Talk:US Presidential Elections 2024 (Joe'sWorld)

Todd Young is from Indiana, if I'm not mistaken. Do you mean Tom Rooney? And did Tom Rooney get elected in 2018, presumably defeating Bill Nelson/Nelson's Democratic replacement in that year's Senate race?

KingSweden (talk) 20:03, February 24, 2013 (UTC)

Todd Young is from Indiana, if I'm not mistaken. Do you mean Tom Rooney? And did Tom Rooney get elected in 2018, presumably defeating Bill Nelson/Nelson's Democratic replacement in that year's Senate race?

KingSweden (talk) 20:03, February 24, 2013 (UTC)

Exactly. I mixed up the names. Jakeepping (talk) 21:05, February 24, 2013 (UTC)

Wouldn't Castro win his home state in this scenario? If the right and center-right were split between Rooney and Kobach (note that Rooney absolutely is part of the Republican Party's right wing, btw), wouldn't Castro be perfectly positioned to take advantage of that? Unless you think that Arizona eventually goes blue and Virginia keeps moving to swing-state status, the rest of the map is probably spot on. What are your projections for state-by-state electoral vote counts?

Also, Tom Tancredo would be 78 at the time of the election. Kobach might include him, but there must be other conservative options out there, especially since Tancredo would be a nearly octogenarian politician from the Bush era and would have been out of office for over fifteen years.

KingSweden (talk) 21:28, February 24, 2013 (UTC)

Frankly, I wrote the bulk of this page late one night and pretty much pulled most of it out of my ass :).

The general idea was that there'd be a general lack of satisfaction in Castro (on environmental policy, hawkish foreign policy, invasive infringements of civil liberties) leading to substantional cross party votes (Rooney wins "independants"), plus I felt shy about letting Texas go blue again immediately and inviting the electoral landslide that comes with that! But you're right if there was the conservative divide that I propose MOST states would end up going blue.

For the Republicans the idea would be that they would be reforming and being headed by fresh faced Libertarian-type social moderates. I obviously chose the wrong Candidate.

Also I had no idea who to pick as Kobach's running mate so I randomly chose Tancredo, I'm sure there's a young and aspiring young pol out there with enough hate in his veins to hit the big time in ten years

Edit as you see fit. Jakeepping (talk) 21:53, February 24, 2013 (UTC)

I'd probably keep Rooney anyways. He's from Florida, he's not as conservative as Ted Cruz, and Republican higher-ups might want somebody who would keep Kobach's impact minimal by peeling off some righ-leaning voters. And if Rooney picks a moderate like Kinzinger he could sit well with the center.

Kobach could pick.... I'll have to think about that. No surprise, there aren't that many "young" members of the Tea Party Caucus, which is the first place I'd look haha.

KingSweden (talk) 23:23, February 24, 2013 (UTC)