2016: President Romney (R) vs. Sen Sanders (D)

[Lord Admirale]

After defeating Barack Obama in 2012, President Romney faces Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders after he secured the nomination in a contested convention, which included former Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary Hillary Clinton, Governor Deval Patrick, and others.

Discuss with maps.

[adamevans]

Senator Bernie Sanders / Governor Deval Patrick: 51% / 343 EV
President Mitt Romney / Vice President Paul Ryan: 47% / 195 EV

[Kyle Rittenhouse is a Political Prisoner]

Romney is an incumbent president running with a good economy against a far-left extremist who has a list of scandals a mile long. Furthermore, the fact that he beat Obama means he did something right in 2012, so another point for him.

President Mitt Romney: 51.5%, 414 electoral votes
Senator Bernie Sanders: 41.8%, 124 electoral votes

[Politician]

Romney is an incumbent president running with a good economy against a far-left extremist who has a list of scandals a mile long. Furthermore, the fact that he beat Obama means he did something right in 2012, so another point for him.

President Mitt Romney: 51.5%, 414 electoral votes
Senator Bernie Sanders: 41.8%, 124 electoral votes

LMAO

What scandals? Muh "Dumping waste on a poor Hispanic town"? The reason he supported that was actually to prevent the waste from contaminating the water supply.

Anyway:

[Sir Mohamed]

Romney would win reelection by a fair margin. LOL at the above maps.

✓ President Mitt Romney (R-MA)/Vice President Paul Ryan (R-WI): 298 EVs.; 50.2%
Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT)/Senator Martin Heinrich (D-NM): 240 EVs.; 48.5%

[I Can Now Die Happy]

If Sanders managed to trounce Hillary and Biden in the primary, that suggests that the country is in an even stronger populist mood than in real life.

However, I think Romney still takes it if he's free from any major scandals, given the state of the economy.

If there are scandals that Sanders manages to exploit though, while successfully deflecting the attacks leveled at him, his map at the minimum would look like this.

[Kyle Rittenhouse is a Political Prisoner]

Romney is an incumbent president running with a good economy against a far-left extremist who has a list of scandals a mile long. Furthermore, the fact that he beat Obama means he did something right in 2012, so another point for him.

President Mitt Romney: 51.5%, 414 electoral votes
Senator Bernie Sanders: 41.8%, 124 electoral votes

LMAO

What scandals? Muh "Dumping waste on a poor Hispanic town"? The reason he supported that was actually to prevent the waste from contaminating the water supply.

Anyway:

Yes, because trying to justify one of your scandals suddenly makes you electable.

[Kyle Rittenhouse is a Political Prisoner]

Romney is an incumbent president running with a good economy against a far-left extremist who has a list of scandals a mile long. Furthermore, the fact that he beat Obama means he did something right in 2012, so another point for him.

President Mitt Romney: 51.5%, 414 electoral votes
Senator Bernie Sanders: 41.8%, 124 electoral votes

If Sanders has scandals a mile long, Romney has scandals 100 miles long. I can't actually see Romney winning. His moderate-ism turns off conservatives to vote for him, and a lot of Bernie's ideas are fairly popular, whether you agree with them or not.

A. Romney managed to win 2012 against President Obama, so he's at least somewhat electable.
B. Nothing Romney has done is remotely as bad as chanting death to the yankees, saying all women want to be raped, or honeymooning in the USSR to the average American.

[Kyle Rittenhouse is a Political Prisoner]

Romney is an incumbent president running with a good economy against a far-left extremist who has a list of scandals a mile long. Furthermore, the fact that he beat Obama means he did something right in 2012, so another point for him.

President Mitt Romney: 51.5%, 414 electoral votes
Senator Bernie Sanders: 41.8%, 124 electoral votes

If Sanders has scandals a mile long, Romney has scandals 100 miles long. I can't actually see Romney winning. His moderate-ism turns off conservatives to vote for him, and a lot of Bernie's ideas are fairly popular, whether you agree with them or not.

A. Romney managed to win 2012 against President Obama, so he's at least somewhat electable.
B. Nothing Romney has done is remotely as bad as chanting death to the yankees, saying all women want to be raped, or honeymooning in the USSR to the average American.

I don't think honeymooning in Russia is... that big of a scandal lmao, and neither is a essay he wrote in 1972 before he was ever in politics.

Then you're pretty deeply out of tune with the average American.

[Politician]

Romney is an incumbent president running with a good economy against a far-left extremist who has a list of scandals a mile long. Furthermore, the fact that he beat Obama means he did something right in 2012, so another point for him.

President Mitt Romney: 51.5%, 414 electoral votes
Senator Bernie Sanders: 41.8%, 124 electoral votes

If Sanders has scandals a mile long, Romney has scandals 100 miles long. I can't actually see Romney winning. His moderate-ism turns off conservatives to vote for him, and a lot of Bernie's ideas are fairly popular, whether you agree with them or not.

A. Romney managed to win 2012 against President Obama, so he's at least somewhat electable.
B. Nothing Romney has done is remotely as bad as chanting death to the yankees, saying all women want to be raped, or honeymooning in the USSR to the average American.

I don't think honeymooning in Russia is... that big of a scandal lmao, and neither is a essay he wrote in 1972 before he was ever in politics.

