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Gov. Clinton 1996 (D-GA)
Sen. TNF (D-KY)

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Gov. Darth Blagueis (R-OH): 280
Sen. TNF (D-KY): 258

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Sen. Scott (D-CT)
Sen. TNF (D-KY)

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Senator MilesC56 of Louisiana and Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York (Democratic Party): 47.48% of the popular vote / 269 Electoral Votes
Senator TNF of Kentucky and Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri (Labor Party): 49.55% of the popular vote / 269 Electoral Votes

Election thrown to the House and the Senate. House elects Senator Miles while the Senate elects Senator McCaskill.

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1876

The contest that would define a century. Matt Rose, a Union Army General and reform Governor of New Jersey, would win the Presidency by the barest of margins against former House Speaker TNF of Kentucky, a radical Republican insistent on "completing the Second American Revolution" by campaigning to establish a ten hour day. Rose promises to "accept Reconstruction" and "defend the voting rights of freedman," a major departure from established Democratic policy up to that point. In the end, party coalitions shift a bit; immigrants supportive of the ten hour day crossover for the Republican ticket, while traditionally Republican industrialists crossover for the classically liberal Rose.

Rose will take the Oath of Office as the Republicans clinch control of the House and TNF is once again returned as Speaker. Ironically the greatest reform to come out of the Rose administration will be the Ten Hour Bill, officially mandating a ten hour workday and shepherded through the House by the Speaker from Kentucky.

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1880

President Matthew Rose's signature on the Ten Hour Bill and his insistence on federal arbitration for the Great Strike of 1877 (which was ultimately settled in favor of the strikers), as well as his support for tariffs on industrial goods and civil service reform ultimately causes him to fall out of favor with many in the Democratic Party, which denies him renomination in 1880. The Democrats instead select the right-leaning Governor of Colorado, Maxwell, a classically liberal Democrat who promises to slash the tariff and take a harder line against the labor movement.

The Republicans once again turn to the Speaker of the House, the radical from Kentucky with close ties to the emerging labor movement. The "Father of the Ten-Hour Day," Speaker TNF campaigns on a platform of restricting working hours for women and children, supporting federal arbitration in the case of a strike, and higher tariffs to support American industry.

In a similar pattern to the 1876 contest between Speaker TNF and then General Rose, the Democrats make inroads with industrialists and the upper middle class, while the Republicans continue to eat into the immigrant base of the Democratic Party.

Governor Maxwell becomes the first President from west of the Mississippi to hold the office.

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1928

The 1928 campaign would not have been possible were it not for radio. The wide range of radio helped propel Scott, a minister from Connecticut, to the GOP nomination with relative ease; his crisp speaking style and charisma did the trick at the Republican National Convention, of course, and his promise to continue Harding and Coolidge's "policies of prosperity" i.e. lower taxes, co-operation between business and government, and protectionism. He vowed to uphold prohibition, Christian morality, and public decency.

The Democrats ultimately nominated Senator TNF, a recent addition to the U.S. Senate with a charismatic speaking style and an uncompromising populism that melded agricultural laborers with industrial workers.

Rev. Scott (R-Conn): 273
Sen. TNF (D-Kentucky): 258

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1896

Gov. ElectionsGuy (Republican-Wisconsin): 279*
Sen. TNF (Populist-Kentucky): 168

*Also endorsed by the Democratic Party.

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1916

Incumbent President TNF (D-Ky.) has spent the last four years enacting the provisions of his "Fair Deal" program, a program that has provoked unprecedented opposition from American industrialists. As war looms in Europe, the President forms an electoral alliance with the Socialist Party and members of the old Progressive Party who oppose U.S. entry into the war, campaigning on reform and prosperity at home without the risking American liberty in a perilous conflict abroad.

His opponent, Wisconsin Gov. ElectionsGuy, is campaigning largely against the President's social and economic reform package, while emphasizing his own isolationist principles.

President TNF of Kentucky and Vice President Mechaman of Oklahoma (Democratic Party): 263 electoral votes
Governor ElectionsGuy of Wisconsin and Governor Reaganfan of Ohio (Republican Party): 268 electoral votes

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1948

Having assumed office upon the death of his boss, President TNF would lead the country through the end of the Second World War and into a period of uneasy reconversion to a peacetime economy. A New Dealer through and through, the President would retain most of FDR's most trusted lieutenants and seek to expand the New Deal under the guise of his own "Fair Deal" program, which promised guaranteed access to medical care for all, and a job and a home for every American, as well as increased federal aid to education. Democrats held control of Congress in the 1946 midterm elections, with the President campaigning aggressively to "retain the New Deal and expand it."

The 80th Congress would thus be one of the most productive in American history, although it would quickly run into trouble as right-wing propagandists on the radio and in the newspapers turned on what they saw as a "Red" administration led by the ex-Socialist Party member turned Democratic President. A flurry of legislation, guaranteeing full employment, expanding coverage of the minimum wage and effectively doubling it, the use of publicly-owned war plants to build prefabricated housing and railroad cars, national health insurance, federalizing education finance (passed over the howls of Southern members of Congress), and expanded coverage in Social Security would all be the order of the day. The President also made quick work of desegregating the armed forces and promoting racial integration in government, with federal hiring following new quotas aimed at bringing more minority groups into government established for the first time.

On foreign policy, the administration adopted a policy of "co-dominion" with the USSR, effectively dividing the world between American and Soviet spheres of influence. The "Red administration" also did it's best to protect American communists from attacks by the HUAC, resisting calls for expulsions of communists from trade unions, teaching positions, and administrative posts at the local and state levels. All of this, combined with the relative ease in expansion of the welfare state, would ultimately undo the administration going into the 1948 Presidential race.

