The New Campaign Trail

[UWS]

I won re-election for a second term as President Ronald Reagan in 1984 against Walter Mondale

President Ronald Reagan (R-California)/Vice-President George Herbert Walker Bush (R-Texas) : 498 EVs, 55 % of the vote, 50,979,458 votes, 46 states ✔️
Walter Mondale (D-Minnesota/Geraldine Ferraro (D-New York) : 40 EVs, 44.3 % of the vote, 41,064,957 votes, 4 states + DC

[Ragnaroni]

George W. Bush - Dick Cheney (R) - 355 - 65,711,636 votes (53,7%)
John Kerry - John Edwards (D) - 183 + DC - 55,470,813 votes (45,3%)

Close States :
Oregon, 7 votes, 5'094 votes (0.29%)
New Jersey, 15 votes, 40'131 votes (1.08%)
Maine, 4 votes, 10'621 votes (1.4%)
Delware, 3 votes, 5'587 votes (1.54%)
Connecticut, 7 votes, 58'685 votes (3.86%)
Illinois, 21 votes, 206'277 votes (3.9%)
Washington, 11 votes, 112'764 votes (4%)
Minnesota, 10 votes, 116'845 votes (4.02%) Bush Win Tipping Point State
Michigan, 17 votes, 239'554 votes (4.72%)
Added for my own pleasure :
California, 55 votes, 685'224 votes (5.69% (nice))

[Make America Grumpy Again]

Lost as McCain against Lipinksi & Bright

[Make America Grumpy Again]

Won as Kennedy running against Goldwater. I still managed to win most of the South due to running moderately on civil rights and having LBJ focus his campaigning down there.

[UWS]

I won as John McCain in 2008 with 51.3 % of the popular vote, 316 EVs and 33 states and I did so by selecting Tim Pawlenty as my running mate and focusing mostly on Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida.

[Alben Barkley]

My best 1996 run yet:

[Independents for George Santos]

Am I the only one who thinks the Hitler mod is in incredibly bad taste? The subreddit seems to be enjoying it too much if you ask me.

[ListMan38]

Am I the only one who thinks the Hitler mod is in incredibly bad taste? The subreddit seems to be enjoying it too much if you ask me.

I mean it portrays the NSDAP accurately (and not whitewashed) and without slurs and such, there are disclaimers abound, and the endings actually mention scenarios of Hitler's undoing. Definitely does a respectful job compared to some... other mods of horrible figures.

Don't get me wrong, I get why people would hesitate with a mod surrounding the dictator that had upwards of 18 million executed for the crime of not being within his ideal characteristics, and led to upwards of 34 million dying in the ensuing European Theater of WW2, but I think it does the job regarding how to depict playable evil figures.

[Independents for George Santos]

Am I the only one who thinks the Hitler mod is in incredibly bad taste? The subreddit seems to be enjoying it too much if you ask me.

I mean it portrays the NSDAP accurately (and not whitewashed) and without slurs and such, there are disclaimers abound, and the endings actually mention scenarios of Hitler's undoing. Definitely does a respectful job compared to some... other mods of horrible figures.

Don't get me wrong, I get why people would hesitate with a mod surrounding the dictator that had upwards of 18 million executed for the crime of not being within his ideal characteristics, and led to upwards of 34 million dying in the ensuing European Theater of WW2, but I think it does the job regarding how to depict playable evil figures.

People are focusing on the "no slurs"/"historical accuracy" element in the aftermath of the 1948 mod with Strom Thurmond (which I thought was better alternate history than the one with Stassen - that one required too many leaps of faith wrt the aftermath of WWII) but I can't get past the fact that you're playing a game where you control the actions of f***ing Hitler. It's different from a documentary or a game where Hitler is a supporting player. It doesn't matter to me that it accurately portrays the level of antisemitism in Weimar Germany or that if I set the brownshirts loose it can backfire or whatever. It's asking me to make a simulacrum of those decisions and that's where I draw the line.

[ListMan38]

In other news, just released 1812 if anyone's interested

[Pres Mike]

Am I the only one who thinks the Hitler mod is in incredibly bad taste? The subreddit seems to be enjoying it too much if you ask me.

I mean it portrays the NSDAP accurately (and not whitewashed) and without slurs and such, there are disclaimers abound, and the endings actually mention scenarios of Hitler's undoing. Definitely does a respectful job compared to some... other mods of horrible figures.

Don't get me wrong, I get why people would hesitate with a mod surrounding the dictator that had upwards of 18 million executed for the crime of not being within his ideal characteristics, and led to upwards of 34 million dying in the ensuing European Theater of WW2, but I think it does the job regarding how to depict playable evil figures.

