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« Reply #225 on: December 18, 2021, 04:10:04 PM »

Narrow Buchanan/Lott victory on easy (I got lucky on the Rodney King verdict)



Fmr. White House Communications Director Pat Buchanan (R-VA)/Senator Trent Lott (R-MS) 285 EV 50.5%
President Michael Dukakis (D-MA)/Vice President Lloyd Bentsen (D-TX) 253 EV 48.5%

NPV: Buchanan + 2
States within 1%: Pennsylvania, New Jersey
States within 5%: Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Montana, Connecticut, West Virginia, Colorado, South Dakota, Delaware, Maine, Michigan, Ohio, Missouri, Vermont, and Maryland
Tipping Point State: Colorado (gets Dukakis to 269), South Dakota (gets Dukakis the win)
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« Reply #226 on: December 19, 2021, 12:42:24 AM »

Made an infobox for a Buchanan/Duke extremely narrow victory. (which I received through the BIGSHOT cheat, of course) I retconned the idea that Gritz would be who Republicans turn to, considering he's pretty much as nutty as Duke. Marrou makes much more sense to me.



Tipping point was CO, decided by under 3,000 votes.

Now the question is if there's enough faithless electors to throw it to the house.


“WHAT. YOU WON THE ELECTION OF 1992!”
What did you do? Seriously, what did you do to pull this off? You chose a Nazi as your running mate. Every person under the sun had you losing the election by a landslide, and yet you not only made it close but WON the election! Michael Dukakis hasn't called yet, you call only imagine he is crying in a corner. The press is outside your house making tons of noise, trying to get you to come out, and Jesse Jackson has reportedly had a stroke. Get ready to move into the white house, but don't expect Congress to pass, well anything you want. Congratulations, president-elect Buchanan! Let’s hope you don't suck as bad as the previous one....
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« Reply #227 on: December 19, 2021, 01:42:21 AM »

If you lower down the difficulty to get a landslide win on the Trump 2008 scenarios, the victory message changes. Winning big on the Trump/Colbert scenario is the interesting one - it gives you some weird message about losing by a landslide, then says it was all a dream and gives a nod to Trump's later run as a Republican.
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« Reply #228 on: December 19, 2021, 04:48:20 PM »

Won 2000 on Normal as Bush/Ridge:


Governor George W. Bush (R-TX) / Governor Tom Ridge (R-PA) - 306 EVs, 47.9%
Vice President Al Gore (D-TN) / Senator Joe Lieberman (D-CT) - 232 EVs, 48.7%
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« Reply #229 on: December 30, 2021, 06:48:46 AM »

https://www.reddit.com/r/thecampaigntrail/comments/rreftb/germany_map_code/ You can now play American elections in...Germany.
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« Reply #230 on: December 31, 2021, 12:15:13 PM »

Ok, so how exactly do you do the big shot cheat?
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« Reply #231 on: December 31, 2021, 02:39:27 PM »

Ok, so how exactly do you do the big shot cheat?

On the mod loader, tyoe in bigshot, hit enter and type in bigshot and press enter again.
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« Reply #232 on: January 01, 2022, 11:33:11 AM »

Ok, so how exactly do you do the big shot cheat?

On the mod loader, tyoe in bigshot, hit enter and type in bigshot and press enter again.
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« Reply #233 on: January 01, 2022, 10:30:11 PM »

What happens if you do the bigshot cheat?
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« Reply #234 on: January 01, 2022, 10:44:02 PM »

Bigshot cheat let's you check the answers to see which ones help or hurt you, and you have a difficulty slider which allows you to change the difficulty multiplier for the game with ease!

Also, the picture of the winning candidate changes and the difficulty multiplier will say "Cheated difficulty".

Also, after you've played a game with the bigshot cheat you'll only have to type bigshot once in the mod loader.
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« Reply #235 on: January 02, 2022, 07:20:05 PM »

Got this map while playing as Trump in 2008



✓ Businessman Donald Trump (D-NY) / Senator Barack Obama (D-IL): 433 EV. (55.2%)
Senator John McCain (R-AZ) / Secretary Tom Ridge (R-PA): 105 EV. (43.4%)
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« Reply #236 on: January 02, 2022, 08:23:53 PM »
« Edited: January 02, 2022, 09:05:10 PM by LAB-LIB »



I am absolutely staggered, stunned, amazed at the size of the landslide.

I should point out that this was on normal.
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« Reply #237 on: January 02, 2022, 08:35:51 PM »

Won 2000 on Normal as Bush/Ridge:


Governor George W. Bush (R-TX) / Governor Tom Ridge (R-PA) - 306 EVs, 47.9%
Vice President Al Gore (D-TN) / Senator Joe Lieberman (D-CT) - 232 EVs, 48.7%
The 06/32 curse has time traveled to haunt the past
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« Reply #238 on: January 02, 2022, 11:42:57 PM »

Won 2000 on Normal as Bush/Ridge:


Governor George W. Bush (R-TX) / Governor Tom Ridge (R-PA) - 306 EVs, 47.9%
Vice President Al Gore (D-TN) / Senator Joe Lieberman (D-CT) - 232 EVs, 48.7%
The 06/32 curse has time traveled to haunt the past

This got me thinking a little, and this is two elections, but I just realized that in the 2010 UK general election, the Tories got 306 seats not including Bercow, while in 2015, Labour got 232 seats. The curse not only transcends time, but international borders as well.
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« Reply #239 on: January 03, 2022, 03:46:06 PM »



Surprised myself on normal as Rockefeller/Scranton. Could Rockefeller have done this well in OTL? Or anywhere near this well, even with Bobby Baker and Billy Sol Estes? Maybe if all of the corruption came out.


