Make a map of the above four posters as two tickets

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1896

(sorry, forgot to check electoral totals, but Polnut wins)

After the nomination of the Bourbon Democratic Cleveland in 1892, the seizure of the Democratic Party in 1896 by the far-left was a shock. Firebrand Colorado congressman and former coal miner Thomas Newport Faulkner stirred up the convention to nominate him on a platform of low tariffs, anti-imperialism, trust-busting, and support for labor unions. To placate Southern conservatives and the agrarian populists at once, he selected the soft-spoken but piously Christian Scott Sunday of North Carolina. The Republicans, meanwhile, nominated Senator Polaris Nutter of Pennsylvania, who managed to steal some of Faulkner's thunder in the general election by tapping into the progressive wing of the Republican Party while still having strong views on protectionism and imperialism, which were emphasized by his selection of Admiral Harold Goldwater of New York, who had previously been involved in the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy in 1893. Faulkner's radicalism led the business establishment to overlook some of Nutter's progressive stances on trusts, and combined with his sway over moderates, allowed him to prevail over Faulkner in one of the most polarizing campaigns in American history.

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Thanks to a revived organized labor movement guaranteeing his victory in nearly all the caucus states and all the primary states with a labor presence to speak of, Illinois socialist entryist candidate Thomas N. Effry seizes the Democratic nomination against all logic. The Democratic establishment refuses to support him despite a few half-hearted endorsements, and after dozens of refusals, Effry picks the rather nondescript Californian ex-Senator Mort Dennison thanks to his connections with longshoremen.

With the economy in mild recession and the Iraq and Afghan wars still in recent memory, the hawkish, Washington-born Florida senator George Auhtwo was an unlikely Republican nominee, but his fiscal conservatism and big donor backing helped him overcome his more culturally conservative and isolationist rivals, picking the equally hawkish but much more reactionary Missouri governor Alfred Melman as his running mate. Despite Effry's open denunciation of the Obama administration's policies, his radical views plus general Democratic fatigue, Auhtwo's appeal to younger and nonwhite voters (Melman was successfully muzzled), and low turnout among the "ascendant coalition" added up to a comfortable victory for Auhtwo.

Senator George Auhtwo of Florida/Governor Alfred Melman of Missouri: 316 electoral votes
Congressman Thomas Effry of Illinois/Senator Mort Dennison of California: 222 electoral votes