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A rural populist ticket vs. an East Coast libertarian one.How would this flip Alaska and Hawai'i?
A rural populist ticket vs. an East Coast libertarian one.How would this flip Alaska and Hawai'i?
A rural populist ticket vs. an East Coast libertarian one.
The map still makes no sense! Party loyalty is a thing! Just because the Dems nominate a rural candidate and the GOP one from the city doesn't mean literally both party's bases fully flip.
View attachment 325579 View attachment 325580 . These are 1972 and 1976 if they were tied. Mcgovern would have won 17 states. Carter would have won 6 of them. Meanwhile, he carried four of the five most republican states, and nearly won Oklahoma. Party loyalty isn't neccesarily the be-all and end-all of elections.
The bases are the same because the parties have been nominated similiar candidates with similar politics and similiar messages. If that changes, so will the bases.Come on, you can't compare the radical political shifts in bases happening in the 70s to right now when bases have been entrenched and more politicized.
Actually, it's just removing 5% from the victor of a state. You don't add 5% to the loser as well. So this would be 2016:Here's 2016:
The bases are the same because the parties have been nominated similiar candidates with similar politics and similiar messages. If that changes, so will the bases.
Half the plains are still going republican.I'm saying that they're not the same. You've flipped them. Even if a rural candidate gets nominated by the DEMs that doesn't mean all of a sudden the plains and South go DEM. It just wouldn't work that way.
So you just delete 5% entirely?Actually, it's just removing 5% from the victor of a state. You don't add 5% to the loser as well. So this would be 2016:
Red is Republicans if I'm not mistaken.
No it's Atlas Red.
Hmm, makes more electoral sense if Red is Reps in that scenario.
No, because it's a Democratic ticket comprised of two Centrists from W. VA and Idaho, while the GOP ticket is two centrist "coastal elites".
Blue = DemsAnyone else think it might be a good idea to standardize the political party colors for the site? This would create less confusing situations like this and can prevent a possible civil war over colors of choice.
Blue = Dems
Red = Reps
Thats how America does it anyways
Should we make a poll?
alternatively, ive seen Orange and Light Blue and it was really appealing surprisinglyGOLD AND SILVER
GOLD AND SILVER
GOLD AND SILVER
GOLD AND SILVER
No, seriously, yeah, normal America colours (blue Dems) are the best idea IMO. The party logos are in those colours anyways.
No, you really don't need to standardise the colour scheme, you just need people to be clearer on what their maps are representing. Given how this is the alternate electoral map thread, trying to set and enforce a standardised scheme is overkill for what is really a big non-issue over how atlas colours, and is overlooking the real issue for one that is barely even worth mentioning.Anyone else think it might be a good idea to standardize the political party colors for the site? This would create less confusing situations like this and can prevent a possible civil war over colors of choice.
In my "The Power of Two" third-parties-take-over-main-parties thing, the official colour of the Democrats is red, and Republicans blue.Anyone else think it might be a good idea to standardize the political party colors for the site? This would create less confusing situations like this and can prevent a possible civil war over colors of choice.