Edwards vs Romney

[Josh/Devilman88]

Maps, and give your two cents..

[HappyWarrior]

Romney is demolished by Edwards, shown as a flip flopper and a weak, vain candidate.

[AndrewTX]

Okay..right..Romney loses Wyoming?

 I also think he would be able to carry Nevada. Other than that, it looks nearly correct.

[M]

The two weakest major candidates face off.

I give it to Edwards by a considerable margin, since its a natural Democratic year.

The country becomes more deeply polarized than ever. Neither candidate has squat to offer the  other half of the country.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Romney - and here's my 2008 Prediction map, which just so happens to be based on this situation.

[Lief 🗽]

Edwards wins. By a lot. At least 10 point popular vote victory, possibly a 60-40 1964-esque victory.

[Undisguised Sockpuppet]

Romney wins given how the liberal wing of the dems bolts for Nader, Sheehan or Bloomberg. A "populist" is *not* the kind of candidate the dems need(the GOP is moving towards becoming a populist party and the dems would do better to snap up the votes the GOP isn't chasing anymore(rockefeller republicans, gypsy moth republicans, suburban economic cons/social moderates, libertarians etc))

[PBrunsel]

Both would have to have near bald running-mates to ballance the hair line, and both would need translators to tell Americans what their latest platitude meant. I guess that Edwards/Biden would defeat Romney/Thompson in one of the more bland elections in our nation's history. Romney reminds me of Thomas Dewey, an urbane, eastern, governor who talks in platudes, and Edwards reminds me of William Bryan, an overly oratorical fellow who speaks in his own platitudes about the "everyman."

As I said, Edwards would defeat Romney, not really because of the ideas he espoused, but because Romney's almost perfectly staged personality would put off enough voters and because one can only take a party in the White House for so long, and the people seem upset with the Republicans. Not the greatest reasons to win the Oval Office, but such is life.

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

It's not even close, as some of that evangelical vote stays home or votes 3rd party

Edwards 403
Romney 135

[Undisguised Sockpuppet]

Cute map dude but you realize that a lefty third party candidate would split the dems and push Romney over the top. Then the economy goes south and there's tanks in the streets. I don't need to elaborate from there do I?

[NDN]

Cute map dude but you realize that a lefty third party candidate would split the dems and push Romney over the top. Then the economy goes south and there's tanks in the streets. I don't need to elaborate from there do I?

I disagree. Edwards platform is very liberal at this point. He's actually the most vocally left-wing of the front runners. I doubt the lefties would avoid him.

[Undisguised Sockpuppet]

The problem is... what if Edwards tries a populist type campaign and not necessarily a liberal focused one?

[NDN]

The problem is... what if Edwards tries a populist type campaign and not necessarily a liberal focused one?

It wouldn't really make much of a difference. His social views are center-left and he's consistently been arguing for a withdrawal for awhile (and apologized for his vote). Hillary is the one whose far more likely to alienate the lefties.. And to an extent already has.

[Undisguised Sockpuppet]

Hillary alienates everyone in general.

[Lief 🗽]

Why would Edwards alienate democrats? He's pro-choice, pro-civil union, pro-withdrawal from Iraq. His only socially conservative view is being pro-death penalty, but I doubt that issue will play a role at all this year.

[Bay Ridge, Bklyn! Born and Bred]

You know what would be hilarious?

If Romney eased his way into the GOP nomination based largely on an anti-illegal immigrant stance and then the Democrats would strike back with a brutal PR campaign calling on Romney to voluntarily turn himself over to the INS because, after all, Mitt the Flip favors harsh penalties for employers who hire and exploit illegal aliens (at least thats what his current position is)

A PR stunt like that would destroy Romney much like the swift-boating destroyed John Kerry in 2004, but the Dems would never do something like that because they lack the testicles and/or brains to play hard-ball politics and don't know how to go straight for the jugular

[Stranger in a strange land]

Romney - and here's my 2008 Prediction map, which just so happens to be based on this situation.

how does Romney win WV and OH? I think Edwards's populism would go over well there, while Romney's northeasternness, mormonism, overly-managed campaign, and flip-flopping would be off-putting to a lot of people, especially those who've voted Republican for social issues the last few elections.

and do you really think he would win Michigain? Other than that his dad was governor there 40 years ago, I don't see anything there to make him more appealing than a generic republican.

this map I think is more likely:

[Undisguised Sockpuppet]

Add Florida to the dem side and it'll be believable.

[HardRCafé]

Romney would dominate in Wyoming but be uncompetitive overall against any of the three major Democrats.

[Dan the Roman]

346 - 192
Edwards narrowly loses North Carolina, Virginia, and Arizona, and performs decently (44-45%) in the deep south.

[Lincoln Republican]

Romney, a man of substance, demolishes Edwards, an empty suit.

Romney                    341
Edwards                   197

[HappyWarrior]

Romney, a man of substance, demolishes Edwards, an empty suit.

Romney                    341
Edwards                   197

Ur saying ROMNEY is the man of substance, he is nothing more than a Republican John Kerry.

[HardRCafé]

Ur saying ROMNEY is the man of substance, he is nothing more than a Republican John Kerry.

I really want to refute that but am unable to.