The Campaign Trail: Post Your Maps!

[Snazzrazz Mazzlejazz]

Used the advisor prompt exploit to repeat the Carter Playboy incident four or five times for a 60-39 Ford blowout:

Please explain.  I've heard of people editing the javascript to change the game's difficulty, which explains those really bizarre Nader and Wallace wins, but never heard of being able to pick which questions one gets.

When you select an option in the game and confirm it if it has an advisor prompt you can use your keyboard to repeat the response as much as you want with space or enter and it will keep affecting the game. Then when you're satisfied you can hit tab and open the map with space or enter then continue as normal with the wacky world you've made. (This is like a month later lol why did I take so long to respond to this)

Thanks for the response.  I've tried this and it doesn't seem to work.  Crashes the game every time.  Campaign dialogue box is too big to see where I'm going with the tab key. o_o

One press of tab to get to the open map button from confirm. That's the only place you need to go.

[Agonized-Statism]

Vice President George Bush (R-TX) / Senator Dan Quayle (R-IN)
Governor Michael Dukakis (D-MA) / Senator Al Gore (D-TN) ✓

Populist Dukakis campaigning exclusively in Ohio.

[Chips]

Played 2012 Romney again on Easy, Won Every state but CA, HI, VT, DC, MA and ME-01 with that bug. 461-77.

[DabbingSanta]

Used the advisor prompt exploit to repeat the Carter Playboy incident four or five times for a 60-39 Ford blowout:

Please explain.  I've heard of people editing the javascript to change the game's difficulty, which explains those really bizarre Nader and Wallace wins, but never heard of being able to pick which questions one gets.

When you select an option in the game and confirm it if it has an advisor prompt you can use your keyboard to repeat the response as much as you want with space or enter and it will keep affecting the game. Then when you're satisfied you can hit tab and open the map with space or enter then continue as normal with the wacky world you've made. (This is like a month later lol why did I take so long to respond to this)

Thanks for the response.  I've tried this and it doesn't seem to work.  Crashes the game every time.  Campaign dialogue box is too big to see where I'm going with the tab key. o_o

One press of tab to get to the open map button from confirm. That's the only place you need to go.

Thanks, this will help me create some interesting scenarios.

[Chips]

Played 2016 Trump using that trick. I repeated it on some of the biggest Trump bump questions...And got myself to nearly 82% of the popular vote. My worst state was Hawaii where I won with 69.5% of the vote and I got 18% in DC.

Biggest landslide in history.

https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/1995570

[JoeInator]

https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/1999870



Gov. Michael Dukakis (D-MA)/Sen. Lloyd Bentsen (D-TX): 325 EV, 50.5%
Vice Pres. George H. W. Bush (R-TX)/Sen. Dan Quayle (R-IN): 213 EV, 48.4%

[Alben Barkley]

Identical map to real 1860. Popular vote almost identical too.



Hard instead of Impossible, which for this campaign is pretty much... impossible.

Note about New Jersey: Douglas/the Democratic fusion ticket won the popular vote there in real life but Lincoln was awarded one more EV anyway. I actually did slightly better than the real Lincoln there, by a fraction of a point, but the game only takes into account popular vote so it shows I “lost” it.

[morgankingsley]

Tried 2012 for the first time ever. Played obama and got my ass handed to me. Romney flipped 10 states, won by 7 million, and came with 0.5 percent of winning OR, WA, and ME, and less than 2 from MI. One thing was clear: in this universe, people did NOT want obama. He had less votes than bush 04, and only beat McCain 08 by about 600k

Also, it was not on purpose. I genuinely just sucked that bad

[LAKISYLVANIA]

First time i played. I was Hillary Clinton with Sherrod Brown as VP.



Damn you PA!

Closest states:
Pennsylvania +0.3
Nevada +0.5
Wisconsin +1.2
New Hampshire +1.9
Minnesota +2.1
Ohio +2.1
Michigan +2.4
Florida +2.4
Maine +3
Colorado +3.3
Virginia +4
North Carolina +5.8
Arizona +7.4
Georgia +7.9
New Mexico +9
Oregon +10.7
Texas +12.1
Iowa +12.2


Candidate   Electoral Votes   Popular Votes   Popular Vote %
---- Donald Trump   279   63,854,535   46.4%
---- Hillary Clinton   259   65,974,661   48.0%
---- Gary Johnson/Others   0   7,365,336   5.4%
---- Jill Stein   0   375,025   0.3%

Pennsylvania
Candidate   Popular Votes   Popular Vote %   Electoral Votes
Donald Trump   2,900,049   48.24   20
Hillary Clinton   2,877,730   47.87   0
Gary Johnson/Others   221,285   3.68   0
Jill Stein   12,534   0.21   0

https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/2027529

Visits:
Florida:3
North Carolina:3
Arizona:2
Ohio:2
Pennsylvania:2

[Real Texan Politics]

Played as Hillary Clinton with Elizabeth Warren as her running mate. In this scenario she would've wanted to make more gains with progressive voters, while at the same time making history as the first major presidential ticket with not one, but TWO women.

It didn't go so well.......



Disclaimer: While every state in this mode used winner take all (including Maine), I went ahead and gave ME-02 to Trump because in this style of victory for him, there's no way he would not have won ME-02, despite the fact Clinton won it in this mode due to the winner take all system.

