The Campaign Trail Game Has Returned.

[TimTurner]

https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/806121
Running as the closest thing to a "moderate" R that you can get as Romney 2012...

 

[Neshomancer]

Is there anyone else who doesn’t want to hack the game and would just like to play it the way it was made?

You can only do that so much before you get bored.

 

[Maeglin]

McKinley wins in 1896... promising to nationalise the railways and regulate Wall Street:

https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/807340

 

[John Farson]

Won a 2012 campaign with Obama-Biden on Normal, and apparently, I did better than approximately 100.0% of the games that have been played with Obama in Normal:

https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/808810

 

[Marky Bunny]

Deadlocked the 1968 election running as Wallace (but on the race issues as normal, but anti-war). Seemed to work.
https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/808910

 

[Maeglin]

Running as a Far-Left Dukakis results in a map you'd never see today:

https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/810542

 

[Maeglin]

Bryan runs as a Bourbon Democrat in 1896:

https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/816217

 

[Joshua Ben Ari]

Romney runs as a moderate conservative, with Pawlenty as his VP candidate. Wins 301 EVs to Obama/Biden's 237.

Wins Colorado, Iowa, Florida, Virginia, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. Won Pennsylvania by 610 votes. Lost Nevada by just over 5,000 votes.

 

[Maeglin]

Henry Clay the Crusader Against Slavery:

https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/819010

 

[Ravenclaw1453]

Played a Humphrey/Harris ticket on Easy, aiming for a huge landslide, and that’s what I got. Basically everything went right for me - Nixon refused to debate, I successfully exposed him on sabotaging the peace talks. I almost won Colorado and Montana too.

 

[VidaLaVida]

Hillary Clinton, the establishment neoliberal schill:

https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/819964

 

[Zachary VIII]

Did better than about 98% of 1960 Nixon games on normal difficulty. Pretty proud of it. A ridiculous amount of states were decided by less than a percentage point.
https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/804737

Richard Nixon/Everett Dirksen (Republican), 380 EV, 50.86% PV
John F. Kennedy/Lyndon B. Johnson (Democratic), 143 EV, 48.59% PV
Harry Byrd/Various (Unpledged Democratic), 14 EV, 0.54% PV

 

[BrilliantMistake]

Big Carter win on "normal" -- 438 EV to 100 -- mostly due to good luck, being appropriately apologetic during scandals, and some effective regional campaigning. Glenn was my running mate. Better than 98.2% of the games played.

 

[ZMF]

Pretty decent Dukakis '88 win on normal. Messed up on the debates, but swapped between being a liberal and a pragmatic Democrat. 50-48.

 

[Sailor Haumea]

How the hell do you get 5% as Nader?!

 

[Marky Bunny]

Won a squeaker as GHW Bush against Dukakis. Picked Jack Kemp as VP and ran a "nicer" campaign.
https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/829587
Won thanks to narrow wins in Colorado (8 ev) by 9,893 votes & Louisiana (10 ev) by 19,716 votes.

 

[The Lethargic Lett]

Does anyone know how to win 1976? I keep losing, despite playing multiple games with both Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter.

Edit: I tried hardcore liberal Jimmy Carter with a semi-hawkish foreign policy and won. That seems a bit beyond the pale for the political situation in 1976, but alright.

 

[Maeglin]

Truman throws civil rights under the bus to appease the Dixiecrats... and wins:

https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/832655

 

[Maeglin]

Does anyone know how to win 1976? I keep losing, despite playing multiple games with both Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter.

Carter is pretty easy. Pick Glenn as the VP, and try to be moderate and non-committal on everything. Your advisers will complain about you not taking sides, but ignore them.

Ford is tough. Pick Baker as the VP, throw some red meat to the conservatives whenever possible (except on foreign policy and Humphrey-Hawkins), and hang out in the Mid-West (or else camp out in New York). Take the debate, but you have a 2/3 chance of a gaffe - which is annoying but not fatal.

 

[Maeglin]

1960 Nixon runs as Barry Goldwater:

https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/834208