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Alternate Wikibox Thread

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Quick one, didn't change the vote count or the map but it works enough.

Following in the footsteps of both his father and grandfather, Clancy Brown entered politics and was elected to Congress in 1991. With Brown, his father, and grandfather, the family has held the 7th district consistently since 1939 except for the 8 years the district was held by Mike DeWine between Bud and Clancy's terms. However, Clancy has been buoyed to a political office the previous generations were never able to attain. While Clarence Brown was lieutenant governor and ran for governor in 1932 and 1934, and Bud Brown ran for governor in 1982, neither won election to the highest office in Ohio. Clancy, proving third generation's the charm, won election over Cincinnati scion Jerry Springer in a blowout as part a national reaction to President Gore's second midterm.

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Bloody hell dont let him near the White House. Its the closest we'd get to president Lex Luthor.
 
Turquoise Blue said:
MC approved of me doing an unique look at a city election in his Seventh Party System. Enjoy!
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This is fun--Bismark For All is a party name that really fits into the context of an America which contains the Moderate Moose Party and Silver Labour, and I like how Matt Cawthorn appears to have stepped out of an Eighties screwball comedy in terms of his campaign.
 
So, the basic premise here is that the POD is more or less the same as Turtledove's short story Must and Shall, in which Lincoln is killed in '64 and the victorious North is much more vindictive and harsh in their treatment towards the former Confederacy, resulting in continued underground resistance to the Northern authorities. It's for an upcoming short story I'm writing (the one inspired by @Time Enough's In The Time of Lead) called Autumn in Dixie. Obviously, they're meant to be representative of a pro-Confederate/Southern Red Army Faction, with the Dixie Autumn being analgous to the German Autumn of OTL.

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The Knights of the South are an American hate group and terrorist organization primarily based in the American South, though there have been allegations by government officials that they are clandestinely supported by foreign organizations and rogue governments. Claiming to represent the true interests of Southerners, the Knights are virulently anti-American in nature, with members reportedly referring to the South as the "Confederate States". Furthermore, when said members manage to be taken alive by Federal officials, they refuse to comply during interrogations, only stating their rank and "commando unit" and referring to themselves as "Sovereign Citizens", showcasing their steadfast belief in the "Lost Cause" myth of Confederate defeat. Based off of official communiques sent prior to and after their attacks, as well as reports by the Pinkerton Investigation Agency, Federal investigators have determined that the Knights claim descent from the historical Southern nationalist and anti-American groups such as the Ku Klux Klan and the Black Legion, with the stated goal of reestablishing Southern independence through violent means.

While the numbers of the Knights of the South are currently unknown, further investigation has revealed that they were formed from the merger of a number of Southern nationalist and anti-American groups, including the Tejano Liberation Front, the Friends of Free Cuba, and the Children of the Confederacy. This would seemingly explain the rather diverse ethnic makeup of the group, which contains white Southerners as well as a number of Tejanos, Puerto Ricans, and Cubans of Confederate descent. With the exception of their Hispanic members, who are considered equals thanks to their Confederate descent and perceived racial purity, the Knights are primarily Protestant. Despite this, they aren't particularly anti-Catholic in nature, with their hatred primarily reserved for African-Americans, Federal officials, Biracial individuals (who they derogatorily refer to as "Miscegenists"), and Southerners who refuse to take up arms against the Federal government.

During the ongoing Dixie Autumn, which began in 1970 with the Rawweather Incident, the Knights have committed a number of high-profile terrorist incidents, including:
  • The 1970 assassination of Christian Rawweather, Head of the Truth and Reconciliation Agency (TRA), along with his chauffeur and Federal bodyguards, by the "Black Knight Commando". Rawweather was killed for his harsh measures against Southern businesses who refused to pay Black employees their full wages.
  • The 1972 kidnapping and murder of Perley A. Thomas Jr., head of the Perley A. Thomas Car Works, and his family by the "Grey Ghost Commando". The family was targeted merely because the Car Works "collaborated" with the Federal government by providing TRA officials with cars for transportation.
  • The 1974 failed kidnapping-turned-murder of George Ponto, director of the Richmond Federal Bank by the "War Horse Commando".
  • The 1975 American Embassy Massacre in Havana, Cuba by the "Stonewall Commando", an attempted siege undertaken in order to force the release of several imprisoned and captured Knights of the South members.
  • The 1977 assassination of newly-appointed Federal Governor Jesse Jackson and the crippling of Lieutenant Governor Walter Fauntroy by the "Forrest Commando", the first of a series of violent and increasingly-brutal attacks against African-Americans in the American South continuing until 1980.
  • The 1981 assassination of Secretary of State Alexander Haig and his bodyguards by the "Marse Lee Commando", done in response to the promise of increased crackdown against Southern terrorism by incumbent-President Jimmy Carter, who they decried as a race traitor and arch-collaborator.
 
