2016: John Kerry vs. Mitt Romney

[Suburbia]

The Democratic and Republican Parties both go through a period of chaos as Hillary Clinton is indicted over the email scandal during her term as Secretary of State. John Kerry is chosen as the Democrats' Plan B over Bernie Sanders. On the Republican side, the party chooses Mitt Romney after seeing how terrible Donald Trump would be as the nominee. Who wins in a Kerry vs. Romney match-up?

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[Clark Kent]

If my calculations are correct, it would look like 2012, but with Romney also winning Virginia and Florida.

[NHI]

What choices. Ugh.

[bagelman]

Low turnout election with both candidates trying to pander as much as possible to the populist vote. A third party candidate, maybe John McAfee, might get some votes from pissed off anti-establishmentarians. This election is Romney's to win or lose, he needs to work at GOTV while attacking Kerry on the iran deal and fighting off allegations of being a panderer and flip flopper. Maybe he runs as a more moderate candidate, learning from his mistake in 2012 of pandering to the tea party. I'd say a Tilt R or Lean R election

[Kingpoleon]

300: Romney/Gardner(51.5%)
238: Kerry/Schweitzer(46.9%)
Others: 1.6%