Talk Elections

Obviously we don't want to clog up the "Post random maps here" thread. I also had the idea of maybe having a one-post timeline challenge based on the results of our game. If anybody wants to try that, go for it. Be creative. I'm going to try writing one tomorrow.

Link to the game: http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/

Link to the Off Topic thread: https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=182692.0


edited to add: Please mark results that were achieved by intentionally sabotaging your character's campaign.

My best Humphrey result  99.7th percentile.



My best Bryan result. 99.9th percentile.



I'm not very good at Obama bc I always want to make him say what I want him to say.

Not as nice and Not as Good but...

Now it's time to stop this! I'm getting too addicted to it...


This was a nice one... I played with Hubert Humphrey thousands of time until I was able to get the best strategy. I ran like a moderate on Vietnam trying to distance myself from Lyndon Johnson while not supporting any irresponsible withdrawn, supported the Great Society legacy and my record on Labor Unions and Civil Rights. I have also stressed my support for desegregation but my commitment to law enforcement. Unlike other games, I started pretty well, I made Nixon appear and loose at the debate, choose Muskie to help me on the North and started to win traction, I recovered votes from Wallace and did a good Convention Speech. I tried to fight on many states but I've only visited two southern states Missouri and Texas (Florida I don't recall). Unfortunately, you can't know how your adversaries campaigned but I think that they just stood on the issues as they really stood.

At the middle of the campaign, there were many battle ground states, even in the South, and Texas, Michigan and New York were lean democratic. California was my last attempt of having more electoral votes and, despite loosing there, I feel that it gave me a boost in the West...

As always, here there's a list of the closest states

1. Oregon: Humphrey 47.42% - 382,389/ Nixon 47.15% - 380,170/ Wallace 5.43% - 43,785
2. Delaware: Humphrey 44.92% - 96,031/ Nixon 44.61% - 95,373/ Wallace 10.47% - 22,372
3. New Jersey: Nixon 45.73% - 1,314,506/ Humphrey 44.79% -1,287,646/ Wallace 9.48% - 272,491
4. Nevada: Humphrey 47.09% - 71,856/ Nixon 45.78 - 69,871/ Wallace 7,13% - 10,882
5. Florida: Nixon 37.73% - 827,565/ Humphrey 36.07% - 798,695/ Wallace 26.56% - 588,063
6. Washington: Humphrey 47.35% - 627,288/ Nixon 45.63% - 604,620/ Wallace 7.02% - 93,012
7. Alaska: Humphrey 44.45% - 37,429/ Nixon 42.54% - 35,825/ Wallace 13.01% - 10,958
8. Ohio: Humphrey 47.01% - 1,846,571/Nixon 44.94% - 1,765,239/ Wallace 8.06% - 316,446
9. California: Nixon 47.34% - 3,396,087/ Humphrey 45.24% - 3,245,248/ Wallace 7.42% - 531,927
10.New York: Humphrey 47.91% - 3,192,669/ Nixon 45.75% - 3,048,840/ Wallace 6.34% - 422,832
11.Kentucky: Nixon 42.64% - 456,121/ Humphrey 40.28% - 430,902/ Wallace 17.08% - 182,741
12.Washington: Humphrey 48.71% - 818,358/ Nixon 45.96% - 772,171/ Wallace 5.32% - 89,422
13.South Carolina: Nixon 35.37% - 238,488/ Wallace 33.15% - 223,537/ Humphrey 31.48% - 212,232
14.Missouri: Humphrey 44.04% - 783,211/ Nixon 41.24% - 733,375/ Wallace 14.71% - 261,624
15.Illinois: Humphrey 47.57% - 2,205,991/ Nixon 44.51% - 2,064,027/ Wallace 7.92% - 367,161

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Got this 377-161 win with Romney. It was a short, 13 question game with Pawlenty as my running mate. I ran mostly center-left on the issues, supporting eventual expiration of the Bush tax cuts and civil unions. I don't remember most of the details but I got into about the 99.6th percentile.

LOL

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Fmr. VP Richard Nixon (R-NY)/ Governor Spiro Agnew (R-MD): 257 EVs - 42.85% (31,362,942)
VP Hubert Humphrey (D-MN)/ Governor Edmund Muskie (D-ME): 217 EVs - 43.00% (31,471,977)
Governor George Wallace (AI-AL)/ Senator Strom Thurmond (R-SC): 64 EVs - 14.14% (10,349,547)

Played Wallace and got my best result ever, managed to deadlock the EC by stealing SC and TN at the last minute and giving IL to Humphrey. Got 99.5th percentile, which is pretty nice.

I tried to this once, but I got Tennessee and lost SC. Then, in another situation, I won SC and loose TN... =(

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killin' em

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Fmr. Governor William McKinley (R-OH)/ Speaker of the House Thomas B. Reed (R-ME): 313 EVs - 53.04% (7,413,288)
Fmr. Representative William Jennings Bryan (D-NE)/ Mr. Arthur Sewall (D-ME): 134 EVs - 45.95% (6,421,670)
Fmr. Senator John Palmer (ND-IL)/ Fmr. Governor Simon B. Buckner 64 EVs (ND-KY): 0 EVS - 1.02% (141,899)

Just for a laugh, I ran a game as Romney.

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What have I done.

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William McKinley               232    6,247,937    44.72%
William Jennings Bryan           215    7,293,151    52.20%
John Palmer                          0      431,690    3.09%


I played as McKinley and lost the PV by 8%. I decided to let Palmer run against Bryan in the south, hence why it was so low. He ended up with only 3% nationally, Bryan powned him everywhere, the most he got was around 24%. That was a major bust for sure.

I lost Indiana and Kentucky out of nowhere and thought I was going to lose, but I held on and won somehow.

Here's another 2012 scenerio, really close margin:

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Barack Obama    285    65,543,358    50.21%
Mitt Romney    253    62,633,715    47.98%
Gary Johnson 0       1,886,580     01.45%
Jill Stein           0       483,155        00.37%


Played as Romney, made him more center based and less distant. Picked Pawlenty as the VP, and stood more of a chance in the mid west.  Made some gaffes which prob cost me the election, but I managed to win two of the big power states thanks to a campaign that was promising change and attacking Obama for his errors more than in RL.

I focused on the southern states and Ohio.  I went to Pennsylvania a couple of times and Minnesota/Nevada once.  On election day I focused on Florida,Virginia, and NC, but I lost Virgina while winning the rest, including Ohio by 2% and Florida by less than a point. 

Despite making errors with Penn and Virginia, Gary Johnson in particular cost me Colorado, Iowa, and Nevada. Nevada in particular was won by Obama by less than 1,000 votes.  Colorado was won by Barry by 56,000 and Iowa by 44,002 votes.  Johnson in at least two had enough votes that I could have won with. Johnson is regarded as the ultimate Ralph Nader figure in this election, and the Libertarians are enemies of the Republicans.

I still have no idea how to do Nixon 68 properly. So what would be considered as a moderate conservative with a strong pro-war stance does not work, at least if the debade is effed up...

Humphrey: 33,460,834 - 45,70% - 398 EV
Nixon: 28,215,015 - 38,53% - 63 EV
Wallace: 11,544,211 - 15,77% - 76 EV

Lost Oklahoma by about 5500 Votes, Vermont by 2000, New Jersey by 28000, VIrginia by 30000, North Carolina by 34000

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The state, that would have gotten me over 270, Ohio, was lost 40,7-48.

Okay, I think I got it: Nixon/Romney - 45,9% of the popular vote, 416 EV

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Nixon was not pro-war in 68, only in 1972...

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Hubert Humphrey: 35,191,091 - 48.27% - 438 EV
Richard Nixon: 28,199,120 - 38.73% - 54 EV
George Wallace: 9,464,789 - 13.00% - 45 EV

So yeah, I kinda, you know, kicked ass here. :P 99.7 percentile. Ranking? #30. Heeelllll yeah.

Congrats! The webmaster still hasn't e-mailed me back about whether any new election years will be added.

If we could get '92...I would die...

I would love '92 with all 3 options, 2000, 1980, and 1912.

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Romney 56% - 535
Obama 42% - 3

I played as Obama and selected the most right wing answer for every question (25 of them).  I was expecting to lose (I did it on purpose), but when Romney got Vermont I was still shocked. 

Strangely,  DC still went 80% Obama, even though I said he was going to ban gay marriage, and get rid of Obamacare and social security.  The closest state was Rhode Island, which Romney still won by over 50%.

wow!

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Hahahahahahha!
Hhahahahahahah!

Basically I played as Bryan while supporting Civil Rights and opposing Lynching.  This was the result.

---- William McKinley    379    7,799,556    56.00%
---- John Palmer    52    1,348,417    9.68%
---- William Jennings Bryan    16    4,779,583    34.32%


YEs, that is a McKinley victory in Georgia.  44.62%, to be exact.

William J. Bryan, True Leftist Edition:

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I ran as Bryan and took the most extremist answer on every liberal issue.  I tried to switch it up a little, by being a wet who supported Tammany.  Well, here is the result.

---- William McKinley    331    8,300,086    59.44%
---- John Palmer    100    1,973,041    14.13%
---- William Jennings Bryan    16    3,691,004    26.43%

Bryan:

Best States:

Nevada: 68.65%
Utah: 64.50%
Idaho: 63.54%
Colorado: 63.13%
Montana: 61.93%

Worst States:

Arkansas: 0.00%
Alabama: 0.00%
Louisiana: 0.00%
Mississippi: 0.00%
South Carolina: 0.00%

McKinley:

Best States:

Vermont: 82.94%
Massachusetts: 77.76%
Maine: 77.45%
New Hampshire: 74.04%
Rhode Island: 73.22%

Worst States:

Nevada: 31.35%
Arkansas: 30.69%
Alabama: 30.53%
South Carolina: 14.91%
Mississippi: 12.07%

Palmer:

Best States:

Mississippi: 87.93%
South Carolina: 85.09%
Alabama: 69.47%
Arkansas: 69.31%
Louisiana: 66.76%

Worst States:

North Dakota: .47%
South Dakota: .45%
Montana: .30%
Utah: .07%
Nevada: 0.00%

Hahahahaha

2012: Sage Edition

Basically run as Obama and pick the sagest answers possible. Kind of like True Leftism, but with a lot of edginess, moralism, and disdain for Islam.

