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The Campaign Trail Game Has Returned.
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And could foreign campaigns be added?
I guess French presidential runs might be enough equivalent to the US ones, and especially the 1948 and 1968 (third parties candidates) years.
Some British parlementary campaigns too would be interesting. What about the Canadian ones?
I've felt that those plus 1836, 1852, and 1892 could be fun early American third party runs, what with 1836 Whigs running four candidates to throw it to the House, 1856 being the other time an election could've (in my opinion) sparked a civil war; and 1892 as James B. Weaver's best chance for an ascendant third party besides the whole Cleveland vs Harrison of it all.
On another note, I feel like 1948 was a bit of a missed opportunity on not including Henry Wallace or Strom Thurmond as candidates as that's just about the last time four candidates would have a decent chance at throwing the election to Congress since the aforementioned 1836.
Tried to do a Trump self-sabotage on Impossible under the new scenario (much harder as the game is far less elastic, and, in this version, there are no "general" questions where you can simply pick the other side's answers). Still, managed to make Johnson win Utah, which I've never seen before.
Other highlights include: Ohio as the closest state, (even narrower than Utah), and Iowa being closer than Georgia, Arizona, Texas, and Florida.
Other highlights include: Ohio as the closest state, (even narrower than Utah), and Iowa being closer than Georgia, Arizona, Texas, and Florida.
While Wallace might be fun, Thurmond could come only if Truman suports civil rights and even after, he was essentially a regional candidate, strong in the Deep South but unexistant elsewhere. The only places he ran in apart in the South were California and, oddly, North Dakota.
Managed to barely pull off victory as the Hillary-Bernie connection.
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American History USA
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I had a pretty good result as Trump on Hard mode, even managed to scoop up a PV victory. It seems going as economically populist as you can really benefits you. On half the issues I attacked Clinton from the left (trade, tax cuts for the middle class, non-intervensionism, campaign finance) and it worked out better than I would have imagined. Going more "normal conservative" seems to fail more often.
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I tried an anti-Clinton, economically leftisy campaign and lost 259-279 as Trump/Sessions against Clinton. Should have gone to Pennsylvania instead of the Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan.
Self Sabotage by Dukakis, 0.0% did worse then me
Basically ran as extreme far left, refused to answer political attacks and dropped out of the debates. Most states had Bush getting 70% or higher, Utah had 80% and the closest state was West Virginia with a 5% Bush Victory
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Basically ran as extreme far left, refused to answer political attacks and dropped out of the debates. Most states had Bush getting 70% or higher, Utah had 80% and the closest state was West Virginia with a 5% Bush Victory
American History USA
Click to see the Electoral College map from my game, and then try it yourself!
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American History USA
Click to see the Electoral College map from my game, and then try it yourself!
americanhistoryusa.com
Is the hall of fame not working for anyone else because when I try to see it it says "An error occurred in the application and your page could not be served."
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Good that they finally have a semi-new scenario.
One cool idea would be a continuous game. That is, say you win as Nixon in 1960. You then answer questions regarding his first term and also 1964 campaign questions. You 1964 opponent is generated, perhaps at random or perhaps partially influenced by the answers you gave (a warmongering Nixon might lead to an anti-war Democrat being nominated, for example). The game then continues in this fashion until the present day.
It would require a vast expansion, I suppose. For the moment I'd be happy to see alternative presidential candidates added to existing scenarios.
One cool idea would be a continuous game. That is, say you win as Nixon in 1960. You then answer questions regarding his first term and also 1964 campaign questions. You 1964 opponent is generated, perhaps at random or perhaps partially influenced by the answers you gave (a warmongering Nixon might lead to an anti-war Democrat being nominated, for example). The game then continues in this fashion until the present day.
It would require a vast expansion, I suppose. For the moment I'd be happy to see alternative presidential candidates added to existing scenarios.
They added an updated 2016 which is more accurate with what actually happened OTL (rather than conjecture from how they thought things might go in March 2016).
If so I'm not going to play this game anymore I have played all the elections and its to easy now