So here's one that I posted somewhere else on the board a few months back. I've never ended a race in an Electoral tie before or since. This election was crazy, and I made sure to do a write up of it once I was finished.
Played 2008 + Primaries, 2008-Wonk Edition. I chose to run as Sam Brownback, running on my conservative positions in Iowa. I won Iowa before Romney won New Hampshire, Michigan, and Nevada. However, I didn't waste time contesting those states. Instead I focused on winning South Carolina, which I did, thereby stopping his momentum. McCain took Florida, I took Maine by less than half of a percent. I did well enough on Super Tuesday and the Bay State primaries to woo an Endorsement from McCain. Huckabee withdrew and endorsed me just before the Texas-Ohio-Vermont-Rhode Island primaries in March. I took Texas and Vermont.
Meanwhile, Romney had cleaned up the rest of the endorsements from the candidates who hadn't withdrawn on their own accord. Now, mano-a-mano, my race against Romney was tight. We traded states back and forth, went pretty negative, and it was clear that the race would come down to the last round of states. I won one of those states, New Mexico, which gave me a three delegate lead over Romney. Once I had locked it up, I offered Mitt the VP slot and he accepted immediately.
Heading into the general we were up against Obama and were even in the polls, with the edge going to us. I researched like crazy through the summer and got some mid-level scandals and built up my "Experience" issue for attack ads in the fall. At the convention Obama picked Kucinich (yeah...really) as his running mate. The week after the Democratic convention was the only time I really trailed the entire race. After our convention I was forced to take public financing due to lack of cash on hand.
I won three out of the four debates (losing the second debate to Obama) and two weeks out was projected to win by at least 290 EVs. Then Obama, in the negative on momentum and out of cash, surged 3 points, turning Michigan blue again and putting Arizona up for grabs. I kept releasing attack ads and scandals, but it didn't do enough damage. I lead by two points heading into the election. However, that wasn't enough.
On election night I won the popular vote, as you can see, by nearly 2.5%, even taking New Hampshire with 55%. The whole night, though, I watched as Pennsylvania, Arizona, and New Mexico flipped back and forth. Pennsylvania was called first, for Obama, who won by 25,000 votes. I won Arizona by the same margin. Obama, as I have highlighted in the screenshot, won New Mexico by fewer than 4,000 votes, thereby denying me an Electoral College victory by a single EV. The election was tossed to the House which, under Democratic control, elected Barack Obama the 44th President of the United States.
After 5 months I still get mad about this one.