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170-368 for Romney.

Why would Obama have disdain for his own religion?

*like*

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99th percentile as Nixon/Rockefeller. Ran as an economic moderate/law-and-order conservative, got the tie answer on the debate and successfully sabotaged the peace talks. My results in the South are a lot flimsier than they look--I only won Texas by .2% and Wallace was nipping my heels in Tennessee and North Carolina. On the other hand, I nearly won Massachusetts!

NO WE CAN'T!
The story of my epic fail as Obama in 2012:

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Candidate   Electoral Votes   Popular Votes   Popular Vote %
---- Mitt Romney    433    75,855,223    58.06%
---- Barack Obama    105    51,961,705    39.77%
---- Gary Johnson    0    2,254,164    1.73%
---- Jill Stein    0    575,515    0.44%

Yeah, I got massacred.

Obama
Best States:

DC: 86.62%
California: 56.69%
Vermont: 54.05%
Massachusetts: 52.74%
Hawaii: 52.33%
Illinois: 51.93%
Rhode Island: 50.74%
Oregon: 48.55%
New Mexico: 48.20%
Washington: 46.13%

Worst States:
West Virginia: 28.68
Wyoming: 27.44%
Kentucky: 27.31%
Alabama: 26.84%
Texas: 26.31%
North Dakota: 25.48%
South Carolina: 25.10%
Mississippi: 24.21%
Oklahoma: 24.08%
Utah: 20.77%

Romney:

BEst States:

Utah: 78.25%
Oklahoma: 75.92%
MIssissippi: 74.29%
South Carolina: 73.13%
North Dakota: 72.20%
Alabama: 71.74%
Texas: 71.47%
Kentucky: 70.92%
West Virginia: 70.15%
Arkansas: 69.57%

Worst States:
Washington: 50.96%
Oregon: 48.55%
Rhode Island: 46.52%
Illinois: 45.77%
New Mexico: 45.74%
Hawaii: 44.83%
Massachusetts: 43.75%
Vermont: 43.05%
California: 40.03%
DC: 10.59%

In other news, Johnson got almost twice as many votes in California than Romney did in Wyoming, lol.

---- Mitt Romney    176,404    69.41%    3
vs
---- Gary Johnson    346,604    2.46%    0

#1 score as McKinley/Hobart (sorry Lief)! I ran as a moderate on labor/temperance, went hard on tariffs/the gold standard, and caved to the lily-whites (which gave me the Upper South).

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William McKinley (R-OH)/Garret Hobart (R-NJ) - 336 electoral votes, 54.09%
William Jennings Bryan (D-NE)/Arthur Sewall (D-ME) - 111 electoral votes, 44.85%

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Fmr. Governor Mitt Romney (R-MA)/ Senator Robert Portman (R-OH): 271 EVs - 48,58% (63,468,540)
President Barack Obama (D-IL)/ Vice-President Joe Biden (D-DE): 267 EVs - 49,86% (65,144,748)
Fmr. Governor Gary Johnson (L-NM)/ Jurist James P. Gray (L-CA): 0 EVs - 1,23% (1,611,919)
Physician Jill Stein (G-MA)/ Anti-Poverty Advocate Cheri Honkala (G-MN) 0 EVs - 0,33% (432,521)

Two key results:

Pennsylvania (Romney 49,57% Obama 49,29%)
Ohio (Romney 51,74% Obama 47,09%)

Closest State: Florida
Candidate   Popular Votes   Popular Vote %   Electoral Votes
---- Barack Obama    4,184,885    49.39%    29
---- Mitt Romney    4,181,885    49.36%    0
---- Gary Johnson    81,286    0.96%    0
---- Jill Stein    24,383    0.29%    0

Closest State: (Romney Win: WI)
Candidate   Popular Votes   Popular Vote %   Electoral Votes
---- Mitt Romney    1,512,310    50.02%    10
---- Barack Obama    1,464,833    48.45%    0
---- Gary Johnson    35,867    1.19%    0
---- Jill Stein    10,367    0.34%    0

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Barack Obama/Joe Biden (D) - 283
Mitt Romney/Marco Rubio (R) - 255

Someone else should try emailing the admin of that site about new election years; I tried weeks ago and they haven't replied. Maybe the inbox is just rarely checked or maybe they forgot to reply.

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 Hubert H. Humphrey: 308 (32,767,982) 44.87%
Richard Nixon: 184 (30,818,567) 42.20%
George Wallace: 45 (9,444,475) 12.93%

Played as Mitt Romney in 2012, and for the most part presented my views honestly, though a couple of times I pandered to conservatives (ie, gay marriage) when I got a bit worried. Won 307-231 (picked Rubio as my running mate), getting 49.5% to Obama's 48.7%, Johnson's 1.4%, and Stein's 0.4%.

Final results:
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Literally 2004, but with PA and NM flipped.

1896: William J. Bryan, Republican In All But Name:

Candidate   Electoral Votes   Popular Votes   Popular Vote %
---- William McKinley    319    8,088,737    58.19%
---- John Palmer    112    2,105,084    15.14%
---- William Jennings Bryan    16    3,706,901    26.67%

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Michelle, I'm getting tired of this sh**t!

---- Mitt Romney    535    77,367,296    59.06%
---- Barack Obama    3    50,471,510    38.53%
---- Gary Johnson    0    2,211,648    1.69%
---- Jill Stein    0    948,408    0.72%

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#8 rank as Nixon/Agnew. Ran as a moderate hero on basically everything, campaigned mostly in the North.

That is damn impressive. Congratulations. My strategy as Humphrey is to always go for the midwest; if a midwest option isn't available either go south or go to California.

I've recently gotten better at Obama, by realizing that I should just ignore what James Carville says.

Obama is always one I've done poorly on; I'll try the ignore Carville strategy. Best I ever got as Obama was 2008+Missouri and Montana, though I have no idea how I did it and have no luck nailing a strategy.

My Nixon landslide, as should be obvious, was mostly just getting the best debate/sabotage answers. More specifically policy-wise, I ran centrist/center-left on Vietnam and Medicare and center-right on crime and the generic economy questions. Agnew is definitely the best running mate because he appeals to all the key regions (Great Lakes, Upper South, Mid-Atlantic).

What do you guys say to the foreign policy question in 2012? I never know which way to go there.

Another Humphrey map:

I always try to win Arkansas too! How do you do it other than good debate/sabotage luck?

I always go with pragmatism, regardless of what candidate I'm using.

Jejeje...your ranking: #2 over 7089 games:


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As William McKinley I tried an unorthodox strategy of reaching out to moderates by letting WJB's spirit inhabit my body.

It did not work:

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Still, I won ignominious states like...New Hamsphire...Massachusetts...Vermont?

Hahaha, yeah this.

Granted, I play the 80 question game every single time, but I've never been able to win as Bryan much less get a landslide victory of that magnitude.  Kudos sir, I am in utter awe.

I copied Snowstalker's strategy of running Nixon as a moderate hero with VP Agnew and it worked out pretty well:

I rarely play 80 questions. Too many chances to screw up lol

I ran Humphrey as a liberal hero with Kennedy as VP, destroyed Nixon in the debates, exposed his treason and won a decisive victory at the polls:

Ran as Wallace.

Deadlocked the College.

Let's run this country into the ground.

I actually got the same result as your map as well.

Decided to go on Campaign Trail again after taking a break. I tried 1896 a couple of times. The first two were absolute failures, getting in the 27.7th percentile both times. The next time no results showed up. Getting pissed, I blew through a 13 question game hoping not to fail this time.

I got 44th.

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I'm more amazed at the fact you lost the 1896 scenario as McKinley. You literally just have to be not-stupid and it's golden, come on.

I didn't, actually. You'd have to be in the 10th percentile or below to lose. I did about as well as IRL except I lost Kentucky (extremely narrowly both times). Both times I would be leading in the Dakotas and West Coast with Missouri, Kansas and Virginia as tossups, then collapse at the last minute leaving me with a relatively poor result.

You don't just have to be not-stupid to win as McKinley. You only lose if you legitimately try to.

Interesting that you won Vermont, I usually only win it in a 400+ landslide. I rarely choose Kennedy though.

The server for americanhistoryusa.com is currently down!

Maybe that means that another election game is being added? :D

Or maybe I'm being way too optimistic about a 503 Service Unavailable message.

Badgate, don't ignore me.

I didn't.

Ah, ok! :) I sent you a message anyway!

The message on americanhistoryusa.com has changed. Now it is saying "403 - Forbidden" wtf

Nooo :(

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/

Well that's a shame.

I feel kind of responsible. I posted the game on Tumblr a few weeks ago and it got reblogged by a popular political tumblr and drove a ton of traffic there.


Nice to get confirmation that he checks the e-mail address I'd sent about new election games. Disappointed that this means he ignored it.

Maybe when he re-releases the game (hopefully you can use it without internet access), he'll take some of our suggestions and put it in, like more election years or running as a third party candidate.

I quit playing it some of the states were way too liberal or conservative, and it was also skewed toward Bryan in 1896 and Obama in 2012.

I'm sure that was simply the way you played; I had quite the opposite problem myself. Also: I got my hopes up when you bumped this thread that the game was back. :(

Skewed towards Bryan?

Did you run as a racist McKinley?  Because I had to practically rape a baby to lose as McKinley.  I mean, I had to actually TRY LOSING in order to lose against Bryan.

It is Oldiesfreak...

Okay guys, so I sent the web admin enough emails that he updated the page.

He is now saying that the game will be back up at the end of June, hopefully.

You can read his updated statement here:
http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/


Sorry for bumping the thread; I know some of you will see it bumped and think the game is back.

Well that's great news! :)

Bump

Another update has come from the website creator:

UPDATE (2014-06-30): I have made good progress and have the game effectively working on my local computer. I just need a few more days for final debugging, and transferring this to the server I will use. Thank you all for your patience, and I apologize again for how long this has been down.

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/ (http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/)


This means that the game will come back in a few more days!

Thanks for notifying us of the update! Cool to know I'm not the only one hoping the game is back soon :D

Fingers crossed it will be back soon!

Excellent News!! :-)

Breaking News: The Campaign Trail Game Has Finally Come Back!

After an extremely long wait, the game has finally started to work again!

