The Campaign Trail: Post Your Maps!

[OSR stands with Israel]

Won handily with Bush in 2000 , did better than 89.5%

https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/748815

[Joe Biden 2024]

Governor George W. Bush (R-TX)/Former Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney (R-WY): 352 EVs, 50.7%

Vice President Al Gore (D-TN)/Senator Bob Graham (D-FL): 186 EVs, 46.3%

I was Gore. The election was close for the vast majority of the game, with the Rust Belt, Florida, parts of the Midwest, and the Pacific Northwest all being tossups, but then I commented on Bush's DUI and my support tanked.

[OSR stands with Israel]

Won Pretty Handily with Truman even winning in New York


https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/749303

[OSR stands with Israel]

Won Big with a Nixon/Reagan ticket


https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/749312

[OSR stands with Israel]

Beat JFK by the narrowest of margins

https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/749333

[Vespucci]

Better than 97.4% as Nader

https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/749342

[OSR stands with Israel]

Better than 97.4% as Nader

https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/749342

I find it funny they allowed you to play as Nader in 2000 but not play as the other two candidates in 1860 both of whom won more electoral votes than Douglas .

[Politician]

Hubert Humphrey (D-MN)/Edmund Muskie (D-ME): 348 EVs, 46.9%
Richard Nixon (R-CA)/Spiro Agnew (R-MD): 145 EVs, 40.5%
George Wallace (AI-AL)/Curtis LeMay (AI-OH): 45 EVs, 12.7%

https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/749684

[Politician]

https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/749853

Michael Dukakis (D-MA)/Lloyd Bentsen (D-OH): 346 EVs, 51.3%
George Bush (R-TX)/Dan Quayle (R-IN): 192 EVs, 47.7%

[Comrade Funk]

1948:

Thomas Dewey (R-NY)/Harold Stassen (R-MN): 267 EV, 46.02%
Harry Truman (D-MO)/Alben Barkley (D-KY): 226 EV, 48.25%
Strom Thurmond (Dixiecrat): 38 EV, 2.63%
Henry Wallace (Progressive): 0 EV, 3.10%

Barely got the 266 EVs Dewey needed to win.

[Sir Tiki]

2000 with Gore/Graham on normal:

[WestVegeta]

I got lucky, and Nixon was caught committing treason.

Vice Pres. Hubert Humphrey (D-MN)/Gov. John Connally (D-TX): 348 EVs

Fmr. Vice Pres. Richard Nixon (R-CA)/Gov. Spiro Agnew (R-MD): 145 EVs

Gov. George Wallace (AI-AL)/Gen. Curtis LeMay (AI-CA): 45 EVs

[Comrade Funk]

2000:

George W. Bush (R-TX)/Colin Powell (R-MD): 342 EV, 47.9%
Al Gore (D-TN)/Joe Lieberman (D-CT): 196 EV, 47.8%
Ralph Nader (Green): 2.5%
Pat Buchanan (Reform): 1.8%

https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/750554

[OSR stands with Israel]

Got a Deadlocked 1948 playing as Dewey: https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/750614


It lol though says this: This leaves everyone in a bad situation. Segregationists from the South are demanding concessions before they will support a candidate, leaving the House deadlocked. Perhaps you can work out a deal with Truman to circumvent this, based on who has the plurality of popular and electoral votes. It's always possible that one of you could serve as the other's Vice President

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

1948

Harry S. Truman and Alben W. Barkley (Democratic) 361 electors, 49.3% votes
Thomas E. Dewey and Earl Warren (Republican) 142 electors, 44.9% votes
J. Strom Thurmond and Fielding L. Wright (Dixiecrat) 28 electors, 2.1% votes

[Cold War Liberal]

2000

Vice President Al Gore/Senator Bob Graham: 51,846,350, 48.5%, 275 EVs ✓
Governor George W. Bush/Halliburton CEO Dick Cheney: 52,047,533, 48.7%, 263 EVs
Ralph Nader/Winona LaDuke: 2,671,691, 2.5%
Others: 318,698, 0.3%

Bush wins popular vote, narrowly loses Oregon, which goes to recount. Gore wins Oregon and the electoral college.

[OBD]

https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/751849

Won as Gore on normal. Visited Florida every time lol

[Former President tack50]

Using the trick from page 34 (with a 10 multiplier instead of 1000) I managed to throw the 2000 election into the House playing as Ralph Nader. It was also an extremely close election, with less than 1 point separating Gore from Bush and less than 10 EVs separating Gore from winning outright (I guess I attacked Bush too much?)

The game does claim the house will simply elect Bush anyways. Oh well.

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https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/755067

Al Gore: 261 EVs (39.4%)
George W. Bush: 178 EVs (38.7%)
Ralph Nader: 99 EVs (21.7%)

[OSR stands with Israel]

https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/755213

Lol I won with HW on impossible . Why they added 1988 instead of 1992 is pretty puzzling

[OSR stands with Israel]

Won with Dewey:

https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/755225

[OSR stands with Israel]

Deadlocked Electoral College with JFK but somehow he lost SC to JFK and if he held that he would have won outright

https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/755245

[OSR stands with Israel]

Won with Humphrey

https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/755254

[Politician]

https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/755634

William Jennings Bryan (D-NE)/Horace Boies (D-IA): 287 EVs, 52.68%
William McKinley (R-OH)/Garret Hobart (R-NJ): 160 EVs, 46.41%

[Politician]

https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/756659

Harry S. Truman (D-MO)/Alben Barkley (D-KY): 393 EVs, 49.21%
Thomas Dewey (R-NY)/Earl Warren (R-CA): 110 EVs, 44.64%

[Independents for Nihilism]

Fear, Loathing and Chowdah on the Campaign Trail '60

Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-MA)/Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson (D-TX): 259 EVs, 49.8%
VP. Richard M. Nixon (R-CA)/Amb. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (R-MA): 264 EVs, 49.6%
Sen. Harry F. Byrd (D-VA)/Sen. J. Strom Thurmond (D-SC): 14 EVs, 0.6%

Thanks to the general screwiness caused by the unpledged electors in the south, underperforming as JFK allowed the election to get thrown to the house. What fun! Interesting to think about what stunts LBJ could have pulled to extend his acting presidency by holding up the vote in the House.

As in IRL, plenty of states were decided by razor-thin margins, and I've indicated them with the 40% shade (aside from AR and LA which the unpledged electors ate into and I only won by plurality). Any one of them flipping would have decided the election.
 
https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/756645