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Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State

Our history was destroyed in the Unpleasantness. We are a people without roots; tumbleweed in the wreckage of this land. We grieved, and then our grief became the piece of grit around which our new culture has begun - gradually - to accrete.

In Moon 256, we found a disc. It was scratched, caked in mud and pecked to buggery by swallows, but it shone and glistened - even when there was hardly any light to reflect. First we thought it was magic, then we thought it was a sort of jewellery, and then we thought it was a metaphorical construct representing the idea that our new society, however tarnished, could still reflect the inherent glories of the Universe. But we knew that it had been made before the Unpleasantness, by people who knew more than we would forget in a lifetime.

Eventually, our technicians, working day and night for dozens upon dozens of Moons, managed to crack the code of the tiny, microscopic markings inscribed upon the grooves of the disc. Discovering that there was a coded message at all was enough of a breakthrough to inspire no fewer than four different religions, each claiming that the message was from some deity and that they knew what the message was. In three of those cases, the purported message involved killing a specific category of person - the fourth religion soon joined suit when they realised that they were the specific category, and the Lovelian Church was therefore Reformed to be mainly about genocide.

As it transpired, the message was from no deity - not one of the four hypothesised deities, at any rate. The two surviving religions merged together upon the Revelation of the Translation in order to worship the one called 'Uhura's Mazda', but they died of their wounds fairly quickly. The message was no religious commandment; it was much more precious than that. All that could be deciphered between the cracks and the scratches was - well, it was a fragment of the history we had lost so many Moons before.

You may read our history now. I, the Guardian of the History, read it every day and weep for what we have lost, for I am the oldest man we know of. Born before the Unpleasantness, my mind was warped by it and I lost all the history I had in my head. To read the message of the Disc is to meet an old friend upon the road and almost - but not quite - recognise him. You do not know my friend, but I shall introduce you to him, and I hope that you will feel, as I do, the precious, tenuous, lithe link with our forgotten past.

List of Prime Ministers of the Punited Kingdom
1945-1951: @Lee Danes (Labour)
1951-1955: Snowball Directline (Conservative)
1955-1957: Tony Paradise (Conservative)
1957-1963: Godwin Randomhouse (Conservative)
1963-1964: Guinness Donald-Roem (Conservative)
1964-1970: William Volleyball (Labour)
1970-1974: Paddington Moorland (Conservative)
1974-1976: William Volleyball (Labour)
1976-1979: The Other Jim Callaghan (Labour)
1979-1990: Marge Straw (Conservative)
1990-1997: Big Jack (Conservative)
1997-2007: Lionel Broadway (Labour)

There were footnotes, but they were so damaged that all we can make out is that Prime Minister Randomhouse enacted Godwin's Law, a piece of legislation that allowed the Government of the day to pass any Bill without a vote. The Law was triggered whenever a member of the Opposition made a spurious comparison to Nazi Germany. Our analysts have spent many Moons arguing over what any of this might actually mean. But to no avail.

This is all we have of our story. And although I am very conscious that I have dedicated my life to protecting such a tiny relic... fundamentally, I can think of no more worthy or useful way to spend a life.
 
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No easy walk to round three by Nelson Mandela. Published in 1965 following his defeat of Muhammad Ali in the 1964 world heavyweight championship

Lancaster House : how the Methodist Churches in Africa were unified by Rev Canaan Banana, Rev Ndabaningi Sithole and Rev Abel Muzorewa. With forward by Father R.G. Mugabe SJ

Rivers of Love

Archbishop Desmond Tutu's biography's title naturally recalls his famous 1968 sermon. The sermon (actually entitled No Future Without Forgiveness, and a response to a bigoted speech by a local conservative politician in Tutu's then Wolverhampton parish) foreshadowed much of the future Archbishop of Canterbury's contribution to the theology of reconciliation. The South Africa-born clergyman's legacy remains controversial, as a result of his strident opposition from both the pulpit and the House of Lords to the austerity measures of Britain's first black prime minister, Stephen Lawrence....



The publication of Archbishop Tutu's biography ironically coincides with the sentencing of Britain's other famous South Africa-born son, former long-time Liberal leader Peter Hain, for securities fraud in connection with the African businesses of Kazakh first lady...
 
Warthog finally posts some actually AH instead of just banter, southern hemisphere island elections and the @Marius and @Warthog Landshow...

Prime Ministers of the Union of South Africa

1943- 1950 Jan Smuts (United)
1943 Def DF Malan (HNP) + FHP Creswell (Labour)​
1946 POD: The United Party pushes through a constituency boundary review, resulting in more urban constituencies, and the balance tipping away from the HNP. In OTL the United Party won the popular vote in 1948 but lost in terms of number of MPs elected.
1948 Def DF Malan (HNP)​

1950-1961 De Villiers Graaf (United)
Smuts dies in office, 1950​
1953 def DF Malan (HNP) + Alex Hepple (Labour)​
1957 Coloured women get the same franchise as men - this remain property-based or racial-based in the different provinces​
1958 Def JG Strijdom (NP)+ Alex Hepple (Labour)​
1961-1974 Harry Schwartz (United)
1961 Def JG Strijdom (NP) + Alex Hepple (Labour)​
1964 Nelson Mandela defeats Muhammad Ali in the 1964 world heavyweight championship
1965 No Easy Walk to Round Three published
1966 Def BJ Vorster (NP) Harry Lawrence (Progressive) Brian Bunting (Labour)​
1968 Expansion of franchise to lower property qualifications in the Cape and Natal
1968 Rev. Desmond Tutu preaches a sermon entitled No Future Without Forgiveness, partly as a response to a bigoted speech by a local conservative politician in his Wolverhampton parish
1970 United wc+s Progressive (Harry Lawrence) and Federal (Colin Eglin) def BJ Vorster (NP) and Brian Bunting (Labour)​
1974-1977 Harry Lawrence (Progressive)
1974 Progressive wc+s Federal (Colin Eglin) + Labour (Brian Bunting) def PW Botha (NP) and Radclyffe Cayman (United)​
1975 Federal party merged into Progressive
1975-1977 Progressive Federal majority government​
1977 Expansion of franchise (qualified franchise for all races)

