Draft Picks for Districts 3 & 5

[Colin]

District 5:
John F. Kennedy: a Liberal-Populist (is that right?) and another active senator that will be hard to beat, but will be impossible to beat if there's no one running to challenge him!

John F. Kennedy is a straight Moderate. He leans slightly to the right though but no that much. He is not a Liberal Populist he is a Centrist with a slight rightward lean.

[Colin]

JFK is a Union Party member who doesn't know it yet

You wont be happy until everybody in Atlasia is a Union Party member.

[Colin]

Hello, everyone!  As you may know already, I’m planning to create the CLA (Conservative Libertarian Alliance) to promote more Conservatives and Libertarians for office and to reduce Populist and Liberal representation.  In order to do this, we need good strong candidates, something we don't have in the District 3 or the District 4 senate races. 

Problem is their aren't any Libertarians left. John Dibble is the only one and he is only partially active. badnarikin04, the only major Libertarian their was, has told me that he cannot participate in Fantasy Elections for a little bit. So we don't need a Conservative Libertarian Alliance.

[Colin]

Hello, everyone!  As you may know already, I’m planning to create the CLA (Conservative Libertarian Alliance) to promote more Conservatives and Libertarians for office and to reduce Populist and Liberal representation.  In order to do this, we need good strong candidates, something we don't have in the District 3 or the District 4 senate races. 

Problem is their aren't any Libertarians left. John Dibble is the only one and he is only partially active. badnarikin04, the only major Libertarian their was, has told me that he cannot participate in Fantasy Elections for a little bit. So we don't need a Conservative Libertarian Alliance.

Be quiet, you ingrate, we're endorsing you Maybe you should bring that up after the election!

There are a lot more Conservative-Libertarians out there AFAIK, so I believe the CLA has some purpose.

What's AFAIK? Their aren't many Libertarians on here and most of them are inactive.

[Colin]

Yes and it seems that the other Senator is already Freedom Party.  So much for jumping right into the elections. 
Is there any thread that lists?
(a)All current elected officials
(b)Platforms of all candidates running for offices

In Atlasia Senators are elected at different times. "A" Senators get elected at the same time as the Presidential Election, "B" Senators are elected during the midterms. Also in Atlasia we have preferential voting. This mean that you list the candidates in order of your preference. So here is an example, the candidates are me, you and Alcon just for kicks:

1. ColinW
2. Cosmo Kramer
3. Alcon

This states that you first preference ColinW so your vote goes to him originally. Lets say ColinW gets 3 first preference votes, you get 5 and Alcon gets 7. ColinW would then be eliminated and his votes would go to their second preference. So lets say every ColinW voter Second Preferenced you Preston. That would mean that in the final round you would have 8 votes to Alcon's 7.

[Colin]

Oh, I see.  This is similar to what they use in San Fransisco for the City council elections.

I guess. I don't know much about San Francisco politics.

[Colin]

I read about it in Time Magazine.  They called it Instant Runoff Voting.

Yes IRV can be another name for it. Actually the biggest example of a country using this method is Australia where they have been using it in Elections since the 1920s I think.

[Colin]

I wish the US would use the system and then Al Gore would have become President.

Well it all matters on who Greens Second Preference. They might have hated the Democrats so much that a good number might have preferenced Bush. Also Libertarians, Reform party, and Constitution party members would have definitely second preferenced Bush above Gore so it would even out.

[Colin]

I wish the US would use the system and then Al Gore would have become President.

Well it all matters on who Greens Second Preference. They might have hated the Democrats so much that a good number might have preferenced Bush. Also Libertarians, Reform party, and Constitution party members would have definitely second preferenced Bush above Gore so it would even out.

Nah, there's probably a higher percentage of libertarians would have picked Gore than of Greens would have picked Bush.
Anyways, Nader received about 2.7% of the vote, Reform and Libertarians 0.9%, all others (chiefly Constitution/likely Bush and Natural Law/likely Gore, plus some Socialists, some Write-ins, and some Assorted Nutjobs) 0.2%. Ignoring those 0.2%, you still have to assume fully one third of Nader voters would have voted Bush and no Libertarians and Buchanananites would have picked Gore to break even...and that still leaves Gore with his .5% lead in the popular vote.

Well it didn't happen and its not going to happen so unless you want to take this to the What-If thread I would rather not use up forum space debating something that never happened.

[Colin]

King, since you are a Moderate Conservative-Libertarian (not to mention Atlas Football Commissioner, the “draft picks” title must have attracted you here would you consider running for the District 5 senate race?

Sorry, Cheese. I endorse JFK for another term.

I noticed you have a button on your sig that says to elect you for District 5.  Does that mean you are running, after all?

No JFK dropped out. It nice to make websites and graphs but you need to stay up on the news.