President Forever results thread...

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     Are you playing PF+P? If so, that makes perfect sense.

Those results, funnily enough occurred on the original President Forever. Yes you heard me correctly the original President Forever. I think the creator of the scenario stuffed up the percentages for Washington and the District of Columbia though, as at the start of the 1972 campaign Washington is safe McGovern and the District of Columbia is usually a tossup.

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     I once played a 1932 scenario where Alabama was lean Hoover. When I get home, I'll download the scenario and dig around through the guts of the data.

Something similar happened to me as well, though it wasn't 1932 but rather 1908 Taft vs. Bryan. I believe in that scenario Taft sweeped the South and Bryan took out most of New England. The funny thing as well was that people on the 80soft forum believed that it was a great scenario. Silly supposed political geeks that believe that every result in past Presidential Elections was similar to 2004.

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2008 Presidential Election

Conor L. Flynn/Brian D. Schweitzer (D): 372 EV, 56.4% of the PV (72,720,670)
W. Mitt Romney/Michael D. Huckabee (R): 166 EV, 43.6% of the PV (56,299,623)

I inserted myself into the 2008 Enhanced Edition scenario and consequently ran as myself as Democratic Senator Conor Flynn of Maine. I will elaborate on both my bitter campaign against Senator Clinton, likewise with my bitter campaign against former Governor Romney at a later date. The 2008 Enhanced Edition can be found here. Much better than the original 80soft scenario. More realistic all around and added issues such as the Subprime Mortage Crisis, etc.

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He doesn't.  He loses VA, AL, and MS.  He barely won in TN, LA and AR, and it was very close in SC.

But still this is Hubert Humphrey we are talking about Ben. His stance on Civil Rights would have alienated potential supporters of his in the South, thus resulting in the South to overwhelmingly vote for Harry Byrd. That's what I think anyways.

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2004 Presidential Election

Howard B. Dean III/Richard A. Gephardt (D): 377 EV, 53% of the PV (66,711,231)
George W. Bush/Richard B. Cheney (R): 161 EV, 46% of the PV (57,485,393)

Although this would happen to be one of my greatest victories I have ever experienced on President Forever, the Dean/Gephardt campaign, which I ran, was also one of the greatest comeback victories I have also experienced on the noted political simulation.

As per usual, I didn't begin to run any advertisements until the final week and a half of the 2004 campaign, where President Bush was leading comfortably over Governor Dean in both the electoral college and popular vote totals. During that final week of the campaign, I bombarded the electorate with ads praising my leadership during my twelve year tenure as Governor of Vermont, whilst running advertisements disregarding President Bush's leadership as President.

Come the final day of polling, the prediction map looked like the following as seen below, and projected that Howard Dean would defeat incumbent President George W. Bush to become 44th President of the United States with a minimum of 282 Electoral College votes. Alas the rest is history. Shame it never occurred though.

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2004 Presidential Election

Colin L. Powell/Condoleezza Rice (R): 535 EV, 65% of the PV (81,315,174)
Joseph I. Lieberman/John F. Kerry (D): 3 EV, 34% of the PV (42,803,316)

From the beginning of the 2004 campaign until the conclusion of the 2004 campaign, the all black Republican ticket of Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice convincingly led Joe Lieberman and John Kerry in all of the public opinion polls. Despite numerous experts predicting that Lieberman would carry only the state of Illinois and the District of Columbia on Election Day, to the dismay of experts Senator Lieberman only carried DC. Alas, Secretary of State, Colin Luther Powell won the biggest landslide in unrecorded American History with sixty-five percent of the vote.

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1968 Presidential Election

Richard M. Nixon/Spiro T. Agnew (R): 209 EV, 35% of the PV (36,068,720)
Hubert H. Humphrey/Edmund S. Muskie (D): 198 EV, 37% of the PV (37,299,317)
George C. Wallace/Curtis E. LeMay (AI): 131 EV, 27% of the PV (27,210,445)

In my latest campaign I ran as Governor George Wallace in 1968. Keeping with tradition, I did not begin to run any advertisements until the last week of the campaign. Whilst it seemed my advertisements had no effect on the outcome of the election and that Richard Nixon would be narrowly elected 37th President of the United States, I was proven wrong. In typical President Forever fashion my vote drastically increased on Election Day from a measly 9% to 27% upon the final results. Considering the House was dominated by the Democratic Party, Vice President Hubert Humphrey was elected.

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ron paul would never win CA

Whilst this is true, we must remember that this is President Forever we are talking about, and a vast majority of election victories, as seen throughout the 103 pages of this thread are quite implausible. For instant Ron Paul's victory over Hillary Clinton, and George Wallace breaking 70% in Lousiana and only 50% in Alabama.

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Bryan: 67% PV, 421 EV
McKinley: 27% PV, 26 EV
Levering: 3% PV, 0 EV
Palmer: 3% PV, 0 EV

I assume you used the infamous 'ad cheat' which is used by all who play President Forever, thus the large victory for Jennings Bryan in 1896? Anywho, Ben what was the margin in Kentucky? Although I'm not surprised that McKinley lost in a landslide, I'm surprised that of all states he carried Kentucky was one of them.

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1856 Presidential Election

John C. Frémont/William L. Dayton (R): 162 EV, 38% of the PV (5,287,100)
James Buchanan/John C. Breckinridge (D): 111 EV, 39% of the PV (5,345,676)
Millard Fillmore/Andrew Jackson Donelson (KN): 23 EV, 21% of the PV (2,981,658)

In my latest campaign I ran as Republican candidate John C. Frémont. Throughout the campaign I never expected Frémont to have a chance, yet on Election Day I found myself leading narrowly in the Electoral College, whilst trailing Secretary of State Buchanan by nearly eight points in the polls. Thus on Election Day John C. Frémont was elected 15th President of the United States, despite losing the popular vote to Buchanan. To the dismay of myself, Frémont's election as 15th President of the United States was surprisingly helped by the state of South Carolina, a state I never expected to carry running as an anti-Slavery Republican.

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1880 Presidential Election

Winfield S. Hancock/William H. English (D): 264 EV, 52% of the PV (5,415,632)
James A. Garfield/Chester A. Arthur (R): 105 EV, 44% of the PV (4,525,580)
James B. Weaver/Benjamin B. Chambers (G): 0 EV, 3% of the PV (333,754)

This time I ran as General Hancock in the 1880 Presidential Election against Representatives Garfield and Weaver. I used my traditional stategy (no need explaining it) and it propelled the inexperienced Hancock to become 20th President of the United States, despite polls indicating a Garfield victory.

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1972 Presidential Election

Angela Davis/Eldridge Cleaver (Communist): 267 EV, 36% of the PV (37,002,682)
Timothy Leary/R.A Wilson (Freedom): 251 EV, 35% of the (35,856,091)
Abbie Hoffman/Jane Fonda (Revolutionary): 20 EV, 27% of the PV (27,410,467)

I ran as Hoffman, had 18% and 0 EV's going into Election Day. I somehow increased my popular vote totals by 9% and managed to win the states of Oregon, Nevada, North Dakota, South Dakota and Rhode Island. Sadly, Abbie wasn't elected President. Timothy Leary of the Freedom Party became America's first post-revolution President as the election was forced to the House.