The Campaign Trail: Post Your Maps!

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They made it MUCH easier to win with Trump.

356-182

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If they add new games I would love to see 1992 for sure

2004 would be great as well.

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Okay, I've been playing this game to see if I could get some odd looking maps. I played Obama on Easy in 2012 and....

Romney: 288 electoral votes
Obama: 250 electoral votes

Somehow lost Michigan.

Closest states were Ohio (0.08%), Virginia (0.18%) and Michigan (0.35%)

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Back when the new 2016 scenario was released, I managed to win Ohio on Impossible as Hillary Clinton:
https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/1484992

Hillary Clinton/Sherrod Brown: 297 electoral votes, 48.2% 66,432,254 votes
Donald Trump/???: 241 electoral votes, 45.8% 63,082,744 votes
Gary Johnson and Others: 0 electoral votes, 5.4% 7,381,937 votes
Jill Stein: 0 electoral votes, 0.7% 954,594 votes

Remember, As Ohio goes so goes the nation.

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Campaign Trail 2000

https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/1575606

Governor George W. Bush (R-TX) / General Colin Powell (R-WA) - 319 EVs, 47.99%
Vice President Albert A. Gore Jr. (D-TN) / Senator Joseph I. Lieberman (D-CT) - 219 EVs, 47.79%

92.7% better than all others on Normal!

That and still only barely managed a popular vote win. Wow.

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Okay, I played 2000 as Bush on Easy. I wanted to go for an extremely weird electoral map. With a very weird combo of answers, I present this map.

366-172.

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Okay, I played 2000 as Bush on Easy. I wanted to go for an extremely weird electoral map. With a very weird combo of answers, I present this map.

366-172.

How?

I said things that were unpopular about social security in the south but also moderate in the other swing states.

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Hillary Clinton  211  28.5%
Donald Trump  197  35.7%
Gary Johnson  130  35.8%
By messing around with the game and spamming options that increase Libertarian Support, I managed to get a deadlocked EC in the new 2016 scenario playing as Hillary. The result said this: "No candidate secured a majority in the Electoral College. However, the Republicans won a majority in Congress and will elevate Trump to the Presidency. Time will tell how things go in that regard. As for you, a long and sometimes ambiguous political career seems to be coming to its end."

Trump winning Delaware.

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I replicated the same map as George W. Bush with John Danforth as running mate back at the start of the new year.

https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/1237727

That year's probably one of the easier to replicate the same map.

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I did better than 92.3% of players as Romney 2012 on Normal.



Mitt Romney: 311 electoral votes
President Obama: 227 electoral votes

The closest state was Nevada which I won by 0.12%. The next closest states I won were Virginia (0.67%), Iowa (0.78%), New Hampshire (1.00%) and Colorado (1.46%). Pennsylvania was the tipping point (2.19%). The closest state Obama won was Wisconsin (1.29%). I won the national popular vote by 1.14% so 256 electoral votes were to the left of the popular vote and 282 electoral votes were to the right of the popular vote.

https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/1977738

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

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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

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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

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The game is here now:

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

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



Trends are opposite!

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2020 has finally been added.

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

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Oh, and this new 2020 is also on the new site.