King of Wessex
Selina Meyer 2020
Playing this wonderful election game (https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/), which only focuses on policy/stratergy decisions rather than other aspects such as advertising in other election games. But one result gave me the idea for an alternate timeline. What if Nixon had run on a pro-Civil rights platform?
The POD was (game was on hard BTW):
. I supported with civil rights activists, called Mrs King and nominated Nelson Rockefeller
. I campaigned some more in New York than normal, and abandoned the whoe 50 states visiting thing. Didn't visit the Sout at all
I'm not trying to brag about a game, but this resulted in a Nixon landslide, despite the fact he won a margin of only 0.4% in the popular vote.
Unforutnately I didn't save, but the result was this:
This got me thinking; what if Nixon had run on a pro-civil rights record? Given his earlier record, it's not entirely out of the question. Would this be realistic? I did another game to make sure it was not a fluke; I think I lost one or two states but the landscape, and crucially NY and PA, remained in the Red and the SOuth firmly in the blue. Could have this happened? What would the shape of the Nixon presidency be?
The POD was (game was on hard BTW):
. I supported with civil rights activists, called Mrs King and nominated Nelson Rockefeller
. I campaigned some more in New York than normal, and abandoned the whoe 50 states visiting thing. Didn't visit the Sout at all
I'm not trying to brag about a game, but this resulted in a Nixon landslide, despite the fact he won a margin of only 0.4% in the popular vote.
Unforutnately I didn't save, but the result was this:
This got me thinking; what if Nixon had run on a pro-civil rights record? Given his earlier record, it's not entirely out of the question. Would this be realistic? I did another game to make sure it was not a fluke; I think I lost one or two states but the landscape, and crucially NY and PA, remained in the Red and the SOuth firmly in the blue. Could have this happened? What would the shape of the Nixon presidency be?