CTTeller
You still haven't passed my pipe
- Location
- Pinner, Middlesex
- Pronouns
- he/him
From my latest PI game. Total chaos in all fields.
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Having been 'screwed out of the nomination' by the Democrats at the convention, come 2004, the Grand Old Man was determined to run again; he had come so close to getting it in 2000 that he was determined to get it on his second go, hopefully without chicanery. He was of the mind that had he won the nomination 'that [he] deserved', the Democrats would have won a third term. So, the Grand Old Man ran once again in 2004, but so did another face from the 1980s... Jesse Jackson. Jackson proceeded to win Iowa against expectations, as well as New Hampshire. The grand old man was concerned that he might not get the requisite momentum to get a strong lead. However, he managed to scrape some key wins in most of the remaining states before Super Tuesday, before winning a landslide on the big day. From there on out, it was just a matter of making sure the convention wasn't brokered again; he had a gut feeling they would screw him out of the nomination if it got to that stage. It was close, but it soon became clear that this was unlikely to happen. In May, Jackson, the last man standing, dropped out of the race officially. The Grand Old Man, on his third attempt, had finally become the presumptive nominee. He proceeded to win all remaining delegates up for grabs. He soon announced his pick for Vice President; Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack. In July, the Democratic Convention officially nominated the pair. Meanwhile, for the Republican nomination, George W. Bush received only the token opposition of Representative Ron Paul, the Libertarian nominee for President back in 1988, who ran in retaliation of Bush managing to 'steal the nomination' from John McCain, who won more votes and indeed first round delegates than him. Bush won all but one delegate, and was easily renominated along with Vice President Whitman. With that, the general election campaign begun.
In almost every poll from 2003 onwards, Bush had led against all potential Democratic nominees. This continued after the 2004 conventions, especially after the usual convention boost for the Republicans, who came after the Democrats in August. However, Bush made one gaffe too many, and it began to take a toll. With little over a month to go before the election, the Grand Old Man, and the Democrats as a whole, led in the polls for the first time on average since before 2003. Though this lead would largely dissipate, with the average reverting to a Republican lead after long, the Democrats remained incredibly close behind. The final poll before the election showed the Republicans ahead on the popular vote by about 0.6%. When the returns started coming in, it was immediately clear that the Democrats were overperforming. Though Bush and the Republicans flipped New Mexico from 2000, the Democrats and the Grand Old Man were ahead by a very uncharacteristically large margin in Florida, at least in relative terms. The Sunshine State, in the end, was called in record time, which most pundits agreed was probably the death knell for the Republicans chances of winning re-election, with Iowa and New Hampshire ending up flipping for the Democrats as well. It was not long before, at long last, the media called the election, and Bush swiftly conceded. And so, in the end, the Grand Old man pulled it off. After 42 years in the Senate, and a presidential bid 24 years earlier, he had succeeded in his ambition. At the age of 72, he was the oldest person to be elected President for a first term. On January 20th, 2005, he was sworn in, and a new dawn broke in the United States of America, with the Grand Old Man at its helm.
In almost every poll from 2003 onwards, Bush had led against all potential Democratic nominees. This continued after the 2004 conventions, especially after the usual convention boost for the Republicans, who came after the Democrats in August. However, Bush made one gaffe too many, and it began to take a toll. With little over a month to go before the election, the Grand Old Man, and the Democrats as a whole, led in the polls for the first time on average since before 2003. Though this lead would largely dissipate, with the average reverting to a Republican lead after long, the Democrats remained incredibly close behind. The final poll before the election showed the Republicans ahead on the popular vote by about 0.6%. When the returns started coming in, it was immediately clear that the Democrats were overperforming. Though Bush and the Republicans flipped New Mexico from 2000, the Democrats and the Grand Old Man were ahead by a very uncharacteristically large margin in Florida, at least in relative terms. The Sunshine State, in the end, was called in record time, which most pundits agreed was probably the death knell for the Republicans chances of winning re-election, with Iowa and New Hampshire ending up flipping for the Democrats as well. It was not long before, at long last, the media called the election, and Bush swiftly conceded. And so, in the end, the Grand Old man pulled it off. After 42 years in the Senate, and a presidential bid 24 years earlier, he had succeeded in his ambition. At the age of 72, he was the oldest person to be elected President for a first term. On January 20th, 2005, he was sworn in, and a new dawn broke in the United States of America, with the Grand Old Man at its helm.