5 closest states were Virginia (Trump +0.11), Minnesota (Clinton +0.15), Maine (Clinton +0.47), Nevada (Trump +0.65), and New Hampshire (Clinton +1)

Also worth noting, Clinton didn't even crack 20% in Wyoming in this scenario. Also Trump cracked 60% in Louisiana which no republican has been able to do since Reagan in 1984, and same with Mississippi. Clinton also got 3rd place in Utah behind Trump (43.19%) and Evan McMullin (listed as Gary Johnson/Others) (34.39%). Clinton got 22.20% of the popular vote in Utah.

Overall, Trump won the popular vote by 0.3%.

[Stm85]

Tried 2012 for the first time ever. Played obama and got my ass handed to me. Romney flipped 10 states, won by 7 million, and came with 0.5 percent of winning OR, WA, and ME, and less than 2 from MI. One thing was clear: in this universe, people did NOT want obama. He had less votes than bush 04, and only beat McCain 08 by about 600k

Also, it was not on purpose. I genuinely just sucked that bad

I’ve found for the 2012 scenario that the best strategy for either candidate is to largely position yourself as a moderate while mixing in a couple answers here and there to fire up your base.

[The Houstonian]

[The Houstonian]

[JoeInator]

https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/2045802

Picked Connally as a VP, trounced Nixon in the debate, exposed Nixon sabotaging peace talks, and went pro-Civil Rights and anti-Vietnam to get my best Humphrey result:



Closest States:
Missouri +0.18
New Jersey +0.73
California +0.89 (tipping point for a Humphrey win)
Alaska +1.04
Oregon +1.40
Illinois +1.54
Kentucky +1.81
Nevada +1.86
Wisconsin +1.86 (tipping point for a Nixon win)
Delaware +2.50
Ohio +3.15
Tennessee +4.62
Florida +4.74
Vermont +5.29
Pennsylvania +5.48
South Carolina +5.83
North Carolina +5.92
Virginia +6.02
Texas +6.11
Washington +6.24
Indiana +6.28
Maryland +6.63
Arkansas +6.66
Iowa +7.31
Oklahoma +7.88
New Hampshire +7.88
New York +8.49
Montana +9.09
New Mexico +9.53

Lots of states decided by single digit margins.

[KaiserDave]

Lincoln and Liberty Too!

Won with Lincoln/Hamlin on hard. Ran on the anti-slavery but stopping short of abolitionism platform. It all came down to my slim margins in New York and Illinois, but the victory was more comfortable than I thought it would be.

[Alben Barkley]

Once and for all, why not the best?



I'm pretty sure this is the best possible map you can get with Carter, although it says I "only" did better than 97% of other players. So perhaps the top 3% uses hacks/cheats/exploits, because I can't seem to win Colorado (closest loss every time) no matter what I do. Just locking down both Vermont and New Hampshire, along with Kansas at the same time, is very difficult.

[Snazzrazz Mazzlejazz]

The best Hillary game I've ever played in 2016a (on easy)

[Chips]

Managed to win without Ohio as Romney 2012. Race came down to NV, IA and WI.



Mitt Romney: 283 electoral votes
President Obama: 255 electoral votes

[KaiserDave]

https://www.reddit.com/r/thecampaigntrail/comments/m05evj/1796_scenario_playable_adams_and_jefferson/

1796 mod is out! It's....decent

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

1896 United States presidential election

Former Representative William Jennings Bryan (Democratic, Nebraska) / Senator Henry Moore Teller (Republican, Colorado) 259 electoral votes, 51.8% popular votes
Former Governor William McKinley (Republican, Ohio) / former State Senator Garret Augustus Hobart (Republican, New Jersey) 188 electoral votes, 47.2% popular votes
Senator John McAuley Palmer (National Democratic, Illinois) / former Governor Simon Bolivar Buckner (National Democratic, Kentucky) 0 electoral votes, 1.0% popular votes

[Andrew Yang 2024]

https://www.reddit.com/r/thecampaigntrail/comments/m05evj/1796_scenario_playable_adams_and_jefferson/

1796 mod is out! It's....decent

I just won the electoral college with Adams while losing the popular vote in that election.

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

Ran as Lincoln/Hamlin on impossible.

1860 United States presidential election

Former Representative Abraham Lincoln (Republican, Illinois) / Senator Hannibal Hamlin (Republican, Maine) 160 electoral votes, 37.6% popular votes
Senator Stephen Arnold Douglas (Democratic, Illinois) / former Governor Herschel Vespasian Johnson (Democratic, Georgia) 29 electoral votes, 30.9% popular votes
Vice President John Cabell Breckinridge (Democratic, Kentucky) / Senator Joseph Lane (Democratic, Oregon) 90 electoral votes, 19.4% popular votes
Former Senator John Bell (Constitutional Union, Tennessee) / former Senator Edward Everett (Constitutional Union, Massachusetts) 24 electoral votes, 12.1% popular votes

[I still dare to hope]

Humphrey on Normal, Ted Kennedy is probably best running mate.Trounced Nixon in debate, Had Nixon question for Civil Rghts and made him go full right(Compete in every Southern State) and exposed Nixon on Vietnam War

[Chips]

The game is here now:

https://newcampaigntrail.github.io/newcampaigntrail/www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/index.html

[Chips]

Got this odd result in 2012 by messing around as Obama putting random answers on my questions.



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