Post the map of an election between the two preceding posters

[Mr. Smith]

Ultimately this was a battle between who could out-libertarian who for a long-time....until foreign policy came to head. Non-interventionist ElectionsGuy claimed that the country had been through too many wars and that too many civil liberties had been quashed  in pursuit of winning "the war of the week". Goldwater much like his namesake wanted terrorists fought at all costs,lest they win and no one to help the country in the end.

Naturally this meant that traditionally social liberal or very rural states and areas favored ElectionsGuy, while places with more infrastructure that sought to benefit from anything to protect international trade or had heavy military presence favored Goldwater.

Ultimately Goldwater came through by a "law-and-order" theme where foreign policy is concerned.

Goldwater (R-WA): 338 EV
ElectionsGuy (L-WI): 200 EV

[Mr. Smith]

Polarization reaches the final conclusion: Atheist Socialism vs Conservative Christian Populism. Naturally this throws out the Moderate Sell-out parties in the eyes of the people.

In the end it comes down to Governor Thomas A. Schafly of New Jersey (Constitution) and Senator T. Nolan Fitzgerald of Illinois

Governor Thomas Schafly (C-NJ)/ Jim Clymer (C-PA): 275 EV, 49.5% PV
Senator T. Nolan Fitzergald (S-IL)/ Marsha Feinland (P&F -CA): 263 EV, 49.2% PV

In spite of a libertarian/liberal truce in the name of trying to stop a theocracy, ultimately Govenor Schafly managed to appeal to enough of Appalachia to clinch Pennsylvania and also retook Iowa...negating all Socialist gains in otherwise conservative places such as Montana, the Dakotas, or Nebraska.

[Mr. Smith]

Congressman L.D. Smith (D-VA) manages to slaughter  Governor Newt K. Land (D-MN) in the primaries with a more moderate image.

L.D. Smith (D-VA): 55%
Newt K. Land (D-MN): 42%
NOTA: 3% (No delegates)

[Mr. Smith]

Democratic Primary

Beaver wins via the Latino vote in California

[Mr. Smith]

Senator Barry M. Goldwater, III (R-WA): 276 EV
Congressman Vince "Intell" Dodd (D-DC): 262 EV

[Mr. Smith]

Democratic Primary:

Senator Tim Turner and Governor John Dixie "Southern" Gothic duke it out in a heated primary that becomes a primary of character and personality rather than actual issue divides. They face off with Bernie Sanders, a more progressive guy more enticing to the Northeast. Ultimately, Governor Gothic cannot shed his image as a provincial candidate and Senator Sanders is of course Sanders...this allows Senator Turner to sweep pretty much all the primaries and caucuses after pulling a convincing second between the clashes of Gothic and Sanders.

[Mr. Smith]

Democratic Primary, 2020

Governor Cedric "Comrade" Funk of Pennsylvania and Representative Paris E. Eberhardt of North Carolina were too surprisingly liberal choices, even for the Democratic Party. Because of the near lack of difference ideologically, it was character and personality that played out. Eberhardt portrayed herself as a down-to-earth Southern gal which appealed well to rural areas, Funk ran a Sanders-esque campaign, which helped him in the Northeast. The contest was neck and neck all the way to California, which Eberhardt won thanks to the Inland Empire.

[Mr. Smith]

Governor Eva Greene-Arbor [D-WA]
Fmr. Senator V. Finn Tell [D-GA]

Governor Arbor appeals to the DNC, latte liberals, and Minnesota-nice voters, Senator Tell picks up the dissatisfied with the establishment.

Tell gets most of Super Tuesday, but creamed at Acela Time and the West Coast Push.

EDIT: Whoops, wrong thread. Map rework coming up.

[Mr. Smith]

OneJ develops a minority and WWC coalition to take out establishment favorite heatcharger. While Iowa is narrowly won and NH is handily lost, the stride is hit in Nevada, and besides a Split South and a Mid-Atlantic-Ozark-Appalachia lockout...everything else goes in his favor.

[Mr. Smith]

Governor Xing Kerui of Washington manages to get the Democratic nomination and faces Fmr. HHS Sec Rob Fayette of California . One of them runs a rather centrist campaign trying to tackle the Sunbelt, the other ran a "compassionate conservative" sort of campaign.

Most of the election was pretty straightforward (with the only notable exception being Alaska which Gov. Kerui worked absurdly hard on in the last week after Mr. Fayette let slip a gap about ending the Permanent Fund.), except for Pennsylvania and Nevada. The former was marred by controversy over "voter suppression" that may have artificially lowered the numbers of Rui voters in Philadelphia and Erie. It certainly didn't help that the pundits kept calling it back and forth towards Rui and Fayette as returns went westward.

As for Nevada, Clark went one way, the other counties went the other...except for Washoe, where a casino worker's strike in Reno lowered turnout and caused general chaos in the polls.

Nothing budged for a week. But then finally, by 6,000 votes Nevada was called for Governor Kerui. But Pennsylvania was not to be so simple. Courts argued and argued for a good month. Ultimately it took The House to decide, and they gave it to Mr. Fayette, thus giving him the Presidency.

[Mr. Smith]

Senator Loki (D-NY) 49%
Governor Cuber (D-MO) 48%

Because they agree on pretty much everything, it is style where the battle is won. Loki runs on a hit-the-minorities strategy, Cuber aims for WWCs. Ultimately, it is narrow victory in California that gives Loki the delegate clinch.

[Mr. Smith]

Thomas
OneJ