presidental aide and secretary George B. Cortelyou.
[9] New York Governor Theodore Roosevelt was the most popular politician in America by 1908, even more popular than the president. With his Republican party splintered Governor Roosevelt was able to form a coalition of populists, former Republicans and expansionist Liberal Democrats who felt that the President had failed to live up to 1904 campaign promises and Roosevelt was elected in a landslide. President Roosevelt succeeded in 1909 in purchasing Cuba and other Atlantic assets from Spain.
[10] With the war in Europe coming to an end in 1913 - after an unimaginable nine years of conflict - Roosevelt's government was requested to represent the neutral United States at the Confederence of Amsterdam in early 1914 which sought to establish a formal peace treaty between the Allies of the United Kingdom, France and the Ottoman Empire and the victorious Dreikaiserbund of the German Empire, the Austrian Imperial Commonwealth, and the Russian Empire. Despite European relations worsening after Germany forced the Allies to claim responsiblity for the war, Roosevelt's participation secured major American contracts to the defeated west, and as a result a post-war boom began in the United States which resulted in an unprecedented third term for the majority of Roosevelt's cabinet.
[11] Roosevelt initially plans to run for a 4th term, but declines to do so after suffering from a minor stroke. After Hughes refuses to run, Roosevelt endorses progressive-leaning Governor Abraham Lincoln II of Illinois for President. In one of the closest races in US history, Lincoln defeats blackhorse candidate Albert Ritchie by a 46-45 popular vote margin.
[12] Lincoln's term was dominated by economic growth and a significant increase in American geopolitical influence - dominated by the alliance with Japan signed at Honolulu in 1923. However, at election-time, Ritchie's Liberal Democrats narrowly snatched the vote. His presidency would be dominate with an extension and modification of American industries, and was particuarly notable for the Hydroelectric Power Projects which began with the Congowingo Dam in 1925. This projected influx of electrical power was predicted to substantially raise national standards of living, as well as employing thousands. However, there was a rift between the aspects of government on how to deal with the growing Klu Klux Klan in the deep south, and whether it should be banned.
[13] Ritchie attemps to repeal the RTL-era civil rights legislation on the grounds of state rights, so as to appease the KKK. However, the plan fails. The Nationalalist-dominated Congress refuses to cooperate. After that, Ritchie is determined to crack down on KKK groups. The Great Recession has yet to happen in 1928, and Ritchie defeats Irvine Lenroot by a 49-45 popular vote margin (the electoral college has been abolished in 1920) and becomes the first Liberal Democrat to win a consecutive second term.
[14] Since the election of Theodore Roosevelt's Nationalists in 1908, the Republicans had been largely a third party of truly minor significance. However, during the first years of the Liberal Democratic government (and, to an extent, during Lincoln II's) the party had been re-establishing itself and had aligned itself further to the left to compensate for the loss of its support for the Nationalists amongst its former vote base. The issues outlined under Ritchie, largely the civil crisis caused by the prominence of the KKK, had drawn more to the party, and after the Great Recession (1928) its popularity rose above the Liberal Democrats. Ritchie's government, whilst well-intentioned, failed to prevent mass financial losses amongst the population, and Charles G. Dawes (already a prominent figure in the world of economics) took the helm of the country under the Social Republicans. (The party had been renamed shortly after the beginning of the Recession to appeal to a more liberal and leftward vote.)
[15] Former President Lincoln returned to run for office again in 1936, his path to the nomination was made clear by most major candidates declining to run against the popular President Dawes. Unfortunately for Dawes the Liberal Democrats recovered enough to split the Center-right vote and Lincoln won 45-39-11. As a result of this election the Liberal Democrats and the Social Republicans have started an attempt to merge their two parties into one. President Lincoln continued the economic policies of his predecessor and when the Second Great War broke out in 1940, he prepared his nation for war while declining to run for a third term.
[16] The 1940 election was largely concerned with whether the United States would remain neutral in the war. The general opinion was that the Allies of the United Kingdom, Germany and Italy would easily defeat France and the Russian Empire, and as a result most of the parties ran a 'normal' election regardless. The Social Republicans and Liberal Democrats campaigned on a joint ticket - whilst not officially united parties, they formed a political alliance in the months running up to the election, led by the returning Dawes and his Liberal Democratic ally James Farley.
[17] In 1941, China launches a surprise attack on the Pearl Harbor, drawing the United States into the war against the Global Treaty. China, still led by the 70-year-old Guangxu Emperor, has transformed China into a greatpower following Cixi's sudden death in 1898. Two years earlier in 1939, Prime Minister Chiang Kai-shek signs the Global Treaty with his French and Russian counterparts. Not long afterwards, China and Russia invade Korea, and democratic Japan mobilizes troops to defend her ally. Meanwhile, Russia invades Poland, leading to the outbreak of the 2nd Great War.

