The Campaign Trail: Post Your Maps!

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Familiar, eh?

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Played as Carter with Mondale on Normal; actually did pretty well.

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/36694



409-129 EVs

[OSR stands with Israel]

Somehow I always lose with Carter on normal, as I always collapse after they ask me about the Playboy Interview and  the debate , any tips on how to deal with those questions

[tpfkaw]

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/36710

Bryan/Sewall 53.76 - 330 EV
McKinley 45.31 - 117 EV
Palmer 0.92

I think the 1968 scenario is bugged as Wallace. I played on easy and literally campaigned only in NC and SC to try to throw the election to the house. I took a hard line on Vietnam, Segregation and a moderate one on the Great Society. I tailored all my answers for the South perfectly, yet I can never manage to do much better than Wallace did historically. I can win SC, about half the time but cannot win NC. Nixon always wins the election.

You might want to try being more conservative, so you take more votes from Nixon and fewer from Humphrey.

Somehow I always lose with Carter on normal, as I always collapse after they ask me about the Playboy Interview and  the debate , any tips on how to deal with those questions

Those are scripted events.

Anyway, the strategy for this game is to listen to the advisers and experiment with different answers to the same question to find out what the best response is. Also, campaign in the states that are rich in electoral votes and where you are slightly behind, keeping in mind any scripted events. And choose the VP who seems the most likely to have crossover appeal (usually not the historical choice).

From best to worst, the adviser blurbs are:

1. Any praise ending with an exclamation mark!
2. X is the best idea
3. X is a good/interesting idea/X helps you
4. X appeals to moderates (no caveat)
5. X appeals to the base (no caveat)
6. X helps with some voters and hurts with others but helps overall
7. X appeals to moderates but might turn off the base
8. X is the party line/a standard answer
9. No blurb
10. X appeals to the base but might turn off moderates
11. X helps with some voters and hurts with others but hurts overall
12. Negative statement about X

Some theories I have that may or may not be true:

• Your answers to the questions affect the state you're campaigning in the most.
• You get diminishing returns from repeatedly campaigning in the same state.
• At least in the 1896 scenario, the advisers are somewhat unreliable. (The Republicans are too pro-tariff/anti-segregationist and the Democrats are too pro-labor/rural-oriented).

[OSR stands with Israel]

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/36710

Bryan/Sewall 53.76 - 330 EV
McKinley 45.31 - 117 EV
Palmer 0.92

I think the 1968 scenario is bugged as Wallace. I played on easy and literally campaigned only in NC and SC to try to throw the election to the house. I took a hard line on Vietnam, Segregation and a moderate one on the Great Society. I tailored all my answers for the South perfectly, yet I can never manage to do much better than Wallace did historically. I can win SC, about half the time but cannot win NC. Nixon always wins the election.

You might want to try being more conservative, so you take more votes from Nixon and fewer from Humphrey.

Somehow I always lose with Carter on normal, as I always collapse after they ask me about the Playboy Interview and  the debate , any tips on how to deal with those questions

Those are scripted events.

Anyway, the strategy for this game is to listen to the advisers and experiment with different answers to the same question to find out what the best response is. Also, campaign in the states that are rich in electoral votes and where you are slightly behind, keeping in mind any scripted events. And choose the VP who seems the most likely to have crossover appeal (usually not the historical choice).

From best to worst, the adviser blurbs are:

1. Any praise ending with an exclamation mark!
2. X is the best idea
3. X is a good/interesting idea/X helps you
4. X appeals to moderates (no caveat)
5. X appeals to the base (no caveat)
6. X helps with some voters and hurts with others but helps overall
7. X appeals to moderates but might turn off the base
8. X is the party line/a standard answer
9. No blurb
10. X appeals to the base but might turn off moderates
11. X helps with some voters and hurts with others but hurts overall
12. Negative statement about X

Some theories I have that may or may not be true:

• Your answers to the questions affect the state you're campaigning in the most.
• You get diminishing returns from repeatedly campaigning in the same state.
• At least in the 1896 scenario, the advisers are somewhat unreliable. (The Republicans are too pro-tariff and the Democrats are too pro-labor).

