1964 Election (The Hearse at Monticello)

[Mr. Smith]

A tie...this should be interesting

[Antonio the Sixth]

lol

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

Civil war! Civil war!

[tmthforu94]

I, for one, will not tolerate living in a country led by a raging socialist. To the streets!

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

The subtraction of my vote for Randolph breaks the tie.

1964 Presidential Election

Senator Barry Goldwater (American-Arizona)/ Governor Margaret Chase Smith (American-Maine): 271 Electoral Votes; 50.9% popular votes
Chief Justice A. Phillip Randolph (People's-Florida)/ Governor Matthew Welsh (People's-Indiana): 267 Electoral Votes; 49.1% popular votes

In one of the closest elections on record, Senator Barry Goldwater narrowly bested Chief Justice A. Phillip Randolph, returning the American Party to power eight years after the scandals of the Bricker Administration gave rise to the presidency of Estes Kefauver. Randolph, the first black man to run for the presidency as the candidate of a major political party, would loose the election by less than 2% of the popular vote nationally.

Just a suggestion, but I'd like to see shades (>40%, >50% etc) in future electoral maps. It would be interesting to know where the strongholds and swing states are.

I can't promise I'll do this for every election, but here you are:

Illinois, Indiana, and Pennsylvania were all decided by extremely slim margins (>1,000 votes), with Randolph drawing support from urban centers in all three. Goldwater's conservatism likewise allowed Randolph to make inroads to New England, with Massachusetts voting Populist for the first time since 1948. Conversely, Randolph lost votes in socially conservative states like Indiana and Iowa, where rural voters were alarmed by some of Randolph's more radical social views.

[Antonio the Sixth]

LAAAAAAAAAME!

[Zioneer]

Huh, I assumed it would be thrown to Congress, like other perfect tie elections.

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

Huh, I assumed it would be thrown to Congress, like other perfect tie elections.

Actually, we haven't had a tie in a two-way election before. The closest we've come to that in this series was 1808, when ElectionsGuy broke the tie by voting for Madison after the deadline. Since Randolph and Goldwater were the only two candidates, it seems probable the results of a House poll would have been the same, and I don't feel like spending two weeks on this election.