Talk:2016 US Presidential Election (Populist America)

OK, I will explain my changes to the Tea Party and Republican Candidates:

Mitt Romney, at this point, will have become a has-been. You just don't win a nomination a decade after you last held a significant office, after failing to win it twice in a row. If Mitt Romney is going to run on the Republican ticket, it will be in 2012. I replaced him with Jon Huntsman for 3 reasons:

1. Huntsman just left political office, and he is likely to run in 2012 for president. This will make him well-known among Republicans, but still with recent government activity in his past.

2. Huntsman is very moderate, with connections to the Obama administration. This makes him more likely to cause the Tea Party to run a third-party candidate against him.

3. He is actually from the West USA, therefore more likely to win those states out there.

With Romney out of the ticket, this election needed a New Englander to win those states up there, so I selected Scott Brown, a moderate Massachusetts senator.

Next, Liz Cheney has absolutely no connections to the Tea Party. She just does not seem like she would be the one to run on their ticket. Once more, she is not a southernor, unlike the map, which shows her wins being primarily restricted to the south. Rand Paul, on the other hand, is a Tea Party politician, and from one of the states the Tea Party will win on this map.

I added a couple other Republicans to spice up the race for the nomination. My idea was that it would boil down to moderate Huntsman vs. Tea Party Paul, and that when Paul lost, his supporters would convince him to run as an independant.

Since I did not actually change anything other than the losers, who don't effect the scenario above just a couple names being changed, I assumed that this was alright. If not, there is always the undo button. LurkerLordB 22:09, March 16, 2011 (UTC)

These are good explanations. I have no idea why your page was reverted back. I'll put it back to evrything you say here. Jakeepping (talk) 10:24, January 21, 2013 (UTC)jakeepping