President Elect - 1988 Edition now available online

[Flake]

1976: Moynihan vs. Deuksomething
405 EV vs 133 EV
53% to 47%

Closest states were Vermont, Tennessee, and Florida.

[Sec. of State Superique]

I think I don't know how to play this game. 1968 - Played with Kennedy

1968 Election

Former Vice-President Richard Nixon (CA)/Governor Spiro Agnew (MD) - 50% of thePopular Vote - 414 EVs
Senator Robert Kennedy (NY)/Governor John Connally (TX) - 44% of the Popular Vote  - 114 EVs
Governor George Wallace (AL)/ General Curtis Le May (OH) - 6% of  the Popular Vote - 10 EVs

[Sec. of State Superique]

This game is impossible!

[CapoteMonster]

1988: Cuomo vs. Dole

Andrew Cuomo (NY)/ Sam Nunn (GA) - 54% (51,066,808)

Bob Dole (KS)/ George Deukmejian (CA) - 45% (42,489,936)

I was able to crush Dole by OWNING him in two debates and outspending him most weeks.

[Dancing with Myself]

I'm Feeling Good 'Bout America..

Ford/Dole-311              40,180,064

Carter/Mondale- 227      39,227,068




Played as Ford, it took me 3 times to finally beat Carter. First go round I focused hard on the "Power Triangle" of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Pennslyvania. 1st whack I won every state except Pennsylvania and combined with Missouri and oddly SD and Cali I lost. 2nd go round I put McCarthy in and he won 9% of the vote, but he oddly sucked it off me instead of Carter. I lost badly.

Round 3 I did it right by doing 4 main things. 1: I saved my points for mainly the end, 2. I had a successful 3 day trip to England which made me look like a foreign policy genius, 3. I made a fool of Carter in the 1 debate we had, and 4. I focused hard on the PT states as well as Missouri, Cali, and SD.

I trailed in the PV the entire time but at 8 I took the lead and never looked back. Things rapidly happened between 9:30 and 11:00 enough to give me the race but it took until 2:10 when I got Cali to say I won. I was stuck at 263 for a while.

[Del Tachi]

Just observed a pretty intense simulated game (which is all about this game is good for):

THE GIPPER GOES DOWN
President Reagan defeated for reelection in 1980

Senator Dale Bumpers (D-AR) / Senator John Glenn (D-OH) - 45,023,056 votes (50.7%); 404 EV
President Ronald Reagan (R-CA) / Vice President Richard Schweiker (R-PA) - 43,104,544 (48.5%); 134 EV
Senator Lowell Weicker (I-CT) / Congressman John Anderson (I-IL) - 712,071 (0.8%); 0 EV

Interesting that the simulation resulted in a few Yankee GOP holdouts (NJ and CT particularly).  I guess Weicker took more from Bumpers than Reagan in CT and having Schweiker on the ticket helped Reagan in PA.  CT was won by Reagan with less than 50% and PA was razor-thin as well.  CA, TX, IL, and FL were all very close; NY, MO and strangely WV were close as well. 

[rpryor03]

Governor Jimmy Carter/Senator Walter Mondale - 322
Governor Ronald Reagan/Senator Richard Schweicker - 216
Senator Eugene McCarthy/Senator George McGovern - 0

Senator Howard Baker/Senator Larry Pressler - 320
President Jimmy Carter/VP Walter Mondale - 218

President Howard Baker/VP Larry Pressler - 535
Senator Daniel Moynihan/Senator John Glenn - 3

Senator Paul Laxalt/ Representative Phil Crane - 427
Governor Michael Dukakis/Representative Gerry Ferarro - 111
Senator Scoop Jackson/Senator Lowell Weicker - 0

[Kingpoleon]

Former Governor Ronald Reagan(R-CA)/Former Mayor John Lindsay(R-NY)
President Jimmy Carterl(D-GA)/Representative Morris Udall(D-AZ)
Former Senator Eugene McCarthy(L-MN)/Representative Ron Paul(L-TX)

[Del Tachi]

United States presidential election, 1976

Former Congressman George H.W. Bush (R-TX) / Senator Howard Baker (R-TN) - 40,366,032; 317 EVs
Former Governor Jimmy Carter (D-GA) / Senator Walter Mondale (D-MN) - 40,387,936; 221 EVs

The GOP establishment goes for something a bit different in 1976, and taps former Congressman, diplomat and RNC chairman George H.W. Bush to be the party's standard bearer.  Senator Howard Baker is picked to reinforce the party's moderate image while adding Southern appeal.  Democrats nominate Carter/Mondale.  Bush wins by a large margin in the electoral college, but loses the popular vote to Carter by some 19,000 votes (the closest margin in American history). 

