Collaborative Presidential Elections - New

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

President Stuart Symington (D-MO)/Vice President Hubert Humphrey (D-MN)-283 EV, 49.3% of the popular vote.
Former Vice President Prescott Bush (R-CT)/Governor George Romney (R-MI)-255 EV, 48.6% of the popular vote.
Others (States Rights, Socialist, Prohibition)-2.1% of the popular vote.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

bump?

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Bumpity Bump?? I have reached my bump limit for this

[Del Tachi]

1968

Governor Nelson Rockefeller (R-NY)/Senator Howard Baker, Jr. (R-TN); 48.75% of National PV, 336 Electoral Votes
Vice President Hubert Humphrey (D-MN)/Senator Ralph Yarborough (D-TX); 43.38% of National PV, 158 Electoral Votes
Former Governor Orval Faubus (I-AR)/Senator John C. Stennis (I-MS); 7.87% of National PV, 44 electoral votes

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

1972

President Nelson Rockefeller (R-NY)/Secretary of Defense Barry Goldwater (R-AZ)-446 EV, 53.1% of the popular vote.
Former Senator Ralph Yarborough (D-TX)/Congressman Wilber Mills (D-AR)-92 EV, 45.6% of the popular vote.
Others (Libertarians, Socialist, States Rights)-1.3% of the popular vote.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

With President Rockefeller's death in 1975 following the fall of South Vietnam, stalling of negotiations with China and the USSR, and an uprising of stress-inducing complaints over stagflation, drug policies, and the oil crisis, Barry Goldwater became President. Choosing not to run for another term, the Republicans nominated Senator Ed Brooke of Massachusetts for President and California Governor Robert Finch for Vice President following a massive primary fight with Senator Robert Taft Jr. of Ohio. On the Democratic side, West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd wound up winning the nomination. Despite questions over his past, Byrd seemed the right compromise between the South and the Mid-West. With the teetering economy, the debate over detente and the controversy of Brooke's being the first African-American nominated on a major party ticket, Byrd was able to cobble together a winning coalition and win by a large margin.

Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV)/Senator Birch Bayh (D-IN) 341 electoral votes, 54%
Senator Edward Brooke (R-MA)/Governor Robert Finch (R-CA) 197 electoral votes, 45% of the popular vote

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

1980

President Robert Byrd (D-WV)/Vice President Birch Bayh (D-IN)-459 EV, 56.5% of the popular vote.
Senator Mark Hatfield (R-OR)/Senator Edward Brooke (R-MA)-79 EV, 42.7% of the popular vote.
Other (Libertarian, Socialist, Workers)-0.8% of the popular vote.

[sentinel]

No one has posted in a while, so I'll start a simple (and short) one...

Vice President Albert J. Gore / Senator Joseph I. Lieberman - 279 Electoral Votes - 48.4% popular vote
Governor George W. Bush / Richard B. Cheney - 259 Electoral Votes, 47.9% popular vote


**This is not actually the map I meant to post. meant to post 04 with florida as red

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

2004

Senator Trent Lott (R-MS)/Senator Lincoln Chafee (R-RI)-296 EV, 48.5% of the popular vote.
President Al Gore (D-TE)/Vice President Joe Lieberman (D-CT)-242 EV, 45.6% of the popular vote.
Mr. Ralph Nader (G-CT)/Former Congressman Dan Hamburg (G-CA)-2.4% of the popular vote.
Mr. Pat Buchanan (C-VA)/Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX)-2.2% of the popular vote.
US Trade Representative Jon Huntsman (REF-UT)/Florida Attorney General Charlie Crist (REF-FL)-0.9% of the popular vote.
Others (Libertarian, Socialist Workers, Prohibition)-0.4% of the popular vote.

