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

I should really not go into US political strategy, judging by this game.

I'm pretty terrible at all pre-2000 stuff that isn't Nixon related mostly cos I essentially ignored politics until I was 20 (2000).

now time to take down Woodrow Wilson's ass

I am generally not doing this strategically rn and just doing what sounds best to me personally, which is apparently not a hit with the electoral college.

that's why I lost so much in the beginning.

beat trump as hillary 332-206. an outcome that could've happened in a less cursed dimension.

DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN, BITCH.

and while losing the Popular vote, lol

Candidate Electoral Votes Popular Votes Popular Vote %
---- Thomas Dewey 289 22,327,002 45.5%
---- Harry Truman 204 23,654,222 48.2%
---- Strom Thurmond 38 1,300,066 2.6%
---- Henry Wallace/Other 0 1,841,688 3.7%

the first one i tried was nixon v kennedy, 1960, as nixon,(and boringly, with henry cabot lodge jr as running mate). kennedy won in a landslide (333 EVs)

i did some really dumb things, though. they asked me if i wanted to debate JFK on tv, and even though i know the sweaty history, i thought it would look weak if i refused to debate him. so i debated anyway (and got my sweaty ass kicked).

there were a bunch of questions about the civil rights movement, and i felt like an asshole trying to thread the needle without offending the south too much. turns out i got my ass kicked in the south anyway, so i should have introduced reparations and steep penalties for anyone living in a state with a confederate flag on it

oh dont' worry, once you lose this stupid game three times, it becomes EASY TO SELL OUT

alright, 17th time's the charm with Gore

godFUCKINGDAMMIT

alright, i have triumphed in 1960 with Nixon, this time with Nelson Rockefeller at my side. turns out the correct strategy was just to say fuck the south. oh, and also saying no to that debate with JFK.

FINALLY WON AS GORE

going all in on Florida was the trick, as well as finally not fucking any answers up.

oh damn...KARL JUST SAVED US FROM AN ASSASSINATION GUYS

Candidate Electoral Votes Popular Votes Popular Vote %
---- Al Gore 313 52,522,586 49.4%
---- George W. Bush 225 50,949,619 47.9%
---- Ralph Nader 0 2,545,205 2.4%
---- Pat Buchanan 0 306,684 0.3%

You have done better than approximately 83.4% of the games that have been played with your candidate and difficulty level.

^doesn't have the decency to humblebrag

Been banging my head against the wall trying to beat obama in 2012. Just managed a close loss at 272/266, damn that’s a hard tightrope to walk.

is there an option to say KENYA KENYA KENYA KENYA KENYA?

Evidence suggests I would have a great deal of difficulty winning any American election.

it's funny, I won a few of these elections and now I don't feel the need to play this anymore.

it's kinda like stopping Mike Tyson's Punchout after beating King Hippo.

Played as Hillary in 2016

Won with 314 on normal mode, 308 on hard mode, and 304 on impossible.

I only went to OH, FL, AZ, TX and GA, just lit them up repeatedly

NC not GA!

lost with obama (but won the popular vote!) after legalizing marijuana, then won with obama after changing vp to hilary

winning with truman is really fun somehow

OK just CRUSHED 2012 Obama by 6m votes & 150EVs by going right down the middle as a squishy-as-fuck moderate, say hello to your first Mormon prez bitches

Last night I almost won as Hilary 2016 on hard by being as racist 'moderate' as possible.

I only went to OH, FL, AZ, TX and GA, just lit them up repeatedly

― anvil, Tuesday, February 11, 2020 1:59 AM (ten hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

screw you, michigan and wisconsin

I, Albert Gore, just got my clock cleaned by W. I had a lot of the map in play until the DUI came up and I went negative.

You let down this once great nation.

screw you, michigan and wisconsin

Didn't visit Wisconsin once (wanted to keep some character traits), might have touched PA once but OH was the toughest cat and I thought if i took that one down the other 3 would get shook and fall in line

lol in my hillary sim i went to michigan and wisconsin first and often

Lol if you intentionally tank as Lincoln, you can get the fun scenario I just did where four candidates get electoral votes and nobody gets a majority

Hell yeah, I trounced Nixon in '68 running a pretty leftward campaign and shit talking Nixon whenever possible.

I wonder if there's any way to win as Nader...

The one time I did it, I got 0 electoral votes lol

I just did it, got zero electoral votes... and Gore won!

Yeah when I tried Nader I got zero electoral votes, like 2% popular vote. Gore did win though.

Got Humphrey to wallop Nixon 362-131 in 68, visits to the south must have made the difference.

I spent a lot of time in Texas in '68

got no electoral majority as humphrey, probably not a great outcome

Candidate Electoral Votes Popular Votes Popular Vote %
---- Richard Nixon 247 31,533,107 43.0%
---- Hubert H. Humphrey 246 32,268,933 44.1%
---- George Wallace 45 9,448,091 12.9%

I leaked that Nixon sabotaged the peace talks, and that put me over the finish line. I felt conflicted about choosing Kennedy as my running mate, but figured that likely changed history to prevent Mary Jo Kopechne's death, so was mollified.

kicked Kennedy's assssss

i'm going to increase the difficulty now

i'm going to decrease the difficulty now

beat McKinley's stank ass

just took down Woodrow "Invalid" Wilson