Post random maps here

[Antonio the Sixth]

1992 Due to Reagan being term limited, Vice President Quayle wins the nomination, with Elizabeth Dole of North Carolina as his VP. Michael Dukakis, picks Governor Howard Dean for VP. Perot runs but picks Choate.

Dukakis/Dean 337
Quayle/Dole 189
Perot/Choate 12

for the first time since 1968, a third party has gotten electoral votes.

How in the world does an all-Northern D ticket win so many southern States?

[Antonio the Sixth]

Here's a much more realistic map:

Dukakis/Dean: 326
Quayle/Dole: 202
Perot/Choate: 10

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Wonder if someone will guess this one.

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Wonder if someone will guess this one.

How did you get Puerto Rico on there?

Simple, it's not a political map.

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Wonder if someone will guess this one.

Nobody wants to try?

[Antonio the Sixth]

Still nobody on mine?

[Antonio the Sixth]

Still nobody on mine?

I don't even understand the colors. Can you do a red and blue version?

I can't because there are too many different shades. I need the whole color spectrum for it to work.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Still nobody wants to guess mine?

Wonder if someone will guess this one.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Can't you people just tell us what the maps are? If you want to play a "guess the candidates" game, that's a great idea, but it should be a separate thread.

This is actually what this thread was originally about, before getting spammed by all these annoying stuff.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Still nobody wants to guess mine?

Wonder if someone will guess this one.

It's really tough.  The green bit seems to correspond to the Mississippi River watershed, so maybe something about physical geography, but then you also have light blue DC in the middle of the dark-red Mid-Atlantic, and aaagh.  No idea.

Also odd is that most of the country has what looks like a continuous range of shades, except for the west plus Florida which is just purple.  Which largely corresponds to areas that weren't in the USA in the period betweeen Louisiana Purchase-acquiring Florida, but then Puerto Rico and Hawaii would be purple too. 

You are on something, and by pushing your reasoning a bit you could get very close to the answer. The map isn't geographic per se, but geography plays a great part in explaining it. Similarly, history (and the country's territorial expansion) does matter quite a bit to understand it but doesn't tell the whole story.

All right, here's the big clue.

This map is indeed made with a continuous range of shades (even purple is not fully uniform, look at Wyoming). Basically, these shades indicate chronology. Red is the earliest date, purple is the most recent one, and everything else is in between. Now ponder all this.

[Antonio the Sixth]

2032 Presidential Election (related to this scenario):

Governor Averroes (D-NY): 48.7%, 275 EV
Senator Snowstalker (NCP-PA): 48.4%, 263 EV

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2032 House elections:

National Cogendist Party: 232
Democratic Party: 197
Republican Party: 6

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Composition of the Senate after the 2032 elections:

National Cogendist Party: 52
Democratic Party: 44
Republican Party: 4

(yellow is 1NCP and 1R, orange is 1D and 1R)

[Antonio the Sixth]

Congress after the 2034 midterms:

House

National Cogendist Party: 281
Democratic Party: 152
Republican Party: 2


Senate

National Cogendist Party: 61
Democratic Party: 38
Republican Party: 1