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Junior Chimp
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« on: March 23, 2014, 01:20:42 PM »

Only problem I have is Oldham Country Kentucky voting Democrat.  That won't be happening any time soon, even the young people here like the GOP.
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Chunk Yogurt for President!
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Junior Chimp
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« Reply #1 on: March 24, 2014, 03:20:39 PM »

I don't know about that county in particular, but I wanted to make Kentucky a lot more democratic as you would it expect to be. So maybe I flipped some counties that would never go (Atlas) red, but it is the future, so, meh... A lot can happen ^^

That's okay, its a pretty small county, but its the wealthiest county in Kentucky and is very Republican.  The areas surrounding Louisville are pretty Conservative.  Just some friendly advise for Kentucky going Democratic, I'd recommend the areas around Cincinnati and Lexington along with some poor Eastern Kentucky counties.  But I don't blame you for not knowing.  Its a very well made map.
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Chunk Yogurt for President!
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Junior Chimp
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« Reply #2 on: January 17, 2015, 11:14:34 PM »

Johnson wins in '68!

Surprisingly, LBJ wins his second election.  He defeated Wallace and Nixon in two early debates and in a later debate Nixon made a serious gaffe which may have cost him the election.  Johnson was also not afraid to use the US military in the Middle East even with the Vietnam war raging on.  Almost all the states were close, especially the ones Nixon won.  Wallace only won Alabama, but strangely also campaigned hard in the Northeast.  His visit to Yugoslavia received good reviews (better than Johnson's trip to Switzerland), but apparently failed to help him in any meaningful way.



Johnson/Humphrey: 323 EV, 48% of Popular Vote
Nixon/Agnew: 205 EV, 45% of Popular Vote
Wallace/Thurmond: 10 EV, 7% of Popular Vote
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« Reply #3 on: January 18, 2015, 01:01:03 AM »

LBJ wins a third term!

The Twenty-Second Amendment has been repealed!  Johnson can run for another term!  Nelson Rockefeller runs as the Republican candidate with William Scranton as his running mate.  Wallace is running again, but segregation will be downplayed this time and William Dyke of Wisconsin is running mate.  Johnson defeated Rockefeller in the first debate and destroyed him in the second.  The Johnson campaign did not even consider Wallace to be worth debating.  The Atlantic Southern states were all extremely close.  Also Wyoming was won by less than 1000 votes.  Wallace only cracked 1% in his home state of Alabama.



Johnson/Humphrey: 461 EV, 54% of Popular Vote
Rockefeller/Scranton: 77EV, 45% of Popular Vote
Wallace/Dyke: 0 EV, 0% of Popular Vote
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« Reply #4 on: January 18, 2015, 11:38:01 AM »

LBJ died within days of his inauguration in 1973.  Herbert Humphrey was an unpopular President, and Reagan refused to appear on the debate stage with him.  Humphrey's decision to chose Carter as his running mate failed to get him the support of the South and he only won DC and the state of Massachusetts. 



Reagan/Buckley: 521 EV, 58% of popular vote
Humphrey/Carter: 17 EV, 42% of popular vote
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« Reply #5 on: January 18, 2015, 01:31:45 PM »

Reagan ran for reelection in 1980 expecting an easy victory like before.  The Democrats dominated Ted Kennedy for President and Robert Byrd for VP.  Barry Commoner ran as the Citizen's party candidate on a left-wing platform emphasizing environmentalism with Ralph Nader as his running mate.  Reagan in a gesture of politeness agreed to debate commoner and won soundly.  A few weeks later, all three candidates agreed to debate in which Reagan won.  Reagan still had a tough time, having to fight for California which he just barely won.  The race was decided when Washington was called for Kennedy around midnight.



Kennedy/Byrd: 281 EV, 50% of Popular Vote
Reagan/Buckley: 257 EV, 49% of Popular Vote
Commoner/Nader: 0 EV, 0% of Popular Vote
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Chunk Yogurt for President!
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Junior Chimp
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« Reply #6 on: January 18, 2015, 02:15:25 PM »

1984 was a very easy election for Kennedy, not even bothering to debate Laxalt or Clark.



Kennedy/Byrd: 499 EV, 57% of Popular Vote
Laxalt/Bush: 39 EV, 42% of Popular Vote
Clark/Paul: 0 EV, 0% of Popular Vote
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« Reply #7 on: November 28, 2015, 09:19:18 PM »



What are the circumstances that led to this?
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« Reply #8 on: December 01, 2015, 05:36:54 PM »


Donald Trump is elected President in 2016, with Ted Cruz as his running mate. After President Trump implements Single-Payer Health Care in 2019, Cruz resigns and unsuccessfully challenges Trump in the Primary, before launching an Independent bid with Utah Senator Mike Lee as his running mate. On Election Day, he carries his home state of Texas; in Idaho and Utah, Lee is at the top of the ticket and is listed as the official Republican nominee.

Trump chooses former New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez to be his new Vice President and makes a play for the Hispanic vote.

Meanwhile, the Democrats nominate former Virginia Senator Jim Webb. Webb improves a bit in the South compared to previous Democratic nominees, but severely depresses liberal and minority turnout and ends up losing swing states like Colorado and New Hampshire. Kanye West runs as an Independent and wins a great deal of support from African-Americans, allowing him to win D.C.