At the same time, the Social Republicans and Liberal Democrats finally merge into the Progressive Conservative Party. Refusing to run for a third term after a failed assassination attempt, the Progressive Conservatives rally behind Secretary of State and former Senator Harry S. Truman of Missouri, to continue the war effort. Failing to include a state rights' platform, Senator Richard Russell, Jr. of Georgia decides to run under the banner of the States' Rights Party, calling for the termination of federal inspection of local voter registration polls, put into practice since the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1921. The Nationalists nominate liberal Senator Emanuel Celler of New York for President.

Unwilling to change the ruling party in the middle of a war near victory, Truman is elected by comfortable margins despite Russell's candidacy. Truman defeats Celler and Russell by a 52-41-6 margin.

A Multi-Party America

1824: Andrew Jackson/John Quincy Adams (Democratic Republican) [1]
1828: Andrew Jackson/John Quincy Adams (Democratic Republican)
1832: Amos Ellmaker/Richard Rush (Anti-Masonic) [2]
1836: Amos Ellmaker/Richard Rush (Anti-Masonic)
1840: James K. Polk/William H. Harrison (Federal Democrat) [3]
1844: Henry Clay/John Tyler (National Democrat) [4]
1848: Henry Clay/John Tyler (National Democrat) [5]
1852: John Tyler / Vacant (National Democrat) [6]
[1] With the Democratic Republicans the only dominant political party in the United States after the dissolution of the Federalists, there was some confusion as to what would come after the election of by the House of Representatives in 1824.
[2] Anti-public sentiment against Jackson was exacerbated in the 1828 election, which he only just managed to win. However, in 1832 determination of Jackson's political opponents to oust him (particuarly Henry Clay) resulted in a surprise election for Amos Ellmaker and Richard Rush, with the Anti-Masonic Party (even at Clay and his allies' expense!). The Anti-Masonic Party, whilst campaigned primarily on the issues that its name suggested, was also highly protectionist and championed 'internal improvements' to the United States.
[3] The 1840 election was monumentally close. Henry Clay, who had constructed his National Democratic Party almost from scratch, looked close to stealing the presidency. However, at the last moment, a surge of support for Polk's Federal Democrats (one of the many Democratic-branch offs from the First Party System) guaranteed him the White House. The Anti-Masonic Party had been deeply wounded by Harrison joining the S. Democrats, and with him in the White House it was deeply disconcerting for the party. Polk wanted rapid expansion of the United States - and it was about to get it.
[4] President Polk declined to run for a second term and this gave Henry Clay and his National Democrats the White House. With the Senate dominated by an Anti-National Democrat coalition, President Clay had no choice but to continue to seek expansion especially in regards to Texas which started the First Mexican-American War in 1843.
[5] As the war against Mexico came to a bitter close, the 1848 election was dominated by the 'All-Mexico' movement. Whilst Clay opposed the move, many in his government (with rumours of John Tyler, too) supported the complete annexation of Mexico. This would lead to a major crisis in politics, and Clay was only narrowly re-elected. However, the rift between Clay and Tyler continued, and actually looked like a threat to the stability of government.
[6] President Clay's sudden death in June 1852, 5 months before the presidential election throws the government into chaos as the line of succession is unclear. John Tyler assumes the presidency and attempts to mount a presidential run of his own however, allies of Clay call him a pretender to the throne, claiming that his presidency is illegitimate. Tensions continue to mount across the nation political battle lines are drawn and a constitutional crisis develops.