Make up a map between you and the preceding poster.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

I'd love to do a GOP MI Governor primary map, but I don't know enough about counties and such to do that. So instead I'll do a GOP presidential primary. Better yet, since you like Rockefeller and I like Goldwater, let's do 1964.

The year is 1964. With Nelson Rockefeller backing out of the race for president due to his recent divorce and rumors of extra-martial affairs, liberal Republican Governor Oldies Freak of Michigan is instead put forward in his place. Meanwhile, Barry Goldwater, after continually declining to run for President, instead endorses Illinois Congressman Cath Con. Governor Freak inherents Rocky's money and endorsements while Congressman Con gets Goldwater's organization and volunteers. With two different types of Mid-Western Republicans doing battle for the nomination, who will win?

March 10th: In the first-in-the-nation New Hampshire primary, the bitter conservative Cathcon manages to pull off a narrow victory, thanks mainly to the endorsement of the New Hampshire Union Leader as well as a number of state politicians and Styles Bridges' widow.

April 7th: With Oldiesfreak scrambling to make sure he can get in a victory before the Illinois primary in which Cathcon is heavily favored, money is poured into the Wisconsin primary and pays off, despite the closeness of the race.

April 14th: In the Illinois primary, Congressman Cathcon is able to win a >70% victory due to his status as one of its representatives as well as the endorsement of Everett Dirksen. Governor Oldiesfreak instead opted to allocate resources towards North-Eastern primaries.

April 21st: In the New Jersey primary, Oldiesfreak wins big thanks to Cathcon still reveling in his Illinois victory and its status as a moderate North-Eastern state.

April 28th:
In both Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, Oldiesfreak wins. The endorsements of men like John Volpe, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., and William Warren Scranton have done the trick.

May 1st:
In Washington D.C., Oldisefreak wins with over eighty percent of the vote.

May 5th:
In what seems a fitting response to Freak's double win on the 28th, Cathcon takes both Ohio and Indiana, two Mid-Western states that suit his style of campaign.

May 12th:
While Cathcon takes Nebraska, Oldiesfreak is the only one on the ballot in West Virginia.

May 15th:
Oregon, a state where moderate and liberal Republicans are common, easily votes for Oldiesfreak who is endored by the state's dovish Governor Mark Hatfield.

May 19th:
On the whole a Democratic state, the few Republicans who are there are pro-Civil Rights moderates and liberals and Oldiesfreak scores another easy victory. However, the contentious California primary approaches.

May 26th:
Singing to the tune of states' rights, Congressman Cathcon wins his first victory since Nebraska in the conservative state of Florida.

June 2nd:
In the hotly contested California primary, volunteers and employees for both organizations heavily blanket the state with advertisements. A number of Cathcon's supporters in Orange County open up independent campaign organizations, making commercials used to appeal to fears of African-Americans, especially following Johnson's signing of the Civil Rights Act of [whatever year, 1964 I think]. Meanwhile, Senator Thomas Kuchel endorses Oldiesfreak who has the obvious money advantage and dominates advertising. In the closest race of the primary season, Oldiesfreak narrowly wins. Turnout reached incredibly high levels. The only good news for Cathcon is his win in South Dakota.

Green-Governor Oldiesfreak1854 of Michigan
Blue-Senator Cathcon of Illinois

At the RNC, Oldiesfreak1854 is able to secure a plurality of delegates on the first ballot and a majority on the second following Cathcon's dropping out of the race. Governor Freak chooses William Scranton for Vice President.

(Also, and I forgot to mention this, fears of religion were used in both campaigns. However the candidates themselves chose not to pursue that line, knowing they could be attacked in kind)

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Skippin' over me like that.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Cathcon: I'll do the MI Governor Republican primary map for you, at some point.  Not tonight, since it's getting too late.  Maybe tomorrow, after a good night's sleep.

Did you agree with the primary results?

