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

https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/

this is done. don't post until you've won. tell us who you were and what election you won.

or don't. I don't give a fuck.

omg

I ran as Ralph Nader in 2000.

I made things much...much worse. Gore got destroyed.

wait no he didn't. he got beat about the same

well I won Hillary's election

(in 2016)

with Cory Booker as my running mate lol

hahaha! now I am trying to win as Michael Dukakis with Gore as running mate.

I wonder if I can make Mitt Romney win by turning him into a socialist

Humphrey-Ted Kennedy just beat Nixon (and Wallace) in 68, 348-145-45

aw fuck they just hit me with Willie Horton

I will certainly NOT do the photo op, thank you

my Romney-Pawlenty ticket lost every state but 4 - just 19 electoral votes

hahahaahhaah

fuck, now California is in play?

I guess me running Dukakis as the arch liberal I am and not to win an election is gonna kill me

lost 293-245. I tried.

hmm Dukakis sounds like a challenge

I'm gonna try it again later. with a better running mate.

but right now, Bryan is going to kick McKinley's bullet-riddled ass

the South is pissed that I defended the rights of blacks

that... didn't go well. Maybe choosing Jesse Jackson as my running mate was being too far ahead of my time.

xps

hahahahahahaha

in the 19th century elections, you can't even pick states to go to, you have to give up weeks at a time to take wagons east or west lol

jesus fuck. third, despite getting 39% of the pop vote

had to say some shitty things, but won with Gore as VP

Congratulations! You have won the 1988 election.

In spite of a hard-fought challenge from George Bush, you have held on to succeed Ronald Reagan.

You were always the favorite to win, but a lot could have gone wrong. On the political front, you can work a Democratic House to overturn the worst excesses of Reagan. Internationally, you can hopefully oversee a period of relaxed tension with the Soviet Union.

heh I'm doing Jesse Jackson as my Veep now and lord right out the gate, the support I got for the same answers was so much more muted.

lost 478-60. jesus.

alright now, Gore with Kerry lol

cannot figure out how to win with Gore :(

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

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

ok somehow I managed to get 0 votes nationally as Nader. idk if that's a bug or I just ran that bad a campaign but

--- Al Gore 349 54,998,168 51.9%
---- George W. Bush 189 50,618,403 47.8%
---- Pat Buchanan 0 277,366 0.3%
---- Ralph Nader 0 0 0.0%

lol apparently people have won as Nader before. i gotta see if selling out will do it

Revenge of the Corvair

I was Dukakis. I ran with John Glenn. I lost worse than Dukakis.

lol apparently people have won as Nader before.

I find this really hard to believe!

There must be a glitch people can exploit cos it def seems to be the buggiest election. Nader kept getting 0 votes yesterday and when i looked at the stats panel the formatting is off.

It said 1% of Nader voters had won and somehow someone achieved all 538 EVs which hasn't happened on like any other election

there's gotta be some cheat

I am determined to win as Dukakis... so far no dice

I finally edged out GHWB by less than 1% to keep 1000 points of light from ever shining.

what was your strategy?

the combo that finally worked was using Gore & going relentlessly negative at nearly every opportunity. I concentrated mainly on visiting Texas, Missouri, Ohio & Michigan. Of the 4 I only won Michigan but that plus the coasts was enough to eke out electoral victory.

Won in 2000 with Gore/Kerry 307-231. Kerry peeled off lefter leaning voters, I went hard on the “hold your nose” vote, CLIMATE CHANGE. Florida was solid blue.

Won in 2016 with Clinton/Warren 338-200. Lots of class politics (lol), getting Obama to help gtvo, and I won fucking Utah and Nevada.

Balls, pressed post before I could finish. Still can’t win with Dukakis but my highest was around 230 EC votes - which I thought was awful until I saw how many he got irl.

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
https://i.postimg.cc/VNvVLn4j/B6126394-EA95-49-A3-8284-C1-EB5-B58-D822.jpg

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.