1977-1978 Helen Suzman (Progressive Federal)
1977 Def Albert Hertzog (NP), Andries Treunicht (Conservative), Dennis Worall (United) and Alan Hendrikse (Labour)​
1978 Universal franchise
1978 South African National Congress registers for elections, as does the Commintern-affiliated Workers and Peasants Party
1978 Heritage Party formed from merger of NP with Conservative Party and black monarchist groups
Prime Ministers of the Federal Republic of South Africa

1978-1983 Helen Suzman (Progressive Federal)
1978-1983 National government: Progressive Federal + SANC (Walter Sisulu) and Labour (Alan Hendrikse) def FW de Klerk (Heritage), Thabo Mofutsanyana (Workers and Peasants) and Dennis Worall (United)​
1978 Magnus Malan launches right-wing rebellion through Vryheids Vereeniging
1979 Malan arrested, sentenced 8 yrs
1981 Socialist party formed from Workers + Peasants, Labour and defectors from SANC

1983- 1990 Walter Sisulu (SANC)
1983 Def Chris Heunis (Heritage) and Thabo Mofutsanyana (Socialist)​
1987 Def Ahmed Kathrada (Socialist) and Chris Heunis (Heritage)​
1990-1994 Thabo Mbeki (SANC)
1991 Def Ahmed Kathrada (Socialist), Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi (Heritage) and Magnus Malan (Vryheid)

Presidents of the Republic of South Africa
1994-1998 Thabo Mbeki (SANC)
1994 Mbeki declares one party state
1996 Alliance for Change (AFC) formed by dissident SANC members led by Terror Lekota and former Socialist Party members for non-violent opposition to one-party rule
1998 Mbeki dies in office
1998-2000 Peter Mokaba (SANC)
1998 Kgalema Montlante leads split from AFC and armed rebellion commences under Popular Front
2000 Bantu Holomisa (transitional government)
2000 Bantu Holomisa overthrows Mokaba in military coup, establishes transitional government
2001 Political parties legalised. Lekota registers AFC as a party and Montlante registers the Popular Front as the Radical Party. Ngaoko Ramatlodi takes over SANC and registers it for elections.

Prime Ministers of the Federal Republic of South Africa
2001-2014 Kgalema Montlante (Radical)
2001 Def Terror Lekota (AFC) Ngaoko Ramatlodi (SANC)​
2005 def Ronnie Kasrils (AFC) Mampiti Biko (SANC)​
2009 def Baleka Mbete (SANC) Jabu Moleketi (AFC)​
2012 SANC and AFC merge into Federal Party
2013 Split in Radical Party over land tenure results in Montlante's retirement and the formation of Ultra Party

2014-2018 Baleka Mbete (Federal)
2014 Def Gwede Mantashe (Radical) and Patricia de Lille (Ultra)​

2018-???? Solly Mapaila (Radical)
2018 Radical Party resurgance helped by Federal Party leader's sex scandal and Patricia de Lille's defection back from the Ultra Party
2018 Def Melusi Gigaba (Federal) and Zak Achmat (Ultra)​
 
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Warthog finally posts some actually AH instead of just banter, southern hemisphere island elections and the @Marius and @Warthog Landshow...

Prime Ministers of the Union of South Africa

1943- 1950 Jan Smuts (United)
1943 Def DF Malan (HNP) + FHP Creswell (Labour)​
1946 POD: The United Party pushes through a constituency boundary review, resulting in more urban constituencies, and the balance tipping away from the HNP. In OTL the United Party won the popular vote in 1948 but lost in terms of number of MPs elected.
1948 Def DF Malan (HNP)​

1950-1961 De Villiers Graaf (United)
Smuts dies in office, 1950​
1953 def DF Malan (HNP) + Alex Hepple (Labour)​
1957 Women get franchise as men - this remain property-based or racial-based in the different provinces​
1958 Def JG Strijdom (NP)+ Alex Hepple (Labour)​
1961-1974 Harry Schwartz (United)
1961 Def JG Strijdom (NP) + Alex Hepple (Labour)​
1964 Nelson Mandela defeats Muhammad Ali in the 1964 world heavyweight championship
1965 No Easy Walk to Round Three published
1966 Def BJ Vorster (NP) Harry Lawrence (Progressive) Brian Bunting (Labour)​
1968 Expansion of franchise to lower property qualifications in the Cape and Natal
1968 Rev. Desmond Tutu preaches a sermon entitled No Future Without Forgiveness, partly as a response to a bigoted speech by a local conservative politician in his Wolverhampton parish
1970 United wc+s Progressive (Harry Lawrence) and Federal (Colin Eglin) def BJ Vorster (NP) and Brian Bunting (Labour)​
1974-1977 Harry Lawrence (Progressive)
1974 Progressive wc+s Federal (Colin Eglin) + Labour (Brian Bunting) def PW Botha (NP) and Radclyffe Cayman (United)​
1975 Federal party merged into Progressive
1975-1977 Progressive Federal majority government​
1977 Expansion of franchise (qualified franchise for all races)

1977-1978 Helen Suzman (Progressive Federal)
1977 Def Albert Hertzog (NP), Andries Treunicht (Conservative), Dennis Worall (United) and Alan Hendrikse (Labour)​
1978 Universal franchise​
1978 Heritage Party formed from merger of NP with Conservative Party and black monarchist groups​
Prime Ministers of the Federal Republic of South Africa

1978-1983 Helen Suzman (Progressive Federal)
1978-1983 National government: Progressive Federal + SANC (Walter Sisulu) and Labour (Alan Hendrikse) def FW de Klerk (Heritage), Thabo Mofutsanyana (Workers and Peasants) and Dennis Worall (United)​
1978 Magnus Malan launches right-wing rebellion through Vryheids Vereeniging
1979 Malan arrested, sentenced 8 yrs
1981 Socialist party formed from Workers + Peasants, Labour and defectors from SANC

1983- 1990 Walter Sisulu (SANC)
1983 Def Chris Heunis (Heritage) and Thabo Mofutsanyana (Socialist)​
1987 Def Ahmed Kathrada (Socialist) and Chris Heunis (Heritage)​
1990-1994 Thabo Mbeki (SANC)
1991 Def Ahmed Kathrada (Socialist), Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi (Heritage) and Magnus Malan (Vryheid)

Presidents of the Republic of South Africa
1994-1998 Thabo Mbeki (SANC)
1994 Mbeki declares one party state
1996 Alliance for Change (AFC) formed by dissident SANC members led by Terror Lekota and former Socialist Party members for non-violent opposition to one-party rule
1998 Mbeki dies in office
1998-2000 Peter Mokaba (SANC)
1998 Kgalema Montlante leads split from AFC and armed rebellion commences under Popular Front
2000 Bantu Holomisa (transitional government)
2000 Bantu Holomisa overthrows Mokaba in military coup, establishes transitional government
2001 Political parties legalised. Lekota registers AFC as a party and Montlante registers the Popular Front as the Radical Party. Ngaoko Ramatlodi takes over SANC and registers it for elections.

