If you own the PM 2008 game, you go into the game files on your hard drive and copy the image files of historical candidates in the game and paste them to your configs in the 2012 game files in your documents. This cuts down on creating the image for each historical candidate.

All you would have to do is custom the stats for each candidate. It works!

Also, it is fairly easy to get their impossibly high points to match up perfectly with their TPM '08 versions by creating a saving a character with their skin in TPM '12, and then editing that saved character with Notepad to alter their stats. See redarrow114's tutorials for a more exacting tutorial on how to do this.