It's interesting how some states stay the same (New Jersey, Maryland, DC, and New Mexico for the Democrats and New Hampshire, Indiana, Montana, the Dakotas, Nebraska, and Colorado for the Republicans).
I lost the popular vote as Romney/Rubio and would've lost the electoral vote under the current winner-take-all system, but I think I might've just broken the whole point of the proportional system.
I lost the PV 49.1%-50.0%, and only flipped Ohio, Virginia, and Florida from OTL, but still won...
Won as Bush/Dole on Normal
Not as good as Bush IOTL (lost Pennsylvania, Maryland, Illinois, and Missouri), but still a clear victory. Looks like 2012 in terms of the PV, actually, just reversed.
Republican nominee George Bush wins a narrow majority in the Electoral College, despite narrowly losing the popular vote to his Democratic opponent, neither of who won a PV majority. This is a historic election for the turn of the cen...I mean, 1988!
Republican: George H.W. Bush (Texas)/Jack...
Maine, Delaware, Idaho, and the Plains are...unlikely, to say the least, as is Arkansas with Huckabee as the Republican nominee.
Plus, what about Bush, Cruz, Christie, and O'Malley?
Arkansas was one of five states to swing Republican in 2008. If it swung as far to the left as the nation as a whole did from 2004, Arkansas would've only gone for McCain by a margin of 0.03%, hardly insurmountable.