Thanks for the advice, as I was finally able to win with Carter on Normal, next I will try Ford on normal even though that is considerably harder

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/36730

[OSR stands with Israel]

I lost with Ford but somehow you only have a 10% chance of winning with him

[Pyro]

President Gerald Ford (R-MI)/Rep. John B. Anderson (R-IL) - 49.0%/39.682M, 304 EV
Governor Jimmy Carter (D-GA)/Senator Walter Mondale (D-MN) - 49.0%/39.692M, 234 EV
Other Candidates/Other Candidates - 1.1%/857K, 0 EV
Former Senator Eugene McCarthy (D-MN)/Varying Candidates - 0.9%/754K, 0 EV

Close as hell. Played as a staunchly liberal/Anti-Reagan Republican candidate.

Supported Roe v. Wade, for ERA, supported Humphrey-Hawkins, openness in the administration and agreed to decrease the amount of nuclear weapons. Ended up winning in a crazy squeaker. Was on the edge of my seat when the results came in.

Ford lost the popular vote by about 10,000 votes and still managed to hang on to win the election thanks to Ohio and Pennsylvania. Lost New York by <1% and Mississippi by <0.01%.

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http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/37272

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http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/37287

Well, I picked up NM...

[rpryor03]

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/37302

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http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/37330

but muh

[Obama-Biden Democrat]

This is the result of my 1968 George Wallace game, on easy. This is by far the closest I have come to throwing the election to the House. I managed to pick up TN, SC, and NC. Sadly Humphrey didn't do well enough to force Nixon below 270 in the north.

Nixon 270 - Humphrey 191 - Wallace 77

[Kingpoleon]

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/38197

506: Fmr Gov. James Carter(D-GA)/Sen. John Glenn(D-OH) - 53.91%
032: President Gerald Ford(R-MI)/Sen. Robert Dole(R-KS) - 44.02%

[Bigby]

It's possible to win as Ford on Easy, apparently. I was moderate on some issues and went more mainline conservative as I became more comfortable. I had a misstep about the ERA, but that was before Carter's Playboy scandal, so I rebounded. I didn't make the Polish gaffe, so that was the biggest godsend. I even got brave and campaigned some in the South; it paid off to an extent. I only wonder if I would have won with the same strategies on Normal...

Election Night 1976: Ford Wins Electoral Landslide, Won on United Moderate-Conservative Coalition, Survives From Brink of Defeat.

President Gerald Ford (R - MI)/Senator Howard Baker (R - TN): 443 EVs
Fmr. Governor James Carter (D - GA)/Senator Scoop Jackson (D - WA): 95 EVs

President Ford was won his own term in the White House. Though Carter began hundreds of EVs ahead of Ford, the President made a miraculous, almost unbelievable comeback by being strong against his opponent, showing his strength and success as President, and his success in building a moderate-conservative coalition in the GOP. Senator Howard Baker will succeed Nelson Rockefeller as VP; Rockefeller will resign tomorrow for Baker to ascend to the Vice Presidency early. President Ford has announced his intention to nominate Rockefeller for HUD. In a conciliatory gesture, Ford has offered Ronald Reagan a position in his 2nd term's cabinet should be accept.

(Swapped Mondale for Jackson for extra alternate history flavor.)

[OSR stands with Israel]

I got  the exact same map as 1968

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/38952

[OSR stands with Israel]

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/38966

Bryan landslide

[YPestis25]

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/38965
Pretty proud of this run as Nixon on impossible.

Nixon/Romney: 314 EVs 44.0%
Humphrey/Muskie: 160 EVs 40.9%
Wallace/LeMay: 64 EVs 15.0%

Michigan was decided by less than 2,000 votes.

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http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/39051

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Actually managed to tie 2000

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/40188

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Romney on Easy

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/40198

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Oops

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/40206

[Kingpoleon]

Could someone link a victory for Ford/SOMETHING which wins AL & LA on Easy.

[OSR stands with Israel]

Man they have made it hard to win with Ford, here's my results

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/41044

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http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/41180

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This one was absolutely hilarious. Around halfway through the game I started campaigning only in Texas and began to choose my answers randomly (whichever one was last on the list), but I still won 332-206.

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/41183