Can I sign up now? But can I get a little run down of how to play? Since the only experience I've had with these are from skimming through the 2012 one.
Yes. Essentially you will pick a candidate to run and every few days I'll post an update with the last polls and events surrounding the campaigns and candidates. During this window you will post a schedule of events for your candidates.
I will probably do one debate prior to the start of the contests.
'Kay, so I can pick someone to play as now? (I'm asking since in the first post you mentioned people can start on Saturday, and it's Friday in the UK)