Prime Ministers of the Federal Republic of South Africa
2001-2014 Kgalema Montlante (Radical)
2001 Def Terror Lekota (AFC) Ngaoko Ramatlodi (SANC)​
2005 def Ronnie Kasrils (AFC) Mampiti Biko (SANC)​
2009 def Baleka Mbete (SANC) Jabu Moleketi (AFC) and Patricia de Lille (Ultra)​
2012 SANC and AFC merge into Federal Party
2013 Split in Radical Party over land tenure results in Montlante's retirement and the formation of Ultra Party

2014-2018 Baleka Mbete (Federal)
2014 Def Gwede Mantashe (Radical) and Patricia de Lille (Ultra)​

2018-???? Solly Mapaila (Radical)
2018 Radical Party resurgance helped by Federal Party leader's sex scandal and Patricia de Lille's defection back from the Ultra Party
2018 Def Melusi Gigaba (Federal) and Zak Achmat (Ultra)​

Nice TL.

But what do you mean by this: '
1957 Women get franchise as men - this remain property-based or racial-based in the different provinces'​
In OTL, all whites over 21 were enfranchised in 1931, with no property restrictions. Is it different in this TL?​
 
Nice TL.

But what do you mean by this: '
1957 Women get franchise as men - this remain property-based or racial-based in the different provinces'​
In OTL, all whites over 21 were enfranchised in 1931, with no property restrictions. Is it different in this TL?​

Thanks Marius. I was under the impression that the property-based franchise in the cape didn't cover coloured women?
 
Here's a list from the other place, worth transferring here today.

She Was The First

Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

1908-1914: H.H. Asquith (Liberal)
1910 Jan (Minority with IPP confidence and supply) def. Arthur Balfour (Unionist - Conservatives, Liberal Unionists), John Redmond (Irish Parliamentary), Arthur Henderson (Labour), William O'Brien (All-For-Ireland)
1910 Dec (Minority with IPP confidence and supply) def. Arthur Balfour (Unionist - Conservatives, Liberal Unionists), John Redmond (Irish Parliamentary), George Barnes (Labour), William O'Brien (All-For-Ireland)

1914-1915: H.H Asquith / John Redmond (Liberal with Labour confidence and supply / Irish Parliamentary majority)

1915: 1ST STAGE OF THE BRITISH CIVIL WAR BEGINS (BLUES VS GREENS)

Blues

1915-1917: Andrew Bonar Law / Edward Carson (Conservative and Unionist leading Military Government)

Greens

1915-1916: H.H Asquith / John Redmond (Liberal / Irish Parliamentary leading Emergency Government)
1916-1917: David Lloyd George / John Redmond (Liberal / Irish Parliamentary leading Emergency Government)

1917: BLUE VICTORY, 1ST STAGE OF THE BRITISH CIVIL WAR ENDS AND 2ND STAGE OF THE BRITISH CIVIL BEGINS (BLUES VS REDS)

Blues

1917-1921: Andrew Bonar Law / Edward Carson (Conservative and Unionist leading Military Government)
1921-1922: Austen Chamberlain / John Redmond (Conservative and Unionist / Irish Parliamentary leading Armistice Government)

Reds

1917-1917: George Lansbury / James Connolly (United Labour leading Revolutionary Government)
1917-1918: George Lansbury / vacant (United Labour leading Revolutionary Government)
1918-1919: George Lansbury/ Jim Larkin (United Labour leading Revolutionary Government)
1919-1919: George Lansbury / vacant (United Labour leading Revolutionary Government)
1919-1919: George Lansbury / Constance Markievicz (United Labour leading Revolutionary Government)
1919-1919: vacant / Constance Markievicz (United Labour leading Revolutionary Government)
1919-1922: Constance Markievicz (United Labour leading Revolutionary Government)

1922: RED VICTORY, END OF THE BRITISH CIVIL WAR

Presidents of the Workers' Federation of the British Isles

1922-1926: Constance Markievicz (United Labour)
1922 def. independent regional campaigns

'Bullets and Butter: The Ballad of the British Revolution' by Andrea Storey (Federal Union of Writers and Publishers, 2003)

'The path to revolution is never sure, but in hindsight the signs of the impending struggle seem to glow fiercely on the horizon and it is a wonder that anyone at the time did not see its coming. So it was with Britain and Ireland, as the comfortable two party system slowly crumbled and the established order of a unitary, monarchist, capitalist state became increasingly unstable. The widening of the franchise to assuage working class sentiment and preserve the existing system did nothing of the sort. It simply allowed the workers and tenants to vote against the interests of the bosses and the landlords for the first time in history. For a time, working class energy was routed into reformist parties like the Parnellites and the early Labour Party but as they failed to achieve their objectives a greater awakening became inevitable.

'In 1910, the Irish Parliamentary Party once more held the balance the power. But the proposal for Home Rule that passed the House of Commons in 1912 and was then forced through the House of Lords in 1914 was a proposal of the more radical 'Sinn Fein' party. This transformed the United Kingdom into a Dual Monarchy modelled after the example of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The House of Commons was split in two, with Irish MPs sitting in Dublin and making domestic decisions for Ireland and British MPs continuing to sit in Westminster. On foreign affairs issues, the Irish MPs returned to Westminster to vote and this was considered by some to be the first stage of the establishment of an 'Imperial Federation' formalising a closer relationship with the existing legislatures of the mostly self-governing Dominions.

'Irish self-government was established for the entire island of Ireland and from the moment that Irish MPs sat in Dublin, the Unionist contingent was determined to sabotage the project. Unionist MPs refused to take their seats, and paramilitaries groups emerged to defend the unity of Ulster with the mainland. Asquith had effectively bound his hands, and relied on the weak Redmond to put down the militant rising. He faced electoral defeat in 1915, reliant as he was on the Labour Party to remain in government. The fact that the frontbench of the newborn Conservative and Unionist Party had marched in lockstep to Ulster's tune and vowed to defend the militants presented an opportunity. Asquith issued orders for their arrest on grounds of treason.

