The Census Bureau of Atlasia

[Yelnoc]

The real milestone will be when the number independents surpasses the number of populares; something that isn't too far fetched considering the UDL's recent implosion.

[Yelnoc]

And here's a rough measure of ideology! I'm not taking into account minor parties, independent voters, or intraparty political differences, just combining the percentages of the two leftist parties and the two rightist parties.

Northeast: 48.7% rightist, 35.9% leftist
Mideast: 50.0% rightist, 25.0% leftist
Southeast: 54.2% rightist, 20.9% leftist
Midwest: 69.6% leftist, 13.0% rightist
Pacific: 56.0% leftist, 24% rightist
National: 40.3% leftist, 39.6% rightist

     Interestingly, the partisan difference is bigger in the South than it is in the Pacific.

But yet the South is the most Independent region in Atlasia.

[Yelnoc]

Is there any record of how many Northeast residents there were on October 1, 2007?

If you can find who was the Registrar General at that time and then find that person's census thread, it should be in there.

[Yelnoc]

Ouch

Yeah, falling behind the Independents is never good.

Maybe a merger with the RPP is in order?

[Yelnoc]

A little analysis from your GM to-be.  The is question is how long can the POP and UDL retain major party status?  

The POP is at this point a regional party, with, by my count four elected officials; Vice President Dallas, AL-Senator Shua, NE Governor Ghost_White, and NE Lt. Governor Wormyguy.  The only one of those likely to hold office after their next election is Shua.  Will the RPP completely absorb the right's vote or a will another party emerge out of the woodwork to challenge Yank's Machine the RPP?  Strong feelings will likely prolong the life of this party but, I have a feeling that by Christmas the POP will no longer have major party status.

Then you have the UDL.  On the surface they have more going for them than the POP; a strong presence (but not majority) in two regions and a total voter count five more than the POP.  They still fall two citizens short of the Independent total, a mark which in my mind determines whether a party should be taken seriously.  The UDL also does better than the POP on the elected officials front; AL-Senator Antonio V, Prime Verin Hawkeye59, along with a handful of regional assemblymen give round out the UDL bench.  Remember though, this was a party founded on a whim, with no platform other than opposing the JCP.  A recent exodus of higher-profile members have not helped the party; the replacement chairman BelgianSocialist is running a complete joke campaign against the midwest senator.  The people who founded the UDL seem likely to jump ship as soon as the winds shift; if a centrist/leftist/reformist/otherist party was founded I can't see the UDL holding apart.  Thus, I am think the UDL will lose its place for the POP, maybe by Halloween.

I won't clog up the census bureau with speculations as to what may replace the two, though I do think Atlasia is re-entering interesting times.

[Yelnoc]

To my knowledge, I am not Prime Verin of the Midwest

You are always Prime Verin of the midwest

[Yelnoc]

The POP is at this point a regional party, with, by my count three elected officials; Vice President Dallas, AL-Senator Shua, NE Governor Ghost_White, and NE Lt. Governor Wormyguy.  

interesting count there, are we only 3/4 of a person now?

What, you didn't know?  Libertarians are ubermunschen. 

On another note, why did Firefox bring this up in autocorrect?
Zubeneschamali.

[Yelnoc]

It's been a month and a half-since the last registration update.  When was Hans supposed to be back?

[Yelnoc]

Yup there's five of us.  CID is the abbreviation; we haven't decided on a color yet but maybe purple could work in the interim?

[Yelnoc]

Survey Atlasia would like to voice displeasure over the choice of purple as it is the secondary color for third parties/indies that we use.

It's just a stand in

What do you suggest?

[Yelnoc]

Let's try dark red.

[Yelnoc]

why doesn't anyone want to be purple or orange or blue? we end up just arguing over shades of green and red.

I liked purple but they liked red. *shrug*