---- Nelson Rockefeller   34,261,041   48.6%
---- Lyndon B. Johnson   32,117,102   45.5%
---- Strom Thurmond     4,144,441       5.9%
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« Reply #240 on: January 03, 2022, 09:55:40 PM »



Imagine if THIS was the 2008 map. This was on cakewalk just to see how high I could go.
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« Reply #241 on: January 05, 2022, 07:02:05 PM »

Won 2000 with Gore/Bayh, while losing the popular vote by 55,000 with this cursed map:


Vice President Al Gore (D-TN)/Senator Evan Bayh (D-IN) 309 EV 48.4%
Governor George W. Bush (R-TX)/Fmr. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney (R-WY) 229 EV 48.4%

NPV: Bush + 0.0
States within 1%: Ohio, New Mexico, Oregon, Wisconsin, Tennessee, Florida, and Missouri
States within 5%: Ohio, New Mexico, Oregon, Wisconsin, Tennessee, Florida, Missouri, Iowa, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Arkansas, Nevada, Colorado, Minnesota, Michigan, and Louisiana
Tipping Point State: Wisconsin
Closest State(s): Ohio (Gore + 0.05%), New Mexico (Gore + 0.06%)
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« Reply #242 on: January 06, 2022, 12:08:37 PM »



President Gerald Ford (R-MI)/Senator Howard Baker (R-TN): 352 electoral votes / 40,071,722 votes (49.4%)

Fmr. Governor Jimmy Carter (D-GA)/Senator Walter Mondale (D-MN): 186 electoral votes / 39,323,503 votes (48.5%)

Up until recently, I thought it was just about impossible to do better than a narrow victory with Ford. I probably shouldn't have let the first time I played with Baker as my VP color my impressions so easily, as he is clearly the best pick.
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« Reply #243 on: January 09, 2022, 01:32:09 PM »

1972 Mondale/Hughes victory map:



Senator Walter Mondale (D-MN)/Senator Harold Hughes (D-IA) 302 EV 50.3%
President Richard Nixon (R-CA)/Vice President Spiro Agnew (R-MD) 236 EV 48.1%

NPV: Mondale + 2.2
States within 1%: New Jersey
States within 5%: New Jersey, South Dakota, Arkansas, North Dakota, Missouri, Ohio, Connecticut, Maryland, Montana, Delaware, and Maine
Closest State: New Jersey (Nixon + 0.3)
Tipping Point State: Ohio
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« Reply #244 on: January 10, 2022, 12:04:44 PM »
« Edited: January 10, 2022, 09:45:22 PM by LAB-LIB »

Played Ford on normal, was quite surprised to see this.



President Gerald Ford (R-MI)/Senator Howard Baker (R-TN): 404 electoral votes / 40,924,065 votes (50.3%)

Fmr. Governor Jimmy Carter (D-GA)/Senator Walter Mondale (D-MN): 134 electoral votes / 38,852,719 votes (47.7%)
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« Reply #245 on: January 10, 2022, 09:45:03 PM »

Finally won as McCain/Lieberman!



Senator John McCain (R-AZ)/Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT): 315 electoral votes / 57,859,417 votes (44.0%)

Senator Barack Obama (D-IL)/Senator Joe Biden (D-DE): 223 electoral votes / 58,831,071 votes (44.8%)

Fmr. Congressman Bob Barr (L-GA)/Activist Wayne Allyn Root (L-NV): 0 electoral votes / 14,027,629 (10.7%)
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« Reply #246 on: January 12, 2022, 09:10:51 AM »

Virginia 2021 mod should begin to come out by next Thursday, though only Youngkin will be playable at first according to the mod's creator.

https://www.reddit.com/r/thecampaigntrail/comments/s1yp9s/2021_va_gov_mod_final_stretch_announcment/
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« Reply #247 on: January 18, 2022, 05:10:45 PM »

Virginia 2021 mod should begin to come out by next Thursday, though only Youngkin will be playable at first according to the mod's creator.

https://www.reddit.com/r/thecampaigntrail/comments/s1yp9s/2021_va_gov_mod_final_stretch_announcment/
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« Reply #248 on: January 18, 2022, 05:35:05 PM »

2008 Trump/Obama mod



Businessman Donald Trump (D-NY)/Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) 390 EV 52.1%
Senator John McCain (R-AZ)/Governor Sarah Palin (R-AK) 148 EV 46.4%


NPV: Trump + 5.7
State closest to the NPV: Colorado
States within 1%: South Carolina, Florida, North Carolina, Montana, Missouri, Virginia
States within 5%: South Carolina, Florida, North Carolina, Montana, Missouri, Virginia, Mississippi, Georgia, Indiana, Arkansas, Ohio, West Virginia, New Hampshire, Louisiana, Oregon
Closest State: South Carolina - McCain + 0.48%
Tipping Point State: Oregon

Fun Facts:
  • Mississippi voted only 5.5% to the right of Oregon
  • Georgia voted to the left of Virginia
  • Arizona voted to the right of all but 3 former Confederate States (those 3 were Texas, Kentucky, and Tennessee)
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« Reply #249 on: January 19, 2022, 01:39:10 PM »

How does one skip questions on the bigshot cheat? I've tried typing in the number and it doesn't work
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