OP: Greater Arab State
Co-OP: Bruke
To make a long story short... In the 1948 election, Joseph P. Kennedy (JFK's father) became president, with George Long (Huey Long's brother) as his vice president. In the 1952 election, the Republicans regained control of the White House, with Dwight Eisenhower becoming president and Earl Warren (Governor of California) becoming vice president. See the OOC threads, linked above, and the IC threads (which you can get to from the OOC threads), to see how those elections went.
To simplify things, this Eisenhower administration will have more or less the same policies as its RL counterpart, unless otherwise noted.
Rules:
The rules are the same as the 1952 election RP. Third-party candidates are allowed but will have little to no effect on the overall result of the primaries and general election, unless said elections are very very close.
We would like to emphasize two rules in particular:
No fictional, satire, or unrealistic candidates.
RPers are responsible for knowing their candidate (the real-life positions and views of the person you are playing as).
Format:
Primary:
Candidates must win their party's (Democratic or Republican) primary in order to advance to the general election.
Electoral votes will be assumed to be equivalent to delegate votes. (For example, winning California means that you would have 32 delegates.)
Whoever has the most delegates at the end of the primaries becomes their party's nominee, and gets to choose from among their fellow candidates (Democrats or Republicans, respectively) who their VP pick will be.
General election:
Presidential and vice presidential candidates of each party will face off against each other.
The method of first past the post voting will be used in the general election.
A majority of the electors in the Electoral College is needed to win, with 266 being the magic number for this election.
One would need a majority (at minimum 51%) of the popular vote of a state in order to win all of its electoral votes.
How support is calculated:
The amount of support one receives from a particular state and the country as a whole will be determined by:
Polling.
Responses to randomly generated events.
How much you visit a state or region. (The more visits, the better, and be sure to visit every part of a state or region (Great Lakes, the South) if possible.)
Recommended sources:
The Presidency Project, from UC Santa Barbara, is an excellent place for detailed information on previous elections and administrations. This will give you a good idea of what the 1956 election was like, and what Eisenhower's policies would be as president.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/index_docs.php
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/data.php
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/media.php
As always, Wikipedia is a good place to start for basic information:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1956
Reserved/Approved Candidates:
Hugo Black (Dem; Alabama) Puertollano
Strom Thurmond (Dem; South Carolina) Greater Arab State
Georgia Cozzini (Socialist Labor; Wisconsin) The Free Territory of Makhnovia
W. Averell Harriman (Dem; New York) Provisional Niev
Henry M. Jackson (Dem; Washington state) Izonno
Dwight Eisenhower (GOP; Kansas) Helowi
Enoch A. Holtwick (Prohibition; Illinois) Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
John W. Bricker (GOP; Ohio) Vilkona
If your candidate is not listed above, please contact the OP or co-OP via telegram or a post on this thread.
Choosing Major Candidates:
Applications for major candidates will be reviewed prior to approval by the OP and/or co-OP to ensure that the RPer has strong knowledge of US political history.
For this election, as in real life, the big candidates are:
Republicans:
n/a
Democrats:
Adlai Stevenson (Presidential nominee in 1952)
Estes Kefauver (Vice presidential nominee in 1952)
Tom Connally (runner-up to Stevenson in 1952 primary)
This list will be updated periodically as candidates are chosen.
When selecting a candidate, realize that you are accepting the good as well as the bad. You take on their accomplishments, but also their scandals. Anything that your candidate has said or done in the past (prior to 1956 in real life) can and will affect how they are perceived by voters, the other candidates, and their party.
Candidate Application
IC THREAD
The IC thread is here.
If you have any other questions, post them here on the OOC thread and we will respond as soon as possible. Thank you for playing, and have fun.