Link to the game: http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/

It's still down for me...:(

That's wierd, because it's working on my device perfectly.

The weird thing is I could get through and finish a 25-question game in 1896 as Bryan a couple hours ago (I lost), but I've gotten nothing since then.

I call trolling!

What the hell? I'm not making anything up, I really can't get through.

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Make no mistake, I took this screenshot just a few minutes ago.

I don't quite get how people could prefer this game over President Forever 2008, but I only played it once or twice before it went down. When it gets back up I'll give it another crack.

Oh carp, no I meant on RR1997, not you. I got the same message too, that's why I said that. Sorry for the confusion...

It's working on my device! See this for proof:

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Hmm... Could it be only working on laptops?

It's also working on my Samsung tablet.

.... Ugh stupid iPads >:(

Nope, I'm using a laptop and I'm getting the busted message too.

I don't think that's the problem.

Went from active -> inactive for me.

That's weird. It seems like it isn't working for anyone except me.

I rebooted my computer and now the game is working on Chrome but not Firefox. ???

It's working on both Firefox and Chrome on my laptop.

Now it's down on Chrome again! :(

Yay! I just played! I like the new method for deciding where to campaign

edited to add And on my first game, an Obama/Clinton game on hard, I lost with 266 electoral votes...and 50.1% of the popular vote.

Went on 1968, won 7 states as George Wallace, but a narrow loss in NC kept me from actually deadlocking the EC. Then went on 1896 as Bryan and won the popular vote 50%-49%, but came up 18 votes short in the electoral college.

Narrow Romney/Rubio victory of 272-266, lost the popular vote by 0.3% (49.7%-49.4%)
Closest State was Colorado: 49.22%-49.17% (D-R)

Heh.

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President Barack Obama (D-IL) / Vice President Joe Biden (D-DE) - 4 EVs (38%; 48,571,962)
Fmr. Governor Mitt Romney (R-MA) / Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI) - 534 EVs (60.7%; 77,555,125)

I advocated for the repeal of Obamacare, the removal of Eric Holder as Attorney General, and the defunding of Social Security in its entirety. I only campaigned in Missouri, Utah and Washington D.C. (which I still got 82% of the vote in). Yet somehow I managed to keep one of Maine's districts (it appears that Maine and Nebraska split votes now, not sure if this was the case before). Closest state was Hawaii, which I lost 51-46.

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Bryan(D-NE)/Boies (D-IA) - 50.7% / 234 EV
McKinley(R-OH) /Hobart (R-NJ) - 48.3% - 213 EV

Indiana was the tipping point: 560 vote margin (0.09%)

I got the same map, with some different percentages. What difficulty setting did you choose? I was on 'hard'

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William Jennings Bryan    234    7,086,327    50.9%
---- William McKinley    213    6,711,630    48.2%
---- John Palmer    0    134,653    1.0%


CLOSEST STATE: MINNESOTA
William McKinley   164,010   49.63
William Jennings Bryan   162,223   49.09
John Palmer   4,222   1.28

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√ President Barack Obama/Vice President Joe Biden (D) - 384
Governor Mitt Romney/Senator Rob Portman (R) - 154

Moderate hero Nixon mopped the floor with HHH...

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√ Former Vice Pres. Richard Nixon (R-CA)/Maryland Gov. Spiro Agnew (R-MD): 431 EVs, 45.6% PV (33,545,398)
Vice Pres. Hubert Humphrey (D-MN)/Sen. Edmund Muskie (D-ME): 54 EVs, 40.0% PV (29,476,625)
Former Alabama Gov. George Wallace (AI-AL)/Former Gen. Curtis LeMay (AI-CA): 53 EVs, 14.4% PV (10,603,472)


Close States (within 5%):

• South Carolina: .15%, 1,003 votes
• Texas: .55%, 17,379 votes
• West Virginia: 1.16%, 9,003 votes
• Michigan: 1.24%, 39,972 votes
• Washington: 2.49%, 34,593 votes
• New York: 2.69%, 189,211 votes
• Pennsylvania: 2.77%, 125,189 votes
• Maine: 2.91%, 11,519 votes
• Tennessee: 3.70%, 44,706 votes
• Maryland: 3.74%, 46,886 votes

Impossible is an apt description for that difficulty level. Took me over a dozen tries. Came close several times once I got the hang of what Obama should generally be saying, usually losing a state that should be lean D while picking up a swing state (e.g. lose PA but win VA). I know it's supposed to be favorable to the other guy but some states tilt absurdly close to Romney: New York and Delaware were 5 point margins while New Jersey was 12 points; Iowa is virtually unwinnable.

My advice for Obama Impossible attempts:
- Stay with Biden. Picking Clinton seems to start you off in a worse position.
- Going full moderate hero will get you close but not over the line. Staking out some liberal positions (gay marriage, wealthy tax cuts, Arizona immigration law) are necessary to prevent some tilt-D states from hemorrhaging voters.
- Focus the fast majority of your state visits on one swing state. I picked Ohio which worked out, visiting PA and CO once each to shore up Dem support.

Now to do it with Romney...

Impossible Rate: Obama wins

This was a toss-up all the way to the end. But at the last second the President got a small bump in the polls.

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Barack Obama/Joe Biden           280    65,335,941    50.1%
Mitt Romney/Paul Ryan           258    63,778,895    48.9%


New Hampshire
Mitt Romney   365,125   49.89   
Barack Obama   361,554   49.40   

Iowa
Mitt Romney   769,865   49.91   
Barack Obama   759,804   49.26

Ohio
Barack Obama   2,688,672   49.96   
Mitt Romney   2,652,362   49.29

Wisconsin   
Barack Obama   1,564,333   49.95   
Mitt Romney   1,540,224   49.18

Liberal Mitt Romney loses in a landslide!

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President Barack Obama (D-IL)/Vice President Joe Biden (D-DE) - 62.3%, 531 EV's
Fmr. Governor Mitt Romney (R-MA)/Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI) - 36.5%, 7 EV's

Only Utah held on, as Romney ran on a platform of banning fracking, wanting to do something about global warming, supporting healthcare, and taxing the rich. I tried to run to Obama's left if it was possible, like negiotiating with the protesters in Egypt.

My idea of "Fascist Wallace" didn't pan out too well...

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√ Former Vice Pres. Richard Nixon (R-CA)/Maryland Gov. Spiro Agnew (R-MD): 318 EVs, 45.9% PV (33,793,487)
Vice Pres. Hubert Humphrey (D-MN)/Sen. Edmund Muskie (D-ME): 181 EVs, 42.9% PV (31,553,731)
Former Alabama Gov. George Wallace (AI-AL)/Former Gen. Curtis LeMay (AI-CA): 39 EVs, 11.2% PV (8,257,648)

Close States (within 5%):
Maryland: .20%, 2,521 votes
Pennsylvania: .38%, 18,852 votes
Washington: .45%, 6,013 votes
Arkansas: .75%, 4,782 votes
New York: .99%, 70,435 votes
Georgia: 1.33%, 17,287 votes
Texas: 2.53%, 75,342 votes
Michigan: 2.66%, 87,024 votes
West Virginia: 2.76%, 20,755 votes
Delaware: 3.07%, 6,874 votes
Missouri: 3.08%, 56,340 votes
Nevada: 3.96%, 6,220 votes
Oregon: 4.30%, 35,755 votes
Maine: 4.45%, 17,780 votes
Ohio: 4.54%, 178,072 votes
Illinois: 4.74%, 214,186 votes

The Great Commoner wins in a landslide!
Normal Difficulty race brings wins to Bryan throughout the Midwest, and narrows New York's margin to 10'000 voters!

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William Jennings Bryan / Claude Matthews - 54.2% / 330 EVs
William McKinley / Garret Hobart - 44.9% / 117 EVs

Closest States:

New York - 49.53 / 48.83
Ohio - 50.43 / 49.29
New Jersey - 50.45 / 47.65

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√ Richard Nixon/George Romney (R) - 405
Hubert Humphrey/Edmund Muskie (D) - 79
George Wallace/Curtis LeMay (I) - 53

Bryan does the impossible!
The Great Commoner wins in a squeaker (on Impossible difficulty), edging out his opponent in crucial swing states Indiana and North Dakota while losing California by just 400 votes!

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Former Gov. William McKinley (R-OH)/ Former President of the New Jersey Senate Garret Hobart (R-NJ): 222 EVs, 48.3% PV (6,686,631)
√ Former Rep. William Jennings Bryan (D-NE)/ Former Gov. Horace Boies (D-IA): 225 EVs, 50.7% PV (7,021,734)
Senator John Palmer (ND-IL)/Former Gov. Simon Buckner (ND-KY): 0 EVs, 1.0% PV (134,138)

I've noticed that even if I intentionally bombed Bryan's campaign, John Palmer's electoral support is still low.

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Barack Obama: 52.2%, 67,000,000
Mitt Romney: 46.9%, 60,000,000

The closest states were Montana, North Carolina,  Missouri,  Indiana,  and Florida (49.5%, 49.9%, 50.2%, 50.7%, 50.9%)
The landslide states were Utah, California,  Oklahoma,  Vermont,  and Illinois  (68%, 65%, 64%, 64%, 64%)

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I played as Romney on normal difficultly.  My central theme was to attack Obama relentlessly on his performance while being just moderate enough on social issues like abortion and Planned Parenthood to court moderate voters.  Obviously, it didn't work and Obama was almost able to replicate his 2008 performance.  Closest states were Missouri, North Carolina and Indiana.   

Stomped Romney as a mostly center-left Obama...