'This came to nothing, as the Army - riddled with reactionary Unionist officers of the landowning feudal class which was threatened by the political awakening of the islands' working class - mutinied in support of the Unionists in Ulster and the Tories who had escaped the police's clutches. Civil War had well and truly broken out.

'Despite having command of much of the Army it took two years for the 'Blues' to defeat the 'Greens', and in that time the civilian leaders of the Blues were effectively co-opted by an emergent military dictatorship who used the federalist principles of the Asquith government to more effectively enforce their rule. The failure of the bourgeois forces of the Liberals and the IPP to defend democracy led to industrial action, strikes and the militarisation of the trade unions. George Lansbury, an avowed pacifist, and James Connolly, a committed militant, joined forces against the brutal tyranny. They operated an underground resistance movement, uniting the workers' movements of both islands against a common oppressor. Lansbury and Connolly have entered the canon of the national myth, killed as they were by the hungry bloodhounds of the military government 'Black and Tan' secret police, and they were not alone. Following Connolly's death, Jim Larkin picked up the Irish baton and was killed in turn. His remains are interred with Lansbury and Connolly in the Mausoleum of Workers' Heroes.

'In 1919, after the death of Lansbury at the hands of the Black and Tans, the revolution was seemingly at its lowest ebb. Constance Markievicz took the scattered remnants of the Revolutionary Government and reforged them anew. Over the next three years, she and the Red Guards took back Britain and Ireland's industrial heartlands, allied with the radical movements of the ruined countryside and marched on the fortresses of capitalist reaction. In 1921, Bonar Law died of pneumonia and Austen Chamberlain seized control allying the CUP with the very Irish nationalists they had sought to crush to seek an armistice. The war was at an end, as Markievicz allowed those who wanted to flee to do so and established the Workers' Federation that stands to this day...'
 
Realistically, he was going to lose in 1980. The problem was who he ended up losing to, and over what issue, as Senator Kelly made a bid for candidacy....

Those Marvellous Presidents (Part 2)

1981-1985: Robert Kelly /William Stryker (Republican)

The Republican establishment had assumed that one of their own, likely SHIELD alumni George Bush, would win the primary and run against Rickard. They'd reckoned without the anti-mutant sentiment that had been growing since the early 1960s, one fanned in the United States by the growing evangelist movement and in particular the firebrand Reverend Stryker, who proclaimed Satan was at work for it could not be evolution. Global terrorism by the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants (the name a deliberate provocation) and the fact any teenager could become a mutant made their existence seem an existential threat, and one democracies were failing to get to grips with - a claim that, of course, ignored scandals like the Weapon X military experimentation program. Senator Kelly, seen as middle-road pro-business Republican, was able to make himself the 'acceptable' middle class face of this fear and ride it to candidacy. It was only after he picked Stryker as his running mate that many of those middle classes started to worry, and that was still not enough to stop many voting for him.

On the economy and most domestic issues, President Kelly's views were little different to Pym. On certain social issues, he was willing to lean right to keep Stryker and his evangelicals on side - a puritan streak made its way into the school system and media, a sharp contrast to the Rickard days. Cold War politics swung back to the hawks, with increased military funding and SHIELD support.

None of this is what he's most famous for, of course. Kelly's deep concern about mutants as a potential threat led to the creation of the federal Mutant Response Department, a new agency that would handle "mutant crimes" in place of the police and FBI; the army's own versions of Canada's Weapon X were ordered shut down, not for ethical grounds but in a desire to remove mutants from security positions; and mutants were banned from emigrating to the United States. Likely he could have survived that, even as the "Mardies" became infamous for thuggish tactics. Only so many 'normal people' were effected and sporadic mutant terrorism, responding to Kelly's politics, made him look necessary.

However, the MRD began raiding black neighbourhoods, gay enclaves, and in a few cases nice WASP suburbs in pursuit of mutants and Kelly did not, as would have been politically correct, tell them to stop. Now 'normals' were indeed effected. Foreign policy was also affected as Kelly reversed US policy towards the 'white Africa' nations - apartheid South Africa, Rudyarda, and Genosha - that, ever since President Rogers, had been treated with disdain for their racial policies. Since the three nations were also aggressively segregating their mutants, to the point of near-slavery in Genosha's case, Kelly saw them as vital allies. African-American support for both Kelly and the Republicans (up since Foster was made Vice President) cratered. Relations with Germany and Israel, more liberal regimes for mutants, soured, and a scandal broke out in the UK over the State Department becoming close to the notorious mutophobic MP, Nelson Kreelman. In its nadir, US arms and 'training' for Baathist Iraq was ramped up as long as Saddam Hussein continued to wage war on Iran, which had declared mutants were creations of Allah (and thus useable for fighting that very same Iraqi invasion).

With this rising discontent, Kelly should not have tried to push the Mutant Registration Act through in its original form and when the Supreme Court rejected it as unconstitutional, he should have revamped it instead of waging a two-year war with the Court. His political capital was used up as he tried to replace justices, slandered the court in public, and was found having Republican-held state governments push state-only versions of the Act through, all of them subsequently ending up at the Supreme Court anyway. While an estimated 72% of Americans were 'concerned' about mutants in 1984, they were also concerned that the President only seemed concerned about mutants.



1985-1989: John Jonah Jameson /Robert Ralston (Democratic)

Republicans would lament for years that Jameson, infamously socially conservative and law-and-order, should have been one of them. The press mogul indeed had no love for the Rickard administration. However, Jameson had also been viciously opposed to bigotry and had gone after the Stryker campaign even before it linked up with Kelly. The Daily Bugle and its sister publications went after Kelly on a daily basis and Jameson divested himself of his publishing business in 1982 for the very purpose of making a presidential run, egotistically believing only he could pull it off. His knowledge of the dark media arts saw him run a ferocious campaign and debate performance, presenting Kelly as a mewling buffoon who was ruining America and putting YOU, John Q Public, AT RISK from CRIME!! (The Bugle had managed to finally expose Wilson Fisk in 1983, adding to Jameson's anti-crime credentials) Senator Ralston was deliberately picked for his slight wartime ties to President Rogers, giving the campaign some reflected glory.

