2018 United States General Election (Iamemilx)

General elections in the United States of America were held on 21 November 1999, including presidential, parliamentary and Gubernatorial elections. Voters headed to the polls to elect:
 * A President of the United States to serve a four-year term (Two-round run-off voting system).
 * 538 of 538 members of the Parliament to serve a four-year term (Open-list Proportional Representation).
 * The governors of all 50 states and 4 territories to serve a four-year term (Two-round run-off voting system).

It was the first election in the United States of America after the House of Representatives, controlled by the Democrats, annulled the results of the 2016 Presidential Election and implemented a number of reforms to make next elections more democratic and open.

As a result of those reforms:
 * the Senate was abolished
 * the FPTP voting system was replaced with an open-list Proportional Representation with a 5% threshold

The reforms led to a split in both major parties. The mainstream Democratic Party became the Liberal Party and the mainstream Republicans rebranded into the Moderate Party. Hard-line Conservatives split into the Patriot Party, Democratic socialists formed the Our Revolution Party and more moderate progressives formed the Social Democratic Party.

Liberal Party
The Liberal Party had 2 candidates running to be the party's presidential nominee. Amy Klobuchar ran as a more socially progressive candidate, while Joe Manchin ran a more conservative campaign.

Amy Klobuchar won the primary with 78.5% of the popular vote, Joe Manchin came last with 21.5% and conceded the race to Amy Klobuchar, urging his supporters to back her in the Presidential election.

Progressives have speculated that Amy Klobuchar would appoint Joe Manchin as Prime Minister if she's elected as President with a Liberal Party majority in the House of Representatives.

Moderate Party
The fight for the soul of the Moderate Party was resolved in the Presidential Primary. Mitt Romney ran as a christian democrat, arguing that the Moderates have to take a centre/centre-right position to regain support and trust of voters. Mitch McConnell who ran against him ran a very conservative and dirty campaign, claiming that Romney can't be trusted, calling him a 'liberal in disguise'.

That kind of rhetoric really hurt both Mitch McConnell and the Moderate Party.

In the end, Mitt Romney won in a very close election with just 53.6%, McConnell got 46.4%.

Mitch McConnell conceded the election two days after the results came in.

Patriot Party
The Patriot Party had only one candidate in the Presidential Primary - Donald Trump. Trump won the primary with 98.9%.

Our Revolution
It was believed that Bernie Sanders would be the only candidate in the Presidential Primary, but then Paula Jean Swearengin decided to run against him. She was widely criticised in the progressive movement for attacking Bernie Sanders and calling him 'too soft'.

Bernie Sanders won the primary with 92.4% of the vote, Paula received 7.6%.