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Dirksen supported Goldwater in real life. This may be due to the strength of Goldwater's political volunteers in the state. He did it in order to maintain official control of the IL delegation. In other states, liberal Republican Governors found themselves deposed due to not submitting to the Goldwaterites. Choices were either head a Goldwater delegation, or have a Goldwater delegation happen anyway with you not in charge. Or, his support of Goldwater could've also been ideological. I do know Goldwater's strength did help in swaying Ev's decision however.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

**Went to post this shortly after the last one was posted. Meant for Goldwater Republican. Skip me

Republican Primary
Republitarian, the freshman Senator from Washington, gains steam early on due to the endorsement of several grassroots libertarian conservatives including the Pauls. With victories in Iowa and New Hampshire, he looks to be the front-runner. However, former Governor Cathcon of Michigan manages to gain the support of the South and the Rust-belt, making the primaries a dead-heat for the majority. However, Cathcon emerges with a narrow delegate lead following the final primaries. However, at the convention, with the combined strength of the New York, California, and Texas delegations, as well as Republitarian's supporters taking control of the delegates of a number of states at state conventions, Republitarian eeks out a victory, choosing Congressman Jake Matthews of Pennsylvania for Vice President.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

2016 Atlas Republican Primaries
While Cathcon, running on a socially conservative and populist platform, was able to take the Iowa Caucuses, in New Hampshire, Goldwater, running as a fiscal conservative and "maverick" (assisted by the endorsement of New Hampshire's biggest fan, John McCain) was able to strike a blow. Going into South Carolina, Goldwater had a momentum advantage and with no Southerners in the race, was narrowly able to take the Palmetto State (assisted by heavy support from veterans, socially liberal voters on the coast, and some local Republican establishment). In Florida, he scored another Southern victory. Meanwhile, Goldwater would rack up Western victories, assisted by his homestate and the fact that he used to have a Nevada avatar. Though a string of Southern and Mid-Western primaries would even up the race for Cathcon, he was running out of money and with victories in a number of key "big states" and momentum on his side, Goldwater claimed victory, becoming the first pro-choice Republican nominee since Gerald R. Ford in 1976.

Blue - Senator Republi "Goldwater Republican" Tarian of Washington
Red - Governor Cath Con of Michigan

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

1972
Republican President Cathcon (R-MI) is running for re-election. Over the last four years, Cathcon has attempted to battle expansion of the Great Society, has levied tariffs on America's trading rivals, and has attempted to build alliances between the GOP and unions, including an iconic meeting between the President and labor leader Peter J. Brennan. On foreign policy, the Vietnam War has been escalated and there have been tentative talks with the Soviets, though little has come of them. In being re-nominated by the Republicans, he has faced only token opposition and thus has a distinct advantage over the divided Democratic party.

Meanwhile, the Democrats are undergoing severe internal disputes. While labor is backing Hubert H. Humphrey and the South is behind George Wallace, the anti-war left has rallied behind "prairie progressive" Senator Maxwell of Oklahoma. While he has a moderate record on the economic front, it is his social and foreign policy liberalism that is emphasized--in fact, it would only be when history was re-examined that such things would come to light and libertarians would really exalt the Senator. Thanks to an enthusiastic ground game in several Northern and Western states as well as fired-up volunteers (largely comprised of the nation's youth who now have the right to vote), Maxwell was able to win a first ballot victory at the DNC.

In the general election, Maxwell would utilize these new voters, anti-war angst, and the defection of liberal Republicans to build a winning coalition. However, President Cathcon would himself make significant inroads with blue collar voters, Southerners, and "Cold War liberals" and 1972 would be judged in retrospect as a historically significant election. The economic problems in Cathcon's first term--incurred, in part, by his refusal to enact liberal Federal Reserve policies--would as well aid in Maxwell's victory.

Senator Maxwell (D-OK)/Senator William Proxmire (D-WI) 272 electoral votes, 49% of the popular vote
President Cathcon (R-MI)/Vice President J. Strom Thurmond (R-SC) 266 electoral votes, 49% of the popular vote

EDIT: I'm sorry, it's an aesthetically displeasing map in the South-West and with all the light shades in the North-East, but as far as I knew, someone else was trying to post after Maxwell as well, so I didn't have too many options.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

