President Elect - 1988 Edition now available online

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Popular Vote-

Bush-50%
Dukakis-49%

Electoral Vote-

Bush-260
Dukakis-278

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Pres. Gerald R. Ford/Vice Pres. Nelson Rockefeller-51%; 352
Gov. Jimmy Carter/Sen. Walter Mondale-49%; 186

It was close until about halfway through. Around turn 6 or so, Ford made a massive move on the South.

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First Nixon win out of 30 tries.

Nixon narrowly lead in the end.

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I copied Dar's scenario to see if it was a fluke...It wasn't.

Lowell Weicker (R-CT)-19,559,950/32%/238
Shirley Chisholm (D-NY)-20,120,214/33%/155
George C. Wallace (AI-AL)-20,865,376/34%/145

According to the game, Chisholm wins. So you have George Wallace with the most actual votes, Weicker with the most electoral votes, and Chisholm with the most congressional votes. So..Basically Civil War.

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Are recounts possible in this game? It gave Illinois to Kennedy in one of my simulations, but when I pressed "f" to skip through the rest since it was basically over, it said that Nixon had won it (Illinois).

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Are recounts possible in this game? It gave Illinois to Kennedy in one of my simulations, but when I pressed "f" to skip through the rest since it was basically over, it said that Nixon had won it (Illinois).

Yes, sort of. If it's super close the game calls a "winner" when 95% of precincts report. But States can still flip in the 5% of remaining precincts.

Ah, that explains it. I did think that it was strange that the game would call a state like Illinois with less than a 2,000 vote margin.

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1960

Richard M. Nixon/Henry Cabot Lodge-288/31,289,858/50%
John F. Kennedy/Lyndon B. Johnson-249/31,063,648/50%

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Electoral Vote
Fmr Gov. Jimmy Carter (GA)/Sen. Walter Mondale (MN)-291
Fmr Gov. Ronald Reagan (CA)/Sen. Richard Schweiker (PA)-247

Margin- Carter/Mondale +44

Popular Vote
Fmr Gov. Ronald Reagan (CA)/Sen. Richard Schweiker (PA)-41,243,748
Fmr Gov. Jimmy Carter (GA)/Sen. Walter Mondale (MN)-41,240,216

Margin- Reagan/Schweiker +3,532