Jameson scrapped the MRD and ended the detente with 'White Africa' in his first month in office. Rolling back the social conservatism in schools (he agreed with some of the principles but hated who was doing it) took longer, with local politicians opposing him every step of the way, but Jameson was stubborn enough to keep pushing. The media was treated with laissez-faire and, in a controversial move for a Democrat, several business taxes were cut. The nascent Special Counter-Terrorism Unit Delta saw a big increase in funding and resources, to the extent many people incorrectly believe Jameson created it (it was a Rickard-era idea that became operational under Kelly).

Relations with the communist states remained frosty, though relations with Wakanda started to improve - until the aging King T'Chaka actually met Jameson and vice versa. For when it came to foreign relations, Jameson's blunt nature and hair-trigger temper could turn any meeting into a minefield. Foreign media were full of horror stories of raised voices echoing out of Versailles. These conflicts with foreign leaders prevented any reform of SHIELD, something Jameson was keen on (and was necessary when the Kelly-era SHIELD appointees were people on Kelly's wavelength). He instead turned his reformist zeal on the police, spy services, and Fifty State Initiative - while big on law-and-order, he wanted corruption and 'waste' wiped out of the bodies that enforced that law. This earned him few friends at the FBI, CIA, and major police services, with sackings and new directives and very 'impolitic' statements, and Ralston often had to smooth feathers afterwards. Minority communities liked this quite a bit.

The gay community liked it even more when Jameson ordered an investigation into the HIV plague - had indeed campaigned on it as an example of Kelly ignoring a crisis that could effect YOU, the PUBLIC, if not stopped. A disease seen as a "gay" problem was reframed as a potential threat to the suburbs (and would indeed spread there).

Jameson would be the third President to serve a single term (fourth if you count Ford) as his bad health caught up with him in the form of a mild heart attack. Rather than die in office, he said he would resign after the election. This was a reverse of 1980: it was impossible for the Democrats to lose as the Republicans were collapsing after Kelly's reign, losing people to the Libertarians and to the harder-right Cobra Party (stealing the iconography of the 'don't tread on me' snake), formed and led by disgruntled salesman Garrett Freelowe. The big question was which Democrat would win, and so it wasn't even November before everyone knew their next president would be James Rhodes...
 
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The Centre Cannot Hold

Presidents of the United States of America (1789-2025) - As Agreed By Everyone
Barack Obama (Democratic) 2009-2017
2008: def. John McCain (Republican)
2012: def. Mitt Romney (Republican)
Donald Trump (Republican) 2017-2021

2016: def. Hillary Clinton (Democratic)
Beto O'Rourke (Democratic) 2021-2025

2020: def. Donald Trump (Republican) and John Kasich (Independent)

Presidents of the United States of America (2025-2033) - As Seen By Democrats
Beto O'Rourke (Democratic) 2025-2029* [wartime suspension of election in 2028 by constitutional convention]
2024: def. Brett Kavanaugh (Republican)
Maria Cantwell (Democratic, then Independent) 2029-2033

Presidents of the Democratic States of America (2033-)
Tulsi Gabbard (Independent, supported by Democratic Socialists) 2033-
2032: def. Cory Booker (New Democratic)

Presidents of the United States of America (2025-2033) - As Seen By Republicans
Brett Kavanaugh (Republican) 2025-2027*
2024: def. Beto O'Rourke (Democratic)
James Lankford (Republican, then Christian Values) 2027-2033 [wartime suspension of election in 2028 by constitutional convention]

Presidents of the Great American Republic (2033-)
James Lankford (Christian Values) 2033-
2032: def. Donald Trump Jr. (Trumpist) and Elinor Swanson (Libertarian)
 
1954-1962: Democratic, Member of the Crowley City Council
1964-1965: Democratic, State Senator for the 35th District
1965-1972: Democratic, U.S. Representative
1972-1976: Democratic, Governor of Louisiana
1971-1972 def. Dave Treen (Republican), J. Bennett Johnson (Democratic), Gilles Long (Democratic), Jimmie Davis (Democratic), John G. Schwegmann (Democratic), Clarence C. Aycock (Democratic), Samuel Bell (Democratic), Speedy Long (Democratic)
1975 def. Bob Jones (Republican), Wade O. Martin Jr. (Democratic)

1976: Democratic, candidate for presidential nomination
1976 def. Jerry Brown, George Wallace, Mo Udall, Frank Church, Henry Jackson
1977-1981: Democratic, President of the United States
1976 def. Gerald Ford (Republican)
1980: Democratic, candidate for presidential nomination
1980 Ted Kennedy def. Edwin Edwards, Jerry Brown
1980: Independent, candidate for President of the United States
1980 Ronald Reagan def. Ted Kennedy (Democratic), Edwin Edwards (Independent)
1984-1988: Democratic, Governor of Louisiana
1984 def. Dave Treen (Republican)
1987: Democratic, candidate for Governor of Louisiana
1987 Buddy Roemer def. Edwin Edwards (Democratic), Bob Livingston (Republican), Billy Tauzin (Democratic), Jim Brown (Democratic), Speedy Long (Democratic)
1992-1998: Democratic, Governor of Louisiana (impeached)
1991 def. David Duke (Republican), Buddy Roemer (Republican), Clyde C. Holloway (Republican)
1995 def. Mike Foster (Republican), Buddy Roemer (Republican)

2012-2016: Democratic, Governor of Louisiana
2011 def. Bobby Jindal (Republican)
2016: Democratic, candidate for presidential nomination
2016 def. Hillary Clinton, Martin O'Malley
2017-2021: Democratic, President of the United States
2016 def. Donald Trump (Republican), Gary Johnson (Libertarian)

Edwin Edwards certainly is one of the more colorful characters to hold the office of the presidency. Edwards would be descended from the first French colonists who arrived in Louisiana, and started his career in politics as a Long-style populist. In his run for governor in 1971-1972, Edwards’ skill in alliances and attacks on his opponents gave him a landslide victory. As governor, he would preside over the oil boom and changed Louisiana’s electoral system (ironically benefiting the Republicans). While re-elected in 1975, Edwards’ ambitions were not yet met. He would decide to run for the Democratic presidential nomination, rising his way up through victories in the early state of Iowa, New Hampshire, and the south. With Adlai Stevenson as his running mate, he would take a comfortable victory over President Ford.

