I can't figure out how to save screen shots to paste them here, but I will transcribe the results:
I ran on a Democratic ticket - my created candidate with Bill Clinton as running mate against Ulysses Grant and his running mate Dick Cheney. This was in campaign mode on "tough" difficulty. The final vote tally had me with 96,984,000 total votes (compared to 58,448,000 for Grant) and all 538 electoral votes. In terms of exit polling, I dominated every issue on the board. The highest percentage that Grant scored on any of the major issues was a 9% on Homeland Security. The single most important issue was The War on Terror (held by 20% of the electorate), and I was supported on that issue by 95% of the voters.
The point is, I found a pretty easy way to win. Basically, just set up shop in one state. Invest in political capital and try to "purchase" as many webmasters as you can (they lower advertising maintenance costs) and place them all in the same state. If you get enough of them (in this case, I had about 5), when you issue a national television advertisement, you will actually end up MAKING money on the maintenance. It will actually list a negative number as the maintenance cost. Thus, you can just keep making more and more national ads every turn because with every new ad, your money is constantly increasing every turn. Of course, the more national ads you make (I will make one that says I support something universally acceptable like war on terror, environment, etc. and a complementary one that says my opponent opposes the same issue) the more the voters tend to agree with your candidate nationally - you don't even have to visit a single state. Yeah, I know this is pretty cheap, but it makes getting through the "campaign mode" a breeze. Of course, that is until the computer starts employing "fixers" who would pose an huge threat to my cheap gameplan. But, so far they have not.
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but anyways, I did the normal thing and my first game was Kerry v. Bush. I took