After 12 straight years of Democratic leadership, America was ready for change. In the 2004 Republican primaries, a long, drawn out battle between Senators John McCain and Trent Lott threatened to divide the party. However, just before the convention, an agreement was made, and Lott became the nominee, with moderate Rhode Island Senator Lincoln Chafee as his running mate. Angered by what he called the “exile” of “true” Conservatives, Pat Buchanan joined the Constitution Party, and asked Texas Congressman Ron Paul to be his running mate. The Green Party again nominated Nader, and former California Congressman Dan Hamburg as his running mate. The Reform Party nominated businessman, and Gores Trade Representative, Jon Huntsman for President, and Florida’s moderate Attorney General, Charlie Crist, for Vice President. Going into election day, it looked like Gore had an easy lead over the Republicans, as Buchanan and Huntsman both took away votes. However, the war in Afghanistan and the crisis in Iraq became key issues for Republicans, and a sudden surge in Nader’s polling, especially in Minnesota, would lead to Gores defeat.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

No GOP wins in New England, even with Chaffee?

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

No GOP wins in New England, even with Chaffee?

I figured the presence of Lieberman, as well as Huntsman, would make Gore hold on to NH.

[BritishDixie]

2008

Senator Mark Warner (D-VA)/Senator Barack Obama (D-IL): 390: 53.9%
President Trent Lott (R-MS)/Vice-President Lincoln Chaffee (R-RI): 148: 43.7%
Representative Bob Barr (L-GA)/Mr Wayne Allen Root (L-TX): 0: 1.5%

After a tough primary race against Governor Bill Richardson, Mark Warner made the Democratic ticket. Trent Lott successfully defeated a challenge by Governor Jon Huntsman of Utah. The quagmire in Afghanistan and Iraq, coupled with both Warner's moderation and a deteriorating economy, led to a landslide defeat for the GOP.

[Stand With Israel. Crush Hamas]

President Mark Warner (D-VA)/Vice President Barack Obama (D-IL) - 411 electoral votes, 55.1% of the popular votes
Governor Rick Perry (R-TX)/Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) - 127 electoral votes, 43.2% of the popular vote

Mark Warner's moderate, low-drama Presidency was popular, although he never connected with the public as the most successful Presidents do. His approval ratings remained fairly high, but the economy continued being a drag on his Presidency, and polls showed he was vulnerable to a challenge from former VP Chafee. However, Chafee was upset in Iowa and South Carolina by firebrand Texas Governor Rick Perry, who cruised to the nomination. Chafee withheld an endorsement in the race, criticizing Perry for being too extreme. Perry got a brief boost in the polls when he picked popular Florida Senator Marco Rubio as his VP choice, but some disastrous debate performances and radical statements doomed his candidacy. In the end, Warner was re-elected by a huge landslide, the biggest for a Democrat since 1968.

[BritishDixie]

I might as well start one

1864

McClellan/Seymour: Democratic: 126: 54.0%
Seward/Sumner: Republican: 107: 46.0%

Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at the Gettysburg Addres in 1863. His Vice President, Seward, since the death of Hannibal Hamlin in 1862, pushed through a series of controversial equal rights reforms for blacks in the north. With reverses in war, McClellan's ticket became very popular and was able to overcome Seward in the General Election.

[BritishDixie]

Aw come on! Nobodies interested?

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

1868

President George McClellan (D-NJ)/Governor Thomas Seymour (D-CT)-153 EV, 53.8 of the popular vote.
Former President William Seward (R-NY)/General US Grant (R-NJ)-73 EV, 46.0% of the popular vote.
Other (National Union, Liberal, Prohibition)-0.2% of the popular vote.

By 1866, the war has taken its toll. The Treaty of Lisbon formally ended the War of Southern Independence, with the Confederacy claiming victory at the crucial battle of Appromattox Court House in 1865. Lee lead the rebel army into North Carolina, before swinging around and invading Virginia, forcing the Union out of Richmond in a bloody campaign climaxing at the battle of Appromattox. The Peace Treaty was popular, and McClellan won reelection, despite being remebered as the man who lost the South (and the neutral state of Kentucky).