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√ Pres. Barack Obama (D-IL)/Vice Pres. Joe Biden (D-DE): 332 EVs, 66,576,102 PVs (51.8%)
Frmr. Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA)/Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI): 206 EVs, 60,819,612 PVs (47.3%)

Close States (within 5%)
North Carolina: .22%, 9,316 votes
Florida: 1.16%, 97,701 votes
Iowa: 1.93%, 30,658 votes
Missouri: 2.27%, 60,338 votes
Indiana: 2.63%, 70,190 votes
Virginia: 3.42%, 134,775 votes
New Hampshire: 3.55%, 24,807 votes
Montana: 4.25%, 19,779 votes
Colorado: 4.36%, 112,170 votes
Ohio: 4.56%, 267,375 votes

Liberal Nixon achieves victory with honor! :D

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√ Fmr. Vice Pres. Richard Nixon (R-CA)/New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller (R-NY): 303 EVs, 32,274,206 PVs (43.6%)
Vice Pres. Hubert Humphrey (D-MN)/Sen. Edmund Muskie (D-ME): 181 EVs, 31,175,779 PVs (42.1%)
Fmr. Alabama Gov. George Wallace (AI-AL)/Fmr. Gen. Curtis LeMay (AI-CA): 53 EVs, 10,523,422 PVs (14.2%)

Close States (within 5%):
Pennsylvania: .11%, 5,428 votes
Maryland: .44%, 5,693 votes
Tennessee: .45%, 5,452 votes
Washington: .48%, 6,342 votes
South Carolina: 2.24%, 15,039 votes
New York: 2.33%, 158,973 votes
Nevada: 2.43%, 3,924 votes
Missouri: 2.82%, 52,681 votes
Oregon: 2.87%, 24,162 votes
West Virginia: 3.25%, 21,347 votes
Illinois: 3.34%, 151,497 votes
Delaware: 3.83%, 8,250 votes
Maine: 3.97%, 16,079 votes
Kentucky: 4.05%, 41,819 votes
North Carolina: 4.18%, 67,742 votes
Alaska: 4.21%, 3,504 votes
Oklahoma: 4.24%, 39,394 votes
Ohio: 4.28%, 175,734 votes
California: 4.52%, 324,287 votes
Michigan: 4.57%, 157,205 votes
Texas: 4.66%, 145,525 votes
Wisconsin: 4.70%, 83,040 votes

Did Liberal Nixon refuse to sabotage the peace talks?

Yep; that's what I meant by "victory with honor".

Beat Romney by same margin as Obama did in OTL on hard.

Humphrey is possessed by the spirit of Scoop Jackson (at least on foreign policy)

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Nixon 45.8% 438
Humphrey 39.8% 54
Wallace 14.4% 45

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Bryan: 7,600,000 (54.5%)
McKinley: 6,200,000 (45.6%)
Palmer: 120,000 (0.9%)

Closest states: New York (50%), New Jersey (50.2%), Ohio/Wisconsin (51.1%)
Landslide states: Mississippi (90.7%), South Carolina (89.5%), Nevada (81.1%)

I have also achieved the William Jennings Bryan 330 landslide. (although according to the Atlas electoral college calculator it's actually 327)

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Kicked the crap out of Nixon on hard with Fred Harris as VP. Campaigned as a candidate who was definitively anti-war and centre-left on everything else.

Humphrey/Harris 46.2% 426 ECV

Richard Nixon 40.4% 66 ECV

George Wallace 13.4% 45 ECV

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Candidate   Electoral Votes    Popular Votes   Popular Vote %
---- Richard Nixon   289    31,479,804    43.5%
---- Hubert H. Humphrey(Me)   203    31,138,852    43.0%
---- George Wallace   45    9,758,755    13.5%
Closest States
Illinois
Candidate   Popular Votes      Popular Vote %   Electoral Votes
Richard Nixon   2,153,342   45.65   26
Hubert H. Humphrey   2,141,447   45.39   0
George Wallace   422,702   8.96   0

Oregon
Results - This Game
Candidate   Popular Votes      Popular Vote %   Electoral Votes
Richard Nixon   391,220   47.48   6
Hubert H. Humphrey   386,151   46.86   0
George Wallace   46,634   5.66   0

Missouri
Candidate   Popular Votes      Popular Vote %   Electoral Votes
Hubert H. Humphrey   773,900   42.57   12
Richard Nixon   762,257   41.93   0
George Wallace   281,619   15.49   0

Played as Romney/Portman

For each question, I selected the option that best aligned with my opinion on the issue.

Interestingly, I massively underperformed in the south, and I won states like Missouri, Tennessee, and etc. by very razor-thin margins.

Also, I overperformed in the northeast and other blue states, and Obama won states like New York, Delaware, and etc. by relatively close margins. Obama also failed to hit >60% in any state.

Closest states were Colorado, Nevada, New Hampshire,Iowa, Ohio, Florida, and Missouri.

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Obama/Biden:  323 EV's
Romney/Portman: 215 EV's

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I'm just posting this for the PV difference:

Fmr. Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA)/Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH): 285 EVs, 64,307,733 PVs (49.6%)
Pres. Barack Obama (D-IL)/Vice Pres. Joe Biden (D-DE): 253 EVs, 64,292,738 PVs (49.5%)

14,995 votes, one of the closest PV victories in American history, second only to Garfield's 1,898-vote victory over Hancock in 1880.

Brought a tear to my eye:




This is my absolute proudest map on Campaign Trail. I played this one on hard mode and am extremely satisfied with the result.

How did  you get New York?

Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose. #NewYorkBelievesInAmerica

Played as Humphrey. Campaigned on a pro-Great Society, anti-Vietnam War and moderate civil rights platform. I opposed busing but I supported other liberal policies like ending the war and expanding Medicare. Also trounced Nixon in a debate.

How do i play with the 50 or 100 question mode ? I only see 25 questions.

I don't think he has that option anymore.

^I got the same map. Here it is with shading:

This first one is 1896.  I played as McKinley with 25 questions and Gage as my running mate:
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William McKinley (R-OH): 7,001,213 PVs (50.4%); 264 EVs
William Jennings Bryan (D-NE): 6,729,693 (48.5%); 183 EVs

Then, we have 1968.  I played as Nixon with Romney as my running mate:

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Richard Nixon (R-NY): 33,339,797 PVs (45.5%) 430 EVs
Hubert H. Humphrey (D-MN): 29,311,173 PVs (40.0%) 54 EVs
George Wallace (I-AL): 10,555,638 PVs (14.4%) 53 EVs

Ah, the beauty of Easy Difficulty...

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Fmr. Congressman William Jennings Bryan (D-NE)/Sen. Henry Teller (R-CO): 408 EVs, 7,761,322 PVs (55.7%)
Fmr. Gov. William McKinley (R-OH)/President of the New Jersey Senate Garret Hobart (R-NJ): 39 EVs, 6,063,296 PVs (43.5%)

Close states (within 5%):
1. South Carolina: .28%
2. Kentucky: .34%
3. Alaska: .67%
4. New Jersey: .98%
5. California: 1.11%
6. Oklahoma: 1.22%
7. Wisconsin: 1.28%
8. Indiana: 1.48%
9. Virginia: 1.58%
10. Tennessee: 1.68%
11. North Carolina: 2.16%
12. Missouri: 2.41%
13. Florida: 2.79%
14. Nevada: 3.03%
15. Ohio: 3.19%
16. Delaware: 3.30%
17. Oregon: 3.81%
18. Iowa: 3.92%

Competitive states (within 10%):
1. Washington: 5.23%
2. Vermont: 6.01%
3. Illinois: 6.07%
4. New York: 6.52%
5. Maryland: 6.59%
6. Texas: 6.66%
7. Arkansas: 7.84%
8. Pennsylvania: 8.18%
9. New Hampshire: 9.51%
10. New Mexico: 9.97%

Closest State:
√ Obama: 49.90%
Romney: 49.45%

Closest State (Arkansas):
Humphrey: 229,390 (36.22%) +38
Wallace: 229,352 (36.22%)
Nixon: 174,508 (27.56%)

Has anybody managed to throw the election to the House in the 1968 campaign? I put it on easy with Lemay and Thurmond as my VP and am running a super hawkish neo fascist campaign and taking a hard line on desegregation etc. I keep campaigning in NC and I can't for the life of me win any state other than the historical 5 that Wallace won, I can never stop a Nixon victory.

Pick Chandler as your running mate, run hard to the right on Vietnam, desegregation, and other social issues while taking a more moderately conservative tack on economics. This usually gets me a deadlock more often than not.

I will give it a try, I was never sure on how to deal with the Great Society and economics in general.

God damn North Carolina in 1968 is so damn stubborn. As Wallace, I say everything that a north Carolinian would support, and I still lose the damn state.

I have a question. Is it possible for Johnson or Stein to get EVS in 2012? I doubt it, but there is a counter, so it kinda throws me off. :P

Almost certainly not. I just ran a campaign where I ran Obama far to the right like he was possessed by George Wallace's ghost and neither Johnson or Stein could crack a full % of the vote. Those counters are probably there just for the sake of being there.

Oh true...

1968:Humphrey Landslide
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Candidate   Electoral Votes   Popular Votes   Popular Vote %
---- Hubert H. Humphrey   443   36,763,021   50.3%
---- Richard Nixon           49    27,387,876    37.5%
---- George Wallace           45    8,978,904           12.3%

The game is back, yeah!

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W. Mitt Romney (MA)/Marco A. Rubio (FL) - 403 Electoral Votes, 53.5%
Barack H. Obama (IL)/Joseph R. Biden (DE) - 135 Electoral Votes, 45.7%

MD - Romney 49.77, Obama 49.45
CT - Obama 49.97, Romney 49.42
WA - Romney 50.07, Obama 48.81
OR - Obama 50.34, Romney 48.39
MI - Romney 50.75, Obama 48.75

The 2012 produces some odd scenarios in blowouts: Obama wins Tennessee before Georgia, Arizona, South Carolina, or the Dakotas. Romney wins in New York/Washington before Connecticut, Oregon, or New Jersey. 

I finally got it: the big kahuna

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- Hubert H. Humphrey    449    36,208,943    49.8%
- Richard Nixon    49    27,353,443    37.6%
- George Wallace    39    9,177,812    12.6%



closest states

Arkansas
Hubert H. Humphrey   229,341   36.23
George Wallace   227,060   35.87
Richard Nixon   176,653   27.90

New Mexico
Richard Nixon   158,736   46.73
Hubert H. Humphrey   154,574   45.50
George Wallace   26,387   7.77

New Hampshire
Hubert H. Humphrey   139,179   48.88
Richard Nixon   133,897   47.02
George Wallace   11,665   4.10   

Rendezvous with Tricky Dick

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Candidate   Electoral Votes   Popular Votes   Popular Vote %
---- Richard Nixon   405   33,009,113   44.9%
---- Hubert H. Humphrey   79   29,739,997   40.5%
---- George Wallace   53   10,752,198   14.6%

I ran with Ronald Reagan as my VP choice with a moderate conservative law and order campaign.  I emphasized "accountability", attacked inflation, took a very strong stance on the riots, took a moderate position on Affirmative Action and busing, said I would keep troop levels in Vietnam at current levels while pursuing peace, said that Johnson handled the war wrong but Tet Offensive was bad for the Viet Cong, etc. etc. etc.  I had a pretty good lead in many Midwest states before we sabotaged the Peace Talks, which might've helped with the landslide.