The Republican nominee, Senator Goldwater of Washington, would attack the President for "appeasing" the Soviet Union abroad and "expanding socialism into every area of economic life" at home. His sterling conservative credentials, close ties with the business community and military contractors, as well as his support for civil rights made his nomination a lock for the GOP in 1948. Southern defectors, upset with the President for his use of quotas to hire more minorities in government and his decision to begin enforcing the 14th and 15th Amendment via the Justice Department, would split the Democratic ticket in the South and help the nominee of the State's Rights Democratic Party, Virginia Senator shua, take the Deep South.

The nation, tired of almost two decades of Democratic rule and growing more fearful of the Soviet Union (as well as fed up with daily strikes which the President and the administration had strongly weighed in on, on the side of labor), ultimately catapulted Goldwater into the White House in a shocking upset. Sen. Goldwater's victory would come as a complete surprise to most observers, who fully expected the President to win an easy second term in the White House.

President TNF of Kentucky and Senator Gass3268 of Wisconsin (Democratic Party): 45.07%
Senator Goldwater of Washington and Senator MattVT of Vermont (Republican Party): 51.92%
Sen. shua of Virginia and Gov. Dereich of Florida (States' Rights Democratic Party): 2.41%

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1912

Incumbent President IceSpear (R-Penn.), President Roosevelt's handpicked successor, crushed Governor Reaganfan (D-Ohio) and Congressman TNF (S-Ill), though the latter won the Socialist Party's first ever electoral votes, taking the states of Oklahoma and Nevada.

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1964

President Butafly (D-Ill) is challenged by left-wing populist Sen. TNF (D-Ill) for renomination. The two are ultimately similar enough in ideology that it largely turns into a regional coalition contest, with the President ultimately winning re-nomination fairly easily.

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In an alternate universe...

The People's Congress of Workers' and Farmers' Councils of the United Socialist States of America convenes shortly after it's election in the 2016 General Election to elect a new Presidium. Unlike the Presidency of the old United States of America, the Presidium is a multi-member executive body responsible for carrying out the decisions of the People's Congress, and as such, multiple members will be elected by the various state delegations representing their constituent Workers' and Farmers' Councils.

Although a few slates are possible selections in the outset, a few rounds of balloting narrows the contest considerably between two particular slates of candidates. On the right, People's Representative blagohair represents the Coalition of Progressive Electors (CPE), a combined slate consisting of the Communist Party of the United Socialist States of America and the Progressive Party (of which he is a member). On the left is People's Representative TNF, running as the candidate of the People's Planning Coalition (PPC), a combined slate of the Socialist Workers Party (his own), the Federation of Socialist Ecologists, and the United Christian Party.

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Governor Freedom Hawk (R-CT) and Senator MormDem (D-CA) (National Unity): 456[/b]
Labor activist TNF (Socialist Alternative-IL) and Student activist Yelnoc (Democratic Socialists of America-GA) (Workers', Farmers', and Students' Alliance) 82

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The 1930s were not kind to the Republican Party. The crushing defeat of Alf Landon in 1936, followed by the subsequent collapse of the GOP in the Congressional elections that followed put it in a position akin to the old Whig Party as the 1940s opened. The 1940 Presidential Election actually saw the Republicans back a fusion candidacy between themselves and a rising semi-fascist right-populist 'American Party', followed up in 1944 by the merger of both groups into the 'American Republican Party', which would ultimately be harassed into extinction by wartime FBI repression and the defection of many of its moderate members.

This created a huge vacuum in the American political spectrum. Since the mid-1930s, various left-wing third parties had grown in response to the depressed economic environment. Progressives in Wisconsin, Farmer-Laborites and the Socialist Workers Party in Minnesota and Iowa, the 'American Labor Party' in New York, Socialists in Connecticut, and of course the Communist Party in Washington had all made inroads during the dark years of the Depression. With the GOP falling into disarray, these forces converged, forming an electoral pact and announcing the formation of the Labor Party of the United States, with strong backing from both the CIO and the AF of L. The Labor Party tested itself in the 1940 election, coming in a strong third, but really won big in 1944, securing the second spot in part thanks to FBI suppression of the fascist-Republican Frankenstein.

In 1948, the issue is how the United States should be governed in the postwar period. Incumbent President Goldwater, a former Republican who joined the Democrats with his former parties' slip into fascist reaction, became President upon the death of Franklin Roosevelt in 1945. Since taking office, he has signed off on the Taft-Hartley Act (proposed by Democratic Senator Taft and Democratic Representative Hartley) to curtail the labor movement and has adopted an increasingly aggressive posture against the Soviet Union. He has likewise moved to implement a 'Red Scare' policy at home, adopting loyalty oaths for federal employees and purging the government of known communist sympathizers. Goldwater has selected as his running-mate New Deal populist MormDem of California, creating the first ever fully West Coast presidential ticket.

The Labor Party has selected Trotskyist militant TNF for the top spot. A meat-cutter by trade, TNF has spent most of the past four years in a prison cell, having been arrested as part of a general sweep of anti-war activists. His selection by the Labor Party is a signal that the LP has adopted an anti-Cold War posture, and the significance of selecting a Trotskyist also signifies a pronounced opposition to Stalinism itself. As his running mate, TNF has selected anti-segregation activist Yelnoc of Georgia, in hopes of balancing his ticket and maintaining party unity with the left social democrats that compromise the other half of the LP (of which Yelnoc is a member).

Pres. Goldwater of Washington and Rep. MormDem of California (Democratic Party): 325
Sen. TNF of Illinois and Rep. Yelnoc of Georgia (Labor Party): 206

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Congressman John F. "Jack" Enderman of Florida (Independent): 298
Union leader Thomas N. "Tom" Fitzsimmons of Illinois (Communist): 240