I won my 1st President 4 ever. With Kerry/Edwars against Bush/Cheney. 350/188 with 52%. I won even Colorado... this game isn't reallistic.
Winning CO isn't that unrealistic...it isn't as Republican as people think. What other states did you win?
The game IS unrealistic. Candidates tend to win certain states with massive majorities of the vote. 70%+ for one candidate is not rare, even in close elections. The 1960, 1980 and 1992 patches are out now. 1960 starts out with a huge Nixon lead and 1980 starts out with Carter almost stronger than Reagan.
I played 1980 with a third party candidate centered around New York and won 73 electoral votes (NY, CT, NJ, ME and AK), Reagan at 258, Carter 207. Then it said "the election is a tie. So it will be decided by Congress. Congress is dominated by Republicans... so Congress appoints Ronald Reagan next President of the United States!!!"
Of course it wasn't a tie but the game does this every time no candidate gets over 270. And since Congress wasn't dominated by Republicans in 1980 this is clearly a glitch left over from the pre-scenario version. Finally, in Congress every state gets only 1 vote, so the candidate with the most states wins the election, not necessarily the candidate whose party has a majority in Congress.
To make it even more realistic, in a situation like my game, I should have been able to tell my electors to vote for a certain candidate.