Then you're pretty deeply out of tune with the average American.

Says Mr. "I love open borders and hate truly liberal economic policy"

[Kyle Rittenhouse is a Political Prisoner]

Romney is an incumbent president running with a good economy against a far-left extremist who has a list of scandals a mile long. Furthermore, the fact that he beat Obama means he did something right in 2012, so another point for him.

President Mitt Romney: 51.5%, 414 electoral votes
Senator Bernie Sanders: 41.8%, 124 electoral votes

If Sanders has scandals a mile long, Romney has scandals 100 miles long. I can't actually see Romney winning. His moderate-ism turns off conservatives to vote for him, and a lot of Bernie's ideas are fairly popular, whether you agree with them or not.

A. Romney managed to win 2012 against President Obama, so he's at least somewhat electable.
B. Nothing Romney has done is remotely as bad as chanting death to the yankees, saying all women want to be raped, or honeymooning in the USSR to the average American.

I don't think honeymooning in Russia is... that big of a scandal lmao, and neither is a essay he wrote in 1972 before he was ever in politics.

Then you're pretty deeply out of tune with the average American.

Says Mr. "I love open borders and hate truly liberal economic policy"

I have some idealogical disagreements with the average American, but I'm not delusional enough to pretend my preferred policies are automatically popular. Much of the Atlas Left is.

[Politician]

Romney is an incumbent president running with a good economy against a far-left extremist who has a list of scandals a mile long. Furthermore, the fact that he beat Obama means he did something right in 2012, so another point for him.

President Mitt Romney: 51.5%, 414 electoral votes
Senator Bernie Sanders: 41.8%, 124 electoral votes

If Sanders has scandals a mile long, Romney has scandals 100 miles long. I can't actually see Romney winning. His moderate-ism turns off conservatives to vote for him, and a lot of Bernie's ideas are fairly popular, whether you agree with them or not.

A. Romney managed to win 2012 against President Obama, so he's at least somewhat electable.
B. Nothing Romney has done is remotely as bad as chanting death to the yankees, saying all women want to be raped, or honeymooning in the USSR to the average American.

I don't think honeymooning in Russia is... that big of a scandal lmao, and neither is a essay he wrote in 1972 before he was ever in politics.

Then you're pretty deeply out of tune with the average American.

Says Mr. "I love open borders and hate truly liberal economic policy"

I have some idealogical disagreements with the average American, but I'm not delusional enough to pretend my preferred policies are automatically popular. Much of the Atlas Left is.

Polling has showed fiscally liberal and socially moderate policies are more popular than socially liberal and fiscally Republican policies, sorry to trigger you.

[Kyle Rittenhouse is a Political Prisoner]

Romney is an incumbent president running with a good economy against a far-left extremist who has a list of scandals a mile long. Furthermore, the fact that he beat Obama means he did something right in 2012, so another point for him.

President Mitt Romney: 51.5%, 414 electoral votes
Senator Bernie Sanders: 41.8%, 124 electoral votes

If Sanders has scandals a mile long, Romney has scandals 100 miles long. I can't actually see Romney winning. His moderate-ism turns off conservatives to vote for him, and a lot of Bernie's ideas are fairly popular, whether you agree with them or not.

A. Romney managed to win 2012 against President Obama, so he's at least somewhat electable.
B. Nothing Romney has done is remotely as bad as chanting death to the yankees, saying all women want to be raped, or honeymooning in the USSR to the average American.

I don't think honeymooning in Russia is... that big of a scandal lmao, and neither is a essay he wrote in 1972 before he was ever in politics.

Then you're pretty deeply out of tune with the average American.

Says Mr. "I love open borders and hate truly liberal economic policy"

I have some idealogical disagreements with the average American, but I'm not delusional enough to pretend my preferred policies are automatically popular. Much of the Atlas Left is.

Polling has showed fiscally liberal and socially moderate policies are more popular than socially liberal and fiscally Republican policies, sorry to trigger you.

Yes, my idealogical mix of fiscal moderation and social liberalism is unpopular. So is Sander's mix of fiscal socialism and social liberalism. I'm not pretending my policies are automatically popular, so quit the random attacks on my beliefs.

[Lord Admirale]

What the hell have I started

[Huey Long is a Republican]

What the hell have I started

I ask the same thing with my Vore HTTYD COMIC DUB

[Mr. Smith]

With Obama defeated, 2014 becomes a slaughter midterm for Dems thanks to Romney's win.

Suddenly, 2015 opens up with a circus of Gillibrands and Hagans (since the NC GOP surge didn't happen) and Ellisons...but none of them quite do what Sanders could to rile up the base.

So after Super Tuesday sees all the establishment candidates split The South, Sanders picks up the rest of the country, securing nomination with California.

Romney tries spouting stuff about a good economy, but all Sanders needs to due is talk about the forgotten people and the need for revolution, and hammered him even harder on Bain Capital than Obama ever did. Oh and especially on immigration.

After picking Raul Grijalva as his running mate, Sanders barnstorms Arizona, Florida, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Colorado, and New Mexico.

Sanders/Grijalva
Romney/Ryan

Tipping Point: Nevada
Closest State: Arizona
Closest Winning State: Nevada

[Chips]

President Romney: 313 electoral votes
Bernie Sanders: 225 electoral votes