The Campaign Trail: Post Your Maps!

[Peanut]

Humphrey trounces Nixon!

Vice-President Hubert Humphrey/Governor John Connally: 464 Electoral Votes; 50.4%
Governor George Wallace/General Curtis LeMay: 39 Electoral Votes; 11.8%
Vice-President Richard Nixon/Governor Spiro Agnew: 35 Electoral Votes; 37.7%

Ran as a pure liberal. Nixon finished third and it was beautiful.

https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/836808

[Politician]

Absolute N U T landslide as Humphrey/Harris. Nixon refused to debate and I exposed his treason.

https://americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/838035

[Huey Long is a Republican]

https://americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/838053

Dominated as Bush/Powell

[GM Team Member and Deputy PPT WB]

Carter/Glenn: 503 EV 53.5%
Ford/???: 32 EV 44.6%
Unpledged: 3 EV

Vermont is >30% because of how close it was, and was still in contention by the time the Electors met. Ford would eventually get an extremely narrow victory there, winning 93,010 votes to Carter's 93,004, a margin of a mere 6 votes.

[Politician]

https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/853046

Absolutely dominated as Carter/Church.

[Comrade Funk]

1960

John F. Kennedy/Hubert Humphrey: 47.5%, 278 EV
Richard Nixon/Henry Cabot Lodge: 46.9%, 202 EV
Harry Byrd: 5.6%, 57 EV

Kennedy won Alaska by 5 votes

https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/853063

[West_Midlander]

United States presidential election, 1896

I began this scenario as McKinley on 'impossible' difficulty to see what a Bryan landslide would look like with the intent of tanking the McKinley campaign. I ended up giving it an honest go.
McKinley - 245 EVs - 6,900,799 - 49.8%
Bryan - 202 EVs - 6,808,723 - 49.1%
Palmer - 0 EVs - 148,459 - 1.1%

Highest Palmer %
FL - 2.54%

Highest Bryan %
MS - 92.02%

Highest McKinley %
VT - 78.20%

Closest Bryan win is IN -- D+1.75

Closest McKinley win is OR -- R+0.77% (720 votes) in a state where Palmer got 1.07% (999 votes).

I chose the decision to put resources in NE in an attempt to embarrass Bryan with a loss instead of collectively targeting the less Democratic states of IA, SD, and WY. (McKinley carried 1/3 of these, I am not sure if the other decision could have flipped these). I chose the decision to focus in the Midwest at large on the final turn. I'm unsure if a different target on the final turn could have changed any of the state results, or perhaps targeting NE twice (instead of solidifying OH, IL, etc. leads) could have led to a loss overall.

Running mate was Hobart.

[Politician]

Got clean swept as Bush after running on abortion rights, banning guns and single-payer healthcare:

https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/856307

[Sir Tiki]

Humphrey/Connally on normal:

https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/863990

Ran to the left pretty early on, and I figured having Connally on the ticket would balance it out. It helped that I won the debate with Nixon, though I was narrowly leading in California, Oregon, Nevada, Virginia and Missouri before the peace talks collapsed. That last question is definitely a crapshoot.

[Sir Tiki]

Did two runs as Truman/Barkley on normal, and chose not to add a civil rights plank or desegregate the armed forces in each one:

https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/864112

In this run, Truman tacks to the right on everything and performs similarly to your standard late 19th/early 20th century Democrat. However, I've clearly broken the New Deal coalition and have possibly permanently ceded the civil rights issue to Republicans, potentially dooming the Democrats back to pre-Depression regional party status and undoing almost 20 years of work by northern Democrats to expand their base.

https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/864124

In this run, Truman does everything he does in real life except the civil rights stuff. He still does worse than in our timeline but manages to win the election. Tellingly he loses California and Illinois, but surprisingly also Idaho and Wyoming. I think the Democrats' future is a bit brighter in this version, but they've given the Republicans a chance to get the leg up on them in the civil rights department as I imagine the segregationists are emboldened by Truman's siding with them here.

Also of note in both of these is that Wallace takes the place of Thurmond and does far better than him votes-wise (though not electorally), gaining 8% in the first run and 5% in the second to Thurmond's 2% in real life. It would be interesting if the Progressives here take the place of the Dixiecrats in our timeline and fracture the party.

[Del Tachi]

A Liberal Carter

(✓) Governor Jimmy Carter (D-GA) / Senator Walter Mondale (D-MN) - 379 EVs, 40.9 million votes (49.8%)
President Gerald Ford (R-MI) / Senator Bob Dole (R-KS) - 179 EVs, 39.7 million votes (48.3%)

Ran as Carter and took the liberal positions on gun control, abortion, NYC bailouts, busing, Hawkins-Humphrey, healthcare, and opted to leave the Plains church.  Looks like it did me well in CA, OR and IL at the expense of MS and MO.   

[KaiserDave]

2012 as 2000

President Barack Obama (D-IL)/Vice President Joe Biden (D-DE): 285 (✓)
Governor Mitt Romney (R-MA)/Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI): 253

Closest States:
Iowa to Obama by 2,985 Votes (.19%)
Virginia to Obama by 340 Votes (.01%) !!!!

