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Is that based on 1912?

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Had a dream last night that Beto was funded by his drug trafficking empire, ran as a third party, and picked Ellen Page as his VP. He also owned a bar, which I think was the HQ for his drug trafficking empire.

Senator Bernie Sanders / Senator Jeff Merkley 279

President Donald Trump / Vice President Mike Pence 259

Former Congressman Robert F. O'Rourke / Actress Ellen Page 0

**SNIP**

Legal disclaimer: This post is based on someone else's dream and does not imply that Beto is a drug kingpin.

Beautiful. Thanks for writing that out! I made the following map before seeing yours, also a narrow win for Bernie. Funny that the states are the same. I added in a far-right ticket of Don Blankenship and Roy Moore to help boost Sanders over Trump. And of course, the mini-TL that I had grand thoughts (but no real intention of putting in the effort needed) included Blankenship going on about “Cocaine Beto.”

I might make a county map of Texas though. I had Beto narrowly beating Sanders in Texas, with Beto winning some counties. Also have him winning Imperial County, CA for kicks.

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2019 United Kingdom general election
using 2019 European Union election results

451   Brexit Party (New)
088   Labour Party (-174)
056   Scottish National Party (+21)
031   Liberal Democrats (+19)
005   Plaid Cymru (+1)
001   Green Party (—)
000   Conservative Party (-318)
000   Change UK — The Independent Group (New)
000   United Kingdom Independence Party (—)
018   Northern Ireland

Am I seeing this right or is the conservative party about to die out?

They’re definitely having issues since they’re still trying to play both sides of the Brexit card. Labour is having similar issues as well. I think some of the Lib Dems’ and Brexit’s strength is because they were seen as the big winners in last week’s EU elections and they have clear stances re: Brexit.

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1972

President Richard Nixon (R-CA) / Vice President Spiro Agnew (R-MD) ✓
Governor George Wallace (D-AL) / Fmr. Governor Albert "Happy" Chandler (D-KY)
Fmr. Senator Eugene McCarthy (I-MN) / Fmr. Governor Edmund "Pat" Brown (I-CA)

What percentage of the popular vote do you see McCarthy/Brown getting?

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Quarantine got me actin up

United States Presidential Election, 1996

Mr. H. Ross Perot (RF-TX) / Fmr. Sen. David Boren (RF-OK)
    33,826,098 | 35.13% | 270 EVs
President Bill Clinton (D-AR) / Vice President Al Gore (D-TN)
    33,953,995 | 35.27% | 189 EVs
Mr. Pat Buchanan (R-VA) / Mr. Alan Keyes (R-MD)
    27,407,955 | 28.47% | 79 EVs

Broke: Perot wins in 1992

Woke: Perot loses in 1992, but wins in 1996.

Never seen a map of a non-incumbent Perot win in 1996. I assume that Clinton’s issues with women came up earlier and the Republicans went off the rails in response?

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1992 with 1968's popular vote:

President Bush, 275 votes (42.72%)
Bill Clinton, 263 votes (43.42%)
Ross Perot (13.53%)

Oohhh. That’s an interesting concept.

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Best preforming Republican nominee since 2000
Bush 2004 291
Trump 2016 161
Bush 2000 69
Romney 2012 17

Best preforming Democratic Nominee since 2000

Obama 2008 278
Clinton 2016 139
Gore 2000 69
Obama 2012 52

The Romney 2012 states are not shocking, but it is interesting that those are the only two.

Speaking of 2012, gold works better on the forum than yellow. Gold isn’t listed as an option, but you can replace yellow with gold in the coding.

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Taylor Swift/Ro Khanna 400 EV
Kanye West/Joel Osteen 138 EV

Kanye West’s second presidential run, while more successful than his 2020 run, was certainly no less bizarre. West demanded that he be stricken from the ballot in a number of reliably Republican states, in many cases leaving Governor Swift and Representative Khanna as the only ticket on the ballot. West also dumped money into several states that were previously seen as reliably Democratic. Journalists at the Ye for President headquarters in Cody, Wyoming reported that West was ecstatic when Oregon was narrowly called for the West/Osteen ticket.

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1840:

Joe Biden/Kamala Harris 185 EV
Donald Trump/Mike Pence 109 EV

1844:

Joe Biden/Kamala Harris 164 EV
Donald Trump/Mike Pence 111 EV

1848:

Joe Biden/Kamala Harris 168 EV
Donald Trump/Mike Pence 122 EV

1852:

Joe Biden/Kamala Harris 172  EV
Donald Trump/Mike Pence 124 EV

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1852:

Joe Biden/Kamala Harris 172  EV
Donald Trump/Mike Pence 124 EV

1856

Same as 1852.

