President of the World Game - Official Thread

[Hatman 🍁]

Ok, I think this idea is popular enough, so I'll begin it,

here are my rules:

Each participant will be managing the campaign of a politician of their choice. The politician has to be alive as of this posting. The politician has to be a real person, and the more famous they are the more recognition points your candidate will get.

You may choose the party the candidate will enter the primaries for. You can enter as many as you want. However, keep in mind the party memberships. 

The parties you can choose from are as follows:

Centrist Democratic Party (Populist, centre right)
Democratic Union (Conservative, right wing)
Socialist Party (Social Democratic)
Liberal Party (Liberal, from left to right liberals)
Green Party (Green)
Communist Party (Communism, Trostkyist, etc)

Your candidate may also run as an independent, but if you choose only this, you can't run in the primaries.

Once enough time has passed, I will hold the primaries. Each candidate will get some money to spend in the mean time. I will give each candidate a starting amount based on how much name recognition they have. You can spend your money by doing different campaigny things in this thread. If you campaign well, you will get more money. Remember, being in more than one primary may dilute your funds!

Primaries will be held, with a different continent each night. Each country will hold a separate primary and will be worth a certain amount of delegates. Each delegate will be worth 1 million people. Larger countries will be divided up if they exceed 30 delegates, I'll make maps later. If a country has less than 500,000 it will share a primary with a neighbouring country until they get over 1 million together.

The winner of each primary will go the general election along with any independents. Those who are not independents will receive bonus money at this point based on their support.

ok, LET THE GAME BEGIN

Please post the following

Name of candidate:
Party(ies):
Other info:

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U.S. Senator first candidate to declare intentions to run for President of the World

With the World Elections Board opening up nominations for President today, it did not take long before the first candidate announced his intentions of running for President. John Thune, a conservative still in his first term as a U.S. Senator filed his nomination papers today. He will run for the nomination of the Centrist Democratic Party, a coalition of moderate conservatives around the world. Thune served as a congressman in the U.S. House of Representatives for six years before being elected to the Senate representing the small state of South Dakota in 2004. Thune is a member of the Republican Party of the U.S., and is considered among the conservative mainstream of the party which is expected to back the more right wing Democratic Union Party.

Thune will be starting out with a campaign war chest of $2 million.

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'Lula' first Socialist candidate to enter race for President

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio "Lula" da Silva has entered the race for President of the World. The 64 year old has been president of Brazil for the last 7 years. Lula has decided to run for the nomination of the Socialist Party, which seems an appropriate fit for his native Workers' Party. It is likely that Lula will have the backing of much of Latin America's moderate left wing. Before his term as president, Lula served as a Federal Duputy from 1986 to 1991. Lula is the second person to declare his intentions for President of the World. U.S. Senator John Thune announced his intentions last night for the Centrist Democrat Party.

Lula will be starting out with a campaign war chest of $80 million.

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Brown enters race for President

Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown became the second candidate for the Socialist nomination for President of the World, today. Brown will be competing against another political heavyweight in Brazilian President, Lula da Silva. Brown served as a Member of Parliament since 1983 and served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1997 to 2007 when he became Prime Minister. He served has Prime Minister from 3 years before losing to Conservative David Cameron earlier this year. Brown is probably the most well known candidate so far in this election, but is marred by his party's downfall in the most recent British elections.

Brown will be starting out with a campaign war chest of $80 million.

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I haven't really got time to play this, but I think that given the current economic crisis, Peter Costello (Member for Higgins, 1990-2009, Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party, 1994-2007, Treasurer of Australia, 1996-2007, Chair of OECD Ministerial, 2000, Chair of APEC Finance Ministers, 2007, Chair of the G20, 2006, a Governor of the World Bank and Asian Development Bank for ~10 years, currently on an Independent Advisory Board to the World Bank).

Fiscally conservative, he delivered twelve consecutive federal budgets, ten of which were surpluses. He paid of over $96 billion in debt inherited when he took office, to leave the government finances in a surplus position. He also re-regulated aspects of the financial services industry in the late 1990s, which has resulted in the larger Australian banks being in a position to increase their market capitalisation during the current financial crisis.