[Del Tachi]

United States presidential election, 1976

President Gerald Ford (R-MI) / Senator Howard Baker (R-TN) - 34,740,760 (44.9%); 281 electoral votes ✔

Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (D-MN) / Former Senator Fred Harris (D-OK) - 34,814,016 (45.0%); 257 electoral votes

Former Senator Eugene McCarthy (I-MN) / CA VP - 7,754,652 (10.1%)

Simulating a 1976 election under historical conditions with Humphrey/Harris as the Democratic ticket and Ford/Baker as the incumbent Republican ticket.  Ended up being the closest election in American history to date, and Humphrey actually wins the popular vote despite McCarthy pulling over 10%

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1988 Election:

Eleven-year old prodigy Kanye West runs for and successfully obtains the Democratic nomination, portraying himself as a far leftist... and Soviet?



Meanwhile, the GOP nominates none other than Donald Trump, who has decided to shift to the right earlier than expected.



But alas, moderate independent candidate Ronald Reagan comes in to save the day!



Deeply unpopular unknownRepublican incumbent proves to be a liability for Trump.

Auto-simulation results:



67% Reagan; 25% West; 7% Trump

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Some fun results (all are auto-simulated with pre-programmed candidates):



^McGovern is incumbent with the popular economic conditions of 1984; Anderson beats Goldwater in around a third of the states.



^John (D), Robert (R), and Ted (I) all face off in '76; John is incumbent with RL economic conditions. Popular vote is 50% D - 49% R - 0% I. Poor Ted



Reagan, Nixon, and JFK face off in '88. Reagan is the incumbent with low inflation/unemployment but an economic depression and an unpopular war. PV is 50 Nixon/43 Reagan/6 Kennedy.

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Here's a full list of the 69 pre-programmed candidates and their data:

[Pragmatic Conservative]

I played as Jimmy Carter (I) in  1988 vs   George H. W. Bush and Al Gore here are the week by week maps
 Start of the Campaign  sept 1st-7th

Blue is Bush
Yellow is undecided
Red is Gore

Sept 8th-14th

Sept 8-14th

Sept 15th 21st

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Lyndon B. Johnson (D) faces Lyndon B. Johnson (R) and Lyndon B. Johnson (I) in 1968. The Johnson campaign does relatively well compared to that of Johnson, though economic conditions serve as a liability for Johnson and certainly help Johnson out.

Johnson the Indy ends up winning TX for some reason...

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Fun almost-even three way race.

[Oldiesfreak1854]

Rep. John Anderson (R-IL)/Fmr. Gov. Ronald Reagan (R-CA): 342 EVs; 45,852,744 PVs (50%)
Pres. Jimmy Carter (D-GA)/Vice Pres. Walter Mondale (D-MN): 196 EVs; 44,832,752 PVs (49%)

Andrew Cuomo (NY)/ Sam Nunn (GA) - 54% (51,066,808)

Don't you mean Mario Cuomo?

[Pragmatic Conservative]

Obama (D) vs Regan (R) Anderson (I) 1988
 3 Ev                 535EV         0Ev
32%                   67%           0%

[Ariosto]

Senator Jesse Helms (R-NC): 28,838,316 (~40%) Votes | 399 Electoral
Fmr. Ambassador Andrew Young (D-GA): 23,489,982 (~32%) Votes | 115 Electoral
Lt. Governor Chuck Robb (D-VA): 20,065,704 (~28%) Votes | 24 Electoral

Decided to try and run the '80 Presidential Election with candidates representing the fringes and the center of political opinion, but I think that the despite Young not being labeled the incumbent President he was still weighed down by the economic and foreign situation as it existed. I honestly expected Chuck Robb to do better given his personal ratings compared to Young and Helms, but that may have been negated by the natural limitations of a Third Party budget. Vice Presidents were from New York for Young, Illinois for Robb, and I actually forget where I placed it for Helms.

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Walter Mondale vs. Bob Dole vs. Bill Clinton in 1976 with President Ford under RL economic conditions. Clinton defeated Dole by 25 votes in Arkansas, giving him his only state.

[Dancing with Myself]

I wish someone would re-make this with modern candidates and #'s.

Plus make it free too that would be perfect.

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I simulated 1968 in which Wallace was the Democratic nominee, Humphrey was the Republican, and Nixon was an Independent (idk why).

Kentucky was tied; 453,815 votes per candidate:



It's probably just a glitch in the game, because the map makes it seem like Nixon won Kentucky when he actually only won 1% there. I suppose that's what happens with absolute ties.

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An irony of the ages.

[Kingpoleon]

270: Mayor John Lindsay(R-NY)/Rep. Gerald Ford(R-MI) - 43.2%
221: Fmr. Gov. John Connally(D-TX)/Mayor Sam Yorty(D-CA) - 41.4%
047: Fmr. Gov. George Wallace(AI-AL)/Fmr. Gov. Ross Barnett(AI-MS) - 15.1%

It's one of the weirdest maps I've seen playing this game. Here's some advice: Going pro-labor makes you lose literally the entire South(including MO) for making CA Tilt R and NY competitive. I wouldn't advise it.