Second Round of the Presidential Forever Championships

[jokerman]

I did nearly second best among Democrats -not bad.

[jokerman]

Right now in the electoral college you could technically win an election with only 11 votes in the popular vote by winning the 11 most populous states and the 1 vote in each state being the only vote.

[jokerman]

The only reason conservative/populist Democrats aren't winning is because this game is screwed up into some kind of blue state/red state polarized non-sense and it underestimates the chances of one of those type Democrats in the south.

[jokerman]

The only reason conservative/populist Democrats aren't winning is because this game is screwed up into some kind of blue state/red state polarized non-sense and it underestimates the chances of one of those type Democrats in the south.

It could also be that states like Oregon, Washington, Vermont, and Minnesota would vote for a moderate libertarian like myself instead of someone they find more conservative on social issues, even though I think that me and Sam are pretty close socially. How was I able to win most of the south? I have no idea.   

Yeah, I'd agree with that too.

[jokerman]

The only reason conservative/populist Democrats aren't winning is because this game is screwed up into some kind of blue state/red state polarized non-sense and it underestimates the chances of one of those type Democrats in the south.

It could also be that states like Oregon, Washington, Vermont, and Minnesota would vote for a moderate libertarian like myself instead of someone they find more conservative on social issues, even though I think that me and Sam are pretty close socially. How was I able to win most of the south? I have no idea.   

Yeah, I'd agree with that too.

The South probably has to do with the fact that partisan Republicans voted Republican and some of the social liberals in the South, I guess there are a few, probably voted me over Sam. That would probably give me enough to win in those Southern states.

There are still a lot of conservative registered Democrats in these states, as well as a lot of Republicans who remember their roots as Democrats and would revert back.

[jokerman]

The only reason conservative/populist Democrats aren't winning is because this game is screwed up into some kind of blue state/red state polarized non-sense and it underestimates the chances of one of those type Democrats in the south.

It could also be that states like Oregon, Washington, Vermont, and Minnesota would vote for a moderate libertarian like myself instead of someone they find more conservative on social issues, even though I think that me and Sam are pretty close socially. How was I able to win most of the south? I have no idea.   

Yeah, I'd agree with that too.

The South probably has to do with the fact that partisan Republicans voted Republican and some of the social liberals in the South, I guess there are a few, probably voted me over Sam. That would probably give me enough to win in those Southern states.

There's still very little that explains my continual losses in my home state of Louisiana, which is not really that Republican, statewide it leans Democrat, as well as most of the upper South like Arkansas, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and possibly Missouri and Kentucky.

Southern Democrats like Bill Clinton who basically ran an agenda very similar to mine fared very well in these areas and I think the game should take this into account.

I understand that I would have trouble in Oregon, Washington, Vermont, and Minnesota potentially.  But without the danger that I should pose in the upper South, it's no wonder that my average was right at 240 EV.

Yep.  The game's screwed up.