The Campaign Trail: Post Your Maps!

[Jamison5]

Reversed Atlas colors to do it how the game (and everywhere else) does it.

Got this kinda strange but not really 315-223 Romney map playing as the Delecto himself.

I love playing 2012 as I find that one to be the most elastic and gives the wildest results from time to time.

I also noticed that 2012 has many different combinations, same with 2000. I have been trying to win 2000 while losing Florida, which I have not succeeded at yet.

[538Electoral]

Played a 2012 game with Romney on Normal. I spent half the game gunning for Pennsylvania and it paid off. I won Pennsylvania by half a percent. Interestingly, I came even closer to losing Ohio as I only won that by 0.3%, I only won Colorado by 0.2% but that state didn't matter. Overall, I'm proud of myself.

PS: I won the popular vote by 0.08%, Making it the closest popular vote win in American history.

282-256

[538Electoral]

Romney on Easy. Went for the best answer on the first 7 questions. (Tip: The first 7 questions might be in a different order, But the same questions are the first 7 so you want to know the best answers to these 7 if you want to be on track to win) but picked the bottom question for the rest of them knowing it could lead to horrible consequences. And......

331-207

Did very well. One of my best playing as Romney in fact.

[538Electoral]

Did the same thing for Obama and.....

286-252

I won......but nowhere near as successful as Romney's round. I gunned for Ohio the entire time and that turned out to be the right choice as I won that state by just 1.3% and I would've lost the election had I not won Ohio.

[Sir Tiki]

Won as Bryan/Sewall on normal in an EC nailbiter:

224-223

(I won the PV by 51.1% though).

https://americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/1297239

[KaiserDave]

https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/1305888


Won as Romney/Portman running a moderate platform that acknowledged scientific consensus on climate change

[KaiserDave]

https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/1313429


Beautiful flawless Humphrey/Harris landslide

Ran as an anti-war liberal, Nixon didn't debate me and got exposed for interrupted peace talks

[Elcaspar]

https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/1313429


Beautiful flawless Humphrey/Harris landslide

Ran as an anti-war liberal, Nixon didn't debate me and got exposed for interrupted peace talks

Sorry to upstage you KaiserDave

https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/959812

Also a Humphrey/Harris game, also ran an anti-war liberal, and i absolutely trounced Nixon in the debate and also exposed him for interrupting peace talks.

[KaiserDave]

https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/1313429


Beautiful flawless Humphrey/Harris landslide

Ran as an anti-war liberal, Nixon didn't debate me and got exposed for interrupted peace talks

Sorry to upstage you KaiserDave

https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/959812

Also a Humphrey/Harris game, also ran an anti-war liberal, and i absolutely trounced Nixon in the debate and also exposed him for interrupting peace talks.

Oh don't apologize, I'm nearly drooling over this map.

[KaiserDave]

https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/1313874


Ran a moderate hero campaign as Bush/Powell

Won easily, had a good response to the DUI and past drug use

[538Electoral]

Did the same as the above but with Gore. Picked Bayh as running mate and gunned for Indiana.

382-156

[Del Tachi]

Had to post, because it was a pretty rare outcome.  269-269 tie in 1976.  I played as Ford/Anderson.

Carter/Mondale - 269 EV; 41,106,921 (49.9%)
Ford/Anderson - 269 EV; 39,639,330 (48.1%)

Closest states were Maine (Ford +615), Virginia (Ford +4,913) and Wisconsin (Ford +7,811).  Closest Carter win was Oklahoma (Carter +7,728)

Just because its a rare outcome, I'll post the outcome blurb:

While the Electoral College ended in a tie, the Democrats have a huge advantage in the House of Representatives and are sure to elect your opponent in that manner. Perhaps you can still play a role in 1980, or seek your old Congressional leadership positions. In any case, you can still take solace in the fact that you did the right thing by pardoning Nixon and moving the country beyond the Watergate episode.

If anyone has the "no majority" blurbs for 2016, 2012, 2000, 1916 or 1896 (if possible) please share.  I'd be interested to know what they say.

[CookieDamage]

1968

Hubert Humphrey/Fred Harris - 324 EVs - 45.5%

Richard Nixon/Spiro Agnew - 169 EVs - 41.6%

George Wallace/Curtis LeMay - 45 EVs - 12.9%

[Elcaspar]

I got an amazing Truman result recently, winning with over 50% of the PV with a 6.7% margin over Dewey. https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/1321880

Harry Truman/Alben Barkley - 408 EVs - 50.7%

Thomas Dewey/Earl Warren - 85 EVs - 43.9%

Strom Thurmond/Fielding Wright - 38 EVs - 2.7%

[Orwell]

https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/1346681

Ran a #Populist Progressive campaign

[Agonized-Statism]

President Barack Obama (D-IL) / Vice President Joe Biden (D-DE)
Fmr. Governor Mitt Romney (R-MA) / Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI)

Tea Party Romney.