Closest States:

Michigan
Richard Nixon   1,554,784   46.46   21
Hubert H. Humphrey   1,554,587   46.46   0
George Wallace   236,895   7.08   0

New York
Richard Nixon   3,173,843   46.24   43
Hubert H. Humphrey   3,157,071   46.00   0
George Wallace   532,945   7.76   0

Texas:
Hubert H. Humphrey   1,311,981   41.94   25
Richard Nixon   1,298,163   41.50   0
George Wallace   518,212   16.57   0

South Carolina:
George Wallace   245,213   35.89   8
Richard Nixon   242,152   35.44   0
Hubert H. Humphrey   195,817   28.66   0

Pennsylvania:
Richard Nixon   2,053,861   43.77   29
Hubert H. Humphrey   2,032,397   43.31   0
George Wallace   606,320   12.92   0

Maryland:
Richard Nixon   576,145   45.05   10
Hubert H. Humphrey   560,089   43.80   0
George Wallace   142,598   11.15   0

Washington:
Richard Nixon   600,814   46.76   9
Hubert H. Humphrey   583,851   45.44   0
George Wallace   100,131   7.79   0

West Virginia:
Hubert H. Humphrey   339,303   46.08   7
Richard Nixon   328,411   44.60   0
George Wallace   68,598   9.32   0

Tennessee:
Richard Nixon   476,841   36.41   11
George Wallace   447,156   34.14   0
Hubert H. Humphrey   385,680   29.45   0

Maine:
Hubert H. Humphrey   193,434   49.97   3
Richard Nixon   179,217   46.30   1
George Wallace   14,446   3.73   0

Romney is possessed by the spirit of Ron Paul:

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Pres. Barack Obama (D-IL)/Vice Pres. Joe Biden (D-DE): 399 EVs, 73,697,137 PVs (56.5%)
Former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA)/Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI): 199 EVs, 55,461,615 (42.5%)

Close States (within 5%):
1. Louisiana: .35%
2. Nebraska Statewide: 1.29%
3. Idaho: 2.07%
4. Arizona: 2.11%
5. Georgia: 2.72%
6. Arkansas: 3.22%
7. Alaska: 3.36%

Competitive States (within 10%):
1. Tennessee: 5.12%
2. West Virginia: 5.21%
3. Alabama: 6.29%
4. Indiana: 6.32%
5. Wyoming: 6.70%
6. South Dakota: 6.82%
7. Kansas: 7.58%
8. Mississippi: 7.94%
9. Montana: 8.36%
10. Kentucky: 9.57%
11. North Dakota: 9.70%

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Mitt Romney/Marco Rubio: 321 electoral votes 50.5%
Barack Obama/Joe Biden: 217 electoral votes 48.6%

Can someone give a uh, detailed walkthrough of sorts on how to win with Wallace? I followed the general advice someone gave earlier and can't win. I've tweaked that advice a bit and still can't win. It's driving me nuts.

Yea that game is bugged. I literally spent every campaign stop in NC and went with good old Carolina boy Thurmond as VP. I hate NC.In fact I even lost SC because i threw everything into NC.

I even won North Carolina as Wallace once, and Nixon still squeaked by with 270 EVs. What hurts is that Nixon seems to still win elsewhere as OTL no matter that Wallace does.

1968:

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Humphrey: 356 (45.7%)
Nixon: 137 (41.2%)
Wallace: 45 (13.2%)

From memory, I played rather moderate hero, with heavy attacks over the peace sabotage talks and Nixon's reluctance over having debates. Seemingly worked well, as I won the vast majority of swing seats (and there were a crazy amount of these for whatever reason).
 
Some of those states were within very narrow margins - all of Florida, South Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Iowa and Kentucky were within 1%.

2012:

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Again played somewhat moderate hero. In the end, won the same margin as the RL Obama. IIRC North Carolina and Iowa were the tightest states.

I got over 400 EVs for Humphrey on Impossible!! *does a little jig*

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http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/16030

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Take that, lieberals!

Were you playing as Nixon or Humphrey?

I lost 332-206 as Romney on impossible. Despite keeping all my answers the same, I lost by much larger margins in all swing states when I actually campaigned in them, rather than living in Pennsylvania for the entirety of the campaign season.

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Why do result take so much to load? :(

Kind of liberal Nixon

Best result I've had with Romney. I hate that "New York Republican" bug.

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Bump.  I did 1896 with McKinley & Reed, Normal difficulty:

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Gov. William McKinley (R-OH)/Rep. Thomas B. Reed (R-ME): 284 EVs
Rep. William Jennings Bryan (D-NE)/Mr. Arthur Sewall (D-ME): 163 EVs

Much Better Result

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Rep. William Jennings Bryan (D-NE)/Henery Teller (D-CO): 275 EVs
Gov. William McKinley (R-OH)/Garret Hobart 172 EVs


Result obviously doesn't load.

Results don't load of course.

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Richard Nixon (R-NY)/George Romney (R-MI): 430 EV
Hubert Humphrey (D-MN)/Ed Muskie (D-ME): 54 EV
George Wallace(AI-AL)/Curtis LeMay (AI-OH): 53 EV

How in the world did you do that?  I've NEVER been able to win with Romney.  I swear the 2012 game is rigged.

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Romney/Pawlenty: 305 EV
Obama/Biden: 233 EV

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Normal Mode

Nixon 367(Me)
Humphrey  118
Wallace 53

On hard mode with Nixon  I got deadlocked  241-232-64

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Happy with my result, FUKK WHY WONT THE RESULTS LOAD

Humphrey/Harris: 402 EV
Nixon/Agnew: 91EV
Wallace/LeMay: 45EV

2000 has now been added as a scenario, btw. :)

:D

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Played with Bob Graham as VP; only lost OH by .2% but it's a really great game overall and I'm excited to be able to try out different scenarios.

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George W. Bush (R-TX)/John Danforth (R-MO) - 352 EV
Al Gore (D-TN)/Joe Lieberman (D-CT) - 186 EV

Played as Bush, went for the non-offensive moderate answers and heavily campaigned in the Midwest. It certainly paid off.

The site refuses to show me the final result breakdown by state, so sadly I cannot give PV count. I ran with Powell as my VP rather than Cheney, and I also alternated between moderate and conservative answers. I never picked an obviously left-wing option, and I focused my campaign visits exclusively in the Midwest. (MI, WI, IA, OH, and PA were the only states I visited when asked to pick a state.) My only two mistakes were being a little too harsh against the Clintons and being willing to open up oil reserves to supply people with extra heating. In my focus on the Midwest, I apparently lost TN to Gore. It was worth gaining three extra states and winning Florida (to my knowledge) without having to go to the Supreme Court over a recount.

They should have added 2004 instead as the issues were a lot better

I actually saw 2000 as pretty fun. It's my new favorite campaign to run on Normal. I wish that you could run against non-default opponents, though.

It was better then I thought but 2004 had far better issues

I believe these are the elections they should have

1896
1912
1968
1992
2004
2012

I won 271-267 with Bush on normal with this map

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Lost 277-261 with Gore on normal

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Happy with my results. Difficulty: Normal

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Bryan/Teller: 307 EV
McKinley: 140 EV

1896 Presidential Election; Difficulty: Normal

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McKinley/Gage: 301 EV
Bryan: 146 EV

1968 Presidential Election; Difficulty: Normal

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Humphrey/Harris: 427 EV
Nixon: 66 EV
Wallace: 45 EV

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WHY UTAH WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

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Mitt Romney/Paul Ryan: 281 EV
Barack Obama/Joe Biden: 257 EV

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George W. Bush/Colin Powell: 283 EV
Al Gore/Joe Lieberman: 255 EV

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Richard Nixon/George Romney: 300 EV
Hubert Humphrey/Edmund Muskie: 182 EV
George Wallace/Curtis LeMay: 56 EV

Played as Romney/Rubio on Normal

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Romney/Rubio 272
Obama/Biden 266

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I still won DC so I'm proud of myself.

I played as George Wallace, and campaigned primarily in the border states. Apparently, I drew enough Humphrey voters to throw Maryland to Nixon.

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312-181-45

Holy crap how did you do that lol

I played as Obama, made Hillary Clinton my running mate, and deliberately lost by campaigning exclusively in heavily Democratic states and giving the most right-wing answers possible to every question.

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Former Governor Mitt Romney (R-MA) / Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI): 511 Electoral Votes
President Barack Obama (D-IL) / Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (D-NY): 27 Electoral Votes

I was excited to see that they added one for 2000.  I played as Bush/Danforth on Easy and got this:
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Gov. George W. Bush (R-TX)/Fmr. Sen. John Danforth (R-MO): 352 EVs
Vice Pres. Al Gore (D-TN)/Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-CT): 186 EVs
What's interesting is not only that I got Minnesota, but Nader and Gore both beat me in DC.

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Played as Humphrey in normal mode; the election was deadlocked and I think I would have done better if I had chosen to attack Nixon on his scandal during the last days of the campaign.

266-227-45

Got some interesting results playing as Romney.

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Former Governor Mitt Romney (R-MA) / Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL): 379 Electoral Votes
President Barack Obama (D-IL) / Vice President Joe Biden (D-DE): 159 Electoral Votes

I didn't even campaign in either Delaware or New York, but managed to win them somehow.

For some reason when I try to play this game, I can go through election night but whenever I click "Skip to Final Results" the final results screen never pulls up.  This is annoying because I can never see the national popular vote totals nor any of the other information regarding outcomes in specific states.

Anyone else having this problem?

Yep, depends what computer I'm on, it doesn't work on my Laptop or Tablet, but on the computers in my schools computer lab it works just fine.

Delaware, I could see under really good circumstances, but around the same time as winning Connecticut, Nwe Jersey, and Illinois, and definitely not before Maine, New Mexico, Washington, or Oregon. How did you manage to win New York of all states, though?It happens sometimes. What browser are you using?

