There are books out there like Presidents by Carter Smith which show simple election results for each president.  Once 2012 is over, I'd like to see this game evolve into other past election years.  it would take a little work but this game is awesome.  My wife, who thinks politics is boring, learned how campaigning is shaped, the role of electoral college, etc.  Crazy.

I think an improvement is make it an option to select an opponents VP ahead of time...Obama never picks Biden when I play him...not fair?! lol   Must be the gaffs. he he.

For the suggestion above, you would have to change the issues to match the times, and each of the 50 states, population, electoral college, etc.  but...hey...charge more money.

You could have trophies such as - if you do better in an election then the actual president of that time - you earn an award.  Etc 

Just throwing that out there...Don't want 2012 to end!  ANyone else?!