Make up a map between you and the preceding poster.

[Oldiesfreak1854]

Goldwater (Republican) - 276 EVs
Scott (Democratic) - 262 EVs

How did Goldwater lose a libertarian state like New Hampshire but carry Maine?

SKIP

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

Senator Cathcon, (R-MI) - 269 EV, 49%
Governor HockeyDude, (D-NJ) - 269 EV, 49%

Republican HoR gives the election to Senator Cathcon.  

[TNF]

Gov. HockeyDude (D-NJ) defeats Sen. TNF (D-KY)

[Oldiesfreak1854]

Sen. TNF (D-KY): 357
Gov. Oldiesfreak1854 (R-MI): 181

[Mad Deadly Worldwide Communist Gangster Computer God]

I can think of no conceivable scenario in which the Republican candidate loses the entire South and still wins in modern day, so I used the 1976 map.

Oldiesfreak1854 (Republican) - 292
Scott (Democratic) - 246

[Oldiesfreak1854]

I can think of no conceivable scenario in which the Republican candidate loses the entire South and still wins in modern day, so I used the 1976 map.

Oldiesfreak1854 (Republican) - 292
Scott (Democratic) - 246

I don't think I would lose the entire South in modern day, but I would probably lose some of the more competitive states.  And how did I lose in Ohio?

[Oak Hills]

Oldiesfreak1854 (R-MI), 337 EV
Oak Hills (I-TN), 201 EV

[TNF]

Ind. Congressman Oak Hills (I-Tenn.) defeats Sen. TNF (D-KY) 271-267.

[Del Tachi]

KRich-302
TNF-236

[Supersonic]

Republican95 (R-DC)
Supersonic (R-TN)

Republican primary. Two economic conservatives, one a social conservative, the other a social moderate (in comparison). Republican95 pulls it off.

[Goldwater]

Senator Supersonic (R-TN)
Governor Goldwater (R-WA)

Supersonic, a conservative Senator from Tennessee, defeats Goldwater, the libertarian-leaning Governor of Washington, in the Republican primaries.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

237-301

[The Simpsons Cinematic Universe]

Being a bit generous to myself.

[Goldwater]

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

Gov. Polnut (D-IL) - 394EV - 54.6%
Sen. Goldwater (R-WA) - 144EV - 42.1%

Goldwater suffers from low social conservative support, leading to depressed turnout in the South. His strength is the mountain west, leaving Colorado the closest state, but I hold the Democratic coalition together and have stronger support from working class whites. There is probably a strongish 3rd party focusing on social conservatism and further weakens Goldwater. He also benefits in some parts by sheer virtue of there being an (R) next to his name, which enables him to hold the upper South, but by lower margins than the current norm.

[Mad Deadly Worldwide Communist Gangster Computer God]

Polnut defeats Scott in the Democratic primary.

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

Senator Scott (CT) defeats Gov. HockeyDude (NJ) in the Democratic Primary

[Supersonic]

HockeyDude (D-NJ): 303
Supersonic (R-TN): 235

HockeyDude pretty much holds together the Democratic coalition, while Supersonic suffers from reduced evangelical turnout, without compensating enough from socially moderate independents.

[Thomas D]

Senator Supersonic (R-TN)   301
Governor Thomas D (D-MD)  237


Everything was going my way until those stories about me and the gigolos came out.

[Goldwater]

Senator Thomas (D-MA) - 272 EVs
Governor Goldwater (R-WA) - 266 EVs

[TNF]

Governor Goldwater (R-Wash.) - 270
Senator TNF (D-Ky.) - 268

[Wake Me Up When The Hard Border Ends]

TNF (D-KY): 278 EV
Anton Kreitzer (R-MD): 260 EV

[Goldwater]

Republican primary:

Anton Kreitzer
Goldwater

[RedSLC]

Grand Maester Goldwater (R-WA): 312 EV
SLValleyMan (D-UT): 226 EV

[Mad Deadly Worldwide Communist Gangster Computer God]

SLValleyMan defeats Scott in the Democratic primary.