Best Case Scenarios for both parties

[IceSpear]

Best case for Democrats; Someone competent other than Hillary/Biden runs and wins a tight race (nominating Hillary or Biden is setting the party up for disaster in 2016, or worse 2020).

Best Case for Republicans; Cruz runs and wins the nomination, then, aided by low popularity for President Obama and poor campaigning from Hillary/Biden, wins the General Election easily. (Cruz is probably best case because he is ardently conservative, and would be competitive or better in November-Walker might fit this too, but he might not be conservative enough for most activists)

This post gave me cancer.

[IceSpear]

Since I want to make this look somewhat realistic, I'm going to implicitly assume that both parties don't nominate a complete joke candidate, otherwise the ceilings would be higher of course.

D - 396
R - 142

R - 322
D - 216

[IceSpear]

GOP best case (in 2016):

DEM best case (in 2016):

Colorado was a mistake I'm guessing?

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Using the 90s electoral vote map, Goldwater?