Realignment: Schweitzer/Christie

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

I know Hillary is the nominee, but suspend your disbelief for a second, and try to picture a realignment scenario between my favorite Democrat and favorite non-Paul Republican.

There was a brief mention in the US General Discussion last night from LSD that if there was ever an effort to align the US parties by class as opposed to culture, Schweitzer would likely be the head of that.  To complement that I have added the extraordinarily unpopular Christie who can't even hold a lead in LA/AR.

What do you think? Would the South actually go Democratic? I think the upper south, especially WV, almost certainly would. Mississippi and Georgia, I was on the fence about. Those are both really close. Honestly, I think the map I made is a tad generous to Christie even beyond those two (NJ, ND, SD, MO plus the Obama '08 swing states I gave him could all easily go to Schweitzer). I was just looking for a map where we could see violent swings in both directions all across the map. Poll's obligatory of course with any unrealistic 2016 discussion, but what I really want to see is your maps to get the general consensus on whether states would ultimately go their partisan ways or vote on economic issues if someone who shared their culture was running.

Schweitzer: 274
Christie: 264

I was being generous of course. IDK who I'd ultimately vote for, but lean Christie for now.

[IceSpear]

I think the polarization is too deep to change the map all that much at this point. It would've been a very interesting matchup in say, 2008 though.

Christie - 287
Schweitzer - 251

[Libertarian Socialist Dem]

I think that Schweitzer's strength would be in the west and possibly the great planes states, maybe West Virginia also since he's pro-coal. Can't see him doing well in the south though since he did well call all of them gay.

Schweitzer/Klobucher 333
Christie/Cruz              205

[Chunk Yogurt for President!]

South Carolina Republicans will never consider voting for a Democrat, as the 2008 Senate race showed us.  But many in the Upper South would. 

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

Can't see him doing well in the south though since he did well call all of them gay.

Yeah, I probably should've said pre-interview Schweitzer vs. pre-Bridgegate Christie because at this point they are so flawed they can't even get nominated.

South Carolina Republicans will never consider voting for a Democrat, as the 2008 Senate race showed us.  But many in the Upper South would. 

Agreed. South Carolina is a completely different animal from every other state in the south.

[Libertarian Socialist Dem]

Can't see him doing well in the south though since he did well call all of them gay.

Yeah, I probably should've said pre-interview Schweitzer vs. pre-Bridgegate Christie because at this point they are so flawed they can't even get nominated.

It did seem like a reasonable possibility pre-interview. I think that Schweitzer if he hadn't run his mouth off would have run, and I think that he would have had a better shot at upsetting Hillary then O'Malley, Webb or Sanders.