Survey Atlasia: February At-Large Senate Special Election

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

This poll is for all registered voters and will run for five days.

[Ban my account ffs!]

I might sit this one out.  The pull between party loyalty and personal loyalty leaves me feeling a bit stretched.  Three of those candidates would do well... but I think I would feel bad not voting for 2 of the 3.

[Supersonic]

Goldwater easily, and it would probably be one of my most enthusiastic Atlasian votes.

[Franzl]

1. Fezzy
2. Napoleon
3. Adam
4. Goldwater

[AndrewTX]

Fezzy

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Not Napoleon.

[Napoleon]

Not Napoleon.

Why is it some people can't find anything good to say about their candidate and instead insist on negativity and bitterness? Grow up its been too long.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Not Napoleon.

Why is it some people can't find anything good to say about their candidate and instead insist on negativity and bitterness? Grow up its been too long.

I support AdamGriffin and think he would make a fine Senator.

Better?

[Napoleon]

Yeah, that's about how I would do it if I were you.

[Donerail]

1. Napoleon
2. Goldwater
3. Fezzy

[AndrewTX]

Yeah, that's about how I would do it if I were you.

Fiesty! You get my second preference!

[Napoleon]

Yeah, that's about how I would do it if I were you.

Fiesty! You get my second preference!

[tmthforu94]

Probably something like:
1. Napoleon
2. Goldwater
3. Fezzy

Though I'd be fine with any three of them winning.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

1.  Fezzy
2.  Goldwater
3.  Griffen

[Maxwell]

I'm trying hard to decide between Napolean and Goldwater.

[ZuWo]

Taking into account factors such as the candidates' ideology, record and character I'll vote like this:

1. Goldwater
2. Fezzy
3. Griffin

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

Forgive Snowstalker; he's been on a bit of a trolling spree lately.

Anyhow;

Probably something like:
1. Napoleon
2. Goldwater
3. Fezzy

Though I'd be fine with any three of them winning.

[Maxwell]

Okay...

1. Goldwater
2. Napolean
3. Fezzy

[tmthforu94]

FTR, I think this will be an extremely close election and any of the four candidates could win, IMO.

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

Griffin.

[HagridOfTheDeep]

Goldwater.

One candidate should absolutely be out of contention, and I am honestly so disappointed to see Federalists struggling with this decision. Goldwater is our candidate, and he is a fantastic one. I will have a hard time voting for any Federalist in the future who gets this decision wrong. If I make enemies saying that, I make enemies saying that.

[Ban my account ffs!]

I know this is shooting myself in the foot given the response so far... but I have to defend Napoleon here.

I've worked with him in the senate, and he was always active and while he's an intense guy, there's no  better ally to have on legislation where you find common ground.

I think his former tenure in the senate is a better ground to judge him on than the presidency.  Some people (myself included) are simply better in a legislative atmosphere than an executive one.

So please don't simply discount him.

[Marokai Backbeat]

Forgive Snowstalker; he's been on a bit of a trolling spree lately.

Trolling spree? It's not trolling to say what he's saying. I'm done playing nice about this; Napoleon getting any endorsements, especially from actually good and serious people like yourself, is an outright joke. Only in Atlasia would someone who is still currently President, who has an abominable reputation with obscene approval numbers in a second term that has ranged from "ugh" bad to "let's-just-pretend-he-isn't-President-anymore" bad, who has spent more time trolling the Senate than doing anything else (and is not above even trolling his own party's convention) would then announce with a month left in his term that he is running for Senate, and then out of nowhere get raucous endorsements.

There are moments when people need some time on the sidelines to reform and get back in the swing of things from the ground up after spending far too much time in the business, as it were. This is undeniably one of those times. Napoleon doesn't deserve this, and that people are endorsing him at all is perhaps more a testament to the presently decaying state of the Liberal Party and your lack of ability to find better candidates and the counter-productive attitude of certain posters who value bizarre personal loyalty above doing even a remotely good job.

Are we in an alternate universe or something? A couple months ago, people were despairing at the horrible, awful, terrible, no good, very bad job Napoleon was doing as President and how eager they were to move on. Are you people into self-harm, or something? This is Exhibit A of why we never solve any of Atlasia's problems.

[Donerail]

I shall vote for Napoleon.

He may not go down in history as one of this nation's great Presidents, I may not have voted for him, and I may not always agree with him, but he was a damn good legislator. There are people who are just not temperamentally suited to the Presidency; he may be one of those people. Just because someone isn't the best fit for the Presidency doesn't mean they are disqualified for every office. You wouldn't fire an actor because they're not a great lawyer, and you wouldn't fire a Senator because they're a bad surgeon. It's far better to do as Snowguy suggested: judge him based on his tenure in the Senate, not the Presidency. His Senate service is a far better indication of how he'll serve in the Senate.

[Marokai Backbeat]

When Napoleon was in the Senate, he spent more time obstructing and trolling good proposals, and failing to show up for his own bills, than any other Senator. We amended the motion to tabling procedure just to prevent his continued abuse of it. Napoleon being a good Senator is one of the greatest myths of this game. His tenure as Senator was an appropriate precursor to his time as President; a person who stumbles through the job occasionally doing something good, but mostly just spending time f**king with people.