Bush/Cheney vs Obama/Biden 2008

[JRP1994]

George W. Bush and Richard Cheney run for a 3rd term in 2008, against Barack Obama and Joe Biden. Everything occurs exactly as it did in real life.

What does the electoral map look like, and how bad of a bloodbath is it for the GOP ticket?

[NHI]

Considering Bush's unpopularity and the bad economy, Obama crushes Bush in both the electoral and popular vote.

Obama/Biden: 418 (55.5%)

Bush/Cheney: 120 (43.1%)

[free my dawg]

Looks okay, but I'd swap Alaska and South Dakota.

[Goldwater]

Obama/Biden: 413 EVs
Bush/Cheney: 125 EVs

[NewYorkExpress]

Obama wins with just shy of 400 EV's and and about 54% of the popular vote.
Open question if Bush would get a Primary challenger here though...

[badgate]

Senator Barack Obama / Senator Joseph Biden - 419
President George W. Bush / Vice President Dick Cheney - 119

[Cryptic]

Obama: 427
Bush: 111

[ask_not]

Obama/Biden: 340 (55.5%)

Bush/Cheney: 138

There is large scale bush and republican fatique  the g.o.p lose many congressional seats. and bush goes down.

[PolitiJunkie]

The popular vote would probably reveal more of a landslide than the electoral vote, because Obama would win by huge margins in the most Democratic states, and in the 15ish states that Bush would win, he would win more narrowly than most Republicans. I don't see Bush winning by more than 10% in more than 5 or 6 states.

All in all, Obama probably wins somewhere between 410 and 425 electoral votes and somewhere between 58 and 62 percent of the popular vote.

[Oldiesfreak1854]

Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL)/Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE): 483
Pres. George W. Bush (R-TX)/Vice President Dick Cheney (R-WY): 55
The absolute ceiling for Bush/.

[barfbag]

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Obama 65%
Bush    35%

Obama 451
Bush      87

You guys realize I'm being very generous to Bush? We're looking at 1964 but a bigger landslide in the popular vote. Again, this is assuming Bush spends hundreds of millions of dollars on ads and uses most of his time to campaign. On the issues, Bush will be seen as better on fighting terrorism, homeland security, defense, and taxes, but that's all.