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[The Govanah Jake]

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Richard M Nixon: 276 - 50.24%
John F Kennedy: 253 - 49.59%

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William Rutherford wins in 2012.  He is a tremendously popular president on the scale of FDR and Reagan and more so in fact with approvals constantly above 55% and in fact above 60-65% for a large part of his first term. This could only be done due to a extremely successful domestic policy (Since he is a democrat then say a New new deal) plus possibly a foreign war that is being won which could inflate his numbers. The republicans know they cant win in 2016 and so nominate controversial billionaire as lamb slaughter to the president. Trump never polls above 40% and is humiliated by Rutherford in the debates and is shown for as a fraud and strips him of whatever populist appeal he has. Say a supporter of his in trumps name shoots up a building or something and also more successful foreign and domestic news puts the final polling day in November 8th, 2016 at 60%-33% for Rutherford. He over performs the polls and wins 63.58%-34.07% combined with a 528 electoral vote victory over trumps 10. He only wins Oklahoma and barely wins heavily republican Wyoming and even barely loses west Virginia were his whole populist message backfired along with Arkansas. Rutherford's best state is Hawaii were he gets 82.46% of the vote to Trumps 15.96%. He is remember as a tremendous president from there on to be admired and studied in the likes of FDR, Lincoln, and Reagan as one of the greatest presidents.

[The Govanah Jake]

2020
Donald Trump v Kamala Harris

The Narrow reelection

2024
Amy Klobuchar v Ron Johnson

Johnson carry's on the populist message

2028
Amy Klobuchar v Tom Cotton

A Decisive Defeat

2032
Justin Amash v Julian Castro

The last breath

2036
Tulsi Gabbard v Justin Amash

And the dive

2040
Tulsi Gabbard v T.W. Shannon

Republicans hit bottom

2044
Chris Murphy v Mia Love

Senator v Senator

2048
Chris Murphy v John Cameron Henry Jr.

Republicans must be extinct by now

2052
Elise Stefanik v Daniel Harkip

And the triumphant return

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Feingod ! !

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Trump: 308 (50.1%)

Sanders: 230 (48.6%)

I think Sanders wins Ohio, Wisconsin, PA, and Iowa and thus the election.

Also Virginia wouldn't flip so easily if Trump was still the nominee. Sanders offers of increased government programs which wouldn't be such a bad message in NoVa where the government employs many while Trump is still calling to cut programs.

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1896: The Great Commoner

Going into the 1896 convention the nomination for the democrat to succeed Cleveland was contested. The bigwigs of the party came in and fought for control of the party with there own machines and there was very little doubt it would be one of these men. Representative Richard Bland of Missouri had been getting a upper hand towards the end of the ballots and was expected to secure a majority. However a rousing speech by little known congressmen from Nebraska William Jennings Bryan on Silver use was able to boost his name on the ballot and unexpectedly secured a upset over the democratic giants. His brass populism was not settling with many in the Cleveland bourbon democrats who represented moderation and liberal conservatism in economic affairs. With his winning of the nomination on the fifth ballot in order to ease tensions he choose the more establishmentarrian figure from Illinois John Palmer who was nearing 80. This was able to do its effect and while a partial "National Democratic Party" was founded by Simon B. Buckner, it failed to get much traction and remained a irrelevant force. Meanwhile on the Republican side, sensing victory after the Panic of 1893 many high level republicans ran. Out of all of them Ohio Governor William McKinley was able to defeat them all and elect Garret Hobart as Vice President. They sought to ally themselves with business and the professional classes distraught by Bryan's populism. The ensuing campaign was one to change most others. Bryan's main strategy of stump speeches and crisscrossing the country in rally's was new to a nation known for candidates using at home rally's which McKinley used. The Republicans attacked him as a dangerous religious fanatic and a reckless person in regards to the economy. Bryan on the other hand called the Republicans uninterested in the concerns of the average american and bought out by big business. In the end what did it for the Republicans was the sentiment that they didn't care for the average American. It was shown in the results, while McKinley won the wealthier and professional business class areas, Bryan won the Farmers and the Poor vote along with making inroads into industrial areas. Thus in the end William Jennings Bryan was able to do the impossible and narrowly beat McKinley to hold the presidency for the Democrats and usher in a new century under there rule.

