The Campaign Trail: Post Your Maps!

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Went on 1968, won 7 states as George Wallace, but a narrow loss in NC kept me from actually deadlocking the EC. Then went on 1896 as Bryan and won the popular vote 50%-49%, but came up 18 votes short in the electoral college.

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

I won 389 electoral votes with Ford/Connally on easy. Only won popular 50-48 though.

I couldn't get AL/LA, but I did get MS.

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/41692

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/43291

Played as Nixon/Romney on Impossible. 2nd in both the popular and EV, but did manage to deadlock the college - Humphrey 247, Nixon 214, Wallace 77

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Won with Ford/Dole on Normal!
282-256. Basically surrendered the south to Carter and ran a New York focused campaign. It just barely paid off.

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/44120

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Game refused to give me a link for this, but I got this result with Ford/Baker on easy:

443-95 Ford, but still a 2 point loss in AL.

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Does anyone know if it's realistically possible to hold everyone under a majority in the EC in 1896? There are three candidates, so it's theoretically possible, but I don't really see a path to doing it - boosting Palmer in the south seems to boost McKinley a lot too.

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

1896: Won with Bryan/Matthews on impossible

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/46122

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/46177

Carter/Mondal on Normal

Got pretty unlucky with some of the chance questions (debates, etc.), but I managed to get a sizeable win and apparently did better than 96.5% of games with the same candidate/difficulty.

Do note that for Carter it's pretty safe to avoid the debates. Your support takes a small hit, but far less than the hit it will take if Ford does well in the debates.

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

2000, played as Gore/Leiberman and managed to sabotage myself enough to get a Nader victory in not just D.C., but Rhode Island as well.

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/47070

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

And I got a Buchanan victory in Utah as Bush/Danforth:

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/47055

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

2000, played as Gore/Leiberman and managed to sabotage myself enough to get a Nader victory in not just D.C., but Rhode Island as well.

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/47070

You are literally the first person to have done this. I recently checked the stats page for 2000 and the most Nader had ever gotten was 3 EVs, so I'm pretty sure this is a record breaker.

Wow.

Actually, upon checking, no. Someone got Nader to win in MA, too. Select impossible on the 2000 stats page.

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

2000, played as Gore/Leiberman and managed to sabotage myself enough to get a Nader victory in not just D.C., but Rhode Island as well.

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/47070

You are literally the first person to have done this. I recently checked the stats page for 2000 and the most Nader had ever gotten was 3 EVs, so I'm pretty sure this is a record breaker.

Wow.

Actually, upon checking, no. Someone got Nader to win in MA, too. Select impossible on the 2000 stats page.

Dang.

I want to try to give Utah to Buchanan with Bush; apparently it's possible but I haven't seen it done.

I did it here: http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/47055

The basic technique is to campaign as an ultra liberal, but some of it is luck as well, as you can't get it unless the game gives you questions allowing you to be very anti-gun, pro-single payer, and very pro-choice.

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

I think there's a bug. I was running as Nixon on impossible and running as far to the left as possible, and ended up with exactly 2 EV.

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/47260

You carried 2 CDs in Nebraska

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

I got within 5 hundredths of one percent of winning AL as Ford/Connally. If only I could figure out how to actually win the state:

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/48146

AL Results:

Candidate   Electoral Votes   Popular Votes   Pop. Vote %
---- Jimmy Carter   9   591,673   49.16
---- Gerald Ford   0   591,011   49.11
---- Other Candidates   0   20,879   1.73
---- Eugene McCarthy   0   0   0.00

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/48682

Landslide with Humphrey/Kennedy on hard.

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

1976 electoral tie on hard

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/49755

Wow. I've never seen this Game end in a tie before.

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Kennedy/Symington - easy

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/50650

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

352 electoral votes with Nixon/Rockefeller on Hard, despite losing the debates.

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/50945

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/50981

Absolutely hilarious glitch with Nixon/Goldwater on Impossible. I intentionally bombed the campaign, and Nixon ended up winning zero states. The funny thing is, though, Harry Byrd got 6 EVs and literally one popular vote.

It's not a glitch. Byrd automatically gets 6 AL electors.

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/50981

Absolutely hilarious glitch with Nixon/Goldwater on Impossible. I intentionally bombed the campaign, and Nixon ended up winning zero states. The funny thing is, though, Harry Byrd got 6 EVs and literally one popular vote.

It's not a glitch. Byrd automatically gets 6 AL electors.

He got one popular vote. One.

It's likely just something they put in there to get their code working properly. It comes from the AL-Unpledged section of the results, which is set to always go for Byrd. The reason why he didn't get votes elsewhere is because choosing Goldwater takes Byrd off the ballot for whatever reason.

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

The next ones they should add:

1860
1876
1916
1948
1988
1992

I understand 1992 and 2008 are under consideration.

2008 as McCain would likely be harder than 1976 as Ford.

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

295 electoral votes with Romney/Pawlenty on Hard. Pennsylvania went for Obama by just 621 votes.
http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/54089

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Got an exact tie on 2012 Impossible with Obama-Biden. This is the text the game gives you at the end:

Sorry! You have lost in a squeaker.

No candidate achieved a majority of the electoral votes, marking the first time this has happened since 1824. Unfortunately for you, the majority of U.S. states have Republican controlled congressional delegations, and they will cast their votes for Mitt Romney.

The best you can hope for now is to force the Republicans to compromise on key issues. Given the incredibly close nature of the election, you can also set your sights on a political comeback in 2016, if that is what you desire.

Finally, Al Gore and John Kerry have invited you to a backyard barbeque next week. There should be some fantastic food there.

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/56199

The closest Romney win was in VA - 49.9 to 49.3

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Got NH and AR as Humphrey/Connally:

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/56651

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

McKinley-Hobart - easy - better than >98% of similar games.
http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/62483