President Forever results thread...

[YPestis25]

Sanders/Castro 309 EVs 48.8%
Paul/Sandoval 229 EVs 49.8

I can't post the map, as I haven't posted 20 times. But the only states that changed from 2012, were NH, NV, and VA to Paul. I just let this run with the computer, very interesting result.

[YPestis25]

Thanks!

[YPestis25]

So, and I'm probably being an idiot here, but how do you get mods? I can never get the actual game to recognize a mod, even when I put it in the Mod file.

You have to unzip them from their downloaded files, and then put them in the scenarios folder of the game. Also, make sure that they are made for the version of President Forever you're using. Some President Infinity scenarios are under President Forever 2008.

[YPestis25]

Brown-Red: 33.1% 1054 Delegates
Clinton-Blue:  32.8% 1271 Delegates
Kerrey-Grey: 17.3% 630 Delegates
Tsongas-Grey: 16.4% 452 Delegates
Harkin-Dark Green: 0.4% 0 Delegates

I ran as Jerry Brown in the '92 primaries and after winning New Hampshire, Maine, and Nevada early on, I took most of the states in the northeast, the rust belt and the west. Clinton dominated the south, while Kerrey and Tsongas both won a handful of states. Unfortunately, right before the convention, Tsongas endorsed Clinton, giving him the nomination. Kerrey endorsed me the turn after leaving me just 20 delegates short of the nomination.

[YPestis25]

Red-Clinton
Light Red-Clinton Leading at Sanders Drop Out
Green-Sanders
Light Green-Sanders leading at Sanders Drop Out
Grey-Tie at Sanders Drop Out

Has anyone won the nomination as Sanders? After pulling off wins in the first four contests, I opened up a seven point lead on Clinton, however that was dashed after she swept the southern primaries. My leads started to evaporate after that, and after my .4% loss in Wisconsin, I knew it was over. I held on until after the Pennsylvania primary, and then dropped out and endorsed her. I think I'm going to try this with Biden turned off for good, and not just undecided. His supporters breaking random ways the day of the primary really killed me, especially once Clinton got momentum.

[YPestis25]

Presidential Election of 2004

Clark/Edwards 50.9% 62,929,091 Votes 318 Electoral Votes
Bush/Frist 48.2% 59,587,096 Votes 220 Electoral Votes
Nadar/Gonzalez 1.0% 1,217,279 0 Electoral Votes

I played as Clark and started in the primaries. I was able to get a pretty good lead in the primary after Iowa, though they didn't officially wrap up until the convention since Dean wouldn't drop out. The campaign was close throughout, with the final polls only having me up 1.7% and the Electoral Vote split 249 for me and 240 for Bush, with South Carolina, Ohio, and Washington state too close to call. On election night the biggest surprises were South Carolina and Arkansas, which was leaning Bush. I carried them by 6 and 7 points respectively. Overall super fun game, and my first win on the new President Infinity, though I have played President Forever quite a bit. I will say they could work on the wild swings, Iowa and New Hampshire I guess swung crazily to the Democrats because of our competitive primary, and never left, which they should address. Here's a county map too since I have far too much time on my hands.

[YPestis25]

2016 Democratic Primaries

Bernie Sanders 51.0% 15,711,511 Votes 2441 Delegates
Hillary Clinton 41.3% 12,717,490 Votes 2080 Delegates
Martin O'Malley 7.7% 2,387,621 Votes 244 Delegates

The popular vote spread belies the closeness of the race throughout, as I didn't take the lead in the national polls until after the Acela primaries. There were a few times where I thought that Hillary had it, particularly after she took Nevada. I only took South Carolina by 7 over O'Malley, but that let me go into Super Tuesday with momentum. As you can see I severely under performed on the Great Plains compared to irl, but I made up for it in the South and Midwest. I thought the Democrats were going to have a contested convention until the June 6th primaries, when I took California with over 70% and broke past the delegate majority mark. I picked Klobuchar as my running mate. The Republican primary was a mess as usual and they had something like 11 rounds of voting at their convention with the final ticket being Cruz/Bachmann. The other tickets were Johnson/Ventura and Stein/Baraka. I'll post the general election map and summary once it wraps up.

[YPestis25]

2016 Presidential Election

Bernie Sanders/Amy Klobuchar 52.1% 76,513,281 Votes 368 Electoral Votes
Ted Cruz/Michele Bachmann 44.3% 65,075,946 Votes 170 Electoral Votes
Gary Johnson/Jesse Ventura 2.5% 3,692,121 Votes 0 Electoral Votes
Jill Stein/Ajamu Baraka 1.0% 1,520,329 Votes 0 Electoral Votes

Much like the primaries this race was close right to the end when I pulled away. For the first few weeks of the general election, Cruz and I traded narrow leads back and forth, though by the last week I had a nearly four point lead in the polls. I had quite a bit of cash left at the end, so I was able to ad blitz most of the competitive states, plus the Upper Plains. The ad blitz was likely the main reason I over-performed the polls on Election Day. I won all the debates, and even nabbed a few typically Republican endorsements like the NRA which helped quite a bit. As a plus, I'm happy with the ascetically pleasing map.