While things looked bright for the new president, conditions at home and abroad took a turn for the worst. Stagnation and stagnation, Iran, the Soviet-Afghan War, and inflation would all put the Edwards administration in crisis. At the same time, his administration was marred by infighting and disputes with Congress. When Ted Kennedy announced his primary challenge, it was no surprise that Edwards was crushed in the primary. Ronald Reagan would defeat both Kennedy and Edwards (who bitterly ran as an independent) in an electoral landslide.

The next few decades of Edwin Edwards’ career would be met with the same issues. In 1983, he would return to being governor, but he would be defeated by the reformist Buddy Roemer in 1987. It took a race against white nationalist David Duke to return to the office, which he would be impeached over a private prison scheme with a Texas businessman. Edwards would be the only president to serve prison time until controversially reviving a pardon from President Obama in 2011 by his supporters.

With his newfound freedom, Edwards would be able to run for governor against Bobby Jindal, thought to be a major presidential contender in 2012 or 2016. Despite starting out trailing Jindal in the polls, using the same methods he did in his prime, Edwards would take home an upset in a state that had turned heavily Republican.

While most politicans would stop there, Edwards would go on to announce a campaign to return to the presidency in 2015. Edwards would be the main opposition to Hillary Clinton with Vice President Biden out of the race. With a campaign run by young and progressive activists, Clinton would end up falling behind the former president. Given that he was to face off against Donald Trump, Edwards was confident in his victory - giving the Democrats a third term in office.

Of course, it’s been hard to keep the ship together. Edwards has shown the same fighting with his congressional leaders as he did in the 1970s and is having trouble passing a conservative Democratic agenda (angering the left-wing activists that elected him). With the recent departure of Harlan Z. Hill as Chief of Staff and the ongoing Mueller investigation into corruption surrounding the president, it remains to be seen what the next two years will have in store for America.
 
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Institutional Failure

2017-2025: Donald Trump (Republican)
2016 (with Mike Pence) def. Hillary Clinton (Democratic)
2020 (with Mike Pence) def. Beto O'Rourke (Democratic)

2025-2027: Jim Justice (Republican)
2024 (with Marsha Blackburn) def. Mark Cuban (National Unity), Rashida Tlaib (Green-Socialist Alliance)
2027-2031: Marsha Blackburn (Republican)
2028 (with Tomi Lahren) def. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Green-Socialist Alliance), Elon Musk (New Democratic)
2031-2033: Tomi Lahren (Republican - Emergency Government)
2032 (suspended)
2033-2033: Ilhan Omar (Alliance of the Displaced)
2033 (with Amjal Alami) def. Andrew Yang (New Democratic), Tomi Lahren (Republican)
2033-2034: Ilhan Omar (Reconstruction Alliance)
2034-2041: Amjal Alami (Reconstruction Alliance)
2036 (with Richard Ojeda) def. various (Heartland)

Basically, the Democrats continue to screw the pooch. The Republicans continue down their hard right rabbit hole but are able to keep a hold on the Presidency and Senate, while the House endures a three way split between the Republicans, the corpocratic New Democrats and the leftist GSA. This period of American history - referred to as the Era of Ill Feeling by historians at a later date - comes to an end with the Deluge of 2031. Rising sea levels coupled by a series of enormous hurricanes devastate the East Coast, leading to a refugee crisis and the death of President Blackburn. Lahren's Emergency Government tries to prevent the movement of East Coast refugees into Red States, and indeed suspends the 2032 election when it becomes clear that the Deluge has reshaped the geography of American politics.

This cannot last, and Lahren is ultimately impeached and thrown out and a president election held on a run off system leads to a clear victory for the Alliance of the Displaced in the first round - the Alliance has essentially grown out of the GSA and ballooned thanks to Lahren's anti-refugee policies. The New Democrats collapse and are effectively folded into the broader Reconstruction Alliance. The hard right Republican rump continues a Red State insurgency against 'Libtard Invaders', and President Omar is slain by one such extremist. The Reconstruction Alliance under Alami and Ojeda becomes the dominant party - the only real challengers are numerous 'Heartland' candidates, the political wing of the Red State insurgency.
 
Le bon Vince
Theresa May (Conservative majority, then minority supported by DUP, then majority) 2016-2025

2017 (min.): def. Jeremy Corbyn (Labour), Nicola Sturgeon (SNP), Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat)
2020 (maj.): def. Vince Cable (Liberal Democrat/Democrats '16), Jeremy Corbyn (Labour), Nicola Sturgeon (SNP), Adam Price (Plaid Cymru)


Stephen Kinnock (Labour majority) 2025-
2025 (maj.): def. Theresa May (Conservative), Ed Davey (New Democratic), Adam Price (Plaid Cymru)
 
A very British... aah fuck

(Posting it properly now)

2016-2019 Theresa May
2019 George Walker (military government)
2019 Ian McKellen (Yorkist)
2019- Keith Anderson (CEO, power-sharing agreement)

BBC One, January 14th

God save the Queen plays
Martial music
Instead of the House of Commons debate on 17th vote of no confidence in Theresa May and the 25th vote of no confidence in Speaker Burke-ow, a view from inside Broadcasting House is displayed
Colonel Walker speaks into the microphone People of Britain, you must be calm and understand that in these times of untold chaos, Her Majesty's armed forces had no choice but to carry out...

Suddenly he is cut off, a voice in his ear sorry general, we need to do the weather now

Five minutes later, a slightly annoyed colonel reappears on screen, takes a deep breath and speaks Her Majesty's armed forces, in the interests of sovereignty and dignity, have acted to ensure the heritage of our island natio

Walker pauses, listening again to his earphone No, we don't have to show an alternative view, the army doesn't do balance, that's just the RAF's effing circus... ...no I didn't mean get an RAF commander on...

as he fades to black oh for heaven's sake

Commander Wetherby addresses the camera It is imperative that members of the public understand the need to keep calm, remain in your houses and

Wetherby pauses now you have to do regional what?... ...we don't have any military units in Leeds... no we don't want to broadcast that.. What?!!!