If someone were to play as him, he would be a member of the Democratic Union.

Why not give it a go? I don't think it would take too much of your time.

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Ailing Castro enters race for President

Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro has entered the race to become President of the world. Castro, who served as Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and President from 1976 to 2008 will be running for the Communist Party nomination. Castro resigned due to health reasons, but remains as the First Secretary of the Cuban Communist Party. His brother, Raul is currently President. If Castro became President of the World, it is likely his brother will do day to day operations, and he may do the campaigning too. Castro is 83. Castro is well known around the world, and is loved or reviled. It will be interesting to see Castro fight in his first multi-partisan election, if he wins the Communist nomination. He will surely be backed by Latin America's leftists who adore him.

Castro will be starting out with a campaign war chest of $100 million.

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First Primary announced!

Candidates, the Socialist Party will be holding their first primary on July 22, electing all delegates in the East Asia region. This region includes China, Taiwan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Macau and Tibet.

Attached is the delegate map of the region



Countries exceeding 1/194th (35 million) of the world's population have been divided in an appropriate fashion into a set of delegate provinces. (Canada and Australia will also be divided due to the large land mass of those countries)

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Nazif and Clinton enter race for President

Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif and former U.S. President Bill Clinton announced their intentions to run for President of the World, yesterday. Nazif is the first candidate to run for the conservative Democratic Union Party while Clinton is the first candidate to run for the Liberal Party.

Nazif is the first Arab candidate to declare his intentions. He has been Prime Minister of Egypt for the last six years. He is a member of the socialist National Democratic Party in Egpyh, but has chosen to run for the more conservative IDP.

Meanwhile Clinton, served as President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He respresents the U.S. Democratic Party, and is seen as a moderate liberal, and will be a good fit for his chosen party, the Liberals.

Clinton's war chest is $100,000,000 while Nazif's is $10,000,000

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Polls (with Brown)

Region	Castro	Brown	Clinton	Thune	Nazif	None
East Asia	39	21	19	4	1	16
Europe	10	27	39	10	8	6
Former Soviet Union	23	28	27	3	3	16
Middle East/Maghreb	10	14	25	10	40	1
North America	15	8	47	21	9	0
South American	28	6	39	19	8	0
South Asia	26	25	27	6	13	3
Southeast Asia/Oceania	28	20	23	7	4	18
Sub Saharan Africa	20	26	20	10	9	15
World	24	21	28	10	11	6

(with Lula)

Region	Castro	Lula	Clinton	Thune	Nazif	None
East Asia	40	16	23	4	1	16
Europe	9	17	41	11	9	13
Former Soviet Union	23	27	28	3	3	16
Middle East/Maghreb	10	13	26	10	40	1
North America	15	16	39	20	9	0
South American	18	36	24	15	7	0
South Asia	26	23	29	6	13	3
Southeast Asia/Oceania	29	18	24	7	5	18
Sub Saharan Africa	23	18	24	10	9	15
World	23	20	26	10	12	9

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Socialist Primary Poll numbers

Japan

Brown: 45%
Lula: 10%

North Korea
Brown: 14%
Lula: 4%

South Korea
Brown: 32%
Lula: 15%

Taiwan
Brown: 48%
Lula: 44%

Northern China
Brown: 56%
Lula: 18%

Central China
Brown: 55%
Lula: 16%

South China
Brown: 79%
Lula: 10%

West China
Brown: 30%
Lula: 20%

The good news for Lula is at least he leads in Macau

This poll was conducted by polling the membership of the Social Democratic Party of Japan. Democratic Labour Party of Korea, the New Progressive Party of Korea, Taiwan Farmers' Party, Third Society Party, Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood, Civic Act-up, The Frontier, League of Social Democrats, Association for Democracy and Social Well-Being of Macau, as well as two new organizations created in China and North Korea. (Socialist Party - China, and Socialist Party - North Korea)

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Hi guys, sorry for my absence, I was hoping to see some more interest. I guess I'll continue with this now. Stay tuned for updates.