Alternate Electoral Maps II

[Tex Arkana]

Carter runs a better campaign in 1976 and picks Frank Church as his running mate, winning in a landslide.

 

[Mira Starlight]

Carter runs a better campaign in 1976 and picks Frank Church as his running mate, winning in a landslide.

I wonder what happens in '80?

 

[DPKdebator]

Bigger Trump victory 2016

Chairman of the Trump Organization Donald Trump / Governor Mike Pence - 350 EV, 52.39%
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton / Senator Tim Kaine - 188 EV, 46.21%

 

[Tex Arkana]

I wonder what happens in '80?

Carter wins narrowly, losing VA, CA, OK, MS, WI and Maine compared to '76. He picks up Michigan however.

 

[Tex Arkana]

Bigger Trump victory 2016

Chairman of the Trump Organization Donald Trump / Governor Mike Pence - 350 EV, 52.39%
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton / Senator Tim Kaine - 188 EV, 46.21%

This is Trump's absolute best case scenario for 2020, give or take New Mexico.

 

[wildviper121]

Donald Trump electoral landslide based off someone's campaign trail game: https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/208197
The Trump-Brown campaign ruthlessly attacked Clinton throughout the campaign, driving down her numbers tremendously. Clinton was not able to properly retaliate thanks to all her insults being considered compliments by Trump.

Businessman Donald Trump / Senator Scott Brown -- 371, 52.67%
Secretary Hillary Clinton / Senator Tim Kaine -- 167, 43.78%

 

[DPKdebator]

How the heck did he manage to win Illinois?

 

[DPKdebator]

Here's the worst you can possibly do with Hillary:

By using all the worst possible answers, I was able to net Hillary 38.4% of the PV (vs 57.2% for Trump) and 7 electoral votes.

 

[TheSaint250]

1948 Presidential Election

Both Governor Thomas Dewey's and President Harry Truman's popular vote margins differed by 5% from the final Gallup poll.

Truman: 44% (poll) --> 49% (actual result)
Dewey: 50% (poll) --> 45% (actual result)

Below is a map of the 1948 election with a swing of 5% of the popular vote in every state.

Below is the famous political cartoon made before the election, which describes what the polls were saying at the time. The statements in the cartoon fit or come close to fitting this map.

 

[jonnguy2016]

Here's a Trump self-sabotage

 

[Tex Arkana]

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Here's a Trump self-sabotage

I'd love if someone could attempt to do a county map for this, I wonder if Clinton would win a majority of counties.

 

[jonnguy2016]

Carter-slide. The closest state, Utah, was won by 10.91%

 

[wildviper121]

How the heck did he manage to win Illinois?

---- Donald Trump 20 2,499,479 48.10
---- Hillary Clinton 0 2,494,201 48.00
---- Jill Stein 0 107,388 2.07
---- Gary Johnson 0 94,998 1.83
He won by .1% so it was really close

 

[Mira Starlight]

Here's the worst you can possibly do with Hillary:

By using all the worst possible answers, I was able to net Hillary 38.4% of the PV (vs 57.2% for Trump) and 7 electoral votes.

That EV count for Hillary is literally the worst any major candidate has gotten. Worse than Landon in 1936.

 

[Kodoku]

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Carter-slide. The closest state, Utah, was won by 10.91%

Man, that is beautiful.

 

[Mira Starlight]

Man, that is beautiful.

Solid electoral maps.

 

[jonnguy2016]

Man, that is beautiful.

I had to self-sabotage Ford by making him sound like George McGovern and choosing John Anderson to alienate the Reaganites, but worth it

 

[Tex Arkana]

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Carter-slide. The closest state, Utah, was won by 10.91%

Early polls in '76 indicated that the election would turnout somewhat like this, although I think Carter still would have lost Utah.

 

[wildviper121]

Hubert Humphrey victory! based off of https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/243943

---- Hubert H. Humphrey/John Connally -- 440 -- 35,029,291 -- 47.86
---- Richard Nixon/Spiro Agnew -- 59 -- 29,316,604 -- 40.06
---- George Wallace/Curtis LeMay -- 39 -- 8,843,113 -- 12.08
Humphrey benefits from LBJ's Great Society legacy, supporting a truce in Vietnam (which brought out the Democratic vote), and winning over Wallace votes in the South with economic policies. Most of all, however, he benefits from the revelation that Richard Nixon sabotaged the Vietnam peace negotiations. This ruined Nixon's run, and set Nixon down in history first as a traitor, then on the list of people like Clay and William Jennings Bryan who have had multiple unsuccessful presidential campaigns. Nixon ultimately avoided charges, but retired from politics shortly afterwards at the urging of his wife. At least he says he's retired, but it's only a matter of time before Nixon re-reawakens....

 

[Mira Starlight]

Hubert Humphrey victory! based off of https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/243943

---- Hubert H. Humphrey/John Connally -- 440 -- 35,029,291 -- 47.86
---- Richard Nixon/Spiro Agnew -- 59 -- 29,316,604 -- 40.06
---- George Wallace/Curtis LeMay -- 39 -- 8,843,113 -- 12.08
Humphrey benefits from LBJ's Great Society legacy, supporting a truce in Vietnam (which brought out the Democratic vote), and winning over Wallace votes in the South with economic policies. Most of all, however, he benefits from the revelation that Richard Nixon sabotaged the Vietnam peace negotiations. This ruined Nixon's run, and set Nixon down in history first as a traitor, then on the list of people like Clay and William Jennings Bryan who have had multiple unsuccessful presidential campaigns. Nixon ultimately avoided charges, but retired from politics shortly afterwards at the urging of his wife. At least he says he's retired, but it's only a matter of time before Nixon re-reawakens....

For whom did the pink states go?