[DabbingSanta]

Inspired by the "Dixie Surprise" thread on this board. Edited the javascript and played as George Wallace (D) vs Richard Nixon (R) in 1968.  I did this by removing Humphrey under the candidates list and increasing the campaign difficult multiplier by 5. There's some good instructions on the Alt History thread for the same game for more instructions.

40% states were within a percent. Closest state was PA, which was decided by 2644 votes (0.06%)

George Wallace / Happy Chandler (Dem) - 319 electoral votes - 54.8% popular vote
Richard Nixon / Spiro Agnew (Rep) - 219 electoral votes - 45.2% popular vote

[KaiserDave]

President Humphrey

Ran as an ultraconservative Nixon, got trounced in the debate, and the sabotage of the peace talks got leaked.

Vice President Hubert Humphrey (D-MN)/Senator Edmund Muskie (D-ME): 435 (✓)
Governor George Wallace (AI-AL)/General Curtis LeMay (AI-OH): 77
Vice President Richard Nixon (R-CA)/Governor Ronald Reagan (R-CA): 26

Closest States:
Kansas to Nixon by 1,123 Votes (.13%)

[Politician]

Romney is possessed by the spirit of Gary Johnson:

https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/876791

[morgankingsley]

Inspired by the "Dixie Surprise" thread on this board. Edited the javascript and played as George Wallace (D) vs Richard Nixon (R) in 1968.  I did this by removing Humphrey under the candidates list and increasing the campaign difficult multiplier by 5. There's some good instructions on the Alt History thread for the same game for more instructions.

40% states were within a percent. Closest state was PA, which was decided by 2644 votes (0.06%)

George Wallace / Happy Chandler (Dem) - 319 electoral votes - 54.8% popular vote
Richard Nixon / Spiro Agnew (Rep) - 219 electoral votes - 45.2% popular vote

Can u provide a link, since I can't find the alt history thread of this

[Continential]

Inspired by the "Dixie Surprise" thread on this board. Edited the javascript and played as George Wallace (D) vs Richard Nixon (R) in 1968.  I did this by removing Humphrey under the candidates list and increasing the campaign difficult multiplier by 5. There's some good instructions on the Alt History thread for the same game for more instructions.

40% states were within a percent. Closest state was PA, which was decided by 2644 votes (0.06%)

George Wallace / Happy Chandler (Dem) - 319 electoral votes - 54.8% popular vote
Richard Nixon / Spiro Agnew (Rep) - 219 electoral votes - 45.2% popular vote

Can u provide a link, since I can't find the alt history thread of this

https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/the-campaign-trail-game-has-returned.320130/page-116
 

[Politician]

https://americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/879939

Gore/Graham landslide.

[JG]

Presidential Election of 2016 (As Clinton on Normal)

(✓) Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) / Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) - 446 EVs, 73.5 million votes (56,0%)
Businessman Donald Trump (R-NY) / Governor Mike Pence (R-IN) - 93 EVs, 53.9 million votes (41.0%)

Closest states by margin of victory
1. Indiana, 0,7% - 11 electoral votes
2. Missouri, 0,8% - 10 electoral votes
3. South Dakota, 1,6% - 3 electoral votes
4. South Carolina, 1,8% - 9 electoral votes
5. Georgia, 2,0% - 16 electoral votes
6. Alaska, 3,1% - 3 electoral votes
7. Nebraska's 1th congressional district, 3,4% - 1 electoral vote
8. Texas, 3,5% - 38 electoral votes
9. North Dakota, 3,6% - 3 electoral votes
10. Arizona, 3,9% - 10 electoral votes
11. Montana, 4,1% - 3 electoral votes
12. Utah, 4,6% - 6 electoral votes
13. Kansas, 4,9% - 6 electoral votes
14. Mississipi, 5,9% - 6 electoral votes
15. North Carolina, 6,9% - 15 electoral votes
16. Nebraska at-large, 7,4% - 2 electoral votes
17. Louisiana, 7,8% - 8 electoral votes
18. Idaho, 7,9% - 4 electoral votes
19. Nebraska's 2nd congressional district, 8,0% - 1 electoral vote
20. Maine's 1st congressional district, 9,8% - 1 electoral vote
21. Ohio, 10,0% - 18 electoral votes

Tipping point state - Wisconsin, 13,5% - 11 electoral votes

[Peanut]

1896 Presidential Election

Congressman William Jennings Bryan (D-NE)/Governor Claude Matthews (D-IN): 309 EVs; 7.3 million votes (52.2%)
Governor William McKinley (R-OH)/State Senate President Garret Hobart (R-NE): 138 EVs; 6.6 million votes (46.9%)

Closest States:

1. Minnesota (9 EVs): 0.05%
2. Iowa (13 EVs): 0.38%
3. Michigan (14 EVs): 0.46%
4. Maryland (8 EVs): 0.51%
5. Ohio (23 EVs): 1.41%
6. Illinois (24 EVs): 1.53%
7. West Virginia (6 EVs): 2.10%-Tipping Point State
8. North Dakota (3 EVs): 2.38%
9. Delaware (3 EVs): 2.84%
10. Wisconsin: 4.74%

The Great Commoner struck a victory against Governor McKinley in a race that was close until the very end. Despite a resounding victory at first sight, several small Midwest victories under 2% were pivotal to putting him in the White House.

