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Dave Freudenthal versus a moderate Republican?

Read between the lines, wink wink.

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Since we are in the fantasy maps :

Here is what are become USA in 2016. After Obama's assassination by a member of KuKluxClan, they totally explode :
- North American Republic : founded just after Obama's assassination, it's the most progressive country of the former USA, both on social and economic issues.
- American Democratic Alliance : after NAR's secession, USA start turning into a one-party republican domination. This causes the secession of the Southeastern part of the country also secedes. This is a quite conservative state on economic issues but very liberal on social ones. Surprisingly, Texas in majority decides to join, though the northern part of the State highly protests
- Then, to complete the scenario, the most conservative states chose to get rid of the few moderate states still in the US and create the Christian Nation for Patriotism and Moral Values, a joke state that goes from the Deep South until Utah.

Bring on the ADA!

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McCain/Romney v. Obama/Biden

Repubs barely hold onto Montana, barely hold onto Indiana barely Missouri, LOSE North Carolina, but pick up New Hampshire, ME-AL, ME-02, and ME-01, which includes Portland?

Yea, that is Romney appealing to moderates

You've got a lot to learn here, my friend. Welcome to the forum.

Atleast explain how he still loses North Carolina and barely holds Indiana?

Gosh, this is so simple

Black turnout in NC. Indiana? BNot much blacks

What about Georgia and Missouri? Or did Romney appeal to more moderates there?

Or how about f***in Minnesota? How the hell does a Republican candidate these days lose Ohio, lose Virginia, lose North Carolina but pick up Minnesota? Please enlighten us.

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By the way, Inhofe in 2012. You know what? AT least I support a candidate who can win, not some crazy dude like you. Inhofe is nothing in compare to Romney.

That name is a joke you fuckin idiot. Get a sense of humour instead of being a hurt little bitch while discussing electoral politics you jackass!

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Mark Warner v Generic Republican

Fixed

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What makes this?

Er...a libertarian-esque Republican candidate, and a moderate Democrat?

Half right. The Democrat ticket I had in mind was Dave Freudenthal/Russ Feingold.

I would've guessed a libertarian-esque Democrat ticket and a moderate Republican ticket myself.

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This one is probably easy to predict, but I felt like posting it so meh......

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The similarities are striking.

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The similarities are striking.

Interesting how none of the states voted for losers in both 1932 and 1980........

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This has something to do with 1948's Presidnetial election, doesn't it?

That's part of it......

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This has something to do with 1948's Presidnetial election, doesn't it?

That's part of it......

Um...Well Nixon carried all the yellow states in 1968, and he carried all of the blue states too (except Connecticut). Humphrey carried all of the red states, while Wallace carried all the green states and the dark red states. Is this it?

I screwed up on Connecticut
But otherwise that's correct.
The states in red are states that both Truman and Humphrey won (thus red for Democratic).
The states in blue (except Connecticut ) are states that both Dewey '48 and Nixon won (thus blue for Republican)
The states in yellow are states that Truman and Nixon won.
The states in orange are states that Dewey '48 and Humphrey won (and the color Connecticut should be)
The states in green are states that both Thurmond and Wallace won.
The states in dark red are states that Truman won in '48 and Wallace won in '68
South Carolina went for Thurmond in '48 and then went to Nixon in '68 (by a small margin)
The blank states are states that weren't states in 1948

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Bush carried all the green and blue states in 2000. Charles Evans Hughes carried all the yellow and blue states in 1916. Wilson carried all the green and red states in 1916. Gray states weren't states in 1916.

Does it make you go ape how much the electorate has changed?

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How gay each state is?

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How gay each state is?

Index of Personal and Economic Freedom.
http://www.statepolicyindex.com/?page_id=143

Oddly enough this might be true.
You won't believe how lax the alcohol laws are in a lot of places in Texas.  Hell, I even think in some places it's legal for minors to consume alcohol as long as there is an adult around.
Not to mention the social permissiveness that exists in Texas cities like Houston and Austin.
Oklahoma and Kansas though.....really?

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How gay each state is?

Index of Personal and Economic Freedom.
http://www.statepolicyindex.com/?page_id=143

Oddly enough this might be true.
You won't believe how lax the alcohol laws are in a lot of places in Texas.  Hell, I even think in some places it's legal for minors to consume alcohol as long as there is an adult around.
Not to mention the social permissiveness that exists in Texas cities like Houston and Austin.
Oklahoma and Kansas though.....really?

