The New Campaign Trail

[GM Team Member and Senator WB]

New 2018 senate mod is out and... honestly, kinda sucks compared to the previous one in terms of results. Answering with mostly mainstream to moderate answers still causes me to see like, 58r-42d senates. Even on the easiest difficulty I ended up with a 50-50 split, and even then only barely.

[Vice President Christian Man]

Played Oz but chose the most Trump-like answers. Lost 47-52.

[GM Team Member and Senator WB]

new difficulties added for some scenarios, Guaranteed and Babymode are easier than cakewalk, and Calamity worse than disaster.

[Liminal Trans Girl]

Tried the Beta Version of Gary Johnson 2016

[GM Team Member and Senator WB]

1976 Italy campaign is on the mod select now, I think this is the first non-US election added there.

[Zenobiyl]

New 2018 senate mod is out and... honestly, kinda sucks compared to the previous one in terms of results. Answering with mostly mainstream to moderate answers still causes me to see like, 58r-42d senates. Even on the easiest difficulty I ended up with a 50-50 split, and even then only barely.

You can win as dems on normal, but you have to give absurdly conservative answers. Overall not a huge fan.

[One Term Floridian]

Played as Gore/Byrd for the first time on normal difficulty and won 363-175, with 49.2%-48.2% in the popular vote.

Interestingly, picking Byrd revived the Clinton Appalachian/Southern coalition and this might be why Gore's national popular vote was maxed at exactly Clinton '96's 49.2%. Also, Gore did not achieve 60%+ in any state since Nader ate into my totals quite a bit up in the Northeast. This probably cost me NH. Outside of that region though, I was able to keep Nader mostly at bay by finessing my liberal views on social security, education and the environment (the "dirty coal" question didn't come up thanks to Byrd, thank God) while holding moderate views on guns and foreign policy. For the most part, I bear-hugged Clinton and his record but took a big risk and strongly criticized his Oral Office scandal by stealing W's line of "restoring honor and dignity to the White House." Seems to have paid off and might be why I won conservative Louisiana, which I was not expecting to be close at all.

The only two mistakes I can think of was visiting NH too often (and maybe supporting extracting from the strategic petroleum reserve to help the state - this might cost you support outside of New England idk?) and wasting an early campaign trip to VA (lol) when it seemed to look like it was getting pretty close after picking neighboring Senator Byrd.

TL;DR: I might have pushed back Appalachia's turn to a titanium R region by as much as a generation. No Saddam margins there for a while at least, while ironically under my foreign policy, Saddam would continue to gain Saddam margins in Iraq for another decade or two.

[Liminal Trans Girl]

McGoverning Cakewalk run
Ran with Carter
Nixon almost got 3rd

[TPIG]

A pretty slow end to the workday today, so I decided to play 2020 (the official scenario), running as a Trump I would've actually voted for: vocally supportive of social distancing and mask wearing but not mandates, focused on the issues, not mud slinging, willing to accept the election results no matter the outcome, and committed to trying to unite the country. Normal difficulty.



PV:
Donald Trump/Mike Pence - 48.5%
Joe Biden/Kamala Harris - 49.8%

[Liminal Trans Girl]

A Normal Nader Run

[Liminal Trans Girl]

Another Nader game
came within 2000 votes of deadlock

[GM Team Member and Senator WB]

New NC Governor 2016 mod out, currently you can only play as McCrory.

[GregTheGreat657]

Won as Mastriano on the first try by 7,000 votes

I focused as much on gas prices and inflation as humanly possible

The results by counties

[Liminal Trans Girl]

I love messing around with 2000

[GM Team Member and Senator WB]

New NC Governor 2016 mod out, currently you can only play as McCrory.

Cooper is out now too. Unfortunately the text for winning/losing is the same every time so even if you win with a massive majority as Cooper Forest always wins too.

[GregTheGreat657]

Business Donald Trump (R-NY)/Senator Mark Kirk (R-IL) 319 EV 47.3%
Fmr. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (D-NY)/Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) 219 EV 46.8%

Outran Trump's real life performance by several points throughout the Rust Belt, but underperformed his real life performance in the South. Ran slightly ahead of Trump's real life performance in states Hillary won in both

[astrohuncho]

two extremes in the 2016 presidential election:

first, the near-peak possible as trump, with christie as vp and some good luck on question selection:
https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/2862704

Donald Trump/Chris Christie (Republican) - 351 EV (48.4%)
Hillary Clinton/Tim Kaine (Democrat) - 187 EV (45.8%)

on the other hand, with clinton, this is about the best you could possibly do (particularly bouyed by the immigration question it seems):
https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/2862671

Hillary Clinton/Cory Booker (Democrat) - 357 EV (50.5%)
Donald Trump/Mike Pence (Republican) - 181 EV (44.2%)

and yes i did this on the old site; why the hell not? it keeps the question variety that the new site can't replicate on the original dan bryan scenarios plus it lets you easily share games, get a percentile for your performance, etc

[Liminal Trans Girl]

Since we don't have a thread for PE-88:

[Liminal Trans Girl]

Since we don't have a thread for PE-88:

[Liminal Trans Girl]

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

I just finished a pretty interesting 1972 mod race as Birch Bayh/Reubin Askew. I guessed right on most of the questions and all but one of the "random choices" turned out in my favor.



But I did play this on easy mode. It may or may not count.

[Alben Barkley]

Gore/Biden 2004:

[Pres Mike]

How do you play the mods?

[OSR stands with Israel]

Won with Taft in a no Teddy scenario but it was much tougher than I first thought given I still lost the PV by nearly 2 points and came close to losing the election

[Zedonathin2020]

Dukakis '88 landslide. Lost Oklahoma by 3,611 votes.

Dukakis/Bentsen: 401 EVs, 52.8%
Bush/Quayle: 137 EVs, 46.1%