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[NHI]

Romney 56% - 535
Obama 42% - 3

I played as Obama and selected the most right wing answer for every question (25 of them).  I was expecting to lose (I did it on purpose), but when Romney got Vermont I was still shocked. 

Strangely,  DC still went 80% Obama, even though I said he was going to ban gay marriage, and get rid of Obamacare and social security.  The closest state was Rhode Island, which Romney still won by over 50%.

wow!

[Mechaman]

Hahahahahahha!
Hhahahahahahah!

Basically I played as Bryan while supporting Civil Rights and opposing Lynching.  This was the result.

---- William McKinley    379    7,799,556    56.00%
---- John Palmer    52    1,348,417    9.68%
---- William Jennings Bryan    16    4,779,583    34.32%


YEs, that is a McKinley victory in Georgia.  44.62%, to be exact.

[Mechaman]

William J. Bryan, True Leftist Edition:

I ran as Bryan and took the most extremist answer on every liberal issue.  I tried to switch it up a little, by being a wet who supported Tammany.  Well, here is the result.

---- William McKinley    331    8,300,086    59.44%
---- John Palmer    100    1,973,041    14.13%
---- William Jennings Bryan    16    3,691,004    26.43%

Bryan:

Best States:

Nevada: 68.65%
Utah: 64.50%
Idaho: 63.54%
Colorado: 63.13%
Montana: 61.93%

Worst States:

Arkansas: 0.00%
Alabama: 0.00%
Louisiana: 0.00%
Mississippi: 0.00%
South Carolina: 0.00%

McKinley:

Best States:

Vermont: 82.94%
Massachusetts: 77.76%
Maine: 77.45%
New Hampshire: 74.04%
Rhode Island: 73.22%

Worst States:

Nevada: 31.35%
Arkansas: 30.69%
Alabama: 30.53%
South Carolina: 14.91%
Mississippi: 12.07%

Palmer:

Best States:

Mississippi: 87.93%
South Carolina: 85.09%
Alabama: 69.47%
Arkansas: 69.31%
Louisiana: 66.76%

Worst States:

North Dakota: .47%
South Dakota: .45%
Montana: .30%
Utah: .07%
Nevada: 0.00%

Hahahahaha

[free my dawg]

2012: Sage Edition

Basically run as Obama and pick the sagest answers possible. Kind of like True Leftism, but with a lot of edginess, moralism, and disdain for Islam.

170-368 for Romney.

[badgate]

2012: Sage Edition

Basically run as Obama and pick the sagest answers possible. Kind of like True Leftism, but with a lot of edginess, moralism, and disdain for Islam.

Why would Obama have disdain for his own religion?

[Brewer]

2012: Sage Edition

Basically run as Obama and pick the sagest answers possible. Kind of like True Leftism, but with a lot of edginess, moralism, and disdain for Islam.

Why would Obama have disdain for his own religion?

*like*

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

99th percentile as Nixon/Rockefeller. Ran as an economic moderate/law-and-order conservative, got the tie answer on the debate and successfully sabotaged the peace talks. My results in the South are a lot flimsier than they look--I only won Texas by .2% and Wallace was nipping my heels in Tennessee and North Carolina. On the other hand, I nearly won Massachusetts!

[Mechaman]

NO WE CAN'T!
The story of my epic fail as Obama in 2012:

Candidate   Electoral Votes   Popular Votes   Popular Vote %
---- Mitt Romney    433    75,855,223    58.06%
---- Barack Obama    105    51,961,705    39.77%
---- Gary Johnson    0    2,254,164    1.73%
---- Jill Stein    0    575,515    0.44%

Yeah, I got massacred.

Obama
Best States:

DC: 86.62%
California: 56.69%
Vermont: 54.05%
Massachusetts: 52.74%
Hawaii: 52.33%
Illinois: 51.93%
Rhode Island: 50.74%
Oregon: 48.55%
New Mexico: 48.20%
Washington: 46.13%

Worst States:
West Virginia: 28.68
Wyoming: 27.44%
Kentucky: 27.31%
Alabama: 26.84%
Texas: 26.31%
North Dakota: 25.48%
South Carolina: 25.10%
Mississippi: 24.21%
Oklahoma: 24.08%
Utah: 20.77%

Romney:

BEst States:

Utah: 78.25%
Oklahoma: 75.92%
MIssissippi: 74.29%
South Carolina: 73.13%
North Dakota: 72.20%
Alabama: 71.74%
Texas: 71.47%
Kentucky: 70.92%
West Virginia: 70.15%
Arkansas: 69.57%

Worst States:
Washington: 50.96%
Oregon: 48.55%
Rhode Island: 46.52%
Illinois: 45.77%
New Mexico: 45.74%
Hawaii: 44.83%
Massachusetts: 43.75%
Vermont: 43.05%
California: 40.03%
DC: 10.59%

In other news, Johnson got almost twice as many votes in California than Romney did in Wyoming, lol.

---- Mitt Romney    176,404    69.41%    3
vs
---- Gary Johnson    346,604    2.46%    0

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

#1 score as McKinley/Hobart (sorry Lief)! I ran as a moderate on labor/temperance, went hard on tariffs/the gold standard, and caved to the lily-whites (which gave me the Upper South).

