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Cheeseburger Freedom Man (D-AL) / Former President Bill Clinton (D-AR) - 277
Donald Trump (R-NY) / Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) - 261

Is that a Vinesauce reference?

Actually, yes. It's the map from The Political Machine 2016.

Oh God that video was even funnier than his 2012 one. I am still trying to figure out how that map is even possible.

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El American Brexit Mapa.

It saddens me to see only 4 colonies of the original 13 to vote for Leave. Then again, I understand that you're using modern America for this map.

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Map time!

Trump Wins Landslide In Dramatic Realigning Election! Trump Victory Not Impeded By Utah Change To State Legislature For Presidential Vote.

Businessman Donald J. Trump (R - NY)/Governor Mike Pence (R - IN): 313 EVs, 52.0% PV
Fmr. State Sec Hillary R. Clinton (D - NY)/Senator Tim Kaine (D - VA): 219 EVs, 45.5% PV
Fmr. MA Governor Willard "Mitt" Romney (I - UT)/Fmr. Governor Bill Weld (L - MA): 6 EVs, N/A for PV
Fmr. Governor Gary Johnson (L - NM)/Fmr. Governor Bill Weld (L - MA): 0 EVs, 2.1% PV

After the conventions, Trump and Hillary remained in a dead heat. By September, however, Trump's populist message on trade and law and order began to pay off in the Midwest of all places. Though he trailed Clinton in states such as Florida, New Hampshire, and even Arizona, he consistently led her in states such as Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and even one congressional district of Maine. After the first debate ended, which was seen as a slight Trump victory, the businessman began to beat Clinton in other state polls, including the aforementioned non-Midwestern states where Clinton was previously winning. After even bigger wins in the following debates, the Trump/Pence ticket was consistently winning at least the 270 minimal EVs needed to win the election.

The last controversy leading into Election Day was a spectre from the divided GOP primaries. A few state reps in South Carolina pushed a bill that would revoke the popular vote to choose the state's electors for President in favor of returning the ability to the state legislature, as it had been since before the Civil War in the state. Obviously, this affected Trump's campaign the most, so he was the most vocal. Just like Andrew Jackson after the 1824 fubar, Trump furiously preached against governmental elitism and that the common man deserves to choose his own electoral fate. Clinton's only response was that of mockery. She snidely remarked repeatedly that Trump brought this upon himself, but that the "Republicans deserved it and also that it shows the entire party's true colors." As extreme as Trump sounded to some people, the electorate in South Carolina and nationally preferred his response over Clinton's. Luckily for Trump, the measure failed in South Carolina's state house, with 4/5ths of the chamber's Democrats and 2/3rds of the Republicans uniting to vote against it. SC Governor Nikki Haley, while still ambivalent towards Trump, also opposed the bill, further ensuring that the popular vote for President would remain in her state. The Republicans had averted a constitutional crisis, at least in South Carolina.

Election Day arrived on November 8th. The Donald won a decisive victory against Hillary Clinton, gaining 313 EVs versus her 219 EVs. Trump won 60% of the vote in many reliably Republican states, while winning enough votes in swing states to gain most of them. Of all the swing states, only New Mexico, Nevada, Minnesota, and Virginia sided with Hillary, with Virginia and Nevada being decided by .5% of the vote each. Trump's closes states were Maine (2nd district only) and New Hampshire, which were decided by .6% and .8% of the vote respectively. The state that called the night for Trump was Ohio, which Trump won 52.5% to 46.9%. South Carolina's citizens got to vote for President, and they resoundingly voted for Trump. However, there was an anamoly... It did not come from South Carolina, but from Utah! Although there was no prior evidence of this, similar talks about changing how electoral votes for President were done in Utah. Apparently, the state legislature of Utah conducted this while everyone was focused on South Carolina. The bill was signed by Governor Gary Herbert on the night before the election. Even worse, many polling precincts reported that their records vanished, which did make the news early.  The only surviving records came from Salt Lake City and a few outlying towns in the south; all of these surviving records indicate a victory for Hillary Clinton 80% to Trump's 10%. For obvious reasons, these results have been contested by both major parties. The state legislature of Utah chose Mitt Romney for President and Libertarian VP Candidate William Weld for Vice President. Regardless, Trump had objectively won the night. Donald John Trump became the 45th President while Michael Pence became the 48th Vice President.

