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[Clark Kent]

Got some interesting results playing as Romney.

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.

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?

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?

It happens sometimes. What browser are you using?

[Clark Kent]

✓ Al Gore (D-TN)/Evan Bayh (D-IN) - 412 EV 52.3% PV

George W. Bush (R-TX)/Dick Cheney (R-WY) - 126 EV 44.9% PV

Ralph Nader (G-CT)/Winona LaDuke (G-MN) - 2.5% PV

Pat Buchanan (R-VA)/Ezola B. Foster (R-CA) 0.3% PV

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

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

[Clark Kent]

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.

[Clark Kent]

Carter/Jackson on Easy:

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

[Clark Kent]

Vice Pres. Richard Nixon (R-CA)/Sen. Everett Dirksen (R-IL): 343 EVs, 48.75% PV
Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-MA)/Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson (D-TX): 46.41% PV
Sen. Harry Byrd (ID-VA)/Sen. Strom Thurmond (ID-SC): 27 EVs, 4.84% PV

What I find interesting on this one is that right before the election, I was estimated to be beating Kennedy in Illinois 50-49%, but I ended up losing there by about 5,000 votes.  That's probably Mayor Daley bringing out the dead vote in Chicago...

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/60555

What happened in Rhode Island?

[Clark Kent]

Won as Dewey in 1948 while losing the popular vote by almost 2%

Republican: Thomas Dewey (New York)/Arthur Vandenburg (Michigan) - 46.20%, 268 EVs
Democratic: Harry S. Truman (Missouri)/Alben W. Barkley (Kentucky) - 48.01%, 225 EVs
States' Rights Democratic: Strom Thurmond (South Carolina)/Fielding Wright (Mississippi) - 2.62%, 38 EVs
Progressive: Henry A. Wallace (Iowa)/Glen H. Taylor (Idaho) - 3.16%, 0 EVs

States decided by less than 5%:

California - 0.05%
Idaho - 0.42%
Wyoming - 1.13%
Ohio - 1.43%
Iowa - 1.48%
Wisconsin - 1.71%
Nevada - 1.91%
Connecticut - 2.17%
Colorado - 2.80%
Illinois - 3.31%
Maryland - 3.63%
New York - 4.37%
Utah - 4.38%
Indiana - 4.91%

States decided by less than 10%:

Delaware - 5.24%
Michigan - 5.79%
Oregon - 5.82%
Montana - 5.89%
Virginia - 5.92%
New Jersey - 6.05%
Arizona - 6.22%
Pennsylvania - 6.78%
Washington - 7.08%
New Hampshire - 8.10%
South Dakota - 9.45%

[Clark Kent]

They added 1988

And took out 1976.

[Clark Kent]

Won in a landslide as Romney '12:

Closest states:

Washington - 0.69%
Delaware - 0.73%
Oregon - 0.74%
Maine - 0.86%
Michigan - 1.01%
New Mexico - 1.22%
Connecticut - 2.39%
Minnesota - 3.12%
New Jersey - 4.08%
Maryland - 4.56%
New York - 4.88%
Illinois - 5.25%
Pennsylvania - 5.86%
Wisconsin - 5.94%
Massachusetts - 6.76%
Colorado - 6.76%
California - 7.18%
New Hampshire - 7.37%
Nevada - 7.38%
Iowa - 7.86%
Virginia - 8.41%
Ohio - 8.86%
Rhode Island - 9.70%

You made Rhode Island closer than Florida?

What I don't get is how Romney would've won Oregon, Washington, Maine, and Delaware without also winning New Mexico, which was much closer IOTL.

[Clark Kent]

Won as Lincoln/Hamlin on normal

Republican: Abraham Lincoln (Illinois)/Hannibal Hamlin (Maine) - 39.38%, 178 EVs
Southern Democratic: John C. Breckinridge (Kentucky)/Joseph Lane (Oregon) - 18.94%, 87 EVs
Constitutional Union: John Bell (Tennessee)/Edward Everett (Massachusetts) - 12.61%, 33 EVs
Democratic: Stephen Douglas (Illinois)/Herschel V. Johnson (Georgia) - 29.07%, 5 EVs