I pulled out a win on Normal with McGovern/Mondale in 1972.
In which McGovern is the master of winning elections extremely narrowly by cheesing the rules while losing the popular vote in a landslide. But it's alright - America came home.
I used the Optimal RNG mod, because starting...
This is the best I've been able to do with McGovern in 1972 on Normal (Farenthold as VP.) Took a lot of luck to win Iowa, Illinois, and Ohio - all three by the slimmest of hairs
Yeah, the issue is that it currently is. Way too easy for Wallace currently. It shouldn't be possible for him to be ahead on Normal before Watergate. And it's hilarious that Nixon refuses to debate you when he's behind, and the "best" answer is to say that you've accepted your loss even when...
Well, a landslide is definitely possible as I just demonstrated. TBH having Wallace start 16% behind rather than 10% behind would be a decent quick fix.
Here's an example step by step guide for Wallace/Scoop Jackson ticket:
1) Talk to Shirley Chisholm (duh)
Status: 54.5% Nixon, 43.7% Wallace...
Some of these scenario mods are maybe a bit more swingy than would be realistic.
Apparently, Democrats could have won in a landslide in 1972 by nominating Wallace at a brokered convention
I think this is the best you can do for the 2018 midterm scenario.
Closest races:
MS-special:
Espy (D): 515,635
Hyde (R): 464,216
TN:
Bredesen (D): 52.14%
Blackburn (R): 47.09%
MS-regular:
Baria (D): 46.25%
Wicker (R): 52.63%
TX:
O'Rourke (D): 53.0%
Cruz (R): 46.53%
NE:
Raybould (D)...
this is an extremely unsavory scenario.... but if Israel genocided most of the population of Egypt by destroying the Aswan dam [as they've threatened to do IOTL], it would not be very hard for an extremist/far-right/fascist Israel to occupy most of the depopulated country afterwards [maybe using...
There have to be limits to rehashing historical grievances, or there'd be no end to the limits of historical trauma to consider. I take a presentist approach; it is extremely unreasonable to currently demand the expulsion of all Jews from Israel, just as in a hypothetical 1900 scenario it'd be...
By the same token one could say that my plan leads to no Greco-Turkish war (being a compromise relatively acceptable by both nations) and the early end of the Greek genocide saving hundreds of thousands of lives.
Or just add an obvious addendum: Turks in Constantinople are exempt (just like...
I support Greece, because a Greek Constantinople and Thrace will create clear natural borders for roughly equitable population exchange. (For reference, I'm Chinese-American; have never been to Greece or Turkey)
OTL's population exchanges sent 1.22 million Orthodox Greeks from Turkey to Greece...
Threads have a filtering effect in that people are sufficiently polite/nonconfrontational that they're generally hesitant to offer strong criticism in space that effectively belongs to the author. It's the same reason people in real life talk behind each other's back rather than criticizing each...
Congrats to No Southern Strategy on its victory!
Considering that half of my readers are in another website altogether, 2nd place is a lot better than I was expecting. I didn't even know I had 100 readers on this site :P
Again a logical fallacy and straw man argument. This would be true if I'd said anything about your source material but my only comments have been in response to your comments about the story - which I have read.