Star-Spangled Sky
1944-1945: Franklin D. Roosevelt/Harry S. Truman (Democratic)
1944: Thomas E. Dewey/John W. Bricker (Republican)
1945-1946: Harry S. Truman/vacant (Democratic)[1]
1946-1955: General Franklin Blake/vacant (Non-Partisan)[2]
1955-1967: Hector Lindsey/Dwight Chambers (Democratic)[3]
1954: Jordan Powell/Evan Schwartz (Republican)
1958: Jordan Powell/Lester Richardson (Republican)
1962: Irving Carroll/Cassandra Lyons (Republican)
1967-????: Irving Carroll/Laurence Frank (Republican)[4]
1966: Hector Lindsey/Dwight Chambers (Democratic), Preslav Hus/Rudy Slominsky (Slavic Socialist)[5], Rachael Wandsworth/Armon Speyer (New Zionist)[6]
[1] The German 'Ending Weapon' came out of nowhere. After long years of pointless slog in the Pacific, the Germans trampled over the ashy skeleton of Britain to rain flame down on American cities. Truman tried to stand firm, but he surrendered after Japanese soldiers began landing on the Pacific Coast. But all was not lost.
[2] The general in command of the esoteric scientific research base, Project Brooklyn, decided not to recognise the surrender, and used the technology developed under his command to flee to the Moon. He was acclaimed President, but there was no actual election. His time as President was mostly concerned with building the colony of New Washington under the lunar regolith, and preparing for a possible discovery of the base by Nazis.
[3] The election produced a powerful Democratic majority, though it ought to be noted that the labels of Democratic and Republican were rebuilt from the ground up. The Democrats had the advantage of Roosevelt's legacy, and posed the snarling grimace of the American Moon against the Nazi Earth, the dream of liberating the planet, and the eventual blossoming of human civilisation in the light of science and liberty. This compelling vision gave way after eight years of growth to a sort of tired fist-shaking, a frustration that Nazi Earth had not yet crumbled, and with a new generation of Americans having known nothing but the Moon, there was a sense of needing to relocate their priorities from staring at the Earth to looking outwards at the cosmos.
[4] Carroll presented a new vision for New Washington and the American Moon, after twelve years of Democratic plodding. Mostly keeping to the Democratic economic agenda, he rejected much of the internationalism of the Democrats, and instead proposed a new form of Manifest Destiny. They were too few to fight the Nazis, but they had a head start in space, and there they could expand and grow and succeed, just as they had on Earth.
[5] The emergence of immigrant parties was noticeable, and the largest such was the Slavic Socialist Party which mostly appealed to immigrants from the former Soviet Union, though they toned down the Communism when in New Washington.
[6] The remaining Jews were sought out by American scouts, and on the Moon they organised as the New Zionist Party. They could be a real spoiler for the Democratic voting bloc.
1944-1945: Franklin D. Roosevelt/Harry S. Truman (Democratic)
1944: Thomas E. Dewey/John W. Bricker (Republican)
1945-1946: Harry S. Truman/vacant (Democratic)[1]
1946-1955: General Franklin Blake/vacant (Non-Partisan)[2]
1955-1967: Hector Lindsey/Dwight Chambers (Democratic)[3]
1954: Jordan Powell/Evan Schwartz (Republican)
1958: Jordan Powell/Lester Richardson (Republican)
1962: Irving Carroll/Cassandra Lyons (Republican)
1967-????: Irving Carroll/Laurence Frank (Republican)[4]
1966: Hector Lindsey/Dwight Chambers (Democratic), Preslav Hus/Rudy Slominsky (Slavic Socialist)[5], Rachael Wandsworth/Armon Speyer (New Zionist)[6]
[1] The German 'Ending Weapon' came out of nowhere. After long years of pointless slog in the Pacific, the Germans trampled over the ashy skeleton of Britain to rain flame down on American cities. Truman tried to stand firm, but he surrendered after Japanese soldiers began landing on the Pacific Coast. But all was not lost.
[2] The general in command of the esoteric scientific research base, Project Brooklyn, decided not to recognise the surrender, and used the technology developed under his command to flee to the Moon. He was acclaimed President, but there was no actual election. His time as President was mostly concerned with building the colony of New Washington under the lunar regolith, and preparing for a possible discovery of the base by Nazis.
[3] The election produced a powerful Democratic majority, though it ought to be noted that the labels of Democratic and Republican were rebuilt from the ground up. The Democrats had the advantage of Roosevelt's legacy, and posed the snarling grimace of the American Moon against the Nazi Earth, the dream of liberating the planet, and the eventual blossoming of human civilisation in the light of science and liberty. This compelling vision gave way after eight years of growth to a sort of tired fist-shaking, a frustration that Nazi Earth had not yet crumbled, and with a new generation of Americans having known nothing but the Moon, there was a sense of needing to relocate their priorities from staring at the Earth to looking outwards at the cosmos.
[4] Carroll presented a new vision for New Washington and the American Moon, after twelve years of Democratic plodding. Mostly keeping to the Democratic economic agenda, he rejected much of the internationalism of the Democrats, and instead proposed a new form of Manifest Destiny. They were too few to fight the Nazis, but they had a head start in space, and there they could expand and grow and succeed, just as they had on Earth.
[5] The emergence of immigrant parties was noticeable, and the largest such was the Slavic Socialist Party which mostly appealed to immigrants from the former Soviet Union, though they toned down the Communism when in New Washington.
[6] The remaining Jews were sought out by American scouts, and on the Moon they organised as the New Zionist Party. They could be a real spoiler for the Democratic voting bloc.
