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President Forever 2008 + Primaries
Author: Jay Everington
(EDIT: Version 3.0 added; previous versions had errors)
Description: “After Barack Obama’s re-election in 2012, both parties are set to nominate brand new candidates, ensuring a fresh face in the White House for the next four years. Can the democrats win a third consecutive term or will the republicans take back the White House?”
[Update: v. 1.3. See here for version information.]
President Forever 2008 + Primaries
Author: David Beauregard
Note: new versions will be posted as modifications are made.
Description: “In 2008, Barack Obama was elected to the White House convincingly. Just four years later, he is facing a potentially difficult re-election campaign against a strengthened Republican Party. Can the weak incumbent hold on to the White House for four more years, or will the Republicans win it back? The race is wide open.”
Running for reelection after defeating his hated rival, John Quincy Adams of the National Republican Party in 1828, President Andrew Jackson now faces another hated rival from his painful 1824 defeat as the National Republican candidate; Henry Clay. The newly formed Anti-Masonic Party is also running. This is the first American presidential election that will use the party convention to nominate candidates.
After his controversial victory through a backroom deal with House Speaker Henry Clay when no candidate actually got a majority of Electoral Votes in the 1824 election, John Quincy Adams has had a rough presidential term, constantly fighting with a Congress dominated by supporters of his main rival, Andrew Jackson, and little has actually been accomplished. The once monolithic Democratic-Republican Party that dominated US politics as a one-party system since 1816 has been split now into the National Republican Party, built around President Adams and supported by Clay, which has come to resemble the now-defunct Federalist Party in doctrine and policy, and the Democratic Party, built around Jackson, a war hero who won a plurality of the Electoral Votes and popular vote in 1824, and feels the Adams-Clay deal robbed him of his rightful victory. Now the two bitter rivals from the previous election once again go head-to-head for the presidency.
After his first term in office, Franklin D. Roosevelt has begun instituting his New Deal to combat the effects of the Great Depression. He is very popular with the working class, and has faced opposition from wealthy captains of industry and fiscal conservatives. The Republicans plan on mounting a challenge, but their frontrunner is much more a moderate. This scenario also allows the option of an alternate history, where Huey Long survives his assassination and mounts a challenge to Roosevelt, either as a challenger within the Democratic Party, or as a viable Third Party challenge with his Share Our Wealth Party, as it’s candidate or through a proxy candidate.
Author: Rz9392
With Evan Bayh retiring, Republicans are poised to take back this senate seat. Can Democrats hold this seat in a traditonally red state?
Author: Rz9392
With John McCain deciding to run for the U.S Senate again, after losing his Presidential bid against Barack Obama, the Republicans are poised to keep this seat. But with the recent surgence of the Tea Party, will J.D Hayworth score a victory and put this once certain pickup for the GOP into the tossup category?
Wisconsin Gubernatorial 2010
Leave a comment | Filed under Gubernatorial President Forever 2008 + PrimariesAuthor: Rz9392
With Democratic Governor Jim Doyle deciding not to seek reelection, the field is wide open. Will Republicans recapture the office with a surge of support nationwide? Or will Wisconsin stay blue?
Connecticut Senatorial 2010
Leave a comment | Filed under President Forever 2008 + Primaries SenatoralWith the announced retirement of long-term Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd, suffering from dropping showings in the polls due to a failed presidential bid, a move of residence to Iowa, and two scandals, the stage is open for a primary for both major parties with new faces. Who will become the new Class III Senator of the Constitution State?
Author: Patine
Author: Landon
Description: This Scenario is a simulation of the 2000 presidential election in the state of Michigan.
