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The Kennyite presidential election of 2010 was held on March 30, 2010. Voters re-elected Manuelo Fernanda as president and chose then-Secretary of State Sammy Faisano to be vice president. Fernanda and Faisano defeated Liberal candidates Harvey Bromowitz and Jim Hankley respectively. "Judge Sandy" Schweitzer also ran a strong independent campaign for the presidency in 2010, after failing to defeat Fernanda in the Conservative primaries.
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Candidates
President
- Manuelo Fernanda was the Conservative nominee and the incumbent president.
- Sandy Schweitzer was a former federal judge and governor of Thorland, running as an independent.
- Harvey Bromowitz, a notorious radio shock-jock, was the Liberal nominee.
Vice President
- Sammy Faisano was then the secretary of state and a former ambassador to the United Nations, nominated by the Conservative party.
- Adriana Dreamcatcher was a private citizen and antiabortion activist chosen as Schweitzer's vice-presidential candidate.
- Jim Hankley was the Liberal nominee and a former and future Speaker of the Federal Assembly.
Background
Heading into 2009, polls showed incumbent Manuelo Fernanda with a commanding lead in the polls, despite growing concerns within his own Conservative base about the never-ending parade of sex scandals and the administration's libertarian policies. The president maintained a strong approval rating -- with Conservatives and independents in particular still giving him high marks -- and was expected to win in a landslide. Nevertheless, Judge Sandy Schweitzer saw cracks in his Conservative support (with as much as 25% indicating they'd rather nominate someone else) and embarked on a media tour to blast Fernanda's moral deficiencies. Increasingly voters said they shared Schweitzer's concerns, though polls still showed Fernanda would win the Conservative nomination easily. On February 2009 Schweitzer officially announced she would challenge Fernanda for the 2010 Conservative nomination.
Vice President Antigone Morgan announced she would not run for another term, and endorsed her friend Sammy Faisano, then the secretary of state, to succeed her.
Conservative primaries
Schweitzer experienced an early wave of momentum in the early contests. She nearly beat Fernanda in the Lubberland caucuses, and went on to win the Colorado Island primary. In an attempt to save the president, Fleudelisia had moved up its own primary to try and block a more conservative challenger. Fernanda won Fleurdelisia easily, but a sex tape, purportedly showing the president with Kim Kardashian, helped reinforce Schweitzer's claims that Fernanda's moral lapses were an embarrassment to the party and the country. A "coup" stunt by Fernanda in the wake of his victory in the Paradise City primary also turned off many of his own supporters. Schweitzer won her home state of Thorland and pulled out a surprise victory in the more liberal Nueva Jorge, but quickly lost her footing after defeat in the major prizes of Kennsylvania and Santa Califia. Far behind in delegates and seeing no clear path to winning the Conservative nomination outright, Schweitzer dropped out of the remaining contests and announced she would take her message directly to the general election voters as an independent.
Liberal primaries
John Thorne sought to take on Fernanda again in 2010, and built up a strong national organization, assuming he would be unopposed. But when scores of his own voters fell asleep while trying to mark their ballots, shock-jock radio host Harvey Bromowitz -- who had gotten his name on the ballot as a joke -- quickly saw an upsurge of support, and eventually eked out Thorne for the nomination.
Additional materials
- You got the right one baby, UH-HUH! - reports from the 2009-10 Conservative primaries
- Schweitzer makes presidential bid official - Polar Picayune, February 2009 issue