North West Tonight logo shows, along with the same martial music as before

Captain Hillingdon looks at the microphone, ignoring the camera
Members of the public are advised to avoid the area around Ellesmere Port for the present time, as operations in progress in this area...
the good captain pauses, listening to his earphone What do you mean it didn't work out well last time?... ... who the hell is Gordon Banks?

The transmission mercifully switches back to Walker, who is visibly annoyed and mopping his brow. However, before he can open his mouth, the camera switches again

Rear-Admiral Ramsbottom is speaking from the deck of a medium-sized cutter the docks of Portsmouth remain secure

The usual pause, then what do you mean I can't say "remain"

The view is back on Walker, who has his back to the camera
No Moyles, we can't say we're only targeting people around May, there aren't any
He realise that finally he is about to get a chance to speak and whirls towards the camera

The heritage of our island nation requires that we
Sergeant Davies walks in
sorry sir, the transmitter's down, we're short of power. It's the Scottish

Sturgeon cut the power supply?

no, it's this scottish Power NPower merger sir, you see the IT systems aren't compatible, and

cut to Ian McKellen in a fuelless jeep A horse, a horse my Kingdom for a horse
 
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A very British... aah fuck

(Posting it properly now)

2016-2019 Theresa May
2019 George Walker (military government)
2019 Ian McKellen (Yorkist)
2019- Keith Anderson (CEO, power-sharing agreement)

BBC One, January 14th

God save the Queen plays
Martial music
Instead of the House of Commons debate on 17th vote of no confidence in Theresa May and the 25th vote of no confidence in Speaker Burke-ow, a view from inside Broadcasting House is displayed
Colonel Walker speaks into the microphone People of Britain, you must be calm and understand that in these times of untold chaos, Her Majesty's armed forces had no choice but to carry out...

Suddenly he is cut off, a voice in his ear sorry general, we need to do the weather now

Five minutes later, a slightly annoyed colonel reappears on screen, takes a deep breath and speaks Her Majesty's armed forces, in the interests of sovereignty and dignity, have acted to ensure the heritage of our island natio

Walker pauses, listening again to his earphone No, we don't have to show an alternative view, the army doesn't do balance, that's just the RAF's effing circus... ...no I didn't mean get an RAF commander on...

as he fades to black oh for heaven's sake

Commander Wetherby addresses the camera It is imperative that members of the public understand the need to keep calm, remain in your houses and

Wetherby pauses now you have to do regional what?... ...we don't have any military units in Leeds... no we don't want to broadcast that.. What?!!!

North West Tonight logo shows, along with the same martial music as before

Captain Hillingdon looks at the microphone, ignoring the camera
Members of the public are advised to avoid the area around Ellesmere Port for the present time, as operations in progress in this area...
the good captain pauses, listening to his earphone What do you mean it didn't work out well last time?... ... who the hell is Gordon Banks?

The transmission mercifully switches back to Walker, who is visibly annoyed and mopping his brow. However, before he can open his mouth, the camera switches again

Rear-Admiral Ramsbottom is speaking from the deck of a medium-sized cutter the docks of Portsmouth remain secure

The usual pause, then what do you mean I can't say "remain"

The view is back on Walker, who has his back to the camera
No Moyles, we can't say we're only targeting people around May, there aren't any
He realise that finally he is about to get a chance to speak and whirls towards the camera

The heritage of our island nation requires that we
Sergeant Davies walks in
sorry sir, the transmitter's down, we're short of power. It's the Scottish

Sturgeon cut the power supply?

no, it's this scottish Power NPower merger sir, you see the IT systems aren't compatible, and

cut to Ian McKellen in a fuelless jeep A horse, a horse my Kingdom for a horse

With thanks to @Alex Richards for posting that a shortage of bullets could hamper a coup and thus was part of a Tory plot to

And thanks to Gen Moyo for his absolutely fantastic announcement on ZBC that the Bloodless Correction (TM) was neither a coup nor overthrowing Mugabe. I have never spent so much money at a mine bar before or since, but listening to you was worth it
 
There is a gimmick.

We Don't Know How Lucky We Are

List of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom
1929-1933: Arthur Fell (Protectionist Crusade-Conservative coalition) [1]
1933-1940: William Trautmann (Socialist Labour Party) [2]
1940-1944: Angus Macnab (National Socialist League) [3]
1944-1944: Count Geoffrey Potocki de Montalk (National Socialist League) [4]
1944-1956: John Platts-Mills (Labour-Communist coalition) [5]
1956-1957: Rupert Haggen (Labour-Christian Democrat coalition) [6]
1957-1966: Garfield Todd (Christian Democrat) [7]
1966-1967: Anthony Fell (Christian Democrat) [8]
1967-1975: Tom Iremonger (Christian Democrat) [9]
1975-1979: Trevor Skeet (Christian Democrat) [10]
1979-1990: Denis Thatcher (Christian Democrat) [11]
1990-1991: Des Wilson (Alliance) [12]
1991-2001: Leo McCarthy (Alliance) [13]
2001-2013: Denise Kingsmill (Alliance) [14]
2013-0000: Paul Beresford (Christian Democrat) [15]

[1] - Fell set Britain alight with his tubthumping campaign in the 1929 election, proposing to fend off the crises that assailed Britain by nursing her industries through difficult times. His neophyte party won only a few dozen seats, but became Prime Minister with the reluctant external support of the Labour Party, who were not prepared to see a Tory as PM. One of several populist, near-autarchic leaders who came to power in that time, Fell's main contribution to Britain was ironically the building of the Channel Tunnel. Completed in 1932 despite the deaths of hundreds of diggers in a cave-in, the Tunnel has been a boon to Anglo-European travel - for better or worse.

[2] - The reaction to the Fell Government was swift and merciless. Even Labour were punished for supporting him, their voters switching over in droves to a party promoted by splitters from the Wobblies. Trautmann's party, like Fell's, received a minority vote, but the support he had on the streets of London (sparked by rumours that Fell had tried to buy votes) permitted him to seize control of the apparatus of the state and suspend Parliament. King Edward VIII wept when the choir at his coronation launched into 'Solidarity Forever' instead of 'Zadok the Priest'.

[3] - Hitler's main target after the fall of France was the Socialist state on his northern frontier. As the Wehrmacht marched through the Channel Tunnel, London fell into uproar and nobody noticed that the elderly Trautmann had died - some say of terror. A brief flurry of panic, and then the Reich swept away the SLP, who had been fighting over who had the right to succeed as PM and who precisely was to blame for the (arguably premature) abolition of the armed forces. Their radical reforms were meaningless, reversed by the new pro-Nazi regime. The stench of death still hangs heavy over Lampeter.

