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[New_Conservative]

Mitt Romney/Marco Rubio: 321 electoral votes 50.5%
Barack Obama/Joe Biden: 217 electoral votes 48.6%

[fl571]

Can someone give a uh, detailed walkthrough of sorts on how to win with Wallace? I followed the general advice someone gave earlier and can't win. I've tweaked that advice a bit and still can't win. It's driving me nuts.

[Obama-Biden Democrat]

Can someone give a uh, detailed walkthrough of sorts on how to win with Wallace? I followed the general advice someone gave earlier and can't win. I've tweaked that advice a bit and still can't win. It's driving me nuts.

Yea that game is bugged. I literally spent every campaign stop in NC and went with good old Carolina boy Thurmond as VP. I hate NC.In fact I even lost SC because i threw everything into NC.

[Bigby]

Can someone give a uh, detailed walkthrough of sorts on how to win with Wallace? I followed the general advice someone gave earlier and can't win. I've tweaked that advice a bit and still can't win. It's driving me nuts.

Yea that game is bugged. I literally spent every campaign stop in NC and went with good old Carolina boy Thurmond as VP. I hate NC.In fact I even lost SC because i threw everything into NC.

I even won North Carolina as Wallace once, and Nixon still squeaked by with 270 EVs. What hurts is that Nixon seems to still win elsewhere as OTL no matter that Wallace does.

[NHI]

Humphrey: 241 (42.9%)

Nixon: 233 (42.2%)

Wallace: 64

[morgieb]

1968:

Humphrey: 356 (45.7%)
Nixon: 137 (41.2%)
Wallace: 45 (13.2%)

From memory, I played rather moderate hero, with heavy attacks over the peace sabotage talks and Nixon's reluctance over having debates. Seemingly worked well, as I won the vast majority of swing seats (and there were a crazy amount of these for whatever reason).
 
Some of those states were within very narrow margins - all of Florida, South Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Iowa and Kentucky were within 1%.

2012:

Again played somewhat moderate hero. In the end, won the same margin as the RL Obama. IIRC North Carolina and Iowa were the tightest states.

[Illuminati Blood Drinker]

I got over 400 EVs for Humphrey on Impossible!! *does a little jig*

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/16030

[Peeperkorn]

Take that, lieberals!

[Del Tachi]

United States presidential election, 2012

Mitt Romney (R-MA) / Paul Ryan (R-WI) - 305 electoral votes; 64,006,458 (49.5%)
Barack Obama (D-IL) / Joe Biden (D-DE) - 233 electoral votes; 64,022,040 (49.5%)

Played as Obama and tried to tailor my campaign message in a way to turnout the liberal base and demonstrate the Republicans' obstructionist tactics.  As you can see it worked in a way, as I was able to win the popular vote (mostly thanks to large margins in CA and IL) while losing just about every single swing state.

Close States (within 5%)

1.  Wisconsin:  0.49%
2.  Colorado:  0.50%
3.  Nevada:  0.55% 
4.  Pennsylvania:  1.36%

5.  Virginia:  2.03%
6.  Iowa:  2.72%
7.  Ohio:  3.22%
8.  Minnesota:  3.28%
9.  Delaware:  3.48%
10.  New Hampshire:  3.53%
11.  Florida:  3.56%

Competitive States (within 10%)

12.  North Carolina:  6.36%
13.  New York:  7.18%
14.  Indiana:  8.93%
15.  Michigan:  9.04%
16.  Connecticut:  9.58%
17.  Missouri:  9.60%

[badgate]

Take that, lieberals!

Were you playing as Nixon or Humphrey?

[SPC]

I lost 332-206 as Romney on impossible. Despite keeping all my answers the same, I lost by much larger margins in all swing states when I actually campaigned in them, rather than living in Pennsylvania for the entirety of the campaign season.

[Prince of Salem]

Why do result take so much to load?

[Peeperkorn]

Take that, lieberals!

Were you playing as Nixon or Humphrey?

Kind of liberal Nixon

[Peeperkorn]

Best result I've had with Romney. I hate that "New York Republican" bug.

[NHI]

√ Romney/Rubio: 285 (49.7%)

Obama/Biden: 253 (49.4%)

Other: 0.9%

[Oldiesfreak1854]

Bump.  I did 1896 with McKinley & Reed, Normal difficulty:

Gov. William McKinley (R-OH)/Rep. Thomas B. Reed (R-ME): 284 EVs
Rep. William Jennings Bryan (D-NE)/Mr. Arthur Sewall (D-ME): 163 EVs

[Intell]

Bump.  I did 1896 with McKinley & Reed, Normal difficulty:

Gov. William McKinley (R-OH)/Rep. Thomas B. Reed (R-ME): 284 EVs
Rep. William Jennings Bryan (D-NE)/Mr. Arthur Sewall (D-ME): 163 EVs

Much Better Result

Rep. William Jennings Bryan (D-NE)/Henery Teller (D-CO): 275 EVs
Gov. William McKinley (R-OH)/Garret Hobart 172 EVs


Result obviously doesn't load.

[Intell]

Results don't load of course.

Richard Nixon (R-NY)/George Romney (R-MI): 430 EV
Hubert Humphrey (D-MN)/Ed Muskie (D-ME): 54 EV
George Wallace(AI-AL)/Curtis LeMay (AI-OH): 53 EV

[Oldiesfreak1854]

Best result I've had with Romney. I hate that "New York Republican" bug.

How in the world did you do that?  I've NEVER been able to win with Romney.  I swear the 2012 game is rigged.

[Intell]

Romney/Pawlenty: 305 EV
Obama/Biden: 233 EV

[OSR stands with Israel]

Normal Mode

Nixon 367(Me)
Humphrey  118
Wallace 53

[OSR stands with Israel]

On hard mode with Nixon  I got deadlocked  241-232-64

[Intell]

Happy with my result, FUKK WHY WONT THE RESULTS LOAD

Humphrey/Harris: 402 EV
Nixon/Agnew: 91EV
Wallace/LeMay: 45EV

[Phony Moderate]

2000 has now been added as a scenario, btw.

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2000 has now been added as a scenario, btw.

Played with Bob Graham as VP; only lost OH by .2% but it's a really great game overall and I'm excited to be able to try out different scenarios.