Arilou - Noted.
daemonofdecay - The good people of much of the mid-west do need something to do in between cows. Excessive drinking is the least bad option.
trekaddict - Given the pride and prestige instilled in her the Navy has little choice but to stick with the
Hood and keep her top of the line. Unless something even better were to come along......
TheExecuter - Picking off those isolated states, fine tactical voting.
Nathan Madien - I'll stick with it then, still got to work out how to convert a (mostly) popular vote into state votes. Though the way it's going if people keep filling in states it may end up with 2000 type scenario where the electoral college vote goes a different way from the popular vote. Which would be most interesting.
RAFspeak - You sir are a heathen, an absolute philistine! Alas your vote still counts.
Hawkeye1489 - As the Kingfish is basing his entire strategy on the Democrats losing in '36 so he can clean up in '40 a Republican Louisiana is not out of the question, especially if things look tight. In a choice between party and self interest old Huey isn't going to chose the former that's for sure.
Duritz - As you're clearly a gambling man I wonder what odds you'd offering for this election at the moment?
Sir Humphrey - The naval treaties are as dead as a dead thing. Though in practical terms the US has no interest in building much (may chance depending on who gets in the White House), Italy has sever post war problems to deal with so isn't planning much while the French, because of Italy's destroyed fleet, don't see any need to expand their fleet (Germany is still publicly laying low navally, in private however...)
That leaves Japan who have paused their naval builds to see in the Abyssinian War revealed any great naval secrets (i.e settle the BB or CV decision) but are still definitely going for a vast fleet and the Royal Navy who are up next.
Anazagar - A Dakota has been coloured Red, I'd give you both but that would be two votes and thus cheating.
daemonofdecay - Indeed after Japan and Italy walked out Churchill decided there was not a lot of point agreeing to limit the Royal Navy when the enemies it was most most likely to face weren't limited.
merrick - You are correct and I was thinking of the Princess, the shame of it.
o They were designed at the same time and had (for some points of development anyway) the same engine, as I last read about them in the autobiography of that engine designer I must of mixed them up at that point.
The Brabazon's main contribution was in delaying and generally mucking around with Bristol's other turbo-prop the Britannia. They had a common engine, the Proteus, which had so many problems purely because of the contrived requirements of the Brabazon and Princess. Take those two away, the Britannia enters into service faster, with working engines and ahead of the competition. Of course jets are going to rule trans-Atlantic work, or indeed anything long distance, but for short/medium range a turbo-prop is nearly as fast, quieter and far cheaper to run. A success could have laid the foundations for Bristol making it in civil aviation, which is an intriguing concept.
Still this is post-war British aviation, I'm sure government and management would have found new and innovative ways to bugger it up somehow.
As to the navy, some good guesses but to give you an equally good answer I'd have to post most of an upcoming update, which would defeat the object of posting it later. Your answer will come this weekend hopefully.
Opinion poll delayed as I spent far too long on the paragraphs above. Though rest assured the votes have all been counted.