2012 Map Megathread

[Kaine for Senate '18]

...Romney will win Michigan...

LOL.

[Mint]

Bad Obama Presidency:

Sanford/Pawlenty: 278
Obama/Biden: 260

What do you think?

Virginia and New Mexico would flip long before Minnesota did.

[Hatman 🍁]

Best case scenario:

[Hatman 🍁]

worst case scenario:

[anvi]

Matheis and Mint,

>>Virginia and New Mexico would flip long before Minnesota did.

Generally true, but I suppose the only reason for picking Pawlenty
would be to flip Minnesota.  Still, I don't think Sanford would ever win
a Republican nomination with big hitters like Romney, Crist, Huckabee
and, well, Palin in the field. 

[Holmes]

Obama with a decent term against a moderate/liberal republican like Romney or Pawlenty

You are joking right?

Oregon has been trending hardcore Republican, since 1988!

[Matt Damon™]

I had Oregon as 40% republican so it's a VERY slim victory for them.

[Matt Damon™]

Obama with a decent term against a populist/theocrat republican like Huckabee, Jindal or Palin

[Josh/Devilman88]

Obama with a decent term against a populist/theocrat republican like Huckabee, Jindal or Palin

Your maps are so funny!

[Matt Damon™]

Do you have anything to contribute or are you just going to troll in my thread?

[Josh/Devilman88]

Do you have anything to contribute or are you just going to troll in my thread?

I already have put my input in. Also I'm not trolling in this thread, you own maps are doing that for you buddy.

[Matt Damon™]

Do you have maps of your own?

[Josh/Devilman88]

Obama having an ok to good first term vs. Avg Republican

I did this one, but if you want to make a list of candidates vs each other or something alone them lines I will gladly make the maps.

[Matt Damon™]

Obama vs Romney
Obama vs Huckabee
Obama vs Palin(Joke nutter map)

[Josh/Devilman88]

Obama vs Romney
Obama vs Huckabee
Obama vs Palin(Joke nutter map)

How was Obama's first term?

[Matt Damon™]

Presume decent/average

[Person Man]

This is probably the most likely map-

[Franzl]

Obama is decent but not that great.

Obama winning the election with VA and without MO or OH?? LOL!

LOL, try again.

[Josh/Devilman88]

Obama vs Romney

Obama vs Huckabee

Obama vs Palin(Joke nutter map)

[anvi]

I've said this elsewhere, but I think that, if Mel Martinez were eligible to run, and with Huckabee on the bottom of the ticket, we'd get the closest election possible assuming Obama has an ok to good term.  The only Republican who could realistically do close to this well is, as I said above, Crist.  Here is the close "fantasy" race.

Obama-Biden            287
Martinez-Huckabee   251

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^^Palin does better than Romney? That's pretty funny, good one.

[Josh/Devilman88]

^^Palin does better than Romney? That's pretty funny, good one.

I was being very nice to Romney and Palin. Romney wouldn't get the consv. base to come out to the polls like Palin can.

[Holmes]

But she would scare off the moderates and independents that Romney would get.

[Josh/Devilman88]

But she would scare off the moderates and independents that Romney would get.

Would she? Most of the today's  Independents are Republicans looking for a new face for the Republican Party.  Palin would to a whole lot better with southern independents then Romney would.

[RIP Robert H Bork]

But she would scare off the moderates and independents that Romney would get.

True, but no amount of moderates/independents will make up for not being able to win one's own base. One cannot win the election without winning the base of his own party first (of course that is not intended to suggest that all other groups are unnecessary). That is why, for a party to win, its nominee must attract BOTH the base AND moderates/independents. That is what Obama was able to do this year.