vcczar Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 The 1876 election is now up. JViking made the map. Feedback desired. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patine Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 Since it's pretty much next, how will you handle 1872? It ended up with the Democratic base supporting the "Liberal Republican" candidate Horace Greeley, but, from what I've read, the Democratic Convention could easily still have nominated their own party's candidate, and many were in favour of it (if not all in favour of the same candidate). That's besides Greeley's death after the actual GE but before the EC met, which could actual probably be safely ignored, however. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vcczar Posted June 18, 2015 Author Share Posted June 18, 2015 @Patine I plan on making 4 parties with one of them OFF. The Republicans, Liberal Republicans and Bourbon Democrats (those that refused to vote for Greeley). However, as an OFF party, I'll have the Democratic Party, if they were able to organize. They'll pretty much have the same numbers as the Liberal Republicans; however, I'll look at the 1868 election to see how the Democrats did there, and make a few adjustments. Some of the Liberal Republicans might be Democratic choices, so those people will have to be turned OFF if you play as the Democrats. I'll also have Republican challengers from most of the states. In reality Grant was unopposed, but I want a what-if dissatisfied Republicans tried to block Grant's nomination by running politicians from about every state to hold the delegates. This would be a good option to use with the Democratic Party set to ON. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jvikings1 Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 I thought that the Bourbon Democrats had a candidate(Charles O'Coner with John Quincy Adams II as his running mate) but they were very weak. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vcczar Posted June 19, 2015 Author Share Posted June 19, 2015 @JViking That's right, they're the third ON party that i mention above. Those are the ones who would not vote for Greeley. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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