Guess the scenario in which this would happen....
Democrats run Joe Manchin and a Missouri or Kentucky politician for VP.
A dirty primary fight between Donald Trump and Marco Rubio means that Marco Rubio becomes the Republican nominee while Trump creates his own right wing populist party that takes in a lot of rural right-wing votes.
Joe Manchin decides to go right-wing on immigration to win his home state. While Rubio selects Chris Christie for VP and somehow people forget about bridgegate.
Result is Manchin wins the strongest democratic states in the West and midwest and northeast. However his right-wing immigration policy makes hispanics turn to Rubio. Allowing Rubio to win Colorado and Nevada.
Also Rubio winning Maryland, New Jersey, Connecticut and New Hampshire is only possible with a plurality but otherwise he manages to win those states by appealing to suburbanites.
Interesting. Not bad. The actual scenario has nothing to really do with American parties, but it's a decent attempt at what is a pretty wacky map in current American politics.