The day after, Trump congratulated his supporters for sticking to their enthusiasm and helping him achieve his goal of winning. There was the obligatory policy discussion and Trump's usual rhetoric, but a good portion of his victory speech was an attach on Mitt Romney, Gary Herbert, and the state government of Utah. Trump turned his Jacksonian ire against them, damning them for not only depriving the people of Utah their vote, but for going the extra step of destroying popular vote returns.  He added an extra promise to his first 100 days: to encourage Congress to get an amendment passed guaranteeing the right to popular vote for President for the citizens of every state. Should Congress fail to do so, then Trump called upon the other way to pass an amendment: a convention of the states. The American public resoundingly supported this call by 70%. Whatever the goal was of the state legislature of Utah, the only thing they ultimately did was give Trump more populist ammunition against the establishment.

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A Different Billionaire Populist:

Businesswoman Elexis Sinclaire (R - FL)/Fmr. General James Mattis (R - WA): 347 EVs, 50.1% PV
Fmr. State Sec. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D - NY)/Congressman Joaquin Castro (D - TX): 185 EVs, 44.9% PV
Fmr. CIA Operative Evan McMullin (NS - UT)/Businessman Jim Oberweis (NS - IL): 6EVs, 1% PV

Scientist-turned-businesswoman Elexis Sinclaire feels invigorated to run for President after convincing affiliates of her main company SinTek to remain in the US despite rising corporate tax rates and regulations. In mid-2015, she announces her run for U.S. President with her first endorsement coming from fellow business mogul Donald Trump. Though she did so with her typical intellectual finesse, Sinclaire ran her Republican campaign on a more unorthodox platform. While retaining the usual GOP hardline in favor of national security, law and order, and a free market internally, Sinclaire called for a more socially liberal platform combined with calls for an end to NAFTA and the Hart-Cellar Act of 1965 along with declaring her support for a border wall and an opposition to the TPP. Sinclaire also focuses her campaign against the dual political dynasties of the Bushes and Clintons. She quickly gets Jeb Bush out of the GOP primaries with two dual victories in Iowa and New Hampshire. Sinclaire would face Fmr. State Secretary Hillary R. Clinton despite a rather rocky primary against Senator Bernie Sanders for the fate of the Democratic Party. Sinclaire doubles down on her populist and outsider image by picking General James Mattis of the USMC to be her VP nominee. Clinton picks HUD Secretary Julian Castro, nervously attempting to appeal to Hispanics and other minorities, whom Sinclaire was trailing with even for a Republican candidate.

For most of the summer, Clinton slightly led Sinclaire. Her lead was the widest during the late July, August, and September months after FBI Director James Comey recommended to not indict Hillary Clinton over her emails. To make matters worse for Sinclaire, Bill Kristol and a group of establishment Republicans called "Never Sinclairers" nominated a Mormon CIA operative to ruin her chances in the West. A single, childless woman with such a populist, anti-establishmentarian message was not faring well with groups such as the Mormons, so that also hampered the billionaire's gamble. However, come late September, Sinclaire's constant rallies in swing and blue areas and her spectacular debate performances played in her favor. Not only did Sinclaire's own performance pull her over, Clinton's campaign was not doing itself any favors with Castro's VP nomination. Many Hispanics reportedly admitted that the VP nominee was running solely on being Hispanic, and that he had no qualifications of his own. They were proven right when Mattis utterly crushed Castro at the VP debate. A week later, Castro resigned from the ticket and was replaced by his brother, Joaquin. The race was largely a tossup, but virtually every pundit gave the race to Clinton due to the "blue firewall" and Hispanics and Mormons in the West. As Larry Sabato put it, "a Republican who needs to visit Idaho whatsoever in a Presidential election has dim chances."

Sinclaire was blessed near Election Day. The week before, Director Comey re-opened the Hillary email investigation thanks to some revelations from fmr. Congressman Anthony Weiner's computer files. To make matters worse, the investigation continued well into Election Day. Late decideds in many states would tip the election to Sinclaire, with many states going to the victorious candidate by less than 50% of the vote. Sinclaire ultimately won with 247 EVs, with the results of Colorado and Wisconsin being the ones to carry her over. Thanks to Sinclaire's astromically high performance in traditionally GOP states in the South and Midwest and her oddly well performance in California and New York, Sinclaire also decisively won the popular vote. McMullin pulled off Utah with 35% of the vote and kept Idaho down to merely 45% for Sinclaire, but he did nothing to endanger the GOP nominee. A few other boons for Sinclaire were her resounding support by working class whites, winning white women 60-30, gaining 33% of the Hispanic vote, and 12% of the black vote. The only voter blocs that Hillary outperformed Obama on were Muslim voters (which Sinclaire hardly won any at all due to her vocal criticisms of Islamic terrorism and doctrine) and LGBT voters despite constant rumors about Sinclaire being a closet lipstick lesbian. Elexis Sinclaire, CEO of SinTek, became the 45th President of the United States of America.

