The Campaign Trail (fun little online game).

[SCRawl]

Maybe try to hand Wallace the win as Nixon.

[Purple]

Maybe try to hand Wallace the win as Nixon.

That's brilliant! I'll go and do that right away.

[Elheru Aran]

Well I tried a Bryan vs. McKinley campaign. I think I won, but the damn thing locked up before it went past 10% results. Oh well.

[The Romulan Republic]

Someone posted a link to this on another forum I post on.

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

I ran as Obama in 2012. I ran a good Left wing campaign. I got crushed.

I find the choices for the questions rather restrictive, but I guess that's inevitable.

Can't decide weather to play as a liberal Romney next for laughs or try again as Obama.

I ran as a brutally honest left wing Obama.
Told Arizona to fuck off, no fence or wall; defended AFA, it would reduce everyone's healthcare costs and pointing out that Romney was out of touch & spent more maintaining a horse than the average hard working American made in a year.

I won 308 to 230, got Florida, Pennsylvania and Virginia, lost Ohio by 0.8%.

How?

I just can't win as Obama.

[Shinn Langley Soryu]

You do know that the site saves all your game results, right?

Obama/Clinton, 272-266-0-0 (victory)
Humphrey/Connally, 310-182-45 (victory)

If the game lets you play as George Wallace in the 1968 campaign, why not let you play as Gary Johnson or Jill Stein in the 2012 campaign, if only for shits and giggles?

[The Romulan Republic]

You managed to win without Ohio, Florida, or Virginia. I'm impressed.

[AniThyng]

If this game http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campa ... game/15474 had came to pass in the real world, I wonder what would have happened...

[The Romulan Republic]

How do you link to a saved game?

Edits: Never mind. I think I figured it out.

Me as McKinley vs Bryan and Palmer:

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campa ... game/16064

I actually lost the popular vote but won by a healthy margin in the electoral college.

[Jub]

I ran a Humphrey/Connally ticket on normal and managed to get a pretty interesting result.

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campa ... game/16063

Wow! No candidate achieved a majority in the electoral college.

For the first time since 1824, the election will be thrown to the House of Representatives. Fortunately for you the Democrats have won a majority of the nation's Congressional delegations.

Unfortunately, you also have to deal with George Wallace. He will not allow the Southern states to support any candidate who advocates desegregation. As a lifelong Civil Rights advocate, this rules you out.

Your best chance, sadly, is to try to broker a deal with Nixon or with other moderate Republicans. The alternative is for you to sit and watch as Wallace and Nixon strike a bargain amongst themselves.

You are the likely winner, but who knows where this all ends?

I lost Ohio by ~16,000 votes, but even that wouldn't have given me the majority; talk about your tight races. Could you imagine if this had been the result broadcast November 5, 1968?

[AniThyng]

Maybe I'm misunderstanding but didn't Nixon have the majority by 2 votes in your results

[Jub]

Maybe I'm misunderstanding but didn't Nixon have the majority by 2 votes in your results

He had 2 more votes, but he didn't have the 268 (269?) votes needed to form a government with over 50% of the electoral college votes. Basically nobody had enough votes to form a government so you'd have to pick your poison in who's votes you're going to go after and what changes to your platform you have to make to secure them.

[Jub]

Double post.

[Purple]

I wonder what would have happened if Wallace had made it historically.

[Civil War Man]

If the game lets you play as George Wallace in the 1968 campaign, why not let you play as Gary Johnson or Jill Stein in the 2012 campaign, if only for shits and giggles?

He was the last third party candidate to win any electoral votes, and had the potential to win enough of them to affect the outcome of the election. Playing as Johnson or Stein would mostly just result in the same electoral map as the actual election since they really didn't have the support to swing any of the states in any meaningful way. There really isn't anything to accomplish playing as them other than "can you build up enough support to swing a state from Obama to Romney or vice versa?" The candidates you can play as in the elections have defined victory conditions. Either win the election outright for most or win enough states to prevent an electoral vote majority for Wallace.

[The Romulan Republic]

You know, I really wish this game had an 1860 and/or 1864 mode. I'd love to play as Lincoln.

For that matter, I'd like to be able to reply 2000 and see if I can best Bush.

[Elheru Aran]

I wonder what would have happened if Wallace had made it historically.

A pile of conservative fucktardness, is what would've happened. As a third-party candidate he never really had a major chance; his strategy was mainly to try and game the system, force an electoral dead-lock which would have to be resolved in the House of Representatives and hopefully garner him enough votes that way to win. Fortunately his backward attitudes towards segregation, vocal disdain of liberal policies and running mate of St. Curtis Lemay pretty much shot his chances to hell given time. He knew how to stir up the rednecks and Southern conservatives, and it's notable that he did manage to carry the Deep South in the election.

Politically he was somewhat of a strange mix-- old-style conservative Southern Democrat, pro segregation and outspoken racist, but supportive of organized labor, and isolationist. He wanted to get the US out of Vietnam and less involved in NATO and such. All told he was one of the last real Southern Democrats of the post-Civil War, pre-Civil Rights era.

[SCRawl]

I've tried this game twice now, and both times it's barfed right at the end. Seems kind of pointless to try again.

[The Romulan Republic]

It works fine for me. I think the biggest problem I've had with it was it freezing when I clicked to see the final results. I found that if I just click okay instead it'll show me the final results anyway and works fine.

[Thanas]

Liberal ideas live.

Nixon: 57
Wallace: 45
Humphrey: 435

I went full out with a defence of liberal ideas (though avoided slagging Eisenhower), pressed Nixon on debate and in general acted like I would in reality.
Humphrey/Kennedy btw.





Also, it is real easy to beat Obama. First try and ended up with a 299 to 239 majority by simply not sounding like a nutjob.

[Purple]

I wonder what would have happened if Wallace had made it historically.

A pile of conservative fucktardness, is what would've happened. As a third-party candidate he never really had a major chance; his strategy was mainly to try and game the system, force an electoral dead-lock which would have to be resolved in the House of Representatives and hopefully garner him enough votes that way to win. Fortunately his backward attitudes towards segregation, vocal disdain of liberal policies and running mate of St. Curtis Lemay pretty much shot his chances to hell given time. He knew how to stir up the rednecks and Southern conservatives, and it's notable that he did manage to carry the Deep South in the election.

Politically he was somewhat of a strange mix-- old-style conservative Southern Democrat, pro segregation and outspoken racist, but supportive of organized labor, and isolationist. He wanted to get the US out of Vietnam and less involved in NATO and such. All told he was one of the last real Southern Democrats of the post-Civil War, pre-Civil Rights era.

Do you think that if he had made it he could have pushed desegregation back or was that a lost battle?

[Elheru Aran]

Do you think that if he had made it he could have pushed desegregation back or was that a lost battle?

While he would probably have made an effort towards that end, I doubt he would have achieved much in the long run given that the Supreme Court was set against it for the most part. He would have absolutely hindered it for a long time though and it's quite possible that race relations would be in a far messier state. Economically, he might have managed to actually improve things if organized labor didn't turn into the second coming of the Mafia or something. Apart from that, he most likely would not have been all that different from how, say, Barry Goldwater or Richard Nixon turned out.

[Purple]

So basically there was no chance of restoring segregation? Thanks. That's what I needed to know.

[The Romulan Republic]

I got no majority in the electoral college while playing as Humphrey with Fred Harris as my running mate.

www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/16939

[Lolpah]

I can't get the game to work. I get to the year selection but then the game won't continue despite me clicking "continue" and when I change the year the description doesn't change.

[The Romulan Republic]

This is embarrassing.

www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/17333

I'm not sure how it happened.