Chrome.  I can even get the app to run on IE

Bush/Danforth on hard. Carried Florida decisively only to lose NH, and thus the election, by less than .1 of one percent.

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Played as Humphrey on Easy; actually pretty happy with the results (easy mode isn't as easy as one would think). New Hampshire took about forever to call.

Ran as Al Gore with Bob Graham as my running mate. Managed to win Florida, but did worse than real-life Gore in the West and Midwest, and narrowly lost the election.

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Governor George W. Bush (R-TX) / Former Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney (R-WY): 276 Electoral Votes
Vice President Al Gore (D-TN) / Senator Bob Graham (D-FL): 262 Electoral Votes

The 2000 election seems to be quite difficult, even on lower difficulties.

I've won as Bush both times I tried, but I failed as Gore.

First try on 1896, played as McKinley.

Played as Nixon on Easy

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Nixon 450
Humphrey  43
Wallace 45

Romney on Normal; decent result. Was hoping for NV and PA.

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Won with Bush/Ridge on hard

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Bush/Ridge 273
Gore/Lieberman 265

Tried 2000 on normal again. I swear, it's easier to win as Bush than it is as Gore. I picked John Danforth as my VP, and I was more conservative than my playthrough as Bush/Powell. However, I did not veer somewhat into anti-Clinton territory like last time. I won the same amount of EVs, 301, but I won different states. I was weaker in the Midwest but stronger in the West. I won Florida by a margin of 1.2%, and I'd win even without it, so again, no Supreme Court case for me.




The Senate and House results I posted are alternate history. Just some flavoring to go with the alternate results.

✓ George W. Bush / John Danforth 271 EV 47.4% PV

Al Gore / Joe Lieberman 267 EV 49.5% PV

Ralph Nader 2.6% PV

Pat Buchanan 0.4% PV

The final count came down to Al Gore's home state of Tennessee and John Danforth's home state of Missouri, with Florida being close but not razor-thin.

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392: Vice Pres. Al Gore(D-TE)/Sen. Evan Bayh(D-IN) - 51.6%
146: Gov. George W. Bush(R-TX)/Fmr. Rep. Dick Cheney(R-WY) - 45.7%
Ralph Nader - 2.4%
Pat Buchanan - 0.3%

Wow. How'd you do it?

I just ran on a moderately independent platform taking a few independent ideas on private school vouchers for low-income families and the lockbox for Medicaid. I usually chose to run as my own man and run a positive, optimistic campaign. All I had to connect with Clinton on was the budget..

King, I stuck by Clinton and was able to grasp a couple extra EV's.

Who needs Florida?

2000 as Al Gore on normal with Bayh as my running-mate:

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Al Gore (D-TN)/Evan Bayh (D-IN) - 292 EV, 49.4% PV (52,543,116)
George W. Bush (R-TX)/Dick Cheney (R-WY) - 246 EV, 48.3% PV (51,415,073)

Close States (Within 3%)
Missouri: 1,221,522 (49.34%) - 1,220,936 (49.32%)
New Mexico: 294,801 (48.76%) - 294,190 (48.66%)
New Hampshire: 273,217 (48.90%) - 271,482 (48.59%)
Tennessee: 980,944 (49.53%) - 972,369 (49.09%)
Ohio: 2,256,060 (49.50%) - 2,218,729 (48.68%)
Oregon: 757,113 (48.47%) - 744,941 (47.69%)
Iowa: 669,895 (49.13%) - 658,270 (48.28%)
Florida: 3,336,897 (50.24%) - 3,217,310 (48.44%)

Maybe when I play as Gore I am being too liberal? Could explain why I only win as Bush.

You won Virginia but lost West Virginia as a Democrat? In 2000?

Both Virginia and WV were very close. It came down to like .1 or .2%

So they added a 1976 campaign. It's good if you're Carter, bad if you're Ford. That's not much of a surprise. I played a game as Carter with Scoop Jackson as my VP. I was very moderate, more moderate than real Carter even. I only was really liberal with unions, and that was to secure the left vote as I wanted to be moderate there too. It worked out in the end, as I went from the 297 OTL EVs to 368, albeit the popular margins were still slim in many places. The only state I did worse in was Pennsylvania.



Fmr. Governor Jimmy Carter (D - GA)/Senator Scoop Jackson (D - WA): 368 EVs
President Gerald Ford (R - MI)/Senator Bob Dole (R - TX): 170 EVs

I love that they are adding new years finally!!! I wonder if a 3rd new year is forthcoming...

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Former Governor Jimmy Carter (D-GA) / Senator John Glenn (D-OH): 361 Electoral Votes
President Gerald Ford (R-MI) / Senator Bob Dole (R-KS): 177 Electoral Votes

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Gov. Jimmy Carter/Sen. Scoop Jackson: 456
Pres. Gerald Ford/Sen. Bob Dole: 82

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424: Pres. Gerald Ford(R-MI)/Fmr. Gov. John Connally(R-TX) - 50.76%
114: Fmr Gov. James Carter(D-GA)/Sen. Walter Mondale(D-MN) - 47.29%

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/34518

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VP. Al Gore/Sen. Bill Nelson : 328 Electoral Votes
49.1%
Gov. George W Bush/Sec. Dick Cheney : 214 Electoral Votes 47.5%
Ralph Nader/ Wiona LaDuke : 3.1%
Pat Buchanan/Ezola Foster : 0.3%

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Gov. Mitt Romney/Sen. Marco Rubio: 334 Electoral Votes 52.2%

Pres. Barack Obama/VP Joe Biden : 204 Electoral Votes
46.9%

Gov. Gary Johnson/Judge James Gray : 0 Electoral Votes 0.6%

Jill Stein/Cheri Honkala : 0 Electoral Votes 0.2%

Ford/Dole on easy. I keep getting creamed by Carter on Normal. The difficulty curve for this year is insane.

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Bush/Powell: 341 EV
Gore: 197 EV

Candidate   Electoral Votes   Popular Votes   Popular Vote %
---- George W. Bush   341   50,851,913   47.9%
---- Al Gore   197   50,780,393   47.8%
---- Ralph Nader   0   2,722,963   2.6%
---- Pat Buchanan   0   1,818,395   1.7%

THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL

Congratulations! You have won the 1976 Presidential Election.
http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/34576 (http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/34576)

Hopefully you can make good on your promises to clean up Washington and change the political and moral culture of the country. If you are successful, there is no reason you cannot run for reelection in 1980. Just be wary of any economic problems, or of some foreign policy crisis that could dent your popularity.

Final Results: Game Link (use link to access or share this result)

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/34576 (http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/34576)

Candidate   Electoral Votes    Popular Votes   Popular Vote %
---- Jimmy Carter   534    48,790,589    59.9%
---- Gerald Ford   4    30,643,361    37.6%
---- Other Candidates   0    1,090,488    1.3%
---- Eugene McCarthy   0    955,001    1.2%

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Ummm, Probably a glitch but nevertheless interesting.

I get the sense that 1976 isn't balanced quite right.

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Former VP Nixon/Gov. Spiro Agnew : 283 Electoral Votes43.0%
VP Hubert Humphrey/Sen. Edmund Muskie : 191 Electoral Votes42.4%
Gov. George Wallace/Sen Strom Thurmond 64 Electoral Votes14.6%


Played as Wallace, closest state was Missouri, decided by 162 votes :P

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Nixon on normal; wish I had campaigned more in Texas.

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Romney on normal; Pennsylvania was sad :(

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Are you ever so close yet so far? (270 Bush-268 Gore)

I think my biggest problem was not hitting Bush on the DUI. :P

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/35293

Fordslide!

Does anybody here know how to get >5% with Nader on Normal? If they could show me a game where they did so, I'd really appreciate it.

I wonder if it's possible to win a state as him. If I was a third party candidate, I would rather win a state than 5% nationally.

Not sure if it's possible to win as Nader, but I know it's possible to get Nader to win DC by playing as Gore and intentionally screwing up really badly.

Funny that it would've taken only 1.5 more percent in New York and Louisiana to make it 500+ EVS for Ford, and yet Carter loosing the popular vote by a percent nationwide. Electoral College FTW :P

Carter/Jackson on Easy:

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Ford/Anderson on Normal. Spent most of the game blitzing Wisconsin, Iowa and Ohio.

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/35653

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420: Gov. George W. Bush(R-TX)/Gen. Colin Powell(R-NY) - 51.4%
118: Vice Pres. Al Gore(D-TE)/Sen. Joe Lieberman(D-CT) - 44.6%

000: Lawyer Ralph Nader(G-CT)/Environmental Activist Winona LaDuke(G-MN) - 2.4%
000: Speechwriter Pat Buchanan(Reform-VA)/Activist Ezola Foster(Reform-CA) - 1.6%

Easy:
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468 - 2(FE): Fmr Vice Pres. Richard Nixon(R-CA)/Gov. Nelson Rockefeller(R-NY) - 49.3%
025 + 2(FE): Vice Pres. Hubert Humphrey(D-MN)/Sen. Edmund Muskie(D-ME) - 37.2%
045: Former Gov. George Wallace(AI-AL)/General Curtis LeMay(AI-OH) - 13.6%

I'd love to see a McGovern v. Nixon election ITTL's '72.

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/35916


Normal:
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321 - 217

I'd like to play 1980 as John B. Anderson and 1992 as Ross Perot. Nader being allowed to run for Reform, Green, and Independent wouldn't be too bad either, as I wish he could have different running mates.

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Well...

(Obama on Normal)

I think the 1968 scenario is bugged as Wallace. I played on easy and literally campaigned only in NC and SC to try to throw the election to the house. I took a hard line on Vietnam, Segregation and a moderate one on the Great Society. I tailored all my answers for the South perfectly, yet I can never manage to do much better than Wallace did historically. I can win SC, about half the time but cannot win NC. Nixon always wins the election.

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/36512

Won on easy with Ford , Campaigned a lot in the Midwest, and a little in California and Pennsylvania

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President Gerald Ford (R-MI)/Former Governor John Connally (R-TX) - 50.8%, 424 EV's
Governor Jimmy Carter (D-GA)/Senator Walter Mondale (D-MN) - 47.3%, 114 EV's

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Familiar, eh?

Played as Carter with Mondale on Normal; actually did pretty well.