Wait... wait... You mean that DARK States are the more free and LIGHT States the more fascist ?
What the hell ?

It must be those goddamn state governments, regulating our lives.......
It must be some really key things these people were looking at because if you notice hippie haven Colorado is also dark green.
Now notice it says Personal and Economic Freedoms, so that might explain kind of why the "blue states" are sky green.  Plus, I hear things like gun laws suck mightily in places like Maryland and New York.
However, I think these people really need to visit Oklahoma.......I mean really.  Most states level of social authoritarianism is overblown (like Texas), but I can say without bias that Oklahoma truly does blow.

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How many times each party won a State overall ?

Wrongo.
It's a map of the strongest popular vote performance per state in each election since 1840 with the colors representing the party that achieved the shaded percentage vote.
I made a similar map that included all elections since 1824, but Jackson and Adams were such outliers in some states that I had to make another more narrow map.
Someday I might make one of all elections since 1900, which should be interesting.
What I found interesting is that minus Jackson's performance in 1832 in the Deep South, the best candidate in the Deep South was Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the infamous baby's daddy of modern day American "liberalism".

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This is the original map I made of the strongest popular vote performances per state since 1824.
Blue=Adams Republicans
Red=Jackson Democrats
Someday when I have enough time and not so much stuff to do I'll make a modified map of this that lists the years in which the highest vote percentages were achieved by state.

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What I found interesting is that minus Jackson's performance in 1832 in the Deep South, the best candidate in the Deep South was Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the infamous baby's daddy of modern day American "liberalism".

Oh, please... I think you know how intellectually dishonest this attack is.

Okay I'll admit that alot of those votes were probably just in reaction to a Great Depression, poor whites and blacks were discriminated against at the voting booth, and that it was in 1932.....the first year that FDR ran for office that quite a few of these states voted for him by said margins.
But even without a Great Depression.................do you really think any of those states would've voted for FDR by any amount less than they voted for (at the very least) Al Smith?

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What I found interesting is that minus Jackson's performance in 1832 in the Deep South, the best candidate in the Deep South was Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the infamous baby's daddy of modern day American "liberalism".

Oh, please... I think you know how intellectually dishonest this attack is.

Okay I'll admit that alot of those votes were probably just in reaction to a Great Depression, poor whites and blacks were discriminated against at the voting booth, and that it was in 1932.....the first year that FDR ran for office that quite a few of these states voted for him by said margins.
But even without a Great Depression.................do you really think any of those states would've voted for FDR by any amount less than they voted for (at the very least) Al Smith?

Smith was a Catholic. For any other democrat, I have no reason to think they would poll worse than FDR in the climate of Great Depression.

Granted, I'm not implying that FDR was any more evil than say someone like William H. Murray (anyone who has read my Great Depression timeline knows this, hell FDR is like the friggin hero in that TL), just that how people focused on what "liberal" or "conservative" was back then.  I also used it to demonstrate quite easily how sensitive "liberals" and "progressives" are to any mention of how well FDR did with Southerners (admit, your response was so predictable).  SUre he didn't campaign on hanging negroes or federalizing segregation, but he sure as hell didn't ignore Southern wants in his campaigns.  That's because in reality FDR wasn't the gallant advancer of liberal causes as he's portrayed in history books but rather as a consensus builder.  In addition to winning the South and record numbers he also won the American West in record numbers in places like New Mexico in 1932 (I believe he might be the ONLY candidate to ever win over 60% of the popular vote in New Mexico in 1932 and 1936), Arizona 1936, and California in 1936 (with 66.95% of the popular vote).
I'm not arguing that FDR was really a southern bred William H. Murray Democrat, but he wouldn'tve come second only to Andrew Jackson in popular vote terms if he didn't agree to leave the Southern states to their own devices in regards to Civil Rights during the 1930's.  Would it be so far fetched for me to suggest that by taking a moderate stance in regards to Southern policies FDR might've done better than most other Democrats because some anti-segregation whites in the Deep South might've voted (alongside segregationists) for FDR instead of the Republican?  With the exception of the Japanese internment camps he was miles ahead of his predecessor on nearly every social policy.