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The Caedite Infobox and Graphics Thread

Blimey, living in that TL must be an experience--nobody's served more than one term as President since Eisenhower!

As @Redolegna says, LBJ (and Albert Brewer) did.

Also, I'd imagine it would be somewhat similar to living in the OTL late 1960s and 1970s except with the accelerated realignment and constant churn in the presidency and vice presidency causing some pretty severe whiplash.

Better than that, Ed's finished proofreading the final version...

>Looks at threadmarks on AH.com
>40 presidents from 1933 to 2017

I don't know if my body is ready for this, but now I'm too intrigued to not check it out.
 
2016 Port Riche election
The 2016 Port Riche general election was held on October 18, 2016 to elect all 55 members of the National Assembly of Port Riche from single-member districts.

The incumbent Liberal government sought a second mandate after winning a majority in the 2012 elections. The premier elected in that race, Alexandre Martin was forced to resign by his own caucus in 2015 after a disastrous premiership—Martin's government pushed through an unpopular tax reform, struggled off questions of nepotism after the premier's relatives were appointed to several government positions, and faced frequent embarrassment when the premier struggled with speaking English to Anglophone audiences. His successor, David Bernier, struggled to arrest the party's decline in the polls.

The opposition Union Progressiste (UP) had rebounded from their loss in the 2012 election and selected Richard Rousseau, the son of former premier Pierre Rousseau, as their new leader heading into the election. A new party, the Parti Boriquien (PB), had formed during the previous assembly and had garnered grassroots support with its populist messages of anti-corruption initiatives and reforming the province's education system. Its leader, lawyer Alexandra Pôte, made waves with younger voters with her campaign's polished use of social media platforms like Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

Despite polling showing a possibility of the Liberals being reduced to single-digits, the PB campaign's prolific use of social media resulted in a series of petty scandals and controversy during the campaign, drawing many voters back to the Liberals, who had reversed course from Martin's term and promised a sharp reduction of taxes on families and increase in infrastructure funding should they be re-elected. The return of many voters to the Liberals prevented a wipe-out and narrowed the popular vote, but the inefficient Liberal vote resulted in a lopsided loss to the UP. Parti Boriquien failed to win a seat despite winning over 15 percent of the popular vote, foiled by support being spread evenly throughout the province.

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1952 UK general election
I'm reading a book about 19th century Britain and the repeated mention of the (now obsolete) custom of calling a general election whenever the monarch died made me think what would have happened if that custom not been changed.

Taking the popular vote swings from polling listed on the Wikipedia page for opinion polling for the OTL UK general election of 1955 and applying it to the 1951 results, here's what a snap election would have looked like if Parliament had been dissolved with the death of George VI:

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Conservative to Labour
Barry
Battersea South
Bexley
Bolton East
Brentford and Chiswick
Buckingham
Burton
Bury and Radcliffe
Chislehurst
Conway
Croydon West
Darlington
Devizes
Doncaster
Dulwich
Glasgow Govan
Glasgow Kelvingrove
Glasgow Scotstoun
King's Lynn
Lanark
Liverpool West Derby
Mid Bedfordshire
Middlesborough West
Norwich South
Oldham East
Peterborough
Plymouth Sutton
Portsmouth West
Preston North
Reading North
Rochdale
Romford
Rutherglen
Shipley
Somerset North
South Bedfordshire
South West Norfolk
Spelthorne
Stroud and Thornbury
Wycombe
Yarmouth
York

Conservative to Liberal
Aberdeenshire West
Bodmin
Caithness and Sutherland
Cornwall North
Denbigh
Devon North
Dorset North
Eye
Grantham
Honiton
Penrith and The Border
Roxburgh and Selkirk
Westbury

Labour to Liberal
Anglesley
Colne Valley
Dundee West
Merioneth
 
A result like that in Wales would be... Special. I could see Welsh devolution suddenly being quite a popular policy with the Liberals

I'm reading a book about 19th century Britain and the repeated mention of the (now obsolete) custom of calling a general election whenever the monarch died made me think what would have happened if that custom not been changed.