"Well it's just an wikibox featuring an alternate parliament of Sweden, there's nothing interesting about tha-... oh. Oh."
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The Free-minded Party (Swedish: De Frisinnade) is a Swedish political party formed in 1923 after a split in the Liberal Coalition Party over the question of prohibition which saw a number of pro-prohibition MPs leave and form the Free-minded Party. Whilst the initial split from the Liberals was due to the prohibition issue, the gradual rightward move of the Liberals as they absorbed various minor rightwing movements and emerged as the leading opponent to the Social Democrats only served to deepen the chasm between the Liberals and their former colleagues. During the decades that followed the Free-minded Party became a main alternative to the two big parties alongside the Farmer's League (now the Democrats). But while that party primarly served as a viable third party for those who were living in the countryside, the Free-minded Party had their strong base in the cities and suburbs, in particular among more highly educated voters. During the 20th century the party only participated in government once, during the wartime coalition government in the 40s, relegating them to little power beyond shouting from the opposition in the Riksdag. However it was a completely different story in Sweden's second largest city Gothenburg, where the Free-mindeds were the big party on the right, opposing the Social Democrats and governing alone or with the Liberals on those few occasions where the Social Democrats didn't win the elections for the Gothenburg City Council.

After staying out of government for more than half a century the Free-mindeds got their best election result ever in 2013 when they attained 29 seats and thus denied the Social Democrats' Jonas Sjöstedt a majority in his bid for re-election. For the first time since the 1960s no single party had won a majority in the Riksdag, and for the first time since that decade a coalition would be formed. The Free-minded Party entered government for the first time since World War II, in a coalition with the Social Democrats. Whilst many of their strongest supporters would mention their successes in government; the Green Infrastructure Plan, the tax cuts for low and middle income earners, the Sami Rights Act, no one can deny that governing took a toll. Especially considering that they lost what was percieved as their most important pledge during the 2013 election; proportional representation. There was a referendum and they lost, simple as that. But suddenly all the energy behind the Free-minded Party had disappeared.

The party dropped from 29 seats to only 6, their leader going down with the ship. In the wake of the disaster in 2017 they picked someone who had managed to do the impossible twice to replace him. In 2013 Jan Jönsson had won the Stockholm seat of Hammarby Sjö in a major upset, believed by many to be a mere flash in the pan caused by the Free-minded wave sweeping through the big cities of Sweden. He had been made a minister only weeks afterward and was in every way a face of the coalition government, but in 2017 he still managed to survive by a margin of slightly more than 100 votes when his colleagues who were thought to be in much safer seats went down one by one. Jan Jönsson was elected leader of the Free-minded Party in January 2019 and became first leader of the party in more than 30 years that didn't hail from a Gothenburg constituency. Only time will tell if the party will share his electoral fortunes come the next election in 2021.
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The Sjöstedt II Cabinet (Regeringen Sjöstedt II) was the cabinet of Sweden from October 2013 to October 2017. It was a coalition government consiting of two parties, the Social Democratic Party of Sweden and the Free-minded Party of Sweden. It succeeded the Sjöstedt I Cabinet, a Social Democratic majority government, and was succeeded by the Sjöstedt III Cabinet, also a Social Democratic majority government.

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Peter Eriksson is a Swedish Member of Parliament for the constituency of Torne Valley (Tornedalen). He was first elected in a by-election held in 2003 after the previous MP, Per-Ola Eriksson, resigned after taking up an offer by the government to become the Director-General of Swedish Railways. As is costumary in Swedish politics when an opposition MP resigns in order to take an administrative position within the government, all parties represented in the Riksdag aside from the former MP's party, the Democrats, did not field any candidate in the by-election. However Peter Eriksson did not in any way feel bound by that gentleman's agreement, and with six relatively successful years as the first Green mayor in the country he couldn't pass up this opportunity. With only one serious opponent and quite a few ridiculous ones, Peter Eriksson pulled off a major upset just like he had done six years prior, and became the first (and thus far only) Green Member of Parliament. That success carried him forward to being elected as Spokesperson for the Greens the next year, a role he held kept for the duration of the four year term limit that was in place at the time.

His election was initially seen as a by-election fluke by all of the major parties, blamed on a poor candidate selection made by the Democrats, but when he won the seat again during the general election with an increased majority it was taken seriously. However Peter Eriksson's successes never seemed to translate to the national party. It was rather the opposite, as he at times sought to distance himself from the national Green Party in order to win re-election in his own constituency. After a couple of disappointing results without their only slightly famous represenative at the helm the Greens came crawling back to Peter in 2015, this time asking him to be the sole leader of the party, with the spokesperson system abolished upon his election. He was back and in charge for real this time, and surely if he could shape the strategy and campaigns of the party it would finally lead to some true success. Except... it didn't. The election in 2017 came and went with some minor gains here and there on the municipal level, but the party pretty much held on to the same national vote share they'd got four years prior. The only real thing that changed is that Peter Eriksson's majority in Torne Valley was cut in half. Now the question a great deal of members of the Greens are beginning to ask is: Did Peter Eriksson win his seat over and over again by having a good strategy for getting people to vote for the Greens, or did he just have a good strategy for getting people to vote for Peter Eriksson?
 
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I've finally learned how to use Inkscape.

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I wanted to do more with this, but just making the box, and crunching the numbers, and getting it to look presentable sapped all the interest I had. For now. I just want to know if the electoral map looks clean, like a real one on Wikipedia.
 
Blackentheborg said:
Serious question: Is Stassen an electable candidate? I've seen him used so many times but as he's a perennial candidate I can't take him seriously.
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I think at the beginning he was seen as a legitimate rising star for the GOP. But then he lost 1948, and 1952, and every run after that (for President or for lower office) made him seem far more of a joke candidate (and even he must have felt the same way).

My plan for him is to lose 1952, maybe to Supreme Court Justice Douglas, run again in 1956, lose the nomination, run again way later in a year like 1976 and lose the general election, and run again in an even farther year like 1984 and actually win a second term.
 
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