Second Round of the Presidential Forever Championships

[Gabu]

   President Paul Brunsel (D-IA) [2]   [PBrunsel]

Er, I think that this mistake might make PBrunsel a little mad.

[Gabu]

Maybe you should just swap party establishments each time someone plays against someone else.

[Gabu]

Mississippi but not NH? That sounds like my first post...

I somehow carried Kansas but not West Virginia, which is equally as likely.

[Gabu]

Whew, Indiana >40% Wixted, I know some day I will win my homestate

I won it for you; how's that?

[Gabu]

Game 2:
Jake [14] v. Gabu [2]

Longley started off with a three point lead (and the control of Texas), but Nichols rallied quickly, closing the gap to one point.  As Nichols won the last debate and Longley got hit with a minor scandal, Nichols actually took the lead in the last week and forced Longley to spend precious time keeping California in his column, where Nichols had somehow garnered a three-point lead.

Longley did, indeed win California (by .4%), but the time he spent there certainly cost him Arizona (where he lost by 8000 votes) and Tennessee (loss by 5700 votes).

Jake Nichols (R-PA): 50%, 62,694,382, 273 EV
Lucas Longley (D-WA): 48%, 60,512,982, 265 EV



Well, that was a shock.  Congratulations to Jake on what can only be described as a very lucky victory.

I gotta ask: what is it with Louisiana?

[Gabu]

he won one election 51-45 and still lost!

My record sort of "WHAT THE HELL" result was this one time I won the PV with 54% as Howard Dean but somehow still managed to lose the election.

[Gabu]

Rhode Island proved faithful to the Democrats...but Nevada betrayed the Republicans.

Lucas Longley (D-WA): 50%, 62,286,096, 274 EV
Bono Vox (R-NH): 49%, 61,138,946, 264 EV

All of a sudden I like Nevada a lot more.

[Gabu]

Chris Soult (R-PA): 67,346,979, 54%, 388 EV
John Anderson (D-LA): 56,492,643, 45%, 150 EV

I think that this wins the prize for "weirdest map yet".

[Gabu]

I have only one thing to say about this one:

(snip)

YOU'RE GOING TO CALIFORNIA!  AND OREGON!  AND WASHINGTON!  AND PENNSYLVANIA!  AND MINNESOTA!  AND MICHIGAN!  AND WISCONSIN!  AND NEW JERSEY!  AND MARYLAND!  AND CONNECTICUT!  AND VERMONT!  AND THEN YOU'RE GOING BACK TO WASHINGTON, DC TO TAKE BACK THE WHITE HOUSE!!!

[Gabu]

Tough lose, I have to win the next two to have any chance to advance.

Hey Erc, do you know the best I've done id Idaho and it I've ever come close to winning it?  Might I be the only player to never when their home state against a credible opponent?

You might have cracked 40, once...

But don't feel too bad...Neither me nor AndrewBerger have won NY...
Ilikeverin hasn't won Indiana...
MHS2002 hasn't won DC...

Something tells me I won't win DC anytime soon...

All you gotta do is switch parties.

[Gabu]

Yep.  The game's screwed up.

The main issue with the game that I've seen is that it overestimates how partisan the states are.  For example, taking the South with a Democrat is extremely hard because the game assumes that they'll vote Republican unless given a really good reason not to.  It vastly underestimates the shift that would happen if the Republican is more liberal than the Democrat.  Personally, I think that it should base the original status of the states mostly on the platforms of the candidates, instead of mostly on what party the candidates are in.  Still, it's all we've got and it works pretty well as long as you don't throw something completely unrealistic at it (such as this case in which the Democrat is more conservative than the Republican in 2004).

I think that a very good addition (if anyone from 80 Dimensional Software is reading, ha ha) would be a "partisanship factor" assigned to each state... something you could set to be anywhere between 100 (won't ever, ever, ever vote Republican) to -100 (won't ever, ever, ever vote Democrat), with 0 indicating that a state doesn't give a crap about the party and instead cares solely about the candidates' stances.