Could Jon Huntsman have won?

[Simfan34]

453-85. No doubt a landslide. Huntsman would have made MASSIVE inroads with Hispanics and the wealthy educated urban classes. It would have been a realigning election. The 2016 map would have looked like this, no joke.

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Huntsman would be like Reagan x2, without any fault or flaw. The 23rd Amendment might be repealed on the grounds of sheer stupidity.

[Simfan34]

This timeline accurately conveys what would have happened under a Huntsman presidency, sub-4% unemployment (aka full employment), trillion dollar surpluses, falling debt, rising power, 3/4+ approval ratings, and people angry unemployment is above the horrid rate of 5%. But Americans aren't that stupid, and wouldn't be so idiotic as to give us the map Maxwell presents us with. It would have been a 51-state sweep. But we were stupid enough to reject our chance at 24-year plus political dominance and mass prosperity.

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=159110.75

[Simfan34]

Hmm...

1. Obama camp would destroy him as a shameless opportunist and flopper who just a few months before worked for the President and kissed his butt for number of occassions.
2. Base would be less enthusiastic.

No, he'd lose.

But Jon Huntsman wasn't a flip flopper.

[Simfan34]

Don't forget the Asian American vote.