1860

Joe Biden/Kamala Harris 179 EV
Donald Trump/Mike Pence 124 EV

1864

Joe Biden/Kamala Harris 162 EV
Donald Trump/Mike Pence 72 EV

1868

Joe Biden/Kamala Harris 171 EV
Donald Trump/Mike Pence 123 EV

1872

Joe Biden/Kamala Harris 205 EV
Donald Trump/Mike Pence 147 EV

Tbh, this is turning out to be a lot less interesting than I had expected. I do wish that Atlas’s election calculator went back before 1840.

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The mandate we deserved: If 2020 swung like Vermont



Barefaced on the Beach: if the nation had the generic pro-incumbent swing of Hawaii

How would things look if things swung like Utah?

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1968 Alt History: RFK vs Nixon vs Wallace



Thoughts? Concerns?

Who does Bobby pick for VP?

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Context: John Glenn/Ann Richards beats George H. W. Bush/Dan Quayle in 1988 and serves 2 terms. In 1996 Pat Sajak uses his fame from hosting Wheel of Fortune to launch a Presidential campaign. Originally seen as a satirical campaign with no chance at winning, Sajak stuns the political world by winning the Republican nomination and ends up winning the election with a 4% PV margin.

I had a dream a few weeks ago where Pat Sajak was elected President in 1996 so I wanted to build on it.

That reminds me of a dream I had where Beto ran as a third party centrist. I dug up the map and story someone made for it (from April of 2019).

Had a dream last night that Beto was funded by his drug trafficking empire, ran as a third party, and picked Ellen Page as his VP. He also owned a bar, which I think was the HQ for his drug trafficking empire.

Senator Bernie Sanders / Senator Jeff Merkley 279

President Donald Trump / Vice President Mike Pence 259

Former Congressman Robert F. O'Rourke / Actress Ellen Page 0

2020 was assumed to be a Democratic landslide in the making after the October Shock of the previous year, but the party was deeply divided. Former congressman and failed Texas senatorial candidate Beto O'Rourke, who had mysteriously dropped out just before the primaries*, stood on the sidelines cheering for the "pragmatic" wing of the party first represented by Joe Biden and later by Kamala Harris. However, they were defeated by the revitalized progressive opposition, united from the start behind Bernie Sanders.

*had to sort out serious issues within his drug organization

Beto was furious as the prospect of a general election between two protectionist nominees. With more free time on his hands and bursting with his trademark brand of punk rocker energy, Beto thrust himself into the national spotlight once again....

In the end, just like the Perot before him, Beto did not actually win any electoral votes. While he ran with policy position that distinguished him with both other candidates, Beto ran more as a rockstar than a serious candidate. His choice of running mate was a Canadian actress ineligible for the presidency who happened to be insanely popular on Twitter that year, and in a year where both major candidates were criticized as demagogues Beto's rallies were more like rock concerts than either of them.

Just as his detractors feared, Beto acted as a spoiler for Sanders in the general election. What could have been a rout turned into a nailbiter as important states remained uncalled well into the night. In the end, Sanders pulled it off with a clear popular vote victory due to Beto's weakness in the midwest and his mistake of not visiting Wisconsin. Wisconsin was the closest state, and Beto did relatively poorly there. Beto still spoiled Bernie in Florida and Arizona, and possibly Ohio and Iowa, totaling 64 electoral votes given to the embattled incumbent President Trump. Beto's best state was New Mexico, which was only barely Democratic enough to prevent him from winning. He also did very well in California, with enough voters willing to go for him in a safe state that Sanders was held below a majority.

While Beto tried to become a mere celebrity bartender after his election, the real drama occurred during the Sanders presidency. It was then when the FBI and NSA discovered just what Beto was doing on the side running a hilariously unprofitable bar in El Paso. Naturally there was a media circus over the man's trial and conviction, and uncovering of crimes both his and worse ones committed by subordinates. President Sanders never spoke his name, and forbade anyone in the administration from even alluding to the trial. President Merkley, upon assuming office after Bernie Sanders died in 2023, continued this policy.

2024: Jeff Merkley wins a full term in office against Tom Cotton

2028: Jeff Merkley is defeated in a bid for a second full term.

It was only in January 2029 when lame duck President Merkley, having been defeated in a bid for a second full term in office by a scion of the Trumpist "National Conservative" movement, opened his mouth. Out poured a stream of anger and profanity none had witnessed from a sitting president in centuries. The candidate who was a rockstar, who was a kingpin, and both so much more and less than both, was given his due.

Beto O'Rouke would die in custody just a few years later. Some say the circumstances were suspicious, but none are opening their mouth.

Legal disclaimer: This post is based on someone else's dream and does not imply that Beto is a drug kingpin.

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Problem with this comparison is that Fighting Bob was focused on one state. One would need to add the number of votes for each candidate together state by state in a spreadsheet then put that through an apportionment calculator to get a truly fair map.