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/36694

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409-129 EVs

Somehow I always lose with Carter on normal, as I always collapse after they ask me about the Playboy Interview and  the debate , any tips on how to deal with those questions

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http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/36710

Bryan/Sewall 53.76 - 330 EV
McKinley 45.31 - 117 EV
Palmer 0.92


You might want to try being more conservative, so you take more votes from Nixon and fewer from Humphrey.


Those are scripted events.

Anyway, the strategy for this game is to listen to the advisers and experiment with different answers to the same question to find out what the best response is. Also, campaign in the states that are rich in electoral votes and where you are slightly behind, keeping in mind any scripted events. And choose the VP who seems the most likely to have crossover appeal (usually not the historical choice).

From best to worst, the adviser blurbs are:

1. Any praise ending with an exclamation mark!
2. X is the best idea
3. X is a good/interesting idea/X helps you
4. X appeals to moderates (no caveat)
5. X appeals to the base (no caveat)
6. X helps with some voters and hurts with others but helps overall
7. X appeals to moderates but might turn off the base
8. X is the party line/a standard answer
9. No blurb
10. X appeals to the base but might turn off moderates
11. X helps with some voters and hurts with others but hurts overall
12. Negative statement about X

Some theories I have that may or may not be true:

• Your answers to the questions affect the state you're campaigning in the most.
• You get diminishing returns from repeatedly campaigning in the same state.
• At least in the 1896 scenario, the advisers are somewhat unreliable. (The Republicans are too pro-tariff/anti-segregationist and the Democrats are too pro-labor/rural-oriented).

Thanks for the advice, as I was finally able to win with Carter on Normal, next I will try Ford on normal even though that is considerably harder

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/36730

I lost with Ford but somehow you only have a 10% chance of winning with him

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President Gerald Ford (R-MI)/Rep. John B. Anderson (R-IL) - 49.0%/39.682M, 304 EV
Governor Jimmy Carter (D-GA)/Senator Walter Mondale (D-MN) - 49.0%/39.692M, 234 EV
Other Candidates/Other Candidates - 1.1%/857K, 0 EV
 Former Senator Eugene McCarthy (D-MN)/Varying Candidates - 0.9%/754K, 0 EV

Close as hell. Played as a staunchly liberal/Anti-Reagan Republican candidate.

Supported Roe v. Wade, for ERA, supported Humphrey-Hawkins, openness in the administration and agreed to decrease the amount of nuclear weapons. Ended up winning in a crazy squeaker. Was on the edge of my seat when the results came in.

Ford lost the popular vote by about 10,000 votes and still managed to hang on to win the election thanks to Ohio and Pennsylvania. Lost New York by <1% and Mississippi by <0.01%.

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/37272

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/37287

Well, I picked up NM...

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/37302

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/37330

but muh

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This is the result of my 1968 George Wallace game, on easy. This is by far the closest I have come to throwing the election to the House. I managed to pick up TN, SC, and NC. Sadly Humphrey didn't do well enough to force Nixon below 270 in the north.

Nixon 270 - Humphrey 191 - Wallace 77

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/38197

506: Fmr Gov. James Carter(D-GA)/Sen. John Glenn(D-OH) - 53.91%
032: President Gerald Ford(R-MI)/Sen. Robert Dole(R-KS) - 44.02%

It's possible to win as Ford on Easy, apparently. I was moderate on some issues and went more mainline conservative as I became more comfortable. I had a misstep about the ERA, but that was before Carter's Playboy scandal, so I rebounded. I didn't make the Polish gaffe, so that was the biggest godsend. I even got brave and campaigned some in the South; it paid off to an extent. I only wonder if I would have won with the same strategies on Normal...




President Ford was won his own term in the White House. Though Carter began hundreds of EVs ahead of Ford, the President made a miraculous, almost unbelievable comeback by being strong against his opponent, showing his strength and success as President, and his success in building a moderate-conservative coalition in the GOP. Senator Howard Baker will succeed Nelson Rockefeller as VP; Rockefeller will resign tomorrow for Baker to ascend to the Vice Presidency early. President Ford has announced his intention to nominate Rockefeller for HUD. In a conciliatory gesture, Ford has offered Ronald Reagan a position in his 2nd term's cabinet should be accept.

(Swapped Mondale for Jackson for extra alternate history flavor.)

I got  the exact same map as 1968

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/38952

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/38966

Bryan landslide

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http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/38965
Pretty proud of this run as Nixon on impossible.

Nixon/Romney: 314 EVs 44.0%
Humphrey/Muskie: 160 EVs 40.9%
Wallace/LeMay: 64 EVs 15.0%

Michigan was decided by less than 2,000 votes.

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/39051

Actually managed to tie 2000

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/40188

Romney on Easy

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/40198

Oops

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/40206

Could someone link a victory for Ford/SOMETHING which wins AL & LA on Easy.

Man they have made it hard to win with Ford, here's my results

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/41044

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/41180

This one was absolutely hilarious. Around halfway through the game I started campaigning only in Texas and began to choose my answers randomly (whichever one was last on the list), but I still won 332-206.

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/41183

Since I'm bad at this, I went with easy.

1976 (I answered mostly in a way that would take California away from Ford, got a lot more than bargained for)

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2000 (Get Gore his home state)

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http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/41610

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391: Fmr Gov. Mitt Romney(R-MA)/Sen. Marco Rubio(R-FL) - 53.2%
147: Pres. Barack Obama(D-IL)/Vice Pres. Joe Biden(D-DE) - 46.0%

Libertarian - 0.6%
Green - 0.2%
Originally, Maine was called for Obama late in the night. The Romney campaign pursued a recount, which shifted ~3000 votes their way, granting them a margin of victory just over two thousand.

Just for future reference, it's much easier to prevent an electoral majority as Wallace if you play on Impossible than it is if you go Easy/Normal. Impossible mode helps Humphrey a lot for some reason.

I won 389 electoral votes with Ford/Connally on easy. Only won popular 50-48 though.

I couldn't get AL/LA, but I did get MS.

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/41692

First: I stuck with Mondale for Carter, and switched to Graham for Gore

Now continuing (still on easy)

1896 [switched to Adlai Stevenson for Bryan]

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1968 [switched to Fred Harris for Humphrey...no idea how but I managed to get a more liberal result out of South Carolina than North Carolina]

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Confounding the predictions of many experts, you were able to turn the tables on Al Gore, in spite of the economy and Clinton's popularity.
On the political front, you can push for tax cuts to spur the economy and return the budget surplus to the American people. You might also pursue education and immigration reform, individual Social Security accounts, and new laws to defend the family and the sanctity of life.

Candidate   Electoral Votes   Popular Votes   Popular Vote %
---- George W. Bush   352   52,071,450   49.2%
---- Al Gore   186   48,940,295   46.2%
---- Ralph Nader   0   2,606,328   2.5%
---- Pat Buchanan   0   2,213,841   2.1%

Closest States:

Michigan:

Bush: 49.92%
Gore: 48.42%

Pennsylvania:

Bush: 49.33%
Gore: 47.39%

Washington:

Gore: 48.54%
Bush: 46.40%

OOC: Bush/Powell vs Gore/Lieberman

Ford wins 8.35% of the time he's played on normal :P

And literally nobody has ever won as him on Hard or Impossible, though somebody did manage 266 EVs

Palmer's technical ceiling is 100 EVs and slightly more than 2 million PVs, though that can only happen when William Jennings Bryan is played on Impossible. In other words, Palmer can win everything under MO and to the left of NM.

Buchanan can win UT if Bush is played on Impossible, while Nader can win DC if Gore does the same.

Normal:
http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/41823

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.. I did all that... For nothing?

I thought I was doing really good for Normal.

What?

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/42422 (http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/42422)

Oh, yea, the glory of WJB.

Beat Bryan on hard

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/42604

And finally, still on Easy, 2012 with Obama...did nothing but campaign in North Carolina, Missouri, and Montana....ended up changing one state from the actual results.

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Challenge: Have Ford win LA, MS, & AL on Easy. Anyone want to try?

Damn, I've already come close. I got all bul AL.

Played as Wallace on Impossible; Illinois went for Nixon by 202 votes and gave him the election :(

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/43160

Played as Gore on Impossible and intentionally botched my chances. Managed to get Nader to win DC (which is very hard to do). I was also really close to setting a record by letting Nader win Rhode Island but Bush beat him by 172 votes :( (there has never been a Nader win anywhere other than DC before)

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/43291

Played as Nixon/Romney on Impossible. 2nd in both the popular and EV, but did manage to deadlock the college - Humphrey 247, Nixon 214, Wallace 77

I know. I won LA & MS, and I pushed AL's margin below 1.0%.

Humphrey on Normal:

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/44071

No majority in the Electoral College, but OH and CA went for Nixon by razor-thin margins and I got really unlucky with the last answer regarding the peace talks :(

Won with Ford/Dole on Normal!
282-256. Basically surrendered the south to Carter and ran a New York focused campaign. It just barely paid off.

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/44120

Game refused to give me a link for this, but I got this result with Ford/Baker on easy:

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443-95 Ford, but still a 2 point loss in AL.

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/

Humphrey with the guy from Oklahoma.  Nixon refused to debate and I called him out on trying to sabotage peace negotiations.

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Wallace won South Carolina with only 595 more votes than Humphrey.  Nixon was less than 1000 votes short of Humphrey in Tennessee.

Finally won with Ford on normal

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/45203

Bryan/Sewall on Normal:

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/45428 (http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/45428)

Won the popular vote, but lost the electoral college.

Killed as Humphrey (Normal)

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/45489

Does anyone know if it's realistically possible to hold everyone under a majority in the EC in 1896? There are three candidates, so it's theoretically possible, but I don't really see a path to doing it - boosting Palmer in the south seems to boost McKinley a lot too.

1896: Won with Bryan/Matthews on impossible

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/46122

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/46177

Carter/Mondal on Normal

Got pretty unlucky with some of the chance questions (debates, etc.), but I managed to get a sizeable win and apparently did better than 96.5% of games with the same candidate/difficulty.

I had a real 2000 result for 2000. I won as Gore with 272 electoral votes. He won Wisconsin 48.4-48.4, Tennesee 49.2-49.1, and Oregon 47.5-47.4. The recounts must have been crazy. Bush won Florida 49.3-49.0 and Iowa 48.3-48.3. Ironically Bush won the popular vote 48.7-48.3.

