Choose Your Ideal EC Map

[100% pro-life no matter what]

Based on what you want your party to stand for, look like, etc.  Basically, you are designing your ideal coalition.  Or, if you have a personal desire to have a certain state vote for your party, that works as well.  To keep it interesting and relevant, you may not give your party more than 300 electoral votes.

Here is mine:

It's basically a family values vs. no family values map.  There were a few states that I wanted to chop up and keep parts of, but I know that is not OK!

[Sopranos Republican]

Why would you color family values states the same color as the pussy grabbing ones? Might confuse some people, just saying.

[Santander]

Exactly 270 EV

[RI]

283 D - 255 R

Catholics (incl. Hispanics) + Mormons + working class whites vs. everyone else.

[Goldwater]

Basically my state opinion map, with some modifications due to breaking the 300 EVs rule.

[nicholas.slaydon]

[RINO Tom]

Little bit more traditional white collar/blue collar divide while still keeping the SJWs all in the Dem camp (economic social justice should be their biggest goal, no?).  White collar =/= affluent (especially educationwise), as I'd prefer the pro-government folks who might be affluentish in places like NOVA stay Dem.

I'd much rather have the stigma of only caring about the wealthy and trying to convince voters that's not true than have the stigma of being a party of racists and trying to convince voters that's not true.

[SUSAN CRUSHBONE]

red = new communist party
blue = gulags

(i'll make a proper one when i get home)

[White Trash]

The Democratic Party would be made up of a coalition of Black voters, Union workers in industry and fossil fuels, as well as rural conservatives. The party would be defined by protectionism, states rights, and a mix of agrarianism/guild socialism. The Party would also have a distinctive isolationist tilt regarding foreign policy.

Ticket for 2016: Bob Casey/Harold Ford Jr.

The Republican Party would be the party of RINO Tom. Committed to the interests of the free market and business while being progressive on most social issues. In addition, this party would be much more hawkish than the current Republican Party, but from a liberal internationalist standpoint. Would be largely made up of young voters, Hispanics, and the more affluent.

Ticket for 2016: Lisa Murkowski/Joe Lieberman

[SWE]

Basically my state opinion map,

So, I take it you basically want the GOP to become a single issue pro-warm weather party?

[SUSAN CRUSHBONE]

started with a map of the least white vs the most white states and switched a few

[Goldwater]

Basically my state opinion map,

So, I take it you basically want the GOP to become a single issue pro-warm weather party?

Exactly.

[SATW]

R: 272 EVs
D: 266 EVs

This would be an election that's essentially 50-50 popular vote.

Here is the swing state breakdown for that map:

The core state bases for both parties:

Dems have an advantage in core states.

D: 194 EVs
R: 170 EVs

GOP has an advantage with likely states.

R: 249 EVs
D: 240 EVs

[Murica!]

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[HisGrace]

I'll just do the coalition I talked about in the "ideal demographic coalition" thread from a while back-

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Rep- 295
Dem- 243

The Dems keep urban centers and the west coast in this scenerio, while doing even better in the rust belt, the GOP hangs onto the South and western farm states but by smaller margins, starts winning in New England and does a little better in the Southwest.

[RINO Tom]

This is why Southern Gothic and I like each other: we're both fighting for a future where we can hate each other.

[Oldiesfreak1854]

Republican: 296 EVs
Democratic: 242 EVs

Base states:

[White Trash]

This is why Southern Gothic and I like each other: we're both fighting for a future where we can hate each other.

Funny how that works out, huh?

[100% pro-life no matter what]

This is why Southern Gothic and I like each other: we're both fighting for a future where we can hate each other.

Funny how that works out, huh?

In the RINO Tom/Southern Gothic America, would someone like me be a swing voter?

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

Basically the current base + happy Midwestern farmers and Jon Tester-style Democrats

(I realize that the national Democratic Party would have to shill heavily for big oil for this to be even a remote possibility, which I'd rather not see happen.)

[OSR stands with Israel]

Ideal  In two party system

4 party system:

Nebraska would be Orange


Essentially Green would be Never Again/ LD Smith dems
Blue would be Me/Rino Tom type GOP
Orange would be Santandar / Extreme Republican type GOP
Red would be :LLR type dems

To me 4 party option is much better as everyone views are represented and you can vote your conscience . Though I would then support national runoffs a month later then if nobody gets to 270.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

Just for fun: a crappy attempt at replicating this parliamentary scenario:

"Liberal Party" (Leader: Hillary Clinton) - 124 seats
"Social Democratic Party" (Leader: Bernie Sanders) - 113 seats
"Conservative Party" (Leader: John Kasich) - 37 seats
"Christian Coalition" (Leader: Ted Cruz) - 49 seats
"People's Party" (Leader: Donald Trump) - 112 seats

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Crumpets]

My map: Democrats win college educated whites and minorities overwhelmingly, while Republicans win non-college whites. Turnout adjusted to make largest Democratic win < 300 EV.

However, this is my map as a partisan Democrat, and it would be different if I were making a map that I thought was overall best for US politics. If I wanted to remake both parties in the image I think would be most productive - both social liberal and pro-civil rights, Democrats as Elizabeth Warren-style economic populists, and Republicans as a Huntsman-Libertarian hybrid party, I suppose you might get a map like this:

[evergreenarbor]

335-203

The lean/likely map for the above election might look like this:

This would be a coalition of African Americans, Latinos, Asians, Westerners, and liberal whites, ideally with working-class and Mormon elements* as well (if they could stomach the social liberalism). Many Southern whites and social conservatives would probably be very Republican in this scenario, enough to keep Florida and Georgia voting to the right of the country (North Carolina would continue trending D because of liberal college-educated whites).

*Mormons just so the Democrats could potentially sweep every Western state except Wyoming.

[Intell]

298-240

Something like this.