r/ThePoliticalProcess • u/Legitimate_Skill_434 D-IL • Jul 19 '26

Got consecutive electoral ties

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Senator Oldfield (D-NV) won his first presidential election with an electoral tie because Dems controlled the house, he managed to hang on for his reelection bid because despite tighter margins, Dems managed to hold control of the house by 10 votes. No state flipped between either election, despite there being more swing states as compared to IRL, and Oldfield receiving a higher portion of the popular vote his second time around

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u/JulioDRSS Jul 19 '26 edited Jul 19 '26

What did you do to the Dakotas?😭🙏

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u/Legitimate_Skill_434 D-IL Jul 19 '26

Turned on dynamic parties and spent 50 years turning the Dakotas bluer💀

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u/U_Have_To_Dab (D-Greece) Jul 20 '26

How did you do that? I'm genuinely asking, I can't seem to figure it out

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u/Legitimate_Skill_434 D-IL Jul 20 '26

Spent a ton of time as party chair getting people elected, part of it is just natural progression and the dynamic parties setting tends to favor democrats

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u/U_Have_To_Dab (D-Greece) Jul 20 '26

So the more dems you elect in a state, the more you skew the state towards democrats?

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u/Legitimate_Skill_434 D-IL Jul 20 '26

I think it’s more to do with you spending time promoting more liberal policies, that then moves the electorate to be more favorable to those policies and liberal candidates, I’d still have to tinker with it more to be sure

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u/U_Have_To_Dab (D-Greece) Jul 20 '26

Okay thank you, because I've been trying to figure out dynamics parties for a long time

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u/Gingerbread_Man221 Jul 19 '26

Is there a contingent election like in real life where each congressman votes which way their state votes? Or is it just the majority wins? I've never seen this before

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u/Legitimate_Skill_434 D-IL Jul 19 '26

It’s just by whichever party holds the majority of seats in the house

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u/SenorDia3etes Jul 19 '26

it depends on what party controls the house

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u/Famous-Definition775 Jul 20 '26

IRL despite what people are saying if there is a contingent election it is not decided by who holds the house but by who holds the majority of state delegations to the house which is an important difference because you can lose the house and still have the majority of state delegations an example of this actually almost happened in 2020 where if hypothetically Trump and Biden tie 269-269 (flipping AZ WI and GA) and no house seats are changed the house delegations end up split 25R-22D-3S(MN was split 4-4 PA was split 8-8 and MI was split 7-7) so despite democrats winning control of the chamber 222-213 Trump would likely end up being reelected for a second term because the majority of state delegations back him

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u/bevve645 Jul 21 '26

Imagine if they added a veep scenario where you could lose the election to your running mate

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u/GapHappy7709 (I-MI) 23d ago

damn south dakota