The New Campaign Trail

[BigVic]

Biden 2020 minus GA. AZ was the closest state

[Independents for Nihilism]

In honor of the upcoming release of W.5 Final Mix, decided to take the fight to ol' Chappaquiddick Teddy while invading both Afghanistan and Iraq, and managed a fairly comfortable Electoral College win. Still barely lost the popular vote though, and barely any state voted above 50% for either candidate thanks to a pair of oddly successful third parties each appealing to different demographics (John Anderson and Jesse Ventura). It's a poisoned chalice, of course - if you lose to Ted with two wars going on, apparently Bush roars back in '08 with a vengeance. God help us all - but this universe produces a better version of the movie Vice with Christian Bale so maybe it's worth it.



Bush/Frist - 324 EV - 56,718,355 PV (46.5%)
Kennedy/Barnes - 214 EV - 56,789,712 PV (46.5%)

[ClassicElectionEnthusiast]

Decided to try the 1992 Redux mod playing as Bill Clinton with Bob Graham (who passed away yesterday at the age of 87) as his running mate. I largely played it similar to real life (though Graham did get trounced by Dan Quayle in the Vice-Presidential debate).

The Clinton/Graham ticket ended up winning (California put me over the top), though in the Electoral College it was much closer than real life (Bush won Ohio {in real life, the state that put Clinton over the top} while winning Louisiana by about 2000 votes. Clinton in this scenario won Montana by 297 votes).

[Liminal Trans Girl]

1964 VK as Pro-Civil Rights Kennedy

[ClassicElectionEnthusiast]

Results of when I tried the Gary Hart mod as Hart with Dale Bumpers as my running mate.

While Hart did a lot better than Dukakis in real life, in the end George H.W. Bush still won by a fairly comfortable margin (notably Hart carried Arkansas while narrowly losing his home state of Colorado).

[Pres Mike]

In honor of the upcoming release of W.5 Final Mix, decided to take the fight to ol' Chappaquiddick Teddy while invading both Afghanistan and Iraq, and managed a fairly comfortable Electoral College win. Still barely lost the popular vote though, and barely any state voted above 50% for either candidate thanks to a pair of oddly successful third parties each appealing to different demographics (John Anderson and Jesse Ventura). It's a poisoned chalice, of course - if you lose to Ted with two wars going on, apparently Bush roars back in '08 with a vengeance. God help us all - but this universe produces a better version of the movie Vice with Christian Bale so maybe it's worth it.



Bush/Frist - 324 EV - 56,718,355 PV (46.5%)
Kennedy/Barnes - 214 EV - 56,789,712 PV (46.5%)

There is a version where you control the war?

[Independents for Nihilism]

In honor of the upcoming release of W.5 Final Mix, decided to take the fight to ol' Chappaquiddick Teddy while invading both Afghanistan and Iraq, and managed a fairly comfortable Electoral College win. Still barely lost the popular vote though, and barely any state voted above 50% for either candidate thanks to a pair of oddly successful third parties each appealing to different demographics (John Anderson and Jesse Ventura). It's a poisoned chalice, of course - if you lose to Ted with two wars going on, apparently Bush roars back in '08 with a vengeance. God help us all - but this universe produces a better version of the movie Vice with Christian Bale so maybe it's worth it.






Bush/Frist - 324 EV - 56,718,355 PV (46.5%)
Kennedy/Barnes - 214 EV - 56,789,712 PV (46.5%)

There is a version where you control the war?

Oh yeah. I think it's only on Campaign Trail Showcase, the mod is called 𝚆. The premise is that 9/11 didn't happen, and it has choose-your-own-adventure elements at least on par with the Nixon Peace With Honor mod. It's probably my favourite scenario, and they're adding a sort of Director's Cut with new questions and candidates on Sunday I believe. It's probably my favourite scenario.

[Steve from Lambeth]

W was added to the main New Campaign Trail around Yuletide 2023.

[UWS]

I played the scenario Rubio vs Biden 2016 in the Showcase version as Marco Rubio. I won the election with 317 Electoral Votes, 49.5 % of vote and thirty states]

[TheHegemonist]

My result as Ted Turner in Mouths of the South. I chose John Kerry as my veep, thinking it was the safe pick. I had to do a lot of trial and error here, this mod has a lot of weird side paths you can get if you don't make the right picks. I generally picked more moderate answers and got Jane to stick around. My ending was "Gone With The Wind" which I think is good.

Despite falling under the 5% national vote share, Perot managed to finish ahead of Gingrich in Maine, getting around 30% of the vote there. He was up there, above 10% in a few Western states. Very weird.

Popular Vote Result:
Ted Turner: 50,929,771 (47.9%)
Newt Gingrich: 49,676,514 (46.7%)
Ross Perot: 5,247,781 (4.9%)
Ralph Nader: 430,024 (0.4%)

Closest States

Pennsylvania
Ted Turner: 2,428,084 (48.80%)
Newt Gingrich: 2,393,216 (48.10%)
Ross Perot: 136,719 (2.75%)

Missouri
Ted Turner: 1,137,040 (48.80%)
Newt Gingrich: 1,120,656 (48.10%)
Ross Perot: 64,909 (2.79%)

Arkansas
Ted Turner: 458,093 (48.98%)
Newt Gingrich: 450,973 (48.22%)
Ross Perot: 24,156 (2.58%)

Nevada
Newt Gingrich: 273,159 (46.85%)
Ted Turner: 268,220 (46.00%)
Ross Perot: 39,816 (6.83%)

Tennessee
Newt Gingrich: 1,052,055 (48.99%)
Ted Turner: 1,026,589 (47.81%)
Ross Perot: 61,898 (2.88%)

The election mainly came down to parts of the South and Midwest. Gingrich had an advantage in the South (though I managed to take Arkansas and Georgia), but I got past him in the Midwest other than Ohio.