Like the other map they're a bunch of hacks.

(assuming that's Corker/Clayton yeah?)

9, would be a great candidate.

As far as voting goes it's good, but the cut-off dates for registration were made way too long. Luckily the High Court struck it down. I can see people being turned off by mandatory voting, but it isn't that bad, and you can just not register if you don't want to IIRC. The system is apolitical and there is no real cases of gerrymandering (or at least these days, malapportionment was rife in the past).

However, I dislike that the parties seem to be too tightly whipped and there is little choice in parties.

10. Can't really think of many people more electable than Scott.

2. Much too leftist, particularly on economic issues.

7, seems to have rural appeal but he could be portrayed as too leftist.

Walker.

I think that Clinton would win in such a scenario, but I think that her victory margin would be closer to Obama's in 2008. From what I can tell, Rick Santorum's message of extreme social conservatism and his hardline foreign policy views are extremely popular in the South and parts of the Midwest. Santorum's popularity in those areas would increase even further if he picks someone such as Mike Huckabee or Rick Perry as his running mate. I don't even think Hillary Clinton would even carry her home state of Arkansas in such a scenario and Rick Santorum might even carry Ohio.

Here is what the map would look like:

Clinton/Schweitzer: 353 Electoral Votes
Santorum/Huckabee (Or Rick Perry): 185 Electoral Votes

For benefit of the doubt Ill give you the possibility of Santorum holding onto more southern states here then I think he actually would. However Ohio, I just dont see. Santorum may have been a rust belt senator but I don't see him doing well enough in northern ohio to offset Clinton margins. Clinton was very popular in Ohio during the democratic party primary and Santorum actually lost Ohio to Romney while he was still a viable contender. Considering this was his home region I take that as a sign as to his overall electability. I actually think Clinton would do better in Ohio then Obama did against Romney. Simply put Clinton against Santorum would be imo a bloodbath of epic proportions but the best he could proably do is keep the south solid and Clinton in the 370 electoral range.

I may have over estimated Santorum's performance in this map, especially regarding the Southern states, but I was under the impression that he was actually pretty popular in industrial states such as Ohio and Michigan due to his faux-populist message regarding economics.

He might do decent in a meh economy, but the conditions stated a great economy.

Quayle does have experience on his side.

As much experience in the Congress as Jack Kennedy did when he sought the presidency.

And as much intelligence as Jack Kennedy after he "left" Presidency.

Now, that's a little far....

Would just fade away into the background afaic.

1) Biden
2) Schweitzer
3) Patrick
4) Cuomo
5) O'Malley
6) Christie
7) Martinez
Bush
9) Rubio
10) Ryan
11) Santorum

Him and McIntyre will be lucky to survive given the demographics of the district.

For and anyone not a Jewish Republican that votes no is a hack.

Yeah he isn't so good on gay rights but will he have anything to do with that on the Defense thing?

Who's the most left-wing of the three?

It's Arkansas...that's kinda a moot point

Nah but seriously, probably Pryor right now, although if Thornton was a liberal then I'd consider him.

I don't like dynasties, but I don't like conspiracy theorists and fake moderates either. So Humphrey I guess.

If Ventura wasn't a conspiracy theorist then yeah I'd plump for him.

Finance if I can't have Appropriations.

If Hillary runs in 2016, she wins.

Simple as that.

If Hillary runs in 2008, she wins.

Simple as that.

Oh wait...

Who in the primary could beat her? And she's also way more popular than she was.

Do you perform stand-up now Kal?

Not anyone important

Haha, she wasn't even relevant in 2012.

Don't like the Casey's, but the Republican ticket is a fair way worse, so Casey I suppose.

Easier with 1. more experience to his district and 2. no Romney on the top of the ticket.

Brewer/Paul 279, 44% PV
Cuomo/Landrieu 256, 43% PV
Sanders/Crist 3, 9% PV
Others 0, rounds down to 0% PV

The gray states are states which Brewer won, but where Cuomo+Sanders would be enough for a victory.

lol wat, Democrats are winning 43% nationwide but ~50%+ in NV/NM/MN/IA/WI/MI/PA?

I don't think he took margins into account.

Beebe.

Franzl >> Oakvale. I'll give him that.

Franzl is someone with some rather HP-ish political beliefs and is very quick to judgment, though he seems to be an alright guy in real life. I abstained.

Agreed on the first point, but calling Franzl's entirely sensible political views "horrible" is pretty rich coming from oh god what's the point?

Well, among other things, Franzl is known for supporting healthcare nationalization and has also been remarkably anti-gun from someone who I gather was originally from downstate Illinois

These are bad ideas why exactly?