William J. Clinton/Albert A. Gore (D): 274 EV, 49.7% of the PVRobert J. Dole/Alexander Haig (R): 264 EV, 49.5% of the PVOthers (Socialists, Libertarians, etc): 0 EV, 0.8% of the PVGovernor Bill Clinton of Arkansas narrowly defeats Senator Bob Dole to become 41st President of the United States. Clinton manages to take a significant portion of the South which helps guide Clinton to victory. However, Dole does perform better in the West than Bush in RL considering he has more experience to help out with the Farming Crisis than Bush did in RL.
Mr. Porter may I ask some questions about your map, why do the Republicans manage to win Michigan? Whilst I do know that Bush Senior defeated Governor Dukakis by 8 points in RL, in 1996 Clinton defeated Dole signficantly in Michigan by some 13 points with Perot in the race.
You may be asking, why is this hack mentioning 1996, this has nothing to do with 1988, I'm just stressing out that Clinton would have made Michigan moreso competitve in this scenario than in the RL election. Likewise with California and Kentucky in this election, the latter which was suffering the costs of the farming crisis.