[Agonized-Statism]

Fmr. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (D-NY) / Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)
Businessman Donald Trump (R-NY) / Governor Mike Pence (R-IN)

Progressive Hillary Clinton.

[morgankingsley]

Had to post, because it was a pretty rare outcome.  269-269 tie in 1976.  I played as Ford/Anderson.

Carter/Mondale - 269 EV; 41,106,921 (49.9%)
Ford/Anderson - 269 EV; 39,639,330 (48.1%)

Closest states were Maine (Ford +615), Virginia (Ford +4,913) and Wisconsin (Ford +7,811).  Closest Carter win was Oklahoma (Carter +7,728)

Just because its a rare outcome, I'll post the outcome blurb:

While the Electoral College ended in a tie, the Democrats have a huge advantage in the House of Representatives and are sure to elect your opponent in that manner. Perhaps you can still play a role in 1980, or seek your old Congressional leadership positions. In any case, you can still take solace in the fact that you did the right thing by pardoning Nixon and moving the country beyond the Watergate episode.

If anyone has the "no majority" blurbs for 2016, 2012, 2000, 1916 or 1896 (if possible) please share.  I'd be interested to know what they say.

I wonder what percent of 1976 games had that outcome

[CookieDamage]

Had to post, because it was a pretty rare outcome.  269-269 tie in 1976.  I played as Ford/Anderson.

Carter/Mondale - 269 EV; 41,106,921 (49.9%)
Ford/Anderson - 269 EV; 39,639,330 (48.1%)

Closest states were Maine (Ford +615), Virginia (Ford +4,913) and Wisconsin (Ford +7,811).  Closest Carter win was Oklahoma (Carter +7,728)

Just because its a rare outcome, I'll post the outcome blurb:

While the Electoral College ended in a tie, the Democrats have a huge advantage in the House of Representatives and are sure to elect your opponent in that manner. Perhaps you can still play a role in 1980, or seek your old Congressional leadership positions. In any case, you can still take solace in the fact that you did the right thing by pardoning Nixon and moving the country beyond the Watergate episode.

If anyone has the "no majority" blurbs for 2016, 2012, 2000, 1916 or 1896 (if possible) please share.  I'd be interested to know what they say.

I wonder what percent of 1976 games had that outcome

I can imagine the 2016 blurb looking like:

While the Electoral College ended in a tie, the DemocratsRepublicans have an huge advantage in the House of Representatives and are sure to elect your opponent in that manner. Perhaps you can still play a role in 19802020, or seek your old Congressional leadership positions. In any case, you can still take solace in the fact that you did the right thing by pardoning Nixon and moving the country beyond the Watergate episode.

[Illini Moderate]

Anyone know when or if the 2020 scenario will be released?

[Snazzrazz Mazzlejazz]

Anyone know when or if the 2020 scenario will be released?

There probably won't be one because the guy that made the website moved on and does other things with his life now IIRC

[zoz]

Hubert Humphrey/John Connally - 33,565,187 (45.7%) 348 EV
Richard Nixon/Spiro Agnew - 30,836,109 (42.0%) 145 EV
George Wallace/Curtis LeMay - 9,057,997 (12.3%) 45 EV

This was my best ever result as Humphrey in a serious game. I trounced Nixon at the debate and successfully exposed him in the negotiations at the end. In addition, I answered just about every other question correct, running on a toned-down liberal message.

The five closest states were:

Kentucky (+393, 0.03% MoV)
Nevada (+1,502, 1.01% MoV)
California (+92,697, 1.26% MoV)
Arkansas (+9,541, 1.59% MoV)
Oregon (+17,347, 2.19% MoV)

[S019]

Nixon 1960 on Impossible

Nixon/Rockefeller: 283 EV, 48.92%
Kennedy/Johnson: 240 EV, 50.62%*
Bryd/Thurmond: 14 EV, 0.46%*

*Bryd won 6 of Alabama's 11 electoral votes, which is not displayed on the map that I am posting

https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/1384087

[S019]

Bryan on Impossible

Bryan/Matthews: 241 EV, 51.09%
McKinley/Hobart: 206 EV, 47.03%

https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/1389547

[Brother Jonathan]

As Dukakis:

Michael Dukakis and Al Gore- 313 EV, 49.9%
George H. W. Bush and Dan Quayle- 225 EV 48.8%

First time playing in a while