Talk Elections

You know the candidates and scenerio.
Polling every two days will be worth a week. PM me for endorsements, and state polling. Be Kind to each other. Go.

Democrats
Bill Richardson-Barnes
Mark Warner-tb75
Tom Daschle-sirnick

Republicans
Mitt Romney-Tmthforu94
Mike Huckabee-True Conservative
Tom Tancredo-feeblepizza

Since I oddly haven't taken him yet, I'll be Mitt Romney. :)

Okay

Kathleen Sebelius

Okay.

It would be good if you could both invite as many pole as u can.

Can i be Donald Trump as an Independent?

no

Why not?

No Independents

Can i be Mark Warner then?

Sebelius wasn't a candidate in 2008.

Anyway, I'll obviously play as Mike Huckabee. I know that my friend tmthforu94 (who is playing as Romney) hates him (very irrationally), so I have no choice but to be his arch-nemesis in this race ;) >:D So, I'll play as Mike.

I know. She was, however, talked about as a possible candidate, and was a serious contender for the VP nomination. So, I think it's all right. ;)

I'm going to go ahead and get this out of the way now, Officepark....

Anything directed by me towards you and your character during this gameplay are not personal. You're still a great friend of mine regardless. :) I just wanted to clear the air because I know this will get ugly. ;)

No, I don't think Sebelius was ever seen as a candidate, even potentially. She was seen as a potential running mate, but that's like letting someone play as Sarah Palin just because she ended up McCain's running mate.

Well, Sebelius was much more well known than Plain pre-2008, but, besides, how about let electoraljew decide?

I'll play as Tom Tancredo!

Warner(was a heavy potential candidate) and Huckabee and Tancredo are good.

Sebelius was a somewhat potential candidate in 2008. You could use her, but I would suggest you pick another person for the sake of pissing alot of people off. You can still use her if there's no one else that you'll play as. It's your deciscion.

I'll wait to open the gameplay thread till tomorrow, because generally most people stop joining once the game has started.

Alright, I'll take Bill Richardson.

Okay.

I shall be Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle

There's no way he'd run

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Democratic_presidential_candidates,_2008

He thought about it!

Why don't you losen up a bit on who can enter the race? I feel like you're trying to make this as realistic as possible which will only end up like how 2008 really did :p

I agree. Just because they're running doesn't mean that they'll win.

Fine

I'm going to open the Gameplay thread now. You can still join, please do.

I have a question - are we doing a virtual Administration as well?

I don't know, never seen anyone get that far.

It would be great, in my opinion

The game's pretty much over, no?

I mean, only 2 people left, and only 1 of them is actually "playing". By this rate, he'll win with 90% of the vote in November.

Pretty much, another somebody wants to sign up third party before August.

Why not just give True Conservative the Democratic slot, since tb75 isn't active? That way this can be the first timeline to actually make it to the election. :P

a third party would be better because Warner is already the nominee.

I'd gladly rejoin as Mike Huckabee and run third-party BUT seeing as tmthforu94 wanted to beat me above all (I was playing as Mike, after all :P), and it was pretty nasty, I'm not sure I wish to redo all of that.

Believe me, I've experienced his ruthlessness myself. Besides, right now Huckabee is the only third party that could start out around 20%.

:P
You should have been able to understand that Mitt Romney is so great he'd automatically defeat Huckabee in any contest. I was only putting you in line.
(In case there is an overreaction by True Conservative where he accuses me of a horrible hack, this was sarcastic)

Go for it. Looking at how this is going, that'll probably still put Warner in third place. As long as he doesn't win (he shouldn't) I'm fine, as I'll still have an advantage since I'll have more party support. Don't expect me to be nice, though, and I'll still attack you in character for running. You could run as Bloomberg, who'd probably do well.

Then, I'm not running. I said I don't want to repeat what has happened in the past, and I won't. Win/lose on your own.

Are we EVER going to get this back on the road? Can we just skip to Convention time, and assume that polling hasn't changed?