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2016: Defenders of Earthrealm vs Bernie The Upset

Fmr. General Sonya A. Blade-Cage (R - TX)/Actor Johnny Cage (R - CA): 347 EVs, 56.5% PV
Senator Bernie Sanders (D/I - VT)/Congresswoman Eleanor Norton Holmes (D - DC): 191 EVs, 38.0% PV

Arizona goes to Sanders by a margin of 20,000. Senator John McCain started a personal feud against General Blade that remained largely confined to Arizona. Kirkpatrick wins AZ's Senate seat, but NV, NH switch to the GOP, giving the Republicans a 53-47 edge. The House is 242 GOP - 193 DEM.

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Some Chief Justice: U.S. Presidential Election, 1948:

Governor Earl Warren (R - CA)/House Majority Whip Leslie C. Arends (R - IL): 332 EVs, 49.8% PV
President Harry S. Truman (D - MO)/Associate Justice William O. Douglas (D - NY): 159 EVs, 45.2% PV
Governor Strom Thurmond (SR - SC)/Governor Fielding L. Wright (SR - MS): 40 EVs, 2.8% PV

Governor Earl Warren runs a moderate-to-liberal campaign for the Republican candidacy, having been endorsed by 1944 Presidential Candidate Thomas Dewey. The California Governor unifies the moderate wing of the party, narrowly but decisively winning against Taftite John Bricker. Warren cordially reached out to the Taftites by selecting conservative House Minority Whip Leslie Arends of Illinois. Governor Warren ran one of the most energetic campaigns in history, being compared to Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln in terms of personal involvement. Truman was taken aback by Warren's energy, and found himself unable to keep up. Commentators would later dub Truman's campaign as "low-energy." Unsurprisingly, Warren won decisively in the Electoral College against an unpopular incumbent with a party fractured into three. Four faithless electors split from Truman in the election; two in Tennessee went to Thurmond's States' Rights Dixiecrats while two electors mistakenly believed Warren barely took Virginia and thus voted accordingly.

(May make a possible TL out of this either on here or alternatehistory.com.)

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I'd also like someone to Atlasify my map. Here is the link to the post with state names: https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=253670.msg5414581#msg5414581

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I'd also like someone to Atlasify my map. Here is the link to the post with state names: https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=253670.msg5414581#msg5414581

Do you have the amount of electoral votes for each state?

I will have to recreate this experiment later. I'm about to study for Civ Pro after eating, so it may be a while.

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I'd also like someone to Atlasify my map. Here is the link to the post with state names: https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=253670.msg5414581#msg5414581

Do you have the amount of electoral votes for each state?

I've recreated the map during this moment of free time. I'll PM them to you as to not flood this topic.

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Thank you, rpryor.

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Been too long since I've seen anything Kaiserreich-related. Noice. I love playing the AUS.

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Al Smith Does Even Worse.

Secretary of Commerce Herbert Clark Hoover (R - CA)/Senate Majority Leader Charles Curtis (R - KS): 493 EVs, 61% PV.
Governor Al Smith (D - NY)/Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson (D - AR): 38 EVs, 37.5% PV.

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Samuel Walden's got a damn good hold on this country.

I wonder what would cause this D vs R map?

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Samuel Walden's got a damn good hold on this country.

I wonder what would cause this D vs R map?

A Democrat from Idaho fails to buck the trends, resulting in the popular pseudo-populist capitalist Republican president winning reelection.

AK, IL and ID (especially ID) are really the only states separating this from an expectant sort of scenario for a solid GOP win.

Ignore the percentages and that actually sounds very realistic.

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Not so lavenous!

Did Clinton die, get impeached, or refuse a second term?

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Tricky Dick Don't Even Need To Trick:

Fmr. Vice President Richard M. Nixon (R - CA)/Governor Spiro Agnew (R - MD): 389 EVs, 44.4% PV
Senator Robert F. Kennedy (D - NY)/Senator Eugene McCarthy (D - MN): 85 EVs, 37.4% PV
Fmr. Governor George Wallace (AI - AL)/General Curtis LeMay (AI - CA): 64 EVs, 17.5% PV

Senator Robert Kennedy narrowly survives an assassination attempt by Palestinean-American Sirhan Sirhan, making a practically magical recovery. However, President Johnson fights RFK to the bitter end,  and though Bobby clinches the nomination, President Johnson and Vice President Humphrey both give Bobby a half-hearted endorsement at best. The Democratic Establishment overlooked Bobby while Southerners and even a few Northerners sneered at him. Nixon's victory over Bobby became evident quickly as Wallace destroyed the Democrats in the South and partially in the Midwest while Nixon cruised to a nationwide success.