1868
The Radical faction of the Republican party found itself triumphant at the year's party convention. The Radicals, which had held a very strong position of power in the party after the 1866 elections, were now prepared to take the Presidency. The question remained, however, of who would lead the party to victory. With General Ulysses S. Grant as well as several Congressional leaders bowing out or proving unsuccessful, the nomination went to favorite son Oldies Freak of Michigan. A former Michigan Governor, Lincoln Secretary of the Interior, and Lt. Colonel in the Civil War for his own home state of Michigan, in 1866, Freak had entered the Halls of Congress as part of the Radicals' strong congressional gains. A proud radical and anti-secessionist who had resigned his position in the cabinet in 1862 to "take the fight to Johnny Reb", Freak came from the Mid-Western social Gospel tradition of the Republican Party: anti-slavery, pro-temperance, pro-tariff, and anti-immigration. A Protestant and nativist, several of Oldies Freak's political confidants held nativist and anti-Catholic sentiments.

The Democrats, for their measure, nominated New York Governor Cath Con. The Presbyterian son of Scots-Irish immigrants with a Catholic father, Con had made his career as a foot-soldier for Tammany Hall. Derided by many as "Tweed's candidate", Con nevertheless intended to represent the party proudly. With slavery a settled issue and the war won, Construction was the key political issue. While Con had been a unionist during the war, he and his surrogates called for an end to Reconstruction and "Return to Normalcy". As well, in the East great political hay was made of Freak's stance on temperance, driving up the number of immigrants and Catholics that went to the voting booth in Con's favor.

Mid-campaign, while addressing a crowd of Union war veterans in Ohio, Oldies Freak made the claim that he didn't "care if Reconstructions stretches on  for a century." Having, "no problems if Union soldiers were stationed in the South well into the future". The Cath Con campaign attempted to drive up numbers of white Southerners as well as moderates in border and Mid-West states using what was called "needless war-making". Nevertheless, the Republicans would not be so easily un-seated. Oldies' surrogates worked across the country to bring Union veterans to the polls to ensure victory. Weeks after election day, counts were still being debated in New York, Ohio, Indiana, and the entire Reconstruction South where Union soldies and blacks were in a state of semi-war with white Southerners. Republicans charged that, should Democrats win, it would be the result of "Immigrants, Papists, drunkards, and traitors" while Cath Con's campaign claimed that the entire Republican campaign had been predicated on denying Southerners and Catholics the right to vote. A Republican preacher would make the claim that a Democratic victory meant a victory for "Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion". However, he had little to worry about when, after all other states were settled, Arkansas, Alabama, and North Carolina gave Oldies Freak a win over New York Governor Cath Con.

Congressman Oldies Freak (R-MI)/Senator Charles Sumner (R-MA) 164 electoral votes, 51.3% of the popular vote
Governor Cath Con (D-MI)/Former Congressman Francis Preston Blair, Jr. (D-MO) 130 electoral votes, 48.7% of the popular vote

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Of course not, Oldies. I just wanted the greatest possible bloodbath of '68.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

1840
The Panic of 1837 would doom Cathcon's presidency early on. Refusing to intervene following the economic collapse, in his re-election, the nation would be ripe for change. Senator TNF, a Kentucky Whig and Henry Clay protege, seemed the perfect candidate. In the past, the Democrats had been able to successfully appeal to the poor, immigrants, and all the rest against the elitist and fiscally wasteful Whigs. However, with TNF's own humble roots and record of support for universal white male suffrage, the radical young Senator was able to steal vast swathes of the vote in Appalachia and the South that might have ordinarily gone Democratic. Cathcon, for his part, had surrogates working hard to gain back the support of frontiersmen in the West along with his own Michigan. As well, immigrants in states such as New York and Pennsylvania would aid in his re-election battle. However, the Panic had done its damage and come March 4th, 1841, TNF would be swearing in as the first Whig President.

Senator TNF (W-KY)/Senator John Tyler (W-VA) 172 electoral votes, 51% of the popular vote
President Cathcon (D-MI)/Vice President Silas Wright, Jr. (D-NY) 122 electoral votes, 48% of the popular vote

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Sen. Snowstalker (D-PA)/Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL): 386
Gov. Oldiesfreak1854 (R-MI)/Gov. Brian Sandoval (R-NV): 152

Uh... You're not preceded by Snowstalker.

SKIP!