Jeff Sessions

[MATTROSE94]

Jeff Sessions would do very well in parts of the South (namely Alabama (he'd most likely get close to 70% of the vote there given that it is his home state), South Carolina, Oklahoma, Texas, etc.) and in some of the Western states like Idaho, Utah and Wyoming, but that's probably about it.

[MATTROSE94]

Sessions vs Clinton would be a Democratic 49 state win,...and like McGovern he'd probably lose his home state by a narrow margin.

Only Mississippi would vote for him.

He'd get Goldwater results against O'Malley or Biden.

And with Bernie Sanders, he'd get a flip of the 1928 election,except instead of Massachusetts and Rhode Island,he'd probably just barely get Utah and Idaho

I really don't see how Jeff Sessions would lose a state that Obama lost by over 20 points (Alabama), but carry a state that Obama only lost by about 12 points (Mississippi). Realistically, if Jeff Sessions were to only carry one state, it would probably be Oklahoma.

[MATTROSE94]

This is what Hillary Clinton's ceiling would likely be if she faced off against Jeff Sessions:

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (D-NY)/Senator Mark Warner (D-VA): 430 Electoral Votes
Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL)/Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX): 108 Electoral Votes

[MATTROSE94]

The Dakotas have elected Democrats to Congress. They could vote against a really bad GOP candidate. I don't know if that's Sessions, though.

Sessions would be a pretty bad candidate and his running-mate in my map would make the Republican ticket even more toxic.

[MATTROSE94]

WV is more GOP than LA at this point.

Agreed. Even with a fairly weak opponent like Sessions, Clinton would still have her work cut out in attempting to win West Virginia regardless of whether she manages a win in Louisiana. West Virginia would be among the last states to leave the Republican column nationwide; if that state is lost, the party is lucky to have won 50 votes in the electoral college.

That's the reason why I still have Jeff Sessions carrying it in my map. Hillary Clinton would undoubtedly do much better than Obama in West Virginia, but would still end up losing in the end. In addition, I might be wrong, but Jeff Sessions seems like the kind of a Republican who could appeal to white working class voters in West Virginia IMO.