And to elaborate for some newcomers... this sort of thing has happened before, if I remember correctly it is possibly a yearly thing where the site's certification or whatever it is expires and doesn't get replaced or renewed (or whatever, I don't really know how this stuff works) for a few days or weeks (I don't think it has been longer than a month), and then eventually it gets renewed and goes back to normal. Been like this for a few years at least
The Campaign Trail Game Has Returned.
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I tried the 1964 campaign as Goldwater on the new site. Its much improved from the older version and playable, but still needs work in giving the questions some depth. The onlly option for Goldwater's VP is William Miller, but as I noted earlier that is pretty historical.
I moderated as much as I thought I could get away with, and got a fairly significant improvement from IOTL, getting Goldwater to 42.6% of the nationwide popular vote (to 57.4% for LBJ, the percentage totals should never add up to 100%, even in 1964 where the minor candidate vote was smaller than normal). Goldwater also carried 15 states and 94 electoral votes, doing well in the mountain west and the plains as well as the deep south. There is no link to share the results yet.
I moderated as much as I thought I could get away with, and got a fairly significant improvement from IOTL, getting Goldwater to 42.6% of the nationwide popular vote (to 57.4% for LBJ, the percentage totals should never add up to 100%, even in 1964 where the minor candidate vote was smaller than normal). Goldwater also carried 15 states and 94 electoral votes, doing well in the mountain west and the plains as well as the deep south. There is no link to share the results yet.
Overall other than the link thing I do think that the new site runs better, so if the old one isn't fixed it's a good alternative
Just played Goldwater, trying to moderate a bit while remaining in the right-wing, and it pretty much well describes how much LBJ had a walk-over then.
Just played as Dukakis on hard. Won the election by 400 votes in South Dakota.
I remember one game I had played as Dukakis and had won South Dakota by 8 votes! It wasn't the tipping state, though.
297-241 Gore/Kerry popular vote loss on Normal: https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/2333994
Tried the 1796 scenario, basically played as the Whigs 40 years early, went anti-France, neutral on Hamilton, pro-Washington, anti-slave trade, pro-tariffs and internal improvements. Pulled off a clean sweep of the New English and Midatlantic States, including Maryland and Delaware, but lost the rest of the South.
A little buggy and still has some room to improve, but the scenario ain't bad.
I picked Clinton and united the party with Sanders as a running mate, running a good balance between being moderate and appealing to Left-leaning voters.
I also did a Trump-Carson run where I won the popular vote and took Minnesota of all places
Leftier Obama '2012.
https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/2384307
https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/2384307
Played as Al Gore in the 2000 election and this is what happened:
www.americanhistoryusa.com
American History USA
Click to see the Electoral College map from my game, and then try it yourself!
www.americanhistoryusa.com
Played as Al Gore in 2000, too. Normal mode. Became a fanatic supporter of Clinton and this helped me.
https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/2425178
https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/2425178
How did you get 1796? The earliest one I could find on that version is 1844
Click on the mod loader button on the bottom of the page you should find a list which includes 1796