[Del Tachi]

Had to post this after the result, I think this is my closest game ever:

Kennedy/Johnson - 271
Nixon/Lodge - 252
Unpledged Electors - 14

A pretty historical 1960 game as Kennedy, I ran strong on the Cold War and moderate on Civil Rights.  Resoundingly beat Nixon in the debates.  The only state to flip from IRL is Pennsylvania, but the result hinged on several nail-biting results (less than 1% difference) in a few states, which pretty much all broke for Kennedy:

Closest states:

Hawaii - Kennedy by 38 votes (!!!) (0.02%)
Pennsylvania - Nixon by 5,190 votes (0.11%)
Delaware - Kennedy by 378 votes (0.20%)
Texas - Kennedy by 4,560 votes (0.20%)
New Jersey - Kennedy by 16,540 votes (0.58%)
Missouri - Kennedy by 11,613 (0.62%)
Michigan - Kennedy by 23,044 votes (0.69%)
Nevada - Kennedy by 380 votes (0.81%)

A flip in any of these state's would have thrown the election into the House of Representatives, Texas would have delivered the White House to Nixon.

Kennedy also won the popular vote by only 58,181 votes (0.09%), making it roughly as close as the 1880 election.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Finally had my first victory after ~10 or so tries since this thread debuted.

Businessman Donald J. Trump (R-NY)/Former Senator Scott Brown (R-NH): 393 Electoral Votes, 48.1% - 63,385,137 votes.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (D-NY)/Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA): 245 Electoral Votes, 48.9% - 64,446,556 votes.   
Former Governor Gary Johnson (L-NM)/Former Governor Bill Weld (L-MA): 1.9% - 2,507,136 votes.
Activist Jill Stein (G-MA)/Activist Ajamu Baraka (G-DC): 1.0% - 1,333,544 votes.

Closest States.
Michigan (0.28%)
Virginia (0.44%)
Pennsylvania (0.79%)
Iowa (0.81%)

[GM Team Member and Deputy PPT WB]

Absolute N U T 1968

Hubert H. Humphrey/Edmund Muskie: 51.8% PV, 472 EV*
George Wallace/?: 11.7% PV, 39 EV
Richard Nixon/?: 36.6% PV, 26 EV*

*1 NE faithless elector voted for Humphrey instead of Nixon.

Best Nixon state: NE (48.55%)
Best Wallace state: AL (59.38%)
Best Humphrey state: MA (65.59%)

Closest states (under 5% diff)
WY: 46.41-46.13-7.46
GA: 36.79-36.36-26.84
AZ: 46.42-45.68-7.90
KS: 46.13-45.29-8.57
UT: 47.95-46.87-5.18
ND: 48.50-46.83-4.66
ID: 46.44-43.20-10.37
SD: 49.86-46.31-3.83
NE: 48.55-44.56-6.89
NM: 48.73-44.54-6.73
AR: 38.71-34.30-26.99

Nixon got destroyed in the debate and ran to Wallace's right on economics, and Humphrey called for a bombing halt. Nixon was found to have killed the peace negotiations.

Done on easy mode.

[P. Clodius Pulcher did nothing wrong]

Played as Bush 2000, tried to get it as close as possible:

	Electoral	Pop. # (margin)	Pop. % (margin)
Bush/Powell	290	50,996,425 (+104,895)	47.9% (+0.1%)
Gore/Lieberman	248	50,891,440	47.8%
Nader/LaDuke	0	2,691,132	2.5%
Buchanan/Foster	0	1,801,546	1.7%

Closest states:

Tennessee

Gore	11	1,010,530 (+222)	48.44% (+0.01%)
Bush	0	1,010,308	48.43%

Pennsylvania

Gore	23	2,446,232 (+13,006)	48.64% (+0.26%)
Bush	0	2,433,226	48.38%

Iowa

Bush	7	647,559 (+6,154)	47.92% (+0.45%)
Gore	0	641,405	47.47%
Nader	0	40,814	3.02%

Pennsylvania

Gore	18	2,188,872 (+36,595)	49.61% (+0.83%)
Bush	0	2,152,277	48.78%

Wisconsin

Bush	11	1,281,294 (+28,611)	48.36% (+1.08%)
Gore	0	1,252,683	47.28%
Nader	0	75,434	2.85%

Oregon (<—TIPPING POINT)

Bush	7	754,129 (+21,795)	47.69% (+1.08%)
Gore	0	732,334	46.31%
Nader	0	72,185	4.56%

[Del Tachi]

Does anyone have a good strategy on how to win as Clay in 1844?  It's one of the few scenarios I cannot win