Taking the popular vote swings from polling listed on the Wikipedia page for opinion polling for the OTL UK general election of 1955 and applying it to the 1951 results, here's what a snap election would have looked like if Parliament had been dissolved with the death of George VI:

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Conservative to Labour
Barry
Battersea South
Bexley
Bolton East
Brentford and Chiswick
Buckingham
Burton
Bury and Radcliffe
Chislehurst
Conway
Croydon West
Darlington
Devizes
Doncaster
Dulwich
Glasgow Govan
Glasgow Kelvingrove
Glasgow Scotstoun
King's Lynn
Lanark
Liverpool West Derby
Mid Bedfordshire
Middlesborough West
Norwich South
Oldham East
Peterborough
Plymouth Sutton
Portsmouth West
Preston North
Reading North
Rochdale
Romford
Rutherglen
Shipley
Somerset North
South Bedfordshire
South West Norfolk
Spelthorne
Stroud and Thornbury
Wycombe
Yarmouth
York

Conservative to Liberal
Aberdeenshire West
Bodmin
Caithness and Sutherland
Cornwall North
Denbigh
Devon North
Dorset North
Eye
Grantham
Honiton
Penrith and The Border
Roxburgh and Selkirk
Westbury

Labour to Liberal
Anglesley
Colne Valley
Dundee West
Merioneth
Winston Churchill (Conservative) 1940-1945
Clement Attlee (Labour) 1945-1951
Winston Churchill (Conservative) 1951-1952
Clement Attlee (Labour) 1952-?

This reminds me of the Baldwin/MacDonald alternation back in the 1920s and 1930s
 
UK 2017 (no Conservatives or Labour)
The end of the Liberal Democrats' long reign in the United Kingdom after the landslide 2015 defeat would not last long. The UKIP government under Prime Minister Farage triggered the country's exit from the European Union ("Brexit") within a year of taking power, plunging the country's fragile economy into a tailspin. Farage, having achieved his lifelong goal, resigned and left the mess to his successor, Jacob Rees-Mogg. Rees-Mogg, having fanned the flames of the riots and protests against Prime Ministers Cable and Cameron just a few years earlier, now found himself in the hot seat. With his party having almost no one with previous experience in government, it was not long before corruption scandals and public ridicule began eroding the impressive majority the party had won in 2015. Former right-wing Lib Dem MPs beginning to trickle back to the traditional governing party's fold as Rees-Mogg's belligerent attitude towards the devolved assemblies in anti-Brexit Wales and Scotland began to alarm the country's political class that the "Celtic fringe" would declare independence to return to the EU, which could turn the recession into a depression.

The prime minister, calculating that the public had soured on the uninspiring, stale managerial liberalism for at least a few more years, went to the country just a hair over two years into his party's mandate in order to reaffirm the commitment of voters to "making Britain great again" by leaving the European Union, reintroducing capitol punishment and restricting immigration. However, by now Britons remembered why they had continually voted for the dull, technocratic party until 2015, and quickly returned to form by making Chuka Umunna the first black prime minister in British history, with a mandate to make the country's politics boring once again.

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What the map really shows is the 2017 election with all Labour and Conservative candidates removed. I just thought a little background would be nice given the weird results. Here is the total breakdown:

Liberal Democrats: 389
UKIP: 126
SNP: 55
Plaid Cymru: 34
DUP: 10
Green: 7
Sinn Féin: 7
Yorkshire: 3
National Health Action: 2
Liberal: 1
North East Party: 1
Speaker: 1
Independents: 14
 
Robert Moses
"Robert Moses' legacy is forever etched in the American landscape. Hundreds of thousands of miles of highways have been laid by his design alongside thousands of bridges built in cities ranging from his home of New York to Los Angeles. Millions of acres of public parks have been saved from commercial development and their facilities upgraded to a consistent high quality. Millions upon millions of Americans have their homes powered by plants Moses built, with new reservoirs gracing our nation's rivers and the Tennessee Valley.

His legacy has also been etched in less subtle ways, ones that casual observers do not see. But that is by design.

Robert Moses' highways are impressive and dazzling. But look at where they are located and who lived there before. In some estimations, millions of people, almost all of whom are poor and/or non-white, have been displaced by Moses' projects. Cities across the country have seen unique communities fall apart because of a highway or on-ramp placed on top of or through their neighborhood. Surviving members of these communities have watched neighborhoods die and fall into spirals of poverty and crime. But they are now hidden from the press by the very roadway that has destroyed them.

