Alternate Electoral Maps

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One of this forum's favourite tools, the Electoral College Calculator (found below) has quite a few possibilities for some fun and good-looking alternate history, especially if one can throw the pictures around for some fun in Paint or GIMP or similar programs. Most of these pictures appear in timelines, but for those that just don't seem to fit anywhere, you can post them here.

http://www.uselectionatlas.org/TOOLS/evcalc.php

My first contribution will be an alternate 2008 election: Clinton/Obama versus McCain/Giuliani.

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Secondly, one that is quite a bit stranger. By all means, try to guess what I've been trying to do here. (Or look at the attachment name)

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Secondly, one that is quite a bit stranger. By all means, try to guess what I've been trying to do here. (Or look at the attachment name)
Messing up the two-party system to generate a situation analogous to that of another country?
 

JoeMulk

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Kennedy/Johnson 288
Goldwater/Miller 250

Much closer election due to no Kennedy martyrdom and backlash following civil rights act filibuster and riots.
 

Thande

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Good thread idea. I don't personally bother with the popular vote shades because it's more information to look up and I think the resulting map looks annoying.

Here are two for Drew's excellent "Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72" timeline. Obviously MAJOR SPOILERS if you haven't read it yet.

1972:
John J. McKeithen/Birch Bayh (Democratic): 266
Richard M. Nixon/Spiro T. Agnew (Republican): 260
George C. Wallace/Lester Maddox (Independent Democratic): 9
George McGovern/Pete McCloskey (Peace): 3

1976:
George C. Wallace/Nicholas Katzenbach (Democratic): 272
Ronald W. Reagan/Charles Percy (Republican): 266

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Messing up the two-party system to generate a situation analogous to that of another country?

More or less, yes.

2012:
Russ Feingold/Howard Dean (D) vs
Rick Santorum/Marco Rubio (R) vs
Michael Bloomberg/Lincoln Chafee (I)

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JoeMulk

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1952
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Stevenson/Sparkmen 370
Taft/Nixon 161

No Korean war and more intense McCarthy hearings allows Stevenson to win by a fairly comfortable margin.
 

Thande

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No Korean war and more intense McCarthy hearings allows Stevenson to win by a fairly comfortable margin.

Really?
After 20 years of the Democrats holding the presidency, with an incumbent Democratic president who has the lowest approval rating since records began (even if he lost the nomination), Americans just vote the Democrats in again? By a landslide? Really?
 

Really?
After 20 years of the Democrats holding the presidency, with an incumbent Democratic president who has the lowest approval rating since records began (even if he lost the nomination), Americans just vote the Democrats in again? By a landslide? Really?

Stevenson is leading an army of Sparkmen who help him take over.
 

JoeMulk

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1960: Johnson/Lodge 263
Humphrey/Fulbright 225
Patterson/Byrd 49

After eight years of the Eisenhower administration Vice-President Nixon was the heavy favorite going into the primaries. However the young and energetic Governor of New Jersey John Fitzgerald Johnson had built up a solid campaign organization and base of support. He was able to pull off upsets in several key primary states and as a Catholic was able to pick up the endorsement of many GOP leaders who felt that he could bring many white ethnic voters into the Republican fold. At the Republican convention Johnson upset Nixon and was nominated on the first ballot.

The Democratic nominee Hubert Humphrey easily managed to make it through the nominating process with only token opposition from regional candidates. The election was highly close, on one hand Johnson ran in defense of the Eisenhower platform but was more hawkish, talking about the need to upset the Soviets in space. He had intense support among younger voters and as expected many solidly Democratic neighborhoods in New York, Boston and Chicago were trending Republican for the first time in history. On the other hand Humphrey attacked him as a royalist, and received solid support from the AFL-CIO which highlighted many of the horrendous union busting policies in the Johnson Hotels and Casinos in Atlantic City. This led to him having the strongest support among blue collar workers in the midwest. Both candidates were ardent champions of civil rights, however Johnson outmanuvered Humphrey running to his left by pointing out that he would not be beholden to the dixiecrats. Many African-Americans welcomed the opportunity to finally have a candidate in the party of Lincoln that they could enthusiastically support.

On election night Johnson narrowly won the popular vote and electoral college. The dixiecrat party had been reformed due to the region's strong hatred of Humphrey and won enough electoral votes to deny Johnson a clear majority in the electoral college. A constitutional crises ensued as balloting in the house began. Both candidates who had previously been champions of civil rights began suddenly playing to the worst of southern bigotries in an attempt to win over there support and swing the election. Ultimately Humphrey became president with no popular mandate which later led to the passage of a constitutional amendment outlawing the electoral college.
 
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Here are a few from a scenario I'm toying with...the POD is actually in 1980 but it only starts to affect American politics in any major way at the 2000 election.

Al Gore/Joe Lieberman (Democratic): 292
George W. Bush/Dick Cheney (Republican): 246

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Thande

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2004:
Al Gore/Joe Lieberman (Democratic): 287
John McCain/Sam Brownback (Republican): 249
Ron Paul/Harry Browne (Libertarian): 2

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