Category: 1. President Infinity

Since the talk is going around again I though I would share my scenario where Al Gore gives the Presidency a final shot.  I inserted Gore in place of Grayson.  This scenario also includes a few of my percentage changes for the generals and primaries.  Trump starts out with somewhat of a lead in this one for the GOP nomination.  Gore starts 3rd behind Clinton and Sanders.

Download: United States – 2016 4

Hi fellow PI gamers. 🙂

I started to make an expanded 2016 scenario. I added all minor parties and independents mentioned on Wikipedia. I gave them only ballot access in their home state, because I don’t know where they will be on in the real election. But I will update my scenario when further information will be available.

United States – 2016 (alternate version)

Please support me with your feedback and of course I plan to make further expanded elections based on Wiki information.

When the map-editor will be available I plan to make other scenarios such as Gubernatorial elections as well.

Have fun,

Luki (Conservative Elector 2) 🙂

*This scenario was greatly updated by the Historical Scenario Commission on July 21, 2017. Version 2.0 can be downloaded here: United States – 1828 v. 2.0

The 1828 election can be seen as Jackson’s revenge. In 1824, he had defeated the eventual winner, John Quincy Adams, in the popular vote and in the electoral college. However, with four candidates, no single candidate had enough electoral votes to be declared the winner. As such, the US House, which was dominated by Henry Clay, threw their support behind Adams after Clay’s endorsement, handing the election to the Mr. Adams.

Jackson feeling as if the will of the people had been defied, became the leading advocate of expanded democracy against an established elite. Heading into 1828, the popular Jackson seemed destined to defeat President Adams, whose presidency was having little success in fulfilling the Adams modernizing agenda.

The National Republican Party was formed under the leadership of Adams’s Secretary of State, Henry Clay. It was composed of supporters of John Quincy Adams, known as Adams Men, and other men, mostly former Federalists, supporting rapid modernization in order to compete with the powerhouses of Europe. However, Adams, despite being possibly our greatest Secretary of State, was not a successful president. He had little trust in the people to make wise decisions for themselves and made this known. He also did not work well with congress, which resulted in his programs, which resembled an antebellum New Deal, from taking ground. Had Adams been successful, and if Adams won a second term, our country could have been very different by 1860, with an increased industrialization, improved infrastructure, larger nationwide education system (and high literacy rate), and possibly a closer economic and mercantile rival to Britain and France, much sooner. However, the South and West saw Adams’s programs as needlessly intrusive and had little desire to compete with foreign countries or in anyway lose their strong sense of regionalism for the sake of nationalism.

Those in favor of popular democracy were known as the Democrats. This new party was constructed under the skill and leadership of New York senator Martin Van Buren, and he gladly let General Andrew Jackson become its figurehead. Before Van Buren, the idea of political parties was something that was roundly despised, even as people were active members of either the Jeffersonian Republicans or the Federalists. Van Buren was an advocate of permanent opposition, with two sharply opposing parties battle it out nationwide. The Era of Good Feelings was at an end. Head into 1828, the new Democratic Party ran Jackson unopposed.

This election does not have a third party.

This election allows for many what-if scenarios:

• What if the unpopular president Adams faced competition from leading politicians of his own party, such as party leader Henry Clay, New Englander Daniel Webster and war hero William Henry Harrison?
• What if the popular war hero Andrew Jackson was challenged by leading figures of the new Democratic Party? such as party architect Martin Van Buren, disgruntled VP John C. Calhoun, Old Guard Republican John Randolph (the Ron Paul of hsi day) and former 1820 front-runner, and somewhat recovered stroke victim, William H. Crawford.
• What if the Anti-Mason Party formed four years earlier?

Feedback is desired.

[Note: The next election I make will be 1820. I fully endorse JViking’s amazing 1824 scenario, which I had the pleasure in helping him make by providing information and advice about the candidates and issues.]

*This scenario has been greatly updated by the Historical Scenario Commission on July 22, 2017. Version 2.0 can be downloaded here: United States – 1832 v. 2.0

Jacksonian Democracy is all the rage. For the common man, Jackson is a godsend; for the property-owning elite, he is a demagogue. Three anti-Jackson parties emerge to stop him from winning reelection. Can three parties undo the four-year old Democratic Party, or will they merely make it much easier for the Democrats to win another four years?

The National Republicans is a new party, composed primarily of former Federalists and Adams Men (supporter of John Quincy Adams over Andrew Jackson). They hope to continue Republican values, but at a national level, hoping to blend state-lines in order to become machine that can compete with the European great powers. In this election, the unify around their leader Henry Clay.

The Democratic Party establishment supports incumbent president Andrew Jackson. He continues his war against the state banks, the elites, and against the native tribes living on the continent.

The Anti-Mason party is a mostly single-issue party of anti-Jacksonians that believe that masonic lodges are controlling the government. While they align with Jackson’s attack on elites, they have little in common with him outside of this issue. William Wirt, arguably the most influence attorney general, who had served for both Monroe and JQ Adams, is their choice for president.

The Nullifiers, or Independent Democrats, are former supporters of Andrew Jackson that feel that the president has waged a war on States’ Rights. The select John Floyd of Virginia as their presidential choice.

The election allows for many what-if scenarios:

• What if the anti-Jackson National Republicans rallied behind former president John Quincy Adams as the strongest option to defeat Andrew Jackson?
• What if Daniel Webster, the icon of New England, or War of 1812 hero, William Henry Harrison competed with Henry Clay for the National Republican nomination?
• What if John C. Calhoun was the Nullifier/Independent Democrat nominee?
• What if Northern Democrats urged the architect of the Democratic Party, Martin Van Buren, to challenge Jackson for the nomination.

Feedback is desired.