United States Presidential election, 2012 (Napoleon's World)

The United States presidential election of 2012 is the next United States presidential election, to be held on Tuesday, November 6, 2012, which will be the 57th quadrennial presidential election in which presidential electors, who will actually elect the President and the Vice President of the United States, will be chosen. As incumbent Democratic Presidnet Jay Leno was elected to his second and final term in 2008, he will be ineligible for election in 2012.

Party Conventions
The National Party, as they have done since 1952, reveal the site of their next convention at the close of their last convention. After Patrick Mead's nomination for the Presidency at the 2008 Nationalist Convention in Havana, National Party Chairman Ed Seefreid announced that the 2012 convention would be held in Chicago, Illinois.

The Democratic Party is still mulling three different bids for convention site; currently, Yorktown, Huron appears the frontrunner, as the city has never hosted a convention before. New York, New York and San Diego, California are also in contention.

Potential Nationalist Candidates
Even at this point, many in the National Party are looking ahead at the critical election as an opportunity to reassert power after waning influence in the last years of the 21st century's first decade. Incumbent Democrat Jay Leno is reasonably popular, but many of his ambitious plans are seen as too costly or naive.

The current candidates in discussion are:


 * New York Governor Brian Williams was elected to the governorship in 2002, and even though considered young at the time, has been an excellent governor. He is now considered the frontrunner for the Nationalist nomination, due to his youthful appeal and innate charm. However, many critics consider him a "Romney clone".
 * Sophia Katalana, who was Nova Scotia's first female Governor from 2001-2009, and the first Russian-American Governor, is considered Williams's closest competitor. While a keenly intelligent politician, and despite Nova Scotia's large population, many critics wonder how well the hard-right Katalana would appeal to the center, and if her Eastern Orthodox faith will hurt her with conservative voters.
 * Timothy Carter, the former Indiana Senator, is retiring from the Senate in 2010 - many suspect due to an eye on a White House run. Carter is respected in the Senate but, despite a typically centrist stance on most issues, has voted with his party on most key bills during his sixteen-year career.