Exactly one ending however has one of Paul's fellow believers managing to bribe the guard to let him out. Getting majority of the popular vote in 1498Florence but with Paolo Vitelli as your running mate will result in the Montone company being invited back to Florence to become the Florentine Army, only for them to quickly overthrow Savonarola and turn Firenze into Italy's first mercenary state. Michael Dukakis is especially good at puzzling observers with everything from his arcane legal interpretations to confusing advertisements. Heavily implied to have happened offscreen in the 1972: Peace With Honor ending where Scoop Jackson wins the presidency, with a sickly Scoop escalating the Cold War while John K. Blatant Lies: There are many, many examples, most prominent amongst them being Nixon strenuously denying that he sunk the Paris peace negotiations.

In 1963 Korea, Park Chung-hee's attempted Military Coup can be foiled very early on, whether by being discovered before the coup can begin, or even walking over a landmine, preventing him from doing near-fatal damage to South Korea's democracy. He could have, at any time, stopped his ruthless attacks on labor and civil rights leaders, or on those kids in Kent State.His death and the subsequent investigation cause an uncomfortable revelation about the toll of public office on high-ranking officials and the poor state of American mental health care. South Korea is about Big Bad and potential Villain Protagonist President Evil Park Chung-hee's journey to taking power over Korea, but his opponent, Yun Posun, uses previous connections Park and his brother had with the Communist party to slander him as an ally of the North Koreans.

They are used throughout the campaign to censor the media, both when playing as Park, and when playing as Yun Posun. He personally opposed segregation and voted yay on multiple civil rights acts, voting against the 1964 Act because he viewed it as giving the Federal Government too much power. Similarly to LBJ, using the bigshot cheat while playing as Barry Goldwater is shown in-universe as Goldwater flying over the Kremlin and dropping an honest-to-god tactical warhead on Leonid Brezhnev. Mitt Romney in both the "Dynast" and "Happy Days" endings of 1972 Romney ends up being elected to the old positions his father served in. Surprisingly Sudden Death: Park Chung-hee can die rather abruptly during his attempted coup in 1963 South Korea, ranging from getting shot in the back after letting his guard down or stepping on a mine during an attempted Zerg Rush.Should Squidward somehow pick him as VP candidate, SpongeBong will make various statements on the campaign trail in support of all drugs to be legalized and will spend majority of the vice presidential debate raving about his favorite drugs and how to find them. Donald Trump himself is said to be enthralled with Patrick's bashing of the elites, and decides to do a few campaign events with him. Despite George Romney losing in a landslide after his Humiliation Conga of a presidency, a young Donald Rumsfeld offers him Utah's open senate seat thanks to most Utahns having a good opinion of the Mormon president. Choosing to attend a civil rights rally with Brooke and other Black Republicans has the feedback note that Kirk is incredibly uncomfortable with attending the event at all.

Tempting Fate: Listening to your advisers as Thomas Dewey and resting on your laurels, on the assumption there's no way Truman can come back unless you hand it to him. The opening description about the election is generic, and both candidates are centrists in their respective parties. Women are selectable as running mates in several scenarios, the earliest example being Clare Boothe Luce as a running mate for Goldwater in 1964d. If picked as running mate, Vitelli and his condottieri will attempt to stage a mutiny against Savonarola once an angry mob is at the gates of San Marco.

Kovic and his Vietnam Veterans Against the War want the war to finally end, and Gus Hall has to make sure that the CPUSA adopts an immediate end to the war as the main campaign plank to ensure Kovic's loyalty. Most involving Self-Imposed Challenges, such as winning in 1988 as Dukakis despite riding the tank and pledging to raise taxes, or winning in 2016 without Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin.

The point of the mod is therefore not to win the presidency, but the goal of the player as James Madison and Thomas Jefferson is instead to win the vice presidency for George Clinton, as he's aligned to their Democratic-Republican faction, while John Adams is associated with Alexander Hamilton's Federalist faction. The over 5% of the popular vote also means that the CPUSA will also get funding from the Federal Government for future presidential elections. Fittingly enough, it's Alexander VI and the Borgias who topple Savonarola's new republic in some of the bad endings instead of the Medicis.W. Bush and even debate moderator Bernard Shaw needle Dukakis with plenty of these, which he is unable to answer satisfactorily.