[BritishDixie]

1872

Seymour/Hendricks: Democratic: 171: 48.7%
Grant/Conkling: Republican: 88: 41.0%
Chase/Davis: Liberal-Republican: 0: 9.1%

President McClellan presideded over a booming economy, and was popular by the end of his term. His Vice-President Horatio Seymour pledged to continue the work of the McClellan administration, and to make civil-service reform his number 1 priority. Meanwhile there was a split in the Republican Party between the "old" Republicans, opposed to civil service reform and supporting higher tariffs, and the "Liberal" Republicans, supporting the opposite positions. The old Republicans drafted the party platform, and many Liberal-Republicans bolted to support Salmon P. Chase. The Liberal-Republicans were able to take enough votes away fro, the Republicans in key states such as New York and Illinois to help the Democrats win the election.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

1876

Vice President Thomas Hendricks (D-IN)/General Winfield Scott Hancock (D-PA)-189 EV, 55.3% of the popular vote.
Congressman James Blaine (R-ME)/Governor Asahel Peck (R-VT)-42 EV, 33.6% of the popular vote.
Former Governor Andrew Curtin (GB-PA)/Mr. Peter Cooper (GB-IA)-31 EV, 9.6% of the popular vote.
Other (Prohibition, National, Labor)-1.5% of the popular vote.
The 1876 Presidential election saw the continuation of Democratic dominance, with Vice President Hendricks being elected to the White House after President Seymour declined a second term. The Republicans nominated James Blaine of Maine, and Asahel Peck of Vermont as their ticket. However, the Republican ticket was not able to win over farmers in the western states, who voted for the leftist Greenback Party due to the Republican opposition for tariffs, and support for a "reconquest" of the Confederate States.

Note: The South is independent, so only 131 electoral votes are needed to win.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

1880
The Democrats were destroyed in the 1878 mid-terms, due mostly to the Panic of 1877 that had sunk the economy. With President Hendricks refusing to enact inflationary policies and print greenbacks in order to help those hit hardest by the Panic, Democratic popularity sunk. They'd had a long run in power, but going into 1880, in all likelihood they would lose it. At the Democratic National Convention, President Hendricks was almost unseated by pro-greenback Western candidates. However, he was able to maintain control of his party.

Meanwhile, the Republicans held a chaotic convention themselves. Between the anti-inflationary pro-gold candidates, a handful of Western pro-silver delegates, and a few bi-metallists, it took fifteen ballots to reach a nominee. However, in the end, Senator John Sherman of Ohio, a moderate bi-metallist who had designed much of the legislation attempting to to aid recovery after the Panic and was the brother of the famous general was nominated. For Vice President, Representative Chester Alan Arthur was chosen.

Senator John Sherman (R-OH)/Rep. Chester Alan Arthur (R-NY) 142 electoral votes, 48.2% of the popular vote
President Thomas Hendricks (D-IN)/Vice President Winfield Scott Hancock (D-PA) 86 electoral votes, 41.7% of the popular vote
Former Senator B. Gratz Brown (GB-MO)/Rep. James B. Weaver (GB-IA) 34 electoral votes, 9.6% of the popular vote

[BritishDixie]

1884

President John Sherman/Vice President Chester A. Arthur: Republican: 233: 55.4%
Former Vice President Winfield Scott Hancock/Senator Thomas F. Bayard: Democratic: 48: 42.5%:

The economy improved mildly in the years following the election of President Sherman. However Sherman faced a crisis in late 1883, when a border incident between Confederate and Union troops plunged both nations into war again. The war boosted the economy, and early offensives made by Union troops into Kentucky and Virginia were successful. The Greenbacks also decided to endorse the Republican ticket. The Democrats ran on a peace platform, however this was unpopular in most states, and the ticket went down to a heavy defeat in the fall.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

1888

Vice President Chester Arthur (R-NY)/Secretary of War Robert Lincoln (R-IL)-233 EV, 58.0% of the popular vote.
Governor Emanuel Wilson (D-WV)/Former Senator William Eaton (D-CT)-48 EV, 40.6% of the popular vote.
Other (Greenback, Prohibition, Labor)-1.4% of the popular vote.