William McKinley (R-OH)/Garret Hobart (R-NJ) - 336 electoral votes, 54.09%
William Jennings Bryan (D-NE)/Arthur Sewall (D-ME) - 111 electoral votes, 44.85%

[Senator Cris]

Fmr. Governor Mitt Romney (R-MA)/ Senator Robert Portman (R-OH): 271 EVs - 48,58% (63,468,540)
President Barack Obama (D-IL)/ Vice-President Joe Biden (D-DE): 267 EVs - 49,86% (65,144,748)
Fmr. Governor Gary Johnson (L-NM)/ Jurist James P. Gray (L-CA): 0 EVs - 1,23% (1,611,919)
Physician Jill Stein (G-MA)/ Anti-Poverty Advocate Cheri Honkala (G-MN) 0 EVs - 0,33% (432,521)

Two key results:

Pennsylvania (Romney 49,57% Obama 49,29%)
Ohio (Romney 51,74% Obama 47,09%)

[NHI]

Romney: 292 (50.00%)

Obama: 246 (48.26%)

Closest State: Florida
Candidate   Popular Votes   Popular Vote %   Electoral Votes
---- Barack Obama    4,184,885    49.39%    29
---- Mitt Romney    4,181,885    49.36%    0
---- Gary Johnson    81,286    0.96%    0
---- Jill Stein    24,383    0.29%    0

Closest State: (Romney Win: WI)
Candidate   Popular Votes   Popular Vote %   Electoral Votes
---- Mitt Romney    1,512,310    50.02%    10
---- Barack Obama    1,464,833    48.45%    0
---- Gary Johnson    35,867    1.19%    0
---- Jill Stein    10,367    0.34%    0

[DKrol]

Barack Obama/Joe Biden (D) - 283
Mitt Romney/Marco Rubio (R) - 255

[badgate]

Someone else should try emailing the admin of that site about new election years; I tried weeks ago and they haven't replied. Maybe the inbox is just rarely checked or maybe they forgot to reply.

[Vern]

[Vern]

 Hubert H. Humphrey: 308 (32,767,982) 44.87%
Richard Nixon: 184 (30,818,567) 42.20%
George Wallace: 45 (9,444,475) 12.93%

[Vosem]

Played as Mitt Romney in 2012, and for the most part presented my views honestly, though a couple of times I pandered to conservatives (ie, gay marriage) when I got a bit worried. Won 307-231 (picked Rubio as my running mate), getting 49.5% to Obama's 48.7%, Johnson's 1.4%, and Stein's 0.4%.

Final results:

Literally 2004, but with PA and NM flipped.

[Mechaman]

1896: William J. Bryan, Republican In All But Name:

Candidate   Electoral Votes   Popular Votes   Popular Vote %
---- William McKinley    319    8,088,737    58.19%
---- John Palmer    112    2,105,084    15.14%
---- William Jennings Bryan    16    3,706,901    26.67%

[Mechaman]

Michelle, I'm getting tired of this sh**t!

---- Mitt Romney    535    77,367,296    59.06%
---- Barack Obama    3    50,471,510    38.53%
---- Gary Johnson    0    2,211,648    1.69%
---- Jill Stein    0    948,408    0.72%

[badgate]

Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey / Maine Senator Edmund Muskie - 439; 47.99% (35,143,150)
Frmr. Vice President Richard Nixon / Maryland Governor Spiro Agnew - 54; 38.97% (28,541,683)
Alabama Governor George Wallace / Curtis LeMay - 45; 13.04% (9,546,715)


I think this is my best Humphrey result? 99.7 percentile, #32 rank.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

#8 rank as Nixon/Agnew. Ran as a moderate hero on basically everything, campaigned mostly in the North.

[badgate]

That is damn impressive. Congratulations. My strategy as Humphrey is to always go for the midwest; if a midwest option isn't available either go south or go to California.

I've recently gotten better at Obama, by realizing that I should just ignore what James Carville says.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

That is damn impressive. Congratulations. My strategy as Humphrey is to always go for the midwest; if a midwest option isn't available either go south or go to California.

I've recently gotten better at Obama, by realizing that I should just ignore what James Carville says.

Obama is always one I've done poorly on; I'll try the ignore Carville strategy. Best I ever got as Obama was 2008+Missouri and Montana, though I have no idea how I did it and have no luck nailing a strategy.

My Nixon landslide, as should be obvious, was mostly just getting the best debate/sabotage answers. More specifically policy-wise, I ran centrist/center-left on Vietnam and Medicare and center-right on crime and the generic economy questions. Agnew is definitely the best running mate because he appeals to all the key regions (Great Lakes, Upper South, Mid-Atlantic).

[badgate]

What do you guys say to the foreign policy question in 2012? I never know which way to go there.

[badgate]

Another Humphrey map:

Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey / Oklahoma Senator Fred Harris - 442 (47.60%; 34,894,439)
Frmr. Vice President Richard Nixon / Maryland Governor Spiro Agnew - 57 (40.04%; 29,352,451)
Alabama Governor George Wallace / Curtis LeMay - 39 (12.35%; 9,054,189)



I'm posting this one because I fulfilled my long-held dream of winning Arkansas. If only I'd gotten Vermont this would be perfect. This was a 50 question game. Ranked #28.





Closest Nixon States
Vermont - Humphrey 47.77%; 77,884 - Nixon 48.28%; 78,711 - Wallace 3.95%; 6,445
New Hampshire - Humphrey 44.60%; 131,219 - Nixon 51.22%; 150,704 - Wallace 4.18%; 12,291
South Dakota - Humphrey 42.20%; 116,772 - Nixon 49.72%; 137,588 - Wallace 8.08%; 22,358

Closest Humphrey States
Arkansas - Humphrey    213,226    35.55%; Wallace    212,164    35.37%; Nixon    174,481    29.09%
Virginia - Humphrey    554,956    39.99%; Nixon    544,058    39.21%; Wallace    288,583    20.80%
Iowa - Humphrey    547,169    47.15%; Nixon    530,387    45.70%   Wallace    82,970    7.15%   

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

I always try to win Arkansas too! How do you do it other than good debate/sabotage luck?