AHC: Make this map a reality

JoeMulk

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No late-1960s realignment in which the Southern Dems go Republican and the Democratic Party moves farther left?

No Vietnam might be a POD.
 
Someone other than McCain is nominated by the Republicans.

EDIT: Not sure who could get Virginia to the Republican side, but lose Montana. Without McCain as the nominee Arizona could easily have gone to Obama, and Indiana and Missouri were toss-ups right to the end.
 
Roe v. Wade gets decided differently, and the parties are not tied up in abortion politics as a result. Pennsylvania governor Bob Casey, Jr. is elected to the presidency on the Democratic ticket with Antonio Villaraigosa as his running mate.
 
As a St Louis citizen, I know that Missouri was incredibly close on either side(we weren't declared for McCain until well after the election was decided, and it was one of only 2 or 3 times since the Civil War that Missouri voted for the candidate that lost the election).

The best way to win Missouri is tough though. The disconnect between whites and blacks in Missouri is so large and the suburban sprawl in St Louis so large that the state was split almost 100% with whites for McCain and blacks for Obama in the state. Pretty much the only way for Obama to win is for the Missouri black population to be larger, which is really something that pains me to say. I hate that it is that simple here but it really is. Wothout demographic changes though, McCain is almost assured to win Missouri.
 
why does everybody on this board insist on reversing the party colors in their maps? Very confusing and unnecessary.

The map looks like it was generated on uselectionatlas.org's electoral college generator, which uses the red-for-Democrats, blue-for-Republicans color scheme.
 
Red has traditionally been the color of the radicals and liberals since the French Revolution. No matter of CNN confusion will change that fact.

America has it wrong. I say that as an American.
 
Red has traditionally been the color of the radicals and liberals since the French Revolution. No matter of CNN confusion will change that fact.

America has it wrong. I say that as an American.

While that is true, you are talking about American politics and I doubt that if you showed that map to a random American they would be very confused about all the democrats in the south. That's like insisting on giving an American directions in the metric system, while it may be more logical you're still being annoying.
 
The Presidential Election of 2008

Despite a challenge from Republican Senator Hillary Rodham of Illinois, Socialist President Dan La Botz of Ohio won a steady victory in spite of charges from Republicans that the incumbent socialist was 'provoking war' with the British Empire owing to his hardline stance against imperialism.

Elected first in 2004 to succeed President Michael Harrington (S - Missouri), La Botz's administration focused on the expansion of the American welfare state and increasing America's already vocal opposition to the continuation of British imperial policy overseas. Despite midterm setbacks in 2006, the Socialists maintained their strong majority in the House and were, in 2008, able to gain control of the Senate for the first time since the presidency of David McReynolds (1973-1981).

Senator Rodham campaigned on detente with the British and the French, reducing taxation on incomes and businesses, and promoting free trade among industrialized nations. Best known in her capacity as Secretary of State during the Deukmeijan administration (1989-1997), Rodham prioritized international issues and downplayed potentially explosive social issues such as the Republicans' continued drive to toughen American drug policy with regard to LSD and cocaine use. Her running mate, Senator George Voinovich of Ohio, was chosen mostly as a sop to more liberal leaning Republicans.

President La Botz campaigned on expanding the welfare state further. America's welfare state, the most generous in the world, hasn't been expanded to a great degree since the McReynolds administration, which saw the implementation of a Guaranteed Minimum Income. President Harrington, La Botz's predecessor, focused largely on international issues, aside from instituted paid paternity leave. La Botz proposed shortening the workweek to 35 hours and expanding the Social Security program instituted under Norman Thomas (and reducing the eligibility age to 58 from it's current 60) as well as maintained a tough stance against the British Empire in the ongoing Cold War against European imperialism. La Botz's sitting Vice President, Bernie Sanders of Vermont, was renominated and did well against his Republican opponent in the debate.

On election night, La Botz cruised to a second term. With tensions rising between the United States and the British, and the possibility of American missiles being positioned in the Socialist Republic of Eire, this could very well be the last election in the United States...
 
I thought everybody on this board was familiar with the election schemes of David Leip's eternally useful-to-AH election generator. :confused:

I'm confused that so many people were confused by the map and/or being mildly trollish to the guy with the AH challenge.
 
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