[4] - Some say Count Potocki was over-promoted by the occupying forces in order to give the impression of tolerance and diversity. Certainly the Nazis tolerated his poetry, the first volume of which had been reported to the police by the staff of the Methodist Recorder for its obscenity. Potocki's main contribution was his propaganda against the Bolsheviks (claiming, for instance, that they had been guilty of some sort of massacre at Katyn - his taste for fiction never deserted him, it seems), although many theorise that he would have influenced Britain towards a more clerical-fascist tendency if the Irish-American landings had gone otherwise.

[5] - Although the Americans were distinctly unhappy about this, the Communist Resistance was strong in numbers and, most importantly, on hand in London to take power from the unravelling Nazi regime. As a gesture towards bipartisanship, they allowed the Democratic Resistance stalwart John Platts-Mills to become Prime Minister over their own Tom Wintringham. The Communists regretted this timidity later on, as Stalin grew increasingly frantic at the gradual pace of their salami tactics, but it was a healthy combination at first, with both sides of the coalition happy to work together to rig the first democratic elections in 1946. In fairness, the CIA were also doing their level best to rig the vote. Be that as it may, Platts-Mills and his coterie became increasingly close to Moscow over time. The resultant loss of Empire and trans-Atlantic trade was more than made up for by close trading links with the French Socialist Republic beyond the Tunnel.

[6] - A more moderate Labour man than Platts-Mills, Haggen rose to the top upon his resignation in the face of the widespread rioting across the country. The public rose against Communist domination in solidarity with the Hungarians, Italians and Danes, but unlike those nations, the UK was still a bourgeois democracy with little USSR military hardware on-shore. The opposition Christian Democrats were therefore able to offer to join Labour in a Grand Coalition to wrest power from the Communists. Labour, never entirely confident of Platts-Mills' loyalties (despite his heroism in the War), jumped at the chance to return to the normalcy of the 1920s, even if it did mean a thorough drubbing at the genuinely democratic elections held the next year.

[7] - A safe pair of hands for an exhausted nation, Todd's liberal, Christian conservatism set a clear new line for a party mainly consisting of former Nazis and collaborators. Hindsight, however, has blamed him for not doing enough to rebuild the British economy and diversify it away from the low-quality manufacturing sector so favoured by the Platts-Mills Government. On the plus side, his Minister Anton Anderson extended the railways beyond even their pre-War state, becoming known as 'Mr Railway' in the process.

[8] - Son of Arthur Fell. He was a staunch defender of old Conservative values, in stark contrast with Todd, and challenged him for the leadership in a messy coup. Surviving in power only long enough to pardon those imprisoned after the Buxton Trials, he is not widely missed.

[9] - Iremonger had been seen as an ultra-Toddite full of promise - until he actually became Prime Minister. Now in power and passed his best, though, he merely occupied office rather than led. His downfall came with the Newry Canal Crisis, when his dependence on opiates led to the loss of the last vestige of the British Empire. Since then, there has been no British military presence 'West of Holyhead'.

[10] - He continued the now-entrenched dominance of the Christian Democrats, despite repeated policy failures, simply by scare-mongering about the Communist opposition. Skeet changed the electoral system from PR to AV to shore up the new normal, perceptively noticing that frequent strikes were not a vote-winner.

[11] - Described as a "juniper-sozzled, right-wing, golf-obsessed halfwit", Thatcher was a traditional Christian Democrat in all respects - except one. His wife Margaret (who he patronisingly referred to as "The Boss") pushed him increasingly to adopt the monetarist policies coming out of Washington at the time. This was the first radical economic reform in a generation or more, and the deregulation of the economy could never have ended well were it not for the increasingly close relations with the newly post-Communist states in Western Europe. The Union of Non-Soviet Anti-Socialist Republics (to which its name had been amended after the fall of the Roman Wall in 1978) expanded to include hitherto American-aligned Britain in 1984, paving the way for increasing European integration and the sweeping away of the last of the Platts-Mills-era industries in the North.

[12] - Wilson led the newly united non-Communist opposition to their first victory in 1990, but rapidly tired of continual in-fighting between Liberals and Social Democrats. He is much-mourned today as a missed opportunity for British history, getting much praise for his building of the City of Metroland to house those made homeless by the 1980s market reforms.

[13] - McCarthy inspired the term 'McCarthyism', meaning the system of Alliance machine politics which suppressed all imagination and radical policymaking in the Party for a generation - both inside the Alliance and in the ailing Communist Party, which found its last electoral strongholds targeted by Chris Rennard's vote-squeezing strategies. Only Bryan Gould's Monetary Reform Party still challenges the two-party duopoly on a parliamentary level.

[14] - The product of the shift towards technocracy in the Alliance. She did nothing of interest, which led to the electorate eventually returning to the seemingly-discredited Christian Democrats.

[15] - Paul Beresford, a patrician Tory from Croydon who famously can't understand Glaswegian accents, united the main factions of the Christian Democrats, being both fairly affable (which appeals to the Toddites in a way that actual liberal policies could never do) and fundamentally opposed to the UNAR, which appeals to the post-fascists in the party. It seems that the latter faction will finally reshape Britain in their image, after decades of rule by moderate Toddites and moderate Alliance folks, as Britain will vote soon in a referendum that could reshape its foreign policy once more. Leading the campaign to Demolish the Channel Tunnel is Aidan Burley, the Staffordshire MP and Government Minister who has been known to attend Nazi-themed functions. It's going to be an interesting one, that's for sure.
 
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Challenge from Ah.com

A POTUS List with as many shared name tickets as possible.

only one that springs to mind is Huckabee/Pence (well and Kerry/Edwards) but I'm not very well read on American political history

Double points if all four

McCain/Boehner V Kerry/Edwards in 2004? IDK
 
Challenge from Ah.com

A POTUS List with as many shared name tickets as possible.

only one that springs to mind is Huckabee/Pence (well and Kerry/Edwards) but I'm not very well read on American political history

Double points if all four

McCain/Boehner V Kerry/Edwards in 2004? IDK
Does variations count?

Gillibrand with an I/Sinema with a Y?
 
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