That's actually more interesting than what I originally had in mind.
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Chunk Yogurt for President!
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« Reply #9 on: March 19, 2016, 12:52:04 PM »



THis is my map of the worst case scenario for the Democrats.  It involves an incumbent Democrat who is losing a major war, presiding over a collapsing economy, is being charged with murder, and nearly lost the nomination to a primary challenger.  Republicans win 68.4% of the vote and Democrats win just under 30%.  The Republicans win Utah with almost 82% of the vote, and the best state for the Democrats is Vermont with 45% (They win 50% of the vote in DC).

I'll do one for Republicans next.
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Chunk Yogurt for President!
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« Reply #10 on: March 19, 2016, 01:19:53 PM »



Basically the same as my last map but with the parties switched.
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« Reply #11 on: February 11, 2017, 04:56:03 PM »

1960:

Democrats had high hopes for a young charismatic Senator from Massachusetts.  Their hopes were dashed when he was trounced in the debates by Vice President Nixon.  The final map in many ways resembled 1928.  Perhaps we are entering a new period of Republican dominance?



Nixon/Lodge Jr. 53%, 411 EV
Kennedy/Johnson 47%, 126 EV


1964:

Civil Rights supporter Hubert Humphrey won the Democratic nomination, scaring off most of the party's support in the South.  He chose California Governor Pat Brown as his running mate.  The outcome was never much in doubt and Nixon refused to debate his opponent.  Humphrey only won DC and Rhode Island, losing even his home state of Minnesota.



Nixon/Lodge Jr. 58%, 531 EV
Humphrey/Brown 41%, 7 EV
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« Reply #12 on: February 11, 2017, 05:54:06 PM »

1968:

Nixon escalates the war in Vietnam in his second term.  The 22nd Amendment was also repealed and Nixon was nominated a third time.  The Democrats nominate anti-war Senator Eugene McCarthy who chose Senator George McGovern as his running mate.  Meanwhile, George Wallace runs third party with Strom Thurmond as his running mate.  Nixon and McCarthy were virtually tied in the polls throughout the election, neither candidate ever had more than a 2% lead on the other.  The outcome was very much in doubt until after 1 AM.  Nixon was victorious in the end.  He won only 15,000 more votes than McCarthy.



Nixon/Lodge Jr. 46%, 287 EV
McCarthy/McGovern 46%, 234 EV
Wallace/Thurmond 8%, 17 EV


1972:

Nixon decides to run for a fourth term.  Senator Ed Muskie won the Democratic nomination and chose  Senator Birch Bayh of Indiana as his running mate.  Nixon held an overwhelming lead in the polls throughout the race.



Nixon/Lodge Jr. 57%, 509 EV
Muskie/Bayh 42%, 29 EV
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Chunk Yogurt for President!
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Junior Chimp
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« Reply #13 on: February 12, 2017, 03:36:16 PM »

1976:

Seeking to outdo FDR, Nixon runs for a fifth term.  The Democrats nominated Eugene McCarthy once again for a rematch of '68.  He chose Governor Jimmy Carter as his running mate.  Initial polling had Nixon ahead, though his lead decreased considerably by November.  Nixon still won in a close race which saw many razor-thin margins in the South and West.  Less than 60,000 votes separated the two candidates.



Nixon/Lodge Jr. 50%, 305 EV
McCarthy/Carter 50%, 233 EV

1980:

In 1980, Nixon was once again nominated for President.  Henry "Scoop" Jackson won the Democratic nomination, choosing Mo Udall as his running mate.  Many voters could not remember a time before Nixon and some were even born after Nixon was inaugurated.  Democrats made the need for new leadership a focus of their campaign.  Meanwhile, John Anderson ran third party, hoping to get a coalition of liberals along with Republicans tired of Nixon.  Nixon began the campaign with a wide lead in the polls (Anderson had 24% in initial polling).  Jackson began to surge in early October, but he was then crushed in a debate by Nixon.  Jackson did not win a single state.



Nixon/Lodge Jr. 45%, 535 EV
Jackson/Udall 34%, 3 EV
Anderson/Lucey, 20%, 0 EV
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Junior Chimp
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« Reply #14 on: February 15, 2017, 03:49:08 PM »

1984:

With Vice President Lodge's health declining, Nixon replaced him with Jack Kemp.  He also decided to run for a seventh term.  The Democrats nominated Eugene McCarthy for a third time, as he was the only person who was able to even come close to defeating Nixon.  He chose George McGovern as his running mate, just like in 1968.  However, McCarthy failed to gain as much traction as he did in '68 or '76 and it was clear that Nixon was going to win in a landslide.  McCarthy failed to win a single state.



Nixon/Kemp 61%, 535 EV
McCarthy/McGovern 38%, 3 EV


1988:

Nixon decides to seek an eighth term as President.  The Democrats, in an historic move, nominated Jesse Jackson for President.  He chose Al Gore as his running mate.  The polls consistently showed Nixon was an insurmountable lead and few had any doubts about the final outcome.



Nixon/Kemp 63%, 535 EV
Jackson/Gore 36%, 3 EV
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