The Kentucky War, as it later was known as, lasted from 1883 to 1889, and marked the terms of President Sherman and Arthur. Kentucky remained bitterly divided between Confederates and Unionist after the War of Confederate Independence. To quell the issue once and for all, the Treaty of Richmond was signed. The treaty stipulated that a referendum on Kentucky’s sovereignty be held within the state. The election was ravaged by fraud and intimidation, and both sides believed they had won. The crisis exploded into war when American cavalry invaded Kentucky. Six years later, Kentucky and Northern Virginia are ravaged, with trench warfare leading to massively high casualties. The war finally ended with the Treaty of Rome. No territory would switch hands, though Confederate expansion into the Caribbean was limited, and a Kentucky referendum was to be held. The referendum in Kentucky was peaceful, and resulted in the state remaining within the Confederacy. It is now President Arthurs job to preserve the tense peace.

[BritishDixie]

1892
President Arthur's term was miserable. The "Panic of 1890" led to the collapse of the stock market and a painful recession. This generated great stress for Arthur, who suffered a heart attack on April 18th 1891. Thus Vice-President Robert Lincoln, son of former President Abraham Lincoln, became President. There was unrest on the prairies, as farmers demanded a shift away from bimetallism towards the Silver Standard. "Silver and Silver alone" became a popular rallying cry in the 1890's. The Populist Party, formed out of the ashes of the Greenback Party, with support from both Democrats and Republicans, nominated Democratic Congressman Richard P. Bland of Nevada, and Senator James H. Kyle of South Dakota as his running mate.

Following the nomination of Robert Lincoln, with Senator Benjamin Harrison of Indiana as his running mate, the Democrats decided to nominate Dark Horse Isaac P. Gray of Indiana, with Governor David B. Hill of New York as his running mate. The Populist Party harmed the Republicans more than the Democrats, taking away vital western votes. Gray in the end emerged victorious.

Senator Isaac P. Gray/Governor David B. Hill: Democratic: 201: 48.5%
President Robert Lincoln/Senator Benjamin Harrison: Republican: 91: 39.8%
Representative  Richard P. Bland/Senator James H. Kyle: Populist: 27: 10.9%

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

The apparent inability of Gray's laissez faire approach to the economy to help solve people's problems led to his mass unpopularity early on. Despite his calls for calm and his ability to stabilize the markets, the economy refused to recover any faster.

1896
The Republicans, in an effort to reach out to Populists and take back the West, as well as to maintain control in the Mid-West, nominated William B. Allison of Iowa for President. A pro-silver liberal, but one supported by the party bosses, he was seen as the most electable choice. For Vice President, another Westerner, Senator Henry M. Teller of Colorado was nominated. On the Democratic side, President Gray survived attempts to block his re-nomination. While the Populists still ran, a number of supporters defected to Allison's campaign.

Senator William B. Allison (R-IA)/Senator Henry M. Teller (R-CO) 173 electoral votes, 52.6% of the popular vote
President Isaac P. Gray (D-IN)/Vice President David B. Hill (D-NY) 149 electoral votes, 45.2% of the popular vote

Gray was able to gain more support than expected in Eastern industrial states due to the populism of the Republican ticket. However, Ohio would hold true for Allison and the election was his.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

1900

President William Allison (R-IA)/Vice President William J. Byan (R-NE)-251 EV, 55.4% of the popular vote.
Congressman John Walter Smith (D-MY)/Admiral George Dewey (D-VT)-71 EV, 43.7% of the popular vote.
Others (Prohibition, Populist, National)-0.9% of the popular vote.

President Allison was popular, and pushed a series of Progressive reforms. The death of Vice President Teller left the Vice Presidency vacant, and using the Presidential Succession Act of 1861 (by which Lincoln appointed Seward Vice President) Allison appointed Congressman William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska to the office.

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Is Oklahoma a US territory or a CS territory?