The Campaign Trail

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

1896, 13 questions.

McKinley/Quay 334, 53.5%
Bryan/Sewall 313, 45.48%

[courts]

Tried to see how bad I could possibly do as Romney

way to be redundant

[badgate]

Rep Small L - who was your running mate?



I have a question. In the 1896 election, there's a question about federal troops being sent to Chicago and something about a labor dispute. IS THERE NO GOOD ANSWER FOR THIS QUESTION

[TNF]

William Bryan and Arthur Sewall (Democratic): 50.71% (244)
William McKinley and Garret Hobart (Republican): 48.29% (203)
John Palmer and Simon Buckner (National Democratic): 1.00% (0)

[Dancing with Myself]

Had it possibly won with Bryan the other day at 50 Q's, but the damn thing got froze and refused to do anything.

Love the game but it needs more years and work on it's server stat

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Just won as Bryan with Lief's strategy. New York came in by the smallest of margins, which made up for me losing the entire Midwest except Nebraska/Kansas/Missouri. I swept the ex-CSA and the West Coast but lost Kentucky/West Virginia/Maryland/Delaware.

[Dancing with Myself]

Byran/Bois- 7,111,887  51%    267 EV's
McKinley/Hobart- 6,688,076  47.96% 180 EV's
Palmer- 145,761  1.05%


Didn't follow anyone's ideas per se.  Just did my own thing, and had Bryan give in to Heast and Tammany Hall. He never did that so it may be unrealistic but I won on this game so it's all good. New York and Indiana were the big states that helped me win, campaigned hard in those two as well as Illinois and Ohio, barely lost those.

[Oldiesfreak1854]

I just played as Nixon/Romney in 1968 with 13 questions, and this is what I got:

Fmr. Vice Pres. Richard Nixon (R-CA): 274 EVs; 31,381,292 PVs (42.80%)
Vice Pres. Hubert Humphrey (D-MN): 200 EVs; 31,344,117 PVs (42.75%)
Fmr. Gov. George Wallace (I-AL): 64 EVs; 10,587,099 PVs (14.44%)

[Oldiesfreak1854]

I just played again as McKinley/Reed in 1896 and won while losing the popular vote.

[ilikeverin]

Humphrey demolishes Nixon 352-140-45 EV, 45-42-13 PV.  Finally, I actually win!

[Flake]

Wow! What was your strategy? How did you win Oklahoma?

Fred Harris and John Connally do the trick

[ilikeverin]

Wow! What was your strategy? How did you win Oklahoma?

Fred Harris and John Connally do the trick

Harris indeed!

I mostly just ran as a "blah liberal" who took a leftist tack on the war and said "screw you", repeatedly, to LBJ.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

99th percentile as Romney/Rubio, 154th overall. 50 questions, ran as a moderate hero on everything (as well as a couple token center-left answers and a couple token right-wing answers). Relatively flimsy in the Midwest (I just visited Florida, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Colorado), but I swept the Southeast easily, broke into the Northeast, and did way better than usual in the West Coast/New Mexico. Closest wins were New Jersey, New York, and Wisconsin; closest losses were Maine, Maryland, and Michigan.

[badgate]

Wow, congrats. My best Obama/Biden result was in the 96th %ile

[Dancing with Myself]

I hope the guy does a 2000 scenario, I was just sitting around and imagining how fun it could be to be either of the three candidates.

[Oldiesfreak1854]

Just played as Nixon/Romney again and got this:

Richard Nixon (R): 349 EVs; 32,077,209 PVs (43.80%) (Although the site says 348 EVs.)
Hubert H. Humphrey (D): 125 EVs; 30,462,030 PVs (41.59%)
George Wallace (I): 64 EVs; 10,704,793 PVs (14.62%)

[Flake]

Hubert H. Humphrey: 476 Electoral Votes [52.25]
George Wallace: 39 [14.72]
Richard Nixon: 23 [33.03]

And for further proof of those doubting me:

[badgate]

I hope the guy does a 2000 scenario, I was just sitting around and imagining how fun it could be to be either of the three candidates.

I'm tempted to e-mail him inquiring as to the addition of other election cycles. If someone braver wants to volunteer as tribute, however...

[SPC]

Actually did very well as Bryan, 53.6-45.4

[Oldiesfreak1854]

This is my most successful game ever. I saved it as a screenshot after it happened. Playing as Romney:

377-161
I chose Pawlenty as the VP and gave the most moderate hero answers possible. I guess computer Obama ran a crummy campaign. If I remember correctly I did all my campaigning in the midwest.

How on Earth were you able to win as Romney?  I haven't been able to do it yet.

[Dancing with Myself]

I hope the guy does a 2000 scenario, I was just sitting around and imagining how fun it could be to be either of the three candidates.

I'm tempted to e-mail him inquiring as to the addition of other election cycles. If someone braver wants to volunteer as tribute, however...

I would but I have done it a ton of times with other things online and it always fail. I don't want to jinx it for anyone!

[PJ]

This is my most successful game ever. I saved it as a screenshot after it happened. Playing as Romney:

377-161
I chose Pawlenty as the VP and gave the most moderate hero answers possible. I guess computer Obama ran a crummy campaign. If I remember correctly I did all my campaigning in the midwest.

How on Earth were you able to win as Romney?  I haven't been able to do it yet.

Appealing to the base doesn't work. Be Moderate Heroish and look at the polls when deciding where to campaign. New York is way too conservative in this game btw.

[Flake]

Bryan [386-60.00%]
McKinley [61-36.69%]
Palmer [0-3.32%]

[Flake]

Barack Obama [532-61.54]
Mitt Romney [6-36.05]
Gary Johnson [0-2.00]
Jill Stein [0-0.42]

[Flake]

In places where Romney got >20% [electoral vote calculator only lets you do >30%]:
California
D.C. [He got 3.10%, Stein got 4.28%]
Hawaii
Illinois
Massachusetts
Minnesota
New Mexico
Rhode Island
Vermont