previous two posters and a third.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

Make an election map with the previous two posters, and another forumite who would be a good third candidate against the others - preferably someone who can make it more interesting and competitive, someone who can appeal to a portion of the electorate the other two candidates might not be able to.

one more poster chime in, and then the next poster can start.

[ElectionsGuy]

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[TNF]

President ElectionsGuy of Wisconsin and Governor William Weld of Massachusetts (Republican Party): 32.45% (151 electoral votes)
Senator Shua of Virginia and Representative Marcy Kaptur of Ohio (Democratic Party): 38.01% (356 electoral votes)
Gen. Mung Beans of California and Representative Charlie Wilson of Texas (Progressive): 28.91% (31 electoral votes)

After winning a lopsided victory in the 1988 Presidential Election, incumbent President ElectionsGuy of Wisconsin faces off against Senator Shua of Virginia and General Mung Beans of California. Shua holds white liberals, gains among fiscal conservatives, and benefits from state-level splits in the vote as traditional blue collar Democrats cast their ballots for the victorious head of the Desert Storm operation, Gen. Beans.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

TJ eneters the race between ElectionsGuy and TNF, attracting social conservatives and economic moderates.

Gov. TJ (Christian Democrat-WI) 38% 274 EV
Rep. TNF (Labor-KY)  33% 183 EV
Sen. ElectionsGuy (Libertarian-WI) 29% 43 EV

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

2016
With nomination of "liberty Republican" Shua by the Republicans and hardcore "true leftist" and gun enthusiast T.N.F. by the Democrats, the nation's establishment was in a panic. Both of the candidates represented totally new ways of doing business, ways that would threaten the entrenched hierarchy in Washington D.C. Secretly, members of the Obama cabinet convened with former Bush staffers to nominate their own candidate. Eventually, they agreed on former Senator Leif Prescott of New York. A candidate from 2008, his vote in favor of the Iraq War had doomed him in the Democratic primaries that year. Two years later, he was primaried from the left. Nevertheless, he'd been an outspoken defender of the Obama administration after the election and supported intervention in Syria. In order to attract Republicans, J. Walter Mitty, a former Republican who'd been in Bush's cabinet as Secretary of Defense, was chosen for Vice President. The ticket rallied around such phrases as "war is peace" and "freedom is slavery" so as to encourage voters to stand behind the bi-partisan establishment ticket. Despite getting large returns in the East, they would fail to win, though the election was sent to the House of Representatives, which elected Shua for President and Schweitzer Vice President.

Congressman Theodore Nugent "T.N.F." Fauntroy (D-KY)/Former Governor Brian Schweitzer (D-MT) 226 electoral votes
Senator James H. Shua (R-VA)/Congressoman Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA) 222 electoral votes
Former Senator Leif E. Prescott (I-NY)/Former Secretary of Defense J. Walter Mitty (I-MA) 90 electoral votes

[TNF]

2000

Outgoing President Scott of Connecticut has presided over eight years of relative peace and prosperity. His Vice President, Shua of Virginia, is now seeking the White House on his own accord, running, like his boss before him, as a centrist "New Democrat." The Republicans have nominated the Governor of Michigan, Cathcon, a populist conservative, in hopes of capitalizing upon blue collar discontent with the Democrats after the signing of NAFTA by President Scott. The left, dissatisfied with having to choose between "the far right and the right wing" throws a lot of support behind the Green Party nominee, Peter Nerdman of Pennsylvania, or as the media calls him "Peter the Lefty." The election is a down to the wire affair with polls changing daily; Shua up, Shua down, Cathcon up, Cathcon down. The debates (which include Nerdman) are reminiscent of the '92 contests, although it is clear that the candidate most benefiting from them is Cathcon.

On Election Day the Governor of Michigan pulls off a victory, scoring 296 electoral votes to Vice President Shua's 242 and Nerdman's 0. No candidate wins a majority of the popular vote, although Cathcon manages to eek out a small plurality of it, dodging questions of his being an "illegitimate" President. To this day, Democrats still blame Nerdman for "throwing the election to Cathcon" and lay the blame for the Venezuelan War, which happened on Cathcon's watch, at his feet.

Vice President Shua of Virginia and Senator Marokai of Ohio (Democratic Party): 242 electoral votes
Governor Cathcon of Michigan and Governor Reaganfan of Ohio (Republican Party): 296 electoral votes
Activist Peternerdman of Pennsylvania and Activist Bandit the Worker of Kentucky (Green Party): 0 electoral votes

[Oldiesfreak1854]

Gov. TNF (D-KY)/Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY): 398 EVs (48% PV)
Gov. Cathcon (R-MI)/Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK): 140 EVs (36% PV)
Sen. TJ (I-WI)/Fmr. Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT): 0 EVs (16% PV)

The 2016 presidential campaign turns out to be one of the messiest affairs in decades.  After a long and bitter nomination campaign, Republicans nominate Governor Cathcon of Michigan, a conservative with some libertarian leanings.  To solidify his conservative base, Cathcon selects outgoing Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma as his running mate.  Meanwhile, Governor TNF of Kentucky, after fending off a few minor challengers, manages to capture the Democratic nomination, choosing Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York as his vice presidential candidate.  TNF is a traditional New Deal liberal with some socialist tendencies.  The gap between the two major candidates is frequently describes as "so small and yet so large," with both Cathcon and TNF expressing populist leanings, but with Cathcon espousing libertarian principles and TNF expressing support for democratic socialism.  Repelled by the chaos of the general election, polling shows large percentages of voters expressing strong dissatisfaction with both TNF and Cathcon.  In response, center-right Republican Senator TJ of Wisconsin enters the race as an independent and chooses former Democrat Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut for vice president (Lieberman had previously been Al Gore's running mate on the Democratic ticket in 2000.)  He campaigns on a platform of rejecting both ideological extremes, but many voters see him as little more than a protest candidate.

On Election Day, voter turnout is the lowest in several decades; exit polls show TJ taking relatively equal percentages of support from both TNF and Cathcon, but he manages to take enough support from Republicans, which, coupled with TNF's popularity in many border states, hands several GOP-leaning states to the Democrats (including Arizona, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, and West Virginia.)  This, in turn, helps TNF win the presidency with a solid 398-140 victory in the Electoral College.

[ElectionsGuy]

TNF ("D"-KY)/Sol ("D"-NC): 68
Oldiesfreak (R-MI)/TJ (R-WI): 70
MilesC56 (I-LA)/JerryArkansas (I-AR): 400

TNF/Sol: 21.4%
Oldiesfreak/TJ: 27.4%
Miles/Jerry: 51.2%

With the democratic ticket being two radicals, and the republican ticket being two social conservatives, Miles and Jerry make a independent non-partisan centrist ticket in hopes to get as many votes as possible from the moderates and leaners. Jerry runs as a socially liberal republican, and Miles runs as a socially conservative democrat. They end up winning huge, earning 400 electoral votes, showing just how bad partisan politics had gotten in America.