How do you even play it? I don't see it on the mod list

[Pink Panther]

Am I the only one who thinks the Hitler mod is in incredibly bad taste? The subreddit seems to be enjoying it too much if you ask me.

I mean it portrays the NSDAP accurately (and not whitewashed) and without slurs and such, there are disclaimers abound, and the endings actually mention scenarios of Hitler's undoing. Definitely does a respectful job compared to some... other mods of horrible figures.

Don't get me wrong, I get why people would hesitate with a mod surrounding the dictator that had upwards of 18 million executed for the crime of not being within his ideal characteristics, and led to upwards of 34 million dying in the ensuing European Theater of WW2, but I think it does the job regarding how to depict playable evil figures.

How do you even play it? I don't see it on the mod list

It's not on the loader due to, let's just say the graphic material found in the mod. You can load up the codes manually through the loader, though.

[Pink Panther]

In other news, just released 1812 if anyone's interested

Hey, if we're doing shameless plugs, might as well plug in SpongeBob 2008!
/trolling

[Pres Mike]

Am I the only one who thinks the Hitler mod is in incredibly bad taste? The subreddit seems to be enjoying it too much if you ask me.

I mean it portrays the NSDAP accurately (and not whitewashed) and without slurs and such, there are disclaimers abound, and the endings actually mention scenarios of Hitler's undoing. Definitely does a respectful job compared to some... other mods of horrible figures.
How do you do that? I'm just curious what exactly is in the mod?
Don't get me wrong, I get why people would hesitate with a mod surrounding the dictator that had upwards of 18 million executed for the crime of not being within his ideal characteristics, and led to upwards of 34 million dying in the ensuing European Theater of WW2, but I think it does the job regarding how to depict playable evil figures.

How do you even play it? I don't see it on the mod list

It's not on the loader due to, let's just say the graphic material found in the mod. You can load up the codes manually through the loader, though.

[Sumner 1868]

In other news, just released 1812 if anyone's interested

Hey, if we're doing shameless plugs, might as well plug in SpongeBob 2008!
/trolling

Great idea!

Spongebob/Sandy ticket on Normal mode:




I then played a Squidward/Plankton ticket on Normal Mode which resulted in a Electoral College deadlock:

[UWS]

I won re-election for a second term as President Richard Nixon in 1964 against Democratic Senator LBJ

President Richard Nixon (R-California)/Vice-President Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (R-Massachusetts) - 331 EVs, 46.8 % of the vote, 32,942,643 votes, 35 states ✔️
Senator Lyndon Johnson (D-Texas)/Senator Edmund Muskie (D-Maine) - 154 EVs, 43.9 % of the vote, 30,960,998 votes, 9 states + DC
Governor George Wallace (Southern Democrat-Alabama)53 EVs, 9.3 % of the vote, 6,546,015 votes, 6 states

I remade the 1964 presidential election as President Richard Nixon again for fun. I won re-election due to a strong economy, to diminishing communist threat after successful Bay of Pigs operation and Civil Rights Act passing. I have won the state of New York by 1.5 percentage points. And I have won 43 % of the vote in Washington D.C., which is unexpected and is likely strongest showing by the GOP within the Washington D.C. area~And Governor Wallace wasn't even on the ballot there.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

Alternate History: A Tale of Two Nut Maps

1964: Viva Kennedy


1968: A Time For Choosing


Both on Normal. Kennedy repeats his 1960 debate performance and Reagan (with VP Romney) trounces Humphrey in their debate and sabotages Vietnam peace talks without incident.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

1988: Reagan and Bush both resign because of the Iran-Contra scandal, elevating Speaker Jim Wright to the presidency. He selects Paul Sarbanes as his running mate, hammering hard on Thompson, and rescinds the Bork nomination with a liberal judge.



Wright actually got 374 EVs and I have no idea why there's a discrepancy, although I did remove the faithless elector in West Virginia.

[America Needs a 13-6 Progressive SCOTUS]

1988: Reagan and Bush both resign because of the Iran-Contra scandal, elevating Speaker Jim Wright to the presidency. He selects Paul Sarbanes as his running mate, hammering hard on Thompson, and rescinds the Bork nomination with a liberal judge.



Wright actually got 374 EVs and I have no idea why there's a discrepancy, although I did remove the faithless elector in West Virginia.

Maine is the discrepancy

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

1988: Reagan and Bush both resign because of the Iran-Contra scandal, elevating Speaker Jim Wright to the presidency. He selects Paul Sarbanes as his running mate, hammering hard on Thompson, and rescinds the Bork nomination with a liberal judge.



Wright actually got 374 EVs and I have no idea why there's a discrepancy, although I did remove the faithless elector in West Virginia.

Maine is the discrepancy

Fixed. Thanks!

