Who would both parties have to nominate to produce these results?

[Middle-aged Europe]

Map A:

DEM 325
GOP 213




Map B:

GOP 355
DEM 183




Map C (the weird one )

GOP 282
DEM 256

[elcorazon]

A's pretty generic - seems like it's pretty much an unspectacular dem v. rep race where neither really brings over anyone from the other side, and where the unpopularity of Dubya carries over enough to tilt the race to the dems.

I'll say Gore v. Romney or something like that.

B's similar, but with  some of the Dem states you have crossing over, I'm going to say this is one where Hillary runs and fails to "connect" with those that already dislike her.  Again she could be running against most reps, but I'll pick Romney, as the one that could produce that result.  Could be McCain, too, I suppose.

With C, I'm assuming you've got an idea how this could occur, but I really don't.  Hard to see Michigan, Pennsylvania, Minnesota and Wisconsin going to Republicans, but Ohio, Iowa and Florida to the Dems, not to mention New Mexico and Colorado.

I guess Richardson might pull those lean rep states over, but I'm not sure which Republican pulls all those Midwestern states over.

[Middle-aged Europe]

A's pretty generic - seems like it's pretty much an unspectacular dem v. rep race where neither really brings over anyone from the other side, and where the unpopularity of Dubya carries over enough to tilt the race to the dems.

I'll say Gore v. Romney or something like that.

B's similar, but with  some of the Dem states you have crossing over, I'm going to say this is one where Hillary runs and fails to "connect" with those that already dislike her.  Again she could be running against most reps, but I'll pick Romney, as the one that could produce that result.  Could be McCain, too, I suppose.

With C, I'm assuming you've got an idea how this could occur, but I really don't.  Hard to see Michigan, Pennsylvania, Minnesota and Wisconsin going to Republicans, but Ohio, Iowa and Florida to the Dems, not to mention New Mexico and Colorado.

I guess Richardson might pull those lean rep states over, but I'm not sure which Republican pulls all those Midwestern states over.

I can say so much that those maps weren't put together randomly.

Bonus point for the person who finds out what the basis for those maps was and what exactly I have changed (isn't that hard to guess).

And I told you that C is the weird one.

[Joel the Attention Whore]

A: Richardson/Vilsack vs. Romney/Huckabee
(Mormonism brings Romney down bigtime, and Richardson is a strong candidate)

B: McCain/Huckabee vs. Edwards/Warner
(McCain crushes Edwards on experience and Huckabee helps him in the South.)

C: Pawlenty/G. Smith vs. Richardson/Vilsack
(Pawlenty takes the Midwest, Richardson gets the Hispanic vote.)

[Reaganfan]

Map A:

Edwards: 325
Brownback: 213

Map B:

McCain: 355
Kerry: 183

Map C (the weird one )

Romney: 282
Bayh: 256