William Jennings Bryan: 234 EV, 49.04%

William McKinley: 213 EV, 48.79%

[The Govanah Jake]

2008
The People vs. The Swamp

Mike Gravel/Jesse Ventura – 435
Dick Cheney/Mitch McConnell – 103

One can dream...

[The Govanah Jake]

how do people make wiki infoboxes?

Its pretty easy actually. For the actual infobox, go to wikipedia and get a account and go to sandbox. Then go to a type of infobox you want on a certain page (Example: I want a alternate New York Governor's race for 2014 so i go to the actual 2014 results page) and go to the edit section and copy the code for that actual election infobox. Then past it into sandbox and you can edit the names and change it at will. To make the maps and add them i suggest to use Svg maps. Copy the svg map you want and download inkscape or something like it like Gimp. From there (at least in inkscape) go to XML editor and all you do from there is fill in the map at your will. When your done, export the file as a png and upload it to wikipedia commons. From there copy the thumbnail link to the picture once your down unloading it and past it into the map section of the infobox which should be there for any infoboxes with maps. Change the thumbnail part to the size of the thumbnail you want. I suggest 300px

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Here's my iCivics run.

The winner was Senator Nathan W. Blair (me), a Moderate Democrat from West Virginia whose populist-ish positions on retirement security, fiscal responsibility (with regard to large corporations), healthcare access (by way of a public option system, billed as "BlairCare"), and government transparency shot him to victory by taking the Rust Belt. Sizable turnouts in minority communities in Florida and (especially the Hispanic population) in Texas led to shocking gains there, as well.

Meanwhile, the Republican candidate ran on a fiscally-conservative but socially-moderate platform a la Mitt Romney, which, while praised for sticking to his guns, led to the dwindling population of conservative boomers to vote for the Democrat, who begrudgingly supported the legal right to abortion but advocated for "giving you every reason not to that the government can."

The selection of Sarah Patel, a former senator and Iraq vet-turned-UN Ambassador, as Blair's VP was credited with shoring support in minorities and a decent fraction of veterans.

Sen. Nathan Blair/Amb. Sarah Patel (D-WV/MO): 340 EVs

Gov. Steven Fisher/Sen. Maria Ramirez (R-VT/NV): 198 EVs

I can see that game is not very fond of creating electorally sane maps.

[The Govanah Jake]

Here's my iCivics run.

The winner was Senator Nathan W. Blair (me), a Moderate Democrat from West Virginia whose populist-ish positions on retirement security, fiscal responsibility (with regard to large corporations), healthcare access (by way of a public option system, billed as "BlairCare"), and government transparency shot him to victory by taking the Rust Belt. Sizable turnouts in minority communities in Florida and (especially the Hispanic population) in Texas led to shocking gains there, as well.

Meanwhile, the Republican candidate ran on a fiscally-conservative but socially-moderate platform a la Mitt Romney, which, while praised for sticking to his guns, led to the dwindling population of conservative boomers to vote for the Democrat, who begrudgingly supported the legal right to abortion but advocated for "giving you every reason not to that the government can."

The selection of Sarah Patel, a former senator and Iraq vet-turned-UN Ambassador, as Blair's VP was credited with shoring support in minorities and a decent fraction of veterans.

Sen. Nathan Blair/Amb. Sarah Patel (D-WV/MO): 340 EVs

Gov. Steven Fisher/Sen. Maria Ramirez (R-VT/NV): 198 EVs

I can see that game is not very fond of creating electorally sane maps.

No, no it is not. CA started out polling 60/40 Republican.

Vermont is a glaring example as well. No "Moderate Republican" versus "populist democrat" scenario would result in Vermont going Republican.

