Collaborative Presidential Elections - New

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This was one of the best timelines we've done in this thread, hands down.

Should we bump the 1864 one and go from there?

(It kinda got really off course from where it started, but, oh well)

It looks like the 1864 one would result in a win for the Confederacy, and not only did we already do that, but I don't know if I"m up to try to go into the whole alternate Union vs. Confederacy politics thing again. I'd rather not, personally.

Ok, that's fine. I was just proposing that one because the old TL looked dead and I wanted to start something. Somebody else should propose something now.

How about we go further back and do the Whig/1840's/1850's era.

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Bump. I was unaware we could make maps from 1828 using the EVC. I thought it was 1848 and onwards. I'll have to check it out. This is looking to be a good list.

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I was unaware we could make maps from 1828 using the EVC. I thought it was 1848 and onwards.

It is technically only 1848 and onwards with the EVC, but if you take the part where it says "year=1848" and change it to "year=1828" it gives you a map of the US in 1828. Then you just delete all the states that weren't in the union at that point as well as those that didn't hold a popular vote (like I did in my last post). 1824 seems to be the earliest year you can do, anything earlier than that and the map comes up blank. Idk why it seems to have earlier years built in but it doesn't let you do them on the EVC app.

Gotcha. I guess I will do a new one, to keep this list going.

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1828
President Jackson’s election by the House of Representatives was seen as a victory for the Constitutional process, but by the American people, it was seen as a defeat of Democracy. Fearing popular resentment towards his Presidency, Jackson pushed the 13th Amendment, which required states to hold popular votes for the determination of their electors support. Jackson also worked for the destruction of the National Bank, a battle he was still fighting well near the end of his term. Jackson was easily renominated by the young Democratic Party at their convention. Jackson continued to push his philosophy of direct democracy which is today known as “Jacksonian Democracy.”

The National Republican’s dropped the name Republican and became the National Party. They nominated former Sec. of State John Quincy Adams, and Speaker of the House Henry Clay on a unity ticket focus the defeat of President Jackson, which they successfully did.

Former Secretary of State John Q. Adams (N-MA)/Speaker Henry Clay (N-KY)-179 EV, 56.4% of the popular vote.
President Andrew Jackson (D-TE)/Vice President John Calhoun (D-SC)-109 EV, 42.8% of the popular vote.
Other (Liberty, Abolitionist, Nullification)-0.8% of the popular vote.

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I really enjoyed this thread. Anyone else up for a revival?

1916

Supreme Court Justice Charles E. Hughes (R-NY)/Former Vice President Charles Fairbanks (R-IN)-272 EV, 48.77% of the popular vote.
President Woodrow Wilson (D-NJ)/Vice President Thomas Marshall (D-IN)-259 EV, 45.51% of the popular vote.
Mr. Allan Benson (S-NY)/Mr. George Ross Kirkpatrick (S-NJ)-4.09% of the popular vote.
Former Governor Frank Hanley (PB-IN)/Mr. Ira Landrith (PB-TN)-1.44% of the popular vote.
Mr. Arthur Reimer (SL-MA)/Mr. Caleb Harrison (SL-IL)-0.19% of the popular vote.

President Wilson's narrow losses in New Hampshire and California cost him the presidency, and Charles Evan Hughes is elected President, with the daunting prospects of war looming on the horizon.

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1924

President Henry Ford (D-MI)/Attorney General John W. Davis (D-WV)-298 EV, 51.27% of the popular vote.
Senator Robert LaFollette (R-WI)/Senate Majority Leader Charles Curtis (R-KS)-233 EV, 48.20% of the popular vote.
Other (Prohibition, Socialist, Communist)-0.53% of the popular vote.

President Ford’s first term was a mixed bag for both sides of the political spectrum. On the right, his hardliner approach to labor issues was popular, but his advocacy of US entry to the League of Nations was not. Likewise, the leftwing of American politics generally liked his advocacy of “welfare capitalism” but found his support for removing government regulations on businesses contradictory and abhorrent.

Ford won the Democratic nomination for another term easily, though Vice President Carter Glass had decided against seeking reelection with the President. In his place, the President picked his Attorney General, John Davis of West Virginia, to be his running mate. They were re-nominated without opposition at the Democratic National Convention.

The Republican National Convention was the exact opposite of the Democratic Convention. For over thirty ballots, the left and right of the party cashed as Governor Coolidge of Massachusetts and Senator LaFollette of Wisconsin battled hard for the nomination. LaFollette finally won the nomination, and selected Charles Curtis, the Senate Majority Leader, as his running mate. Curtis faced his own battle for the Vice Presidential nomination, as the Coolidge faction pushed strongly for a “unity ticket.” Despite three close ballots for the Vice Presidential nomination, Curtis was nominated, and the LaFollette/Curtis ticket went on to the general election.

The race for the White House was heated and close throughout. LaFollette campaigned hard with the support of ailing former President Theodore Roosevelt throughout the West, though Ford’s support among the industry belt in the Midwest was enough to narrowly push him over the top in one of the closet Presidential elections in memory at that point.

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Impatient bump.