Not to start a war but in pretty sure LaFollette was trying to win a many states as possible. He thought he was going to win a many as 9 which wasn't too egregious considering how close he was to getting several

Also, not going into a war either, but I appreciate how the three closest states (NV, ND, and MT) would only have given LaFollette 12 more EVs, one less than WI had at the time.

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From a President Infinity Game (Observing)



Vice President Kamala Harris/Mayor Andrew Yang: 55.5%, 364 EV
Gov. Ron DeSantis/Sen. Tim Scott: 42.8%, 174 EV
Others: 1.7%

Closest states:
Florida: DeSantis+0.1 (lol)
North Carolina: DeSantis+0.6
Indiana: DeSantis+0.6
Maine At-Large: DeSantis+0.6
Iowa: Harris+1.1
Texas: Harris+4.3
Arizona: Harris+4.4

It seems a bit bullish on Kamala, but ME-AL stands out as way too bearish on Kamala/Yang. Florida is a bit funky too like you mentioned.

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I want to say it has something to do with Gubernatorial Elections.

Vermont is what messes things up, unless there’s something I’m missing. Maybe it’s states by who the governor voted for, though I’d think WV would be red in that case)

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A map of the terminology that people use to refer to soft drinks.  "Soda" likely wins the contingent election due to the term being more popular than "pop" within the "coke" states.  Data link

I didn’t realize that they used “pop” in Oregon until last Wednesday when I was asked if I wanted a refill on my “pop.” Weird how it’s different when CA used “soda.”

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The 2020 United Workers' Republics presidential election based on a crude estimation of the popular vote within the pre-revolution state borders[1], a typical Socialist Labor Party victory but with an alarmingly decent performance for the minor parties amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Most notably, the Black Panther movement of the Black Belt Autonomous Republic aligns itself with the left-oppositionist Socialist Liberation Party for the first time since the Fall of Nixon[2]. The Ecological Society and the Social Democrats likewise pick up voters in the Southwest and Plains respectively over ongoing debates on energy policy- there's a solar power boom in the former and concerns over the return of Collectivization Era attacks on private property in the latter with calls to turn the diminishing agricultural land into a nature preserve or wind farm.



[1] Intended for internal consumption in the United States, or Hawaii as it insists on calling itself now despite the White Terror and continuing discrimination against actual indigenous Hawaiians.
[2] The New Left was united for a time before Ecology split off from Socialist Liberation with the disastrous presidency of Jimmy Carter, a former Lieutenant Colonel of the Strategic Atomic Forces credited with disobeying orders and preventing erroneous retaliatory nuclear attack.

I wonder what Hawaii’s elections look like in this timeline.

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2000

Secretary of State David Petraeus (I-VA) / White House Chief of Staff Kevin McCarthy (I-CA) ✓
Congressman Bernie Sanders (SL-VT) / Activist Angela Davis (SL-CA)
Activist Ralph Nader (G-CT) / Activist Winona LaDuke (G-CA)

Nine years after the fall of the United Workers' Republics, the newly reunited States elect a strongman to deal with the terrorist threat. President Petraeus would later go on to invade Canada in 2022.

Fifty-Four Forty or Fight?

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1960 Presidential Election*

J. Robert Oppenheimer (D-NJ)/Leslie R. Groves Jr. (I-CT) (incumbent)
vs
Barbara M. Roberts (R-NY)/Kenneth S. Carson (R-WI)

The 1960 Presidential Election, Election Night



Following the endorsement of incumbent President Henry Wallace at the 1948 Democratic National Convention, Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer would go on to win the November election and would win re-election in 1952 and 1956. In 1960, President Oppenheimer declared his intention to seek an unprecedented fourth term in the White House.** He would also see his stiffest competition yet. While her debate performance was described by many as "rigid" and "unmoving," it was clear that America was at least looking at making a change following 28 years of Democratic presidents.

Known widely as just "Barbie," Representative Roberts was an unknown until her unsuccessful run for Senate in New York in 1958. After seven failed attempts at winning the presidency, Republicans were ready to run just about any candidate to regain the White House.

In a sign of the closeness of the race, networks did not call the election for several days, as there were a number of close states on election night. Ultimately, Barbie Roberts would defeat President Oppenheimer, becoming the first female President of the United States and the first Republican President since Herbert Hoover.



List of Presidents
32. Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1944)
33. Henry A. Wallace (1944-1949)
34. J. Robert Oppenheimer (1949-1961)
35. Barbara M. Roberts (1961-19??)

* Inspired by the map in this Reddit post. (I had been working on this post when another version was posted, but I was committed to posting this)

** President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1944) is believed to have wanted to seek a fourth term, but died before he could do so.