Next up is an AH scenario where Nixon won the 1960 election and went on to lose to Johnson pretty handily, at least electorally:

It's funny how this map has so much in common with 1976. I gambled on getting Wallace to endorse me and give me most of the South with Ross Barnett jumping in and only winning his homestate.

This scenario is pretty unrealistic. Most states are within 3% or so. Nixon gets 48% of the vote in DC. So it's a fun scenario, but not exactly one based in reality.

Popular Vote
Johnson: 49.7%
Nixon: 48.1%
Barnett: 2.2%                                                            

[UWS]

I won re-election for a second term as President Richard Nixon in 1964 against Democratic Senator LBJ

President Richard Nixon (R-California)/Vice-President Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (R-Massachusetts) - 331 EVs, 46.8 % of the vote, 32,942,643 votes, 35 states ✔️
Senator Lyndon Johnson (D-Texas)/Senator Edmund Muskie (D-Maine) - 154 EVs, 43.9 % of the vote, 30,960,998 votes, 9 states + DC
Governor George Wallace (Southern Democrat-Alabama)53 EVs, 9.3 % of the vote, 6,546,015 votes, 6 states

I remade the 1964 presidential election as President Richard Nixon again for fun. I won re-election due to a strong economy, to diminishing communist threat after successful Bay of Pigs operation and Civil Rights Act passing. I have won the state of New York by 1.5 percentage points. And I have won 43 % of the vote in Washington D.C., which is unexpected and is likely strongest showing by the GOP within the Washington D.C. area~And Governor Wallace wasn't even on the ballot there.

President Nixon wins re-election for a second term in 1964 during a two-way race with Senator LBJ

[ListMan38]

1964 Modman is unpersoned. There was never a 1964. There was never a 1964.

Context is basically that the 1964 modmaker made a mod about the biblical Paul. The TCT Owner DecstarG threw a hissy fit over its innacuracies, and in response, the 1964 person had his entire mod catalogue purged. Currently, his name seems to be under a WWE Chris Benoit-esque ban on mentions.

[Sumner 1868]

Deadlocked election in 1952 playing Stevenson/Humphrey on Normal mode. I avoided association with Truman, hit hard on civil rights and New Deal issues and dodged McCarthyism and tax issues.

[GregTheGreat657]

Jeb!slide



Fmr. Gov. Jeb Bush (R-FL)/Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) 356 EV 50.8% PV ✔️
Fmr. Sec. of State Hillary Clinton (D-NY)/Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) 182 EV 43.9% PV

[GM Team Member and Senator WB]

Sec. Clinton: 2353 delegates, 45.8%
Sen. Sanders: 2143 delegates, 44.1%
Fmr. Gov. O'Malley: 267 delegates. 9.8%

Clinton likely would have won, if not for 2 massive upsets by the O'Malley campaign. 1: It was found that only O'Malley filed in time to run in the territorial contests, winning them, and their 86 delegates, outright. With Clinton short by 29 delegates, that alone would be enough. Beyond that, though, was the leaking of email correspondence between Clinton and the DNC, disparaging the other 2 candidates and showing clear bias on the DNC's part towards her. This bombshell destroyed Clinton's numbers in the last days before California voted, bringing the state from a near-tie in polls to a nearly 20 point loss for Clinton.

With superdelegates panicked, only a plurality supported Clinton, over 10% backing O'Malley as they see him preferable to a Sanders nomination.

---Beyond this is speculation of a possible O'Malley victory---

Clinton's team had gone to every delegate they could imagine to try and scrape enough votes to win. The second ballot came:

Sec. Clinton: 2361 delegates
Sen. Sanders: 2141 delegates
Fmr. Gov. O'Malley: 261 delegates

It wasn't going to happen. The DNC leaks had done a nearly fatal blow to Clinton's campaign, and polls were showing her doing the worst against Trump.

There were many more ballots. The next 3 delivered the same result as the 2nd. The 6th showed some movement... away from Hillary.

Sec. Clinton: 2299 delegates
Sen. Sanders: 2151 delegates
Fmr. Gov. O'Malley: 312 delegates

The pattern continued. Eventually Clinton fell below Bernie, and on the 15th ballot a sort of deal was reached to stop Bernie. Establishment types were more fond of O'Malley than him, and as such in the end the momentum was behind him... Hillary, despondent, announced she would remove her name from contention. This was a humiliation for her, but dragging it out longer would just make it worse, she realized.

15th ballot
Fmr. Gov. O'Malley: 2412 delegates
Sen. Sanders: 2201 delegates
Sec. Clinton (dropped out): 85 delegates
Vice Pres. Biden (not declared): 50 delegates
First Lady Obama (not declared): 12 delegates
Fmr. Mayor Bloomberg (not declared): 3 delegates