An End to Reconstruction? - An 1876 Election Game (Sign-up and OOC Thread)

[Joe Haydn]

I've never played in an election game before, but I'd be willing to take Peter Cooper.

[Joe Haydn]

You have Butler listed as a Republican, but at this point he was actually a Democrat/Greenback. Edit: I could be wrong, as the sources seem to conflict, but my earlier statement is according to Wikipedia. For instance, on his own page he's listed as a Democrat/Greenback from 1874-1893, but on pages for the Congressional delegation and US Representatives from Massachusetts he's listed as a Republican. It probably makes much more sense for him to be a Republican in this game, but the idea of Benjamin Butler running to be the national Democratic nominee for President is hilarious. He would've lost the Solid South 100 years early. Anyway, maybe you could allow Kingpoleon to choose which primary to run in, or you could just keep him as a Republican.

[Joe Haydn]

Alright, Turn II has been posted everyone. Feel free to join if you want to. And question : Once this turn is finished, would it be better if I made the remaining pre-convention turns monthly? Cause I don't want to drag this game out.

Yes, I think that'd be better.

[Joe Haydn]

As a new player who's never done one of these games before, I have several questions about how the game works. I considered PMing you about it, but I thought there might be other players wondering about the same things, so I decided to ask my questions here.

How, exactly, does one go about getting endorsements? Am I supposed to PM you like I'm writing a telegraph to a politician? And once I get an endorsement, do I get to write the endorsement statement and choose a newspaper to print it in, like other posters seem to have done? Also, when you get endorsements can you send out your endorsers to go campaign for you and do things like give speaking tours? Additionally, will there be a Greenback National Convention in the game, or am I just the presumptive nominee? I ask because the Greenback party obviously doesn't have party bosses or anything like that, so I don't know how I'd campaign within the party.