The highways' sheer mileage boggles the mind. They go from scenic vistas in the southwest to the congested thoroughfares of the northeast corridor. But never pictured in the glowing articles about Moses is the decrepit state of American rail. One may forgive the former secretary's lack of progress on a true national railway during his long tenure. After all, the United States is a large nation without the density of population that makes similar-sized Europe a shining example of the incorporation of trains into public transportation. But that doesn't account for the lack of subways in several major metropolitan areas or how existing subway lines have been starved of federal funds even though Congress showered money upon the 'Titan of New York' for decades.

Moses' additions to the public park system have earned praise from politicians, philanthropists and environmentalists. Very few think to ask 'what roads lead to these parks?' Because the answer almost invariably does not include those suitable for bus lines. Neither does anyone ask 'why are these parks located where they are?' Because that answer is usually ascribed by looking at the average income in a given neighborhood or area. The higher that number, the more likely a park will be built there or federal funds will make their way to improving it for those who use it.

The increase in America's raw electrical output under Moses' long tenure staggers the mind. But these flashy numbers distract from the millions more displaced by his efforts, and of whole towns that are now under the new reservoirs Moses created. Like those in the cities, these people tend to be poorer and browner than those whose communities along the same bodies of water who Moses spared and who now enjoy affordable electricity.

His long career in New York state and national politics, alongside his famous work regimen are feted as examples to those who hear the call to public service and who push themselves to excel. But his very real brilliance and dedication mask what truly made him unique. Few in the general public are aware of Moses' ruthlessness and astonishing arrogance that allowed him to singularly focus on imposing his will on a nation. Even fewer know how Moses' private wealth exploded during his long service in power, nor of the his political and legal legerdemain that made him indispensable even to the presidents he did not help put into the Oval Office. And only a select few ever gleaned how, from the worst throes of the Great Depression to the tumult of the 1960s, the nation's infrastructure, energy and transportation policies—the actual physical shaping of the country—were not dictated by its elected leaders or most brilliant experts or even moneyed interests. It was by the will of one man: Robert Moses."
-Lucy Carville, introduction to The Coordinator: Robert Moses and the Fall of America, published in 1977.​

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Carter/Mondale: One Last Ride
Carter/Mondale: One Last Ride

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The results come from comparing Obama's disapproval rating in April 2011 to what Romney got in 2012, then extrapolating that to what Carter gets. Each state's result was decided by modifying the statewide total percentages for the 2018 House elections. For those wondering, even with a home-state bonus, Jimmy fails to win Georgia for a third time.
 
Alberta 2019 (no UCP merger)
The most recent election in Alberta if the two parties making up the United Conservative Party hadn't merged:

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Riding results were simply taking the UCP vote for that riding, then finding out what percentage of the combined Progressive Conservative & Wildrose vote both parties got in 2015, then multiply the UCP vote by those percentages.

For new ridings, I used the redistributed results for determining the factor both PC & WR parties got in those ridings.
Progressive Conservative (23)
Calgary-Cross
Calgary-Edgemont
Calgary-Elbow
Calgary-Fish Creek
Calgary-Foothills
Calgary-Glenmore
Calgary-Hays
Calgary-Lougheed
Calgary-North West
Calgary-Peigan
Calgary-Shaw
Calgary-South East
Calgary-West
Camrose
Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville
Grande Prairie
Grande Prairie-Wapiti
Maskwacis-Wetaskiwin
Peace River
Red Deer-South
Spruce Grove-Stony Plain
Vermilion-Lloydminster-Wainwright
West Yellowhead

Wildrose (23)
Airdrie-Cochrane
Airdrie-East
Athasbaca-Barrhead-Westlock
Bonnyville-Cold Lake-St. Paul
Brooks-Medicine Hat
Cardston-Siksika
Central Peace-Notley
Chestermere-Strathmore
Cypress-Medicine Hat
Drayton Valley-Devon
Drumheller-Stettler
Fort McMurray-Lac La Biche
Fort McMurray-Wood Buffalo
Highwood
Innisfail-Sylvan Lake
Lacombe-Ponoka
Lac Ste. Anne-Parkland
Leduc-Beaumont
Livingstone-McLeod
Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills
Red Deer-North
Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre
Taber-Warner

New Democratic Party (17)
Banff-Kananaskis
Calgary-Acadia
Calgary-Beddington
Calgary-Bow
Calgary-Currie
Calgary-East
Calgary-Falconridge
Calgary-Klein
Calgary-North
Calgary-North East
Calgary-Varsity
Edmonton South-West
Lesser Slave Lake
Lethbridge-East
Morinville-St. Albert
Sherwood Park
Stratchona-Sherwood Park
 
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