Do note that for Carter it's pretty safe to avoid the debates. Your support takes a small hit, but far less than the hit it will take if Ford does well in the debates.

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/46201

Won with Bryan on Normal

I just did the same, but more of a landslide.

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/46207

Won with Bush on hard

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/46661

Bryan/Stevenson on easy, still probably one of the most unique Bryan victory scenarios:

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http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/46681

Take that Ben!

LOL, with this one, Gore didn't need Florida, but it made the real Florida 2000 look like a landslide. He won by 13 votes.

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/46862

Finally beat 1976 as Ford/Connally on Normal.

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/46889

2000, played as Gore/Leiberman and managed to sabotage myself enough to get a Nader victory in not just D.C., but Rhode Island as well.

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/47070

And I got a Buchanan victory in Utah as Bush/Danforth:

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/47055

You are literally the first person to have done this. I recently checked the stats page for 2000 and the most Nader had ever gotten was 3 EVs, so I'm pretty sure this is a record breaker.

Wow.

Actually, upon checking, no. Someone got Nader to win in MA, too. Select impossible on the 2000 stats page.

Dang.

I want to try to give Utah to Buchanan with Bush; apparently it's possible but I haven't seen it done.

I'm hoping for 1960, 1980, 1992, and 2004/2008. An Obama-Dean ticket would be really fun.

I did it here: http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/47055

The basic technique is to campaign as an ultra liberal, but some of it is luck as well, as you can't get it unless the game gives you questions allowing you to be very anti-gun, pro-single payer, and very pro-choice.

Those would be fun.  I'd also love to see 1912.

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Former Governor William McKinley (R-OH) / Financier Lyman Gage (R-IL): 52.6%; 296 Electoral Votes
Former Representative William J. Bryan (D-NE) / Industrialist Arthur Sewall (D-ME): 46.4%; 151 Electoral Votes

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/47112

I won the most EV any has as McKinley on hard.

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/46928

I also won on impossible, but didn't set the record there.

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/47250

I think there's a bug. I was running as Nixon on impossible and running as far to the left as possible, and ended up with exactly 2 EV.

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/47260

You carried 2 CDs in Nebraska

Sabotaging Bryan on impossible, I set the record for Palmer's performance.

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/47282

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/47298

506 - 32

Candidate   Electoral Votes   Popular Votes   Popular Vote %
---- George W. Bush   366   54,774,659   51.0%
---- Al Gore   172   48,315,552   45.0%
---- Ralph Nader   0   2,561,766   2.4%
---- Pat Buchanan   0   1,667,840   1.6%

Right wing Nader ends up with literally 0 votes. I guess Nader getting votes must have cost Gore Alabama, because he even won states like that.

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/47341

I think the congressional district system they do is pretty inaccurate; it seems like they always want split them even when doing so is completely unrealistic.

Like it's really hard to win 2012 and lose/win all of Maine and Nebraska.

Three-vote Nader win in Washington, D.C.

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It should be noted that when you're on the election results page,  click 'Further Reading', and click 'Final ____ Results', it takes you here! :D

Sabotaged Ford so bad he lost every state.

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/47923

I got within 5 hundredths of one percent of winning AL as Ford/Connally. If only I could figure out how to actually win the state:

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/48146

AL Results:

Candidate   Electoral Votes   Popular Votes   Pop. Vote %
---- Jimmy Carter   9   591,673   49.16
---- Gerald Ford   0   591,011   49.11
---- Other Candidates   0   20,879   1.73
---- Eugene McCarthy   0   0   0.00

You could change your first answer if Honesty is important to AL

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/48456

Answer the questions like Pat Buchanan to flip SD.

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/48682

Landslide with Humphrey/Kennedy on hard.

Won with McKinley on impossible

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/48690

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/49023

Has anyone won Iowa with HHH on Normal? I know it's possible but I can never seem to pull it off.

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/49024

Massive Obama Landslide in 2012. Obama/Clinton won the popular vote by 10 points and many solid red states.

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/49151

Lost NH (and hence the whole election) by 136 votes. Still did better than 68.2% of other Romney Normals though, apparently.

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/49648

Got hilariously lucky here (Nixon/Agnew on Normal). I managed to answer all of the questions decently, but Humphrey initially seemed to be catching up again during the final weeks. However, election night somehow managed to kill him and Nixon won with a 440-53-45 majority (Wallace even beat Humphrey).

Also did better than 94.2% of other games with the same candidate/difficulty, apparently.

I've almost won on Impossible as Romney, but I suck at it. I did it before but now I am forgetting how I did it, anyone have any thoughts?

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/49673

Mirror image 2000; I won the popular vote as Romney but lost the election by the bare minimum 2 electoral votes, or 1068 votes in New Hampshire.

Probably counts as a moral victory, since within days the country's most popular bumper sticker would be "Reelect Romney" and he'd be well-placed for easy victories in the '16 primaries and general. Gary Johnson would need to hire bodyguards, having won more votes than Obama's margin of victory in 3 states.

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1976 electoral tie on hard

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/49755

Wow. I've never seen this Game end in a tie before.

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/50028

They needa make another election soon, wonder what it'll be next!

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/50036

Ford/Connally on normal, lost Kentucky by 193 votes. Landslide victory for Ford.

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/50045

Humphrey/Harris on Normal. Absolute landslide.

1960 added!

Kennedy/Symington - easy

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/50650

Hopefully 1992 will be next

Conservative Nixon landslide

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/50680

All these new campaigns!  Its Christmas time!

Managed to lose the popular vote but win the electoral vote as Nixon-Goldwater.

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Vice President Richard Nixon (R-CA) / Senator Barry Goldwater (R-AZ): 49.5%; 286 Electoral Votes
Senator John F. Kennedy (D-MA) / Senator Lyndon Johnson (D-TX): 50.5%; 245 Electoral Votes
Senator Harry Bird (I-VA) / Senator Strom Thurmond (I-SC): 0%; 6 Electoral Votes


http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/50732

After a few tries I finally managed to achieve an electoral draw with a Kennedy/Humphrey ticket. While I myself haven't been able to manage it yet, I think it is possible to win, by the skin of your teeth mind you, with Humphrey as your running-mate; had Wisconsin somehow gone my way, there being only a two point difference between me and Nixon there, I would have won outright without any support from the South. Generally though, at least on Hard and above, you would need absolutely everything to go right for you including a clear victory in the debate against Nixon. If you don't manage that then Nixon will almost certainly win the election, having a relatively safe base of support in the South and only needing to carry a handful of the competitive states.


http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/50726

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/50843

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/50818

Kennedy/Johnson on normal:

www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/50914 (http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/50914)

Lost the popular vote, won the electoral college.

352 electoral votes with Nixon/Rockefeller on Hard, despite losing the debates.

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/50945

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/50981

Absolutely hilarious glitch with Nixon/Goldwater on Impossible. I intentionally bombed the campaign, and Nixon ended up winning zero states. The funny thing is, though, Harry Byrd got 6 EVs and literally one popular vote.

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It's not a glitch. Byrd automatically gets 6 AL electors.

He got one popular vote. One.

It's likely just something they put in there to get their code working properly. It comes from the AL-Unpledged section of the results, which is set to always go for Byrd. The reason why he didn't get votes elsewhere is because choosing Goldwater takes Byrd off the ballot for whatever reason.

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/50993

Kennedy/Humphrey on easy.

I intentionally bombed as Kennedy/Johnson on Impossible and apparently still did better than ~72% of players on the same difficulty level.

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/51100 (http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/51100)

Did better than 78% of people. Kennedy/Johnson v Nixon

Afte playing 1960 a few times, it seems Symington is the best choice for running-mate. He just gathers the coalition Kennedy wants.

Has anyone tried a hawkish slightly pro-CR very strongly pro-labor Kennedy with otherwise moderate hero stances? I think it might just work.

The basic package on Easy, I always run these on easy first.

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Kennedy/Johnson 369 EV, 51.4% PV
Nixon/Lodge 154 EV, 48% PV
Unpledged 14 EV

Has anyone won the debate as Nixon? Wondering if it's possible.

Thought this was gonna be a loss, but somehow managed to pickup Wisconsin and California to win the election as JFK/HHH. Just go super aggressive with foreign policy and the rest falls into place.

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/51482

http://americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/51844 (http://americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/51844)

Nixon/Rockefeler, got 332 EV.

I understand 1992 and 2008 are under consideration.

2008 as McCain would likely be harder than 1976 as Ford.

Candidate   Electoral Votes   Popular Votes   Popular Vote %
---- John F. Kennedy   279   31,244,758   47.1%
---- Richard Nixon   201   31,325,390   47.3%
---- Harry Byrd   57   3,726,181   5.6%

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/52029 (http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/52029)

Won the election and the EV despite being behind in the PV. Went full left on civil rights, neo-conservative and anti-communist on foreign policy.

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/52584

Screwed up as Obama on Easy; did better than 0.1% of other players with same candidate/difficulty level.

It annoys me so much how the simulator always seems obsessed with giving each candidate at least one CD from both Nebraska and Maine.

1992 would be the best. I've always wanted to simulate a Perot victory, or at least giving him some states.

I'm not sure about that. Ford's pretty easy on East, but it's called that for a reason. I'm hoping for them making 2004, so I can play as Kerry-Dean. As far as 1992 goes, a Bush-Kemp or Clinton-Tsongas ticket would be pretty cool. I hope Perot can pick someone like Ron Paul or someone similar.

The thing I wish was possible in '76 is a Ford/Rockefeller ticket.

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/52866

Romney/Pawlenty on Normal. Did better than 88.6%, but still lost the PV.

 Nixon/Dirksen on hard. (http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/53223) I lost the PV by 200,000 votes.

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/53553

Did better than 86.5% of similar games with Ford on Normal but... ugh 1976

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/53607

Bryan on Normal; better than 92.4% of similar games :)

295 electoral votes with Romney/Pawlenty on Hard. Pennsylvania went for Obama by just 621 votes.
http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/54089

DId Bryan/Teller, did better than 98.9% of people. LOL wyoming doe.

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/54713 (http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/54713)

what even

My thoughts exactly, but I'd also like to see 2004