can YOU win an election? take over a President's consciousness and go back in time and win!

I'm on my third attempt with him. switched to Bob Graham.

fuck, still lost Florida.

yeah I can't thread the needle either

My Clinton won 314EVs with the most liberal answer to everything

it frustrates me that it seems to want me to focus on swing states AND just Florida at the same time when visiting states

you have to time your visit to Florida just right to nail the Elian Gonzales question lol

gonna go the opposite direction and see if I can lose with Dubya

This reminds me of a Doonesbury game I had as a kid, minus 8-bit comic strip characters

I lost Florida and Ohio but kept PA/WI/MI, I didn't pay attention to see what my other pickup was to get over the hump.

Aww, won't let me run as Henry Wallace in '48. I bet I could have fucked Truman's shit up.

finally changed a few answers that I'd been accidentally doing the same. let's see if I win. if not I am breaking this fuckin' laptop

same start as always

SAME SHITTY 294-244 RESULT GODDAMMIT

I did it! I made Dubya lose 533 to 5 lol

apparently Dubya coming out in support of massive gun control legislation would've cost him the election - who knew?

how racist didja have to be

I'm convinced Gore isn't winnable. i've answered the questions in just about every net-positive way possible, I've changed up the state visits. even if I visit nobody but FL, I lose.

run Dubya as a liberal and Gore wins. But yeah I don't think there's a way to run as Gore and win, or at least I can't find it

i'm going to run Trump now and see if I can lose in embarrassing fashion.

then I'm eating dinner cos fuck this

Trump-Carson, here we go

hahaha

I ran Dubya as close to the real world as I could, hit the Rust Belt hard, won Florida, still lost. I blame my running mate, Colin Powell.

370-168 Hildawg. gonna do it again, that's way too many EVs for the Trump

Trump-Christie. The Weight Brigade

I just said Bill Clinton fathered a black child

lol campaign manager is losing his mind

just supported Obama

lol CLINTON is up in Texas

it's easy to lose (just do a bunch of things that piss off your base, cuz the other party's voters will never cross over in enough numbers to compensate), it's much harder to win

yeah I get that but I'm not good at this game so clearly that means it sucks and should be destroyed so I'm just smearing shit on the canvas now

457-81. there we go

489-49 Clinton-Trump

Started out even more racist and inflammatory, then just went to Wyoming over and over backtracking on everything

hehe I went to California the entire time.

I just assume I would die of dysentery.

oh yeah, this has been kicking around speculative history forums for a few years. it's this fascinating relic that dated itself immediately to the point where I imagine he really didn't feel like looking at it ever again (he used to have a dev blog, don't know if it's still up, that suggested as much)

btw, I'd want to know who owns and runs www.americanhistoryusa.com before I'd let it identify anything about my politics by my playing a game on it. yes, I'm that paranoid. then again, Cambridge Analytica was big on "test your personality type to see which Star Wars character you are" kinds of data mining.

I noticed the cutoff date that he stopped developing, heh. funny running the Clinton-Trump campaign without knowledge of the horrible 7 months that came after

that's a valid point but I want suits to come to my door cos I have things to tell them about the Church of Latter Day Saints

yeah I had the same question when it came out but the guy who made it has posted some blogs/forum posts/etc (under his real name) stating he is not a MAGA and/or alt-right type, and by all indications he seems to just be some dude whose game got a little out of his control both in terms of pageviews and of the news

I dont see how this gathers any meaningful user data aimless

good. I hope it doesn't.

of course, paranoia by definition is not a reasonable perspective

This reminds me of a game I played in like 1990, it was one of those educational floppies but it involved being in a Presidential election against huckster and career opportunist GRIMSBY SNOOD, whose platform was usually just the opposite of what you last said

Similar format, you answered questions which fed into your performance, though dolphins were allowed to vote on the game which was not really explained.

Being a kid's game, and thinking that all ten year olds are stupid, the major problem you had to solve was noise pollution. People were blasting rock and roll music at boom car volume and it was causing the public pain, and the kicker is the answer wasn't multiple choice, you had to free form type it in.

Anyway once you devised it was "headphones" considering we were in the Walkman Renaissance, suddenly you won the election by a billion votes and it was all so disappointing.

Tried a Gore-Kerry ticket, still lost.

that combo seemed to do no better or worse than any other running mate.

WOW @ that game, Neanderthal. Strong educational floppy vibes

I won with Hillary in 2016 with Bernie's platform.

ahhh then I got creamed in 88 as Dukakis with John Glenn as my running mate. I had a lot of states in play right up until I wouldn't commit to "no new taxes". from then on i could never recover.

alright i'm back in this bitch

can I beat Lincoln? hmm

Lol, I won only 17 electoral college votes as Dukakis with Jesse Jackson as running mate.

Just won as Hillary, with Booker as running mate; brought Sanders out as much as possible while staying moderate/vague on most issues and going negative on Trump.

Also I spent a lot of time in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania.

I got creamed running as Hillary with Warren as my running mate.

Yeah, I did that the first time and lost big.

alright, gonna go fuck up some history again

I keep imagining the 2020 version of this game

"Coronavirus is here! Do you...."

Lost to Cuntrow Wilson by 1 damn EV

fuckin' beat him. all hail President Hughes

Yessss finally
https://i.postimg.cc/7LRQChQj/841943-B9-5-FCB-4460-AAD1-60-A1-D923-D271.jpg
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beat Nixon with Humphrey! fuck yeaaaaahh.

Ha!

https://i.imgur.com/ImAV7lT.jpg

WHAT DID YOU DO

Attacked Bush constantly, went ultra-populist, still no idea how I managed to take Texas though.

was yr running mate Jimmy Dean?

No, Al Gore

this is ridiculous, I keep trying to beat Carter with Ford for shits and giggles and every attempt I've wound up giving Carter more EVs despite improving my answers

gonna blame this on Bob Dole and go back to Connally

came back here to brag about beating Woodrow only to find out I already had two or three other times itt :(

idk why I thougth I hadn't beaten him before.

beat Carter with Gerald Ford! booo

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I was gonna say, the pardon is a nearly insurmountable roadblock.