1988: Bush/Quayle vs. Jackson/Duke

[SPC]

Okay, I know this scenario is completely absurd, but here it goes:

Let's assume that Jesse Jackson win the Democratic nomination. To balance the ticket, he chooses fellow candidate David Duke as his running mate.

What would the electoral map look like for this? Would it be a clean Bush sweep?

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

Okay, I know this scenario is completely absurd, but here it goes:

Let's assume that Jesse Jackson win the Democratic nomination. To balance the ticket, he chooses fellow candidate David Duke as his running mate.

What would the electoral map look like for this? Would it be a clean Bush sweep?

Yes, it is completely and totally absurd.  But no, the 50 states would go to Bush, while DC's 3 would probably still go Dem.

[DanielX]

Jackson and Duke would strangle each other before the election....

Seriously, it's kind of like having Benjamin Netanyahu and Yassir Arafat running on the same ticket, or perhaps George W. Bush and Saddam Hussein. The candidates would have little in common, and hate each other's guts. Or, to put it in Jamaican: "It Just Won't Work, Mon."

Anyway, regardless if its Jackson or Duke who remains on the ticket, whichever of them will lose big.

Heck, if Duke is on the ticket, Bush might win DC, netting 537 EVs (less one smart-aleck elector who either votes Quayle/Bush or casts in a ballot for Ron Paul). Duke's appeal would be limited towards whites in the deepest South and a few western states, where the 'Reagan Coalition' would be well-nigh impossible to overcome.

Jackson would win DC, New York, and a few other states, at least. Still a landslide loss.

[Lincoln Republican]

The black race baiting demagogue and the white supremacist hate monger go down to total defeat, losing even DC. 

Bush/Quayle                  538
Jackson/Duke                    0