Bushwa777 Posted December 25, 2022 Share Posted December 25, 2022 5 minutes ago, WVProgressive said: It was Georgia, at the hip young age of 82. The man lived in reality to be 95 so 82 is what middle age? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murrman104 Posted December 26, 2022 Share Posted December 26, 2022 President Barkley has not had a great Presidency after coming to office after the resignation of President Truman. He first got a terrible illness robbing him of much of his strength, but considering the next in line is Speaker Richard Nixon he refused to resign, only for a terrible scandal to come out to pressure the deathly ill President to resign again. Also the economy collapsed. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vcczar Posted December 26, 2022 Author Share Posted December 26, 2022 19 minutes ago, Murrman104 said: President Barkley has not had a great Presidency after coming to office after the resignation of President Truman. He first got a terrible illness robbing him of much of his strength, but considering the next in line is Speaker Richard Nixon he refused to resign, only for a terrible scandal to come out to pressure the deathly ill President to resign again. Also the economy collapsed. Did he end up resigning? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bushwa777 Posted December 26, 2022 Share Posted December 26, 2022 8 minutes ago, vcczar said: Did he end up resigning? Not yet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bushwa777 Posted December 26, 2022 Share Posted December 26, 2022 (edited) @vcczar no he is sticking around Edited December 26, 2022 by Bushwa777 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebrk85 Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 @vcczar I was really hoping for him to resign from the illness and which would have given the Presidency to Speaker Richard Nixon ha. Only for the scandal to hit Nixon, have him resign and the new President be Senate Pro Tempore Arthur Vandenburg. All within one general events cycle!! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murrman104 Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 Should also not that Vanderburg only became President Pro Tempore because the Senator for New York died giving control of the Senate to the Republicans In the previous deaths phase 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bushwa777 Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 Well in the 1948 playtest the supreme court passed Brown v. Board of Education but since we passed a law last time outlawing segregation it did nothing. We also passed Furman v. Georgia outlawing the death penalty but did not pass Wisconsin v. Yolder so the Amish have to continue sending their kids to high school Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebrk85 Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 2 minutes ago, Bushwa777 said: Well in the 1948 playtest the supreme court passed Brown v. Board of Education but since we passed a law last time outlawing segregation it did nothing. We also passed Furman v. Georgia outlawing the death penalty but did not pass Wisconsin v. Yolder so the Amish have to continue sending their kids to high school Just to clarify, Brown didn't actually pass. It would have fired but the Court didn't take up the case since it was irrelevant. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arkansas Progressive Posted January 5, 2023 Share Posted January 5, 2023 1772 CPU solo: We are at war with the British but have not declared independence as of 1776. President of the Congress Oliver Ellsworth does not make it to the second session, and neither does foreign chair George Washington. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bushwa777 Posted January 8, 2023 Share Posted January 8, 2023 1948 playtest: The 1952 election sees the Democrats looking to Hollywood with Actor Ronald Reagan in the lead followed by Actress Tallulah Bankhead. The Republican race is more wide open with Senate Minority Leader Robert Taft and Speaker of the House Richard Nixon in the lead followed closely by Governor Earl Warren and John Davis Lodge, who resigned his seat in the House to run. Also in the race but longshots are ex-general Douglass MacArthur and ex-president Herbert Hoover, the latter at 76 trying again 20 years after leaving the White House. All this before the 1st primary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bushwa777 Posted January 8, 2023 Share Posted January 8, 2023 After 1st primary dems have Reagan and Bankhead leading while GOP has Taft and Warren leading with Nixon and Lodge within striking distance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bushwa777 Posted January 9, 2023 Share Posted January 9, 2023 After 2nd primary for 1952, Nixon won but warren and taft are still in the game. Meanwhile Reagan is cleaning up in the democratic primary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrangeP47 Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 We have our first African American in high office in 1840... and he's a generated politician to fill in a NC rep seat after we gave all the traitors the banhammer. 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bushwa777 Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 Coming out of the 1952 primary the dems are led by Actor Ronald Reagan and it looks like no one can touch him. The GOP primaries have revealed that Robert Taft is in the lead but he is followed closely by Richard Nixon, Earl Warren, and General McArthur 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bushwa777 Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 The GOP proudly announces its ticket for 1952: Senator Taft and James Wadsworth Jr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrangeP47 Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 You know this is the best playtest moments thread, you don't need to give a running commentary of a singular event, the primary, it kind of clutters it. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murrman104 Posted January 16, 2023 Share Posted January 16, 2023 With AK to Reagan we have quite possibly the ugliest map so far in 1952 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murrman104 Posted January 16, 2023 Share Posted January 16, 2023 Reagan challenges the IL electors in the S.C but in a 6-3 ruling they award ILs votes to Taft (There was a lot of faithless electors not mentioned as well) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pman Posted January 16, 2023 Share Posted January 16, 2023 While that map is ugly it’s understandable from an era without defined lines the way we have now- well outside of that south which was defined then and is defined now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pman Posted January 16, 2023 Share Posted January 16, 2023 Tons of us have two goals- 1) get Reagan elected as a Democratic President and 2) Get a woman elected President. We’re still yet to accomplish either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrangeP47 Posted January 16, 2023 Share Posted January 16, 2023 The map isn't that bad outside of WY, SD, and ND, it just looks kind of physically ugly, and together they only account for 11 EV so they're statistically insignificant. All the other states I'd say are not only plausible, but are in the "it wouldn't be that hard to construct a reason for why they voted how they did" camp. The other 3 could be put in that camp possibly just by being low-pop states, ironically enough. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murrman104 Posted January 16, 2023 Share Posted January 16, 2023 Oh it's not implausible, especially for maps at the time, it's just very unpleasant looking. TX and FL voting away from the rest of the south, the plains and mountains voting seemingly at random. Oregan breaking up the pleasant blue block on the west coast. Apart from the aforementioned weirdness in the plains the only really odd thing here is Rhode Island voting red while MA and NY went blue which is rather odd for the era 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murrman104 Posted January 16, 2023 Share Posted January 16, 2023 I'm aware and I said that I was aware it's accurate for the period , it's not unrealistic it's just ugly 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrangeP47 Posted January 16, 2023 Share Posted January 16, 2023 Yeah I didn't want to really continue the conversation *in this thread*, but basically everything other than dem plains states post WJB has historical precedent, just never *all at the same time*. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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