2016: Pres. Romney/VP Rice vs. Gov. Travis Childers/Mayor Bill Thompson

[Kingpoleon]

- Healthy Americans Act
- Cut of 3.5% on all incomes below $200,000
- Value-Added Tax of 15%
- Balanced Budget Act
- Social Security to 68 by 2024
- Ryan-Wyden Medicare reform
- 60% reduction in the growth of military spending
- Unemployment rate of 3.9%
- Inflation rate of 2.4%


Childers pledges to:
- Reduce income taxes on those making <$150,000 by at least 1.5%
- Raise income taxes on those making >$300,000 by at least 6.5%
- Instate a single-payer system with a public option
- Audit the federal reserve
- Reduce the VAT to at least 9.9%
- Raise gas taxes by 10-15 cents to fund a massive infrastructure project
- Raise a Wall Street transaction tax of 0.4%
- Instate a universal basic income of $12,000
- Charge colleges a new 2.5% profit tax, to subsidize students
- Signing the Assault Weapons Ban
- Minimum wage raise to $12.75 by 2024
- Withdraw from NAFTA
- Oppose Pacific Free Trade Agreement(India, Indonesia, Philippines, Japan, South Korea, Canada, America, Australia, New Zealand, Argentina)

Romney pledges for a:
- State-by-State referendum for a 24 week ban on abortion, with exceptions for rape, incest, and life/health of the mother
- Minimum wage raise to $9.90 by 2022
- Support PFTA
- Tax cut of 2.0% for $300,000-$1,000,000, with a 4.0% tax cut for those making <$300,000
- Relative basic income of $15,000 for single people, $36,000 for married couples, and four-cents-on-the-dollar incentive for jobs, including first three years outside the RBI, replacing most welfare besides SNAP and HUD funding; +$3,600 for >65 singles, +$4,800 for each individual of >65 married couples
- Support for Ukraine, India, Israel, South Africa, Indonesia
- $20 billion to Syrian National Council, $10 billion to Rojava
- Play Russia and China off against each other in Africa
- Negotiate monetary exchange with the E. U. to allow 5% of the mint’s dollar currencies to be traded for Euros, diversifying the American monetary supply

[Former Senator Haslam2020]

If Childers is a Competent Bernie-Esque candidate:

Pres. Mitt Romney/VP Condoleezza Rice: 277 Electoral Votes, 50.2%
Gov. Travis Childers/Mayor Bill Thompson: 261 Electoral Votes, 46.7%

If Childers doesn't invoke the same 2016 type rebel spirit:

Pres. Mitt Romney/VP Condoleezza Rice: 322 Electoral Votes, 53.1%
Gov. Travis Childers/Mayor Bill Thompson: 216 Electoral Votes, 44.1%

[Kingpoleon]

352: Mitt Romney/Condi Rice - 46.0%
186: Travis Childers/Bill Thompson - 39.3%
David Cobb/Cam Gordon - 11.6%
Others - 3.1%

MS, AL, KY, GA, LA, and SC are the only states to trend Democratic by more than five points.

[erſatz-york]

352: Mitt Romney/Condi Rice - 46.0%
186: Travis Childers/Bill Thompson - 39.3%
David Cobb/Cam Gordon - 11.6%
Others - 3.1%

MS, AL, KY, GA, LA, and SC are the only states to trend Democratic by more than five points.

This minus NJ and plus NE-2.

[bagelman]

2012:

291-247 GOP

2016:

320-218 DEM

Give or take: GA, NC, MT, NM

[WestVegeta]

Romney. If that was the irl Republican platform, I'd probably still be Republican.

[NewYorkExpress]

I find it hard to believe Romney would lose Mississippi, even if he were running against a statewide Democrat...Georgia, Florida and North Carolina are another story.