The Campaign Trail Game Has Returned.

Reef · Jan 25, 2020

Was thinking about 2000 again so was drawn back to this thread. Bush/Danforth, aimed to be moderate, ended up with OTL+Iowa - it came down to Florida and I still didn't win the popular vote. Prior to the DUI coming out I was leading in the rust belt, New Mexico & Oregon too.

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Worffan101 · Jan 30, 2020

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Bryan 1896!

freivolk · Feb 3, 2020

Sabotaged Bryan by let him piss of the South.

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Lacktoastandtolerant · Feb 16, 2020

Pissing off the south on normal is certain to end in defeat - but here's one where it is somewhat close at least. Bryan does about 1% better in the popular vote than OTL, losing by just about 3.5%, and with McKinley being denied a popular vote majority. A 3.502% swing from this would give Bryan the win

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And an outright win is possible on easy. Here, despite McKinley taking advantage of Democratic division to take the upper south, Bryan is able to win the popular vote by nearly 3% and win just 2 electoral votes less than McKinley won OTL, meaning a pretty solid win

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Maeglin · Mar 4, 2020

McKinley wins... while promising to nationalise the railroad companies:

https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/1291040

Worffan101 · Mar 7, 2020

Hubert H. Humphrey successfully wins in 1968, outraging LBJ but protecting the Great Society and defending America from the misrule of Tricky Dick.

eadmund · Mar 13, 2020

Kennedy/Humphrey on Impossible. Did better than 99.4% of all Kennedy attempts.

MildredSimms · Mar 16, 2020

Bush/Powell on normal. Better than 99.9% of all attempts https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/1308828

AnActualFan · Mar 17, 2020

A perfect election doesn't exis-

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One of the best Dukakis runs ever!

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eadmund · Mar 18, 2020

Bush Sr. self-sabotage run on Normal. Did better than 0.4%, losing South Carolina by ten points. Managed to lose Utah by 0.2%.

Joshua Ben Ari · Mar 18, 2020

Played as Romney/Rob Portman, ran as a relatively center-right/right Republican. Won by the skin of my teeth (270-268).

Romney/Portman: 270 EVs, 49,7% PV
Obama/Biden: 268 EVs, 49,3% PV

Closest states that could have gone Republican are:
Nevada: 2,371 votes
Colorado: 11,132 votes
Pennsylvania: 34,688 votes
Wisconsin: 30,551 votes

Lacktoastandtolerant · Mar 18, 2020

Just got potentially the best Clinton win on normal, the thing says it's higher than 100% and its 10 electoral votes higher than the max of the range on the results thing, though the "hall of fame" doesn't seem to be loading so idk for sure. At any rate, its a margin of 15.4%, Clinton winning 56.4-40, with the popular vote being 74.5 million to 54.2 million, an ovre 20 million vote margin. Electoral votes being 445-93

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Speaking of perfect 1968 wins... bringing back my old '68 landslide, an 18 point Humphrey win, with Nixon doing worse even than Alf Landon did in 1936, and Humphrey doing better in the electoral college than LBJ did, losing just 5 states

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Joshua Ben Ari · Mar 21, 2020

Pretty sure I just gave Lyndon Johnson a heart attack on election night. Played as Nixon/Dirksen, ran as a moderate-conservative, huge pro-civil rights, pro-national defense Republican, and smashed the Democratic ticket. Like. Hard. 319-204-14. I won Texas 50.6 to 49.4, Illinois 51 to 49, Pennsylvania 50.5 to 49.5. Lost Nevada 50.5 to 49.5, South Carolina 51 to 49, North Carolina 52.5 to 47.5, And Nixon came within 0.2% of winning both Minnesota and Michigan. Lost the popular vote by 0.30%.

(Not shown; Alabama split electoral votes - 5 EVs to JFK/LBJ, 6 EVs to Byrd/various)

Nixon/Dirksen: EV (319), PV (49.57%)
Kennedy/Johnson: EV (204), PV (49.87%)
Byrd/various: EV (14), PV (0.56%)

EDIT: And this is what the map would look like had there been a 3-point swing in favor of Nixon/Dirksen:

Nixon/Dirksen: EV (406), PV (53.57%)
Kennedy/Johnson: EV (117), PV (46.87%)
Byrd/various: EV (14), PV (0.56%)

(Not shown; Alabama split electoral votes - 5 EVs to JFK/LBJ, 6 EVs to Byrd/various)

Massive inroads into the South, sweeping most of the East Coast, and coming incredibly close to winning New York State. 50.83% JFK/LBJ to 49.17% Nixon/Dirksen.

Johannes Parisiensis · Mar 21, 2020

Joshua Ben Ari said:
(Not shown; Alabama split electoral votes - 5 EVs to JFK/LBJ, 6 EVs to Byrd/various)

Nixon/Dirksen: EV (319), PV (49.57%)
Kennedy/Johnson: EV (204), PV (49.87%)
Byrd/various: EV (14), PV (0.56%)

About the 14 Electors for Byrd, where were the 8 others, since Mississippi seems to have gone for Kennedy?

Joshua Ben Ari · Mar 21, 2020

Johannes Parisiensis said:
About the 14 Electors for Byrd, where were the 8 others, since Mississippi seems to have gone for Kennedy?

The electoral calculator I use (for some reason) doesn't show split electoral votes. Mississippi and 6 Alabama electoral votes.

Marky Bunny · Mar 23, 2020

Won as Dukakis on Normal with Glenn as running mate, in a squeaker.
272-266

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The election was decided by wafer-thin wins in South Dakota and Montana. Won South Dakota by 1,181 votes, if Bush had won that it would have been a 269-269 tie. Montana was won by 2,541 votes.

Marky Bunny · Mar 24, 2020

Deadlocked 1860 as Douglas.

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C2sg · Mar 26, 2020

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Ran as Ford in 1976, with Howard Baker as running mate. Without Ford's debate gaffe about Eastern Europe, result was 272-266 in Carter's favour, thanks to Carter winning Wisconsin by 236 votes.