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Bernie VS Trump 2016
I took the polling of Bernie vs Trump in May 2016 and then brought Trump and Sanders up by the same # of points as the two candidates did in reality (+1.3R, +3.0 Dem) I then did a similar MoE as to what happened in reality. (-1.2 Dem,+2.5 Rep)
That leaves us with a whopping spread of 8.4%. As much of a Bernie lover as I am, that's highly unlikely. However, I still mapped it.

Senator Bernard Sanders/Senator Elizabeth Warren: 51.5%, 411 EV
Businessman Donald J. Trump/Governor Michael Pence: 43.1%, 121 EV
Former Policy Director Evan McMullin/Businesswoman Mandy Finn: .6%, 6 EV
Former Governor Gary Johnson/Former Governor Bill Weld: 3.7%, 0 EV
Attorney Darrell Castle/Businessman Scott Bradley: .4%, 0 EV
Others: .7%
Jill Stein doesn't even get 4th place due to most of her base going to Bernie. Bernie's nomination gets the farther right of america to vote in great plains states, causing Castle to get a commanding 4th place. Bernie splits more votes with Trump in Utah over economic issues, allowing McMullin to win. Alaska very nearly goes to Johnson.

The Red.
It's Beautiful.

[The Govanah Jake]

I know that some of the maps I have posted (i.e. Rutherford, Holland), have come to be viewed as redundant by some here, but the map that I am now posting is "different". I found the map template at DailyKos.com, where they had engaged in a profit to devise congressional districts drawn up on non-partisan lines. I translated the results from my Holland Scenario to this template, producing this map below:

These congressional district boundaries are interesting, and are reminiscent of those that were in place in prior decades (1964, for example).

Where is Holland in OTL when we need him?

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1980

Rep. John Anderson (R-IL)/Fmr. Gov. Ronald Reagan (R-CA): 463 EVs (55% PV)
Pres. Jimmy Carter (D-GA)/Vice Pres. Walter Mondale (D-MN): 75 EVs (42% PV)

How it should of been.

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2020 Presidential Election Scenario 4

2020 Presidential Election Results:
Donald Trump/Mike Pence: 260 Electoral Votes (48% of Popular Vote)
Bernie Sanders/Tulsi Gabbard: 278 Electoral Votes (51%  of Popular Vote) WINNER

God Sanders and Goddess Gabbard win?
I'm ok with this.

[The Govanah Jake]

I presented these four scenarios, to describe how different Democratic Nominees will fair against Trump in 2020. As you can see from my maps, Warren performs the worst against Trump (she loses to him in a near landslide, winning only 13 states, 183 Electoral Votes, and 45% of the Popular Vote) mainly due to her gender (Trump is very effective at attacking females, just look at what he did to Hillary Clinton) and “Coastal Elitist” image (she was a professor at Harvard). Booker performs slightly better then Warren (he wins 16 states, 210 Electoral Votes, and 48% of the Popular Vote), however he still loses because most White Americans are not ready for another Black president. Biden comes within inches of victory (he holds all the Clinton states, flips Michigan, and wins the Popular Vote by almost 3 points), however, he loses Pennsylvania and Wisconsin by razor-thin margins due to Trump tying him to Barack Obama. Finally, the only candidate I project to defeat Trump is Bernie Sanders (he holds all the Clinton states, flips Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, and wins the Popular Vote by over 3 points), because his unique ability to communicate Far-Left economic policies (Single-Payer Healthcare, Free College, and a 15-dollar minimum wage), while not talking about Far-Left Social policies (#metoo hysteria and Transgender bathrooms), while simultaneously being genuinely Anti-War (he didn’t vote for the Iraq War, is opposed to invading Iran, and doesn’t blame Russia for Democrats losing elections), allows him to get record turnout from Millennials and Minorities, and win White Working Class voters no other Democrats can appeal to (he does this by not talking about Social issues), which together makes him the only Democrat who can win the Rust Belt and thus the election.

Politicians like Sherrod Brown exist you know.