1920 Primaries

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

X, are you and I the only actual Farmers-Laborers? Also I see the Union Party is continuing the no consecutive terms precedent they've had for the last 20 years.

[Rooney]

Senator Harding for President and Senator Poindexter of Washington for Vice-President! Let us return to normalcy, enforce civil rights and respect the rule of law (on most things at least).

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

Senator Harding for Vice-President and Senator Poindexter of Washington for Vice-President! Let us return to normalcy, enforce civil rights and respect the rule of law (on most things at least).

Unless it's been specifically contradicted, I'd think Poindexter would be a Bull-Moose. Are you suggesting a unity ticket and, if so, under which party line?

[PPT Spiral]

Here's a question that might be interesting that I just thought about: what are the demographics of the country like in this universe compared to IRL? I don't recall many immigration restrictions (if any at all) placed by the various administrations over the years, so more people across the world must have been coming over here.

You've never answered this, Alfred

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

Senator Harding for Vice-President and Senator Poindexter of Washington for Vice-President! Let us return to normalcy, enforce civil rights and respect the rule of law (on most things at least).

Poindexter is a Bull-Moose

[Supersonic]

President Root, lol, abandoned by everyone bar good ol' loyal me.

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

Here's a question that might be interesting that I just thought about: what are the demographics of the country like in this universe compared to IRL? I don't recall many immigration restrictions (if any at all) placed by the various administrations over the years, so more people across the world must have been coming over here.

You've never answered this, Alfred

I'm not actually sure about that one - I'm not up on the history of immigration restrictions in the Progressive Era, which was when I took over. IIRC we didn't pass a Chinese Exclusion Act or anything like that, but I doubt Cannon was the immigrant's best friend.

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

Here's a question that might be interesting that I just thought about: what are the demographics of the country like in this universe compared to IRL? I don't recall many immigration restrictions (if any at all) placed by the various administrations over the years, so more people across the world must have been coming over here.

You've never answered this, Alfred

I'm not actually sure about that one - I'm not up on the history of immigration restrictions in the Progressive Era, which was when I took over. IIRC we didn't pass a Chinese Exclusion Act or anything like that, but I doubt Cannon was the immigrant's best friend.

And longtime Senate Majority Leader Henry Cabot Lodge *definitely* wasn't a friend to immigrants...

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

President Root, lol, abandoned by everyone bar good ol' loyal me.

Wait, did the results show up and if so, why can't I see them

[Supersonic]

President Root, lol, abandoned by everyone bar good ol' loyal me.

Wait, did the results show up and if so, why can't I see them

I'm going off what people have said.

[Rooney]

Senator Harding for Vice-President and Senator Poindexter of Washington for Vice-President! Let us return to normalcy, enforce civil rights and respect the rule of law (on most things at least).

Unless it's been specifically contradicted, I'd think Poindexter would be a Bull-Moose. Are you suggesting a unity ticket and, if so, under which party line?

Harding would make a half-way decent Bull Moose candidate. He was a "progressive" on many issues. Harding is hardly the arch-conservative he is made out to be (that is also true of J. Calvin Coolidge). A unity ticket would also be helpful to counter the huge turnout that will benefit ex-President Debs.

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

Senator Harding for Vice-President and Senator Poindexter of Washington for Vice-President! Let us return to normalcy, enforce civil rights and respect the rule of law (on most things at least).

Unless it's been specifically contradicted, I'd think Poindexter would be a Bull-Moose. Are you suggesting a unity ticket and, if so, under which party line?

Harding would make a half-way decent Bull Moose candidate. He was a "progressive" on many issues. Harding is hardly the arch-conservative he is made out to be (that is also true of J. Calvin Coolidge). A unity ticket would also be helpful to counter the huge turnout that will benefit ex-President Debs.

Except Coolidge and Harding's radically right-wing economic views are essentially incompatible with the current iteration of the Bull-Moose Party.  And while pretty favorably disposed towards civil rights (within the context of the 1920s Republican Party's conservative wing), neither was a progressive by any means.  The big thing Harding has in common with almost all members of the Bull-Moose party is that he is a staunch isolationist.  If anything, a unity ticket between the B-M and the F-L is more likely, but I'd rather not see that as the general election outcome would be all-but-predermined.

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

Senator Harding for Vice-President and Senator Poindexter of Washington for Vice-President! Let us return to normalcy, enforce civil rights and respect the rule of law (on most things at least).

Unless it's been specifically contradicted, I'd think Poindexter would be a Bull-Moose. Are you suggesting a unity ticket and, if so, under which party line?

Harding would make a half-way decent Bull Moose candidate. He was a "progressive" on many issues. Harding is hardly the arch-conservative he is made out to be (that is also true of J. Calvin Coolidge). A unity ticket would also be helpful to counter the huge turnout that will benefit ex-President Debs.

Except Coolidge and Harding's radically right-wing economic views are essentially incompatible with the current iteration of the Bull-Moose Party.  And while pretty favorably disposed towards civil rights (within the context of the 1920s Republican Party's conservative wing), neither was a progressive by any means.  The big thing Harding has in common with almost all members of the Bull-Moose party is that he is a staunch isolationist.  If anything, a unity ticket between the B-M and the F-L is more likely, but I'd rather not see that as the general election outcome would be all-but-predermined.

I don't think we could get a BMFLP unity ticket unless Johnson runs in both primaries - he seems to be the only one who'd be willing to do that (except maybe FDR or La Guardia?).

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

Veinte minutos.