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

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.

I won with Dukakis/Bentsen!

358-180

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

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.