Whig Party Convention (2-7 February): Voting on Party Symbols

[ZuWo]

X ZuWo

[ZuWo]

Ballot of the First Whig-Communitarian Party Convention, 2011

Party name

[    ] Communitarian Party of Atlasia
[ X ] Whig Party of Atlasia
[    ] Write-in:

Party color
[ X ] Write-in: Royal Purple

And of course, I think SimFan should become Chair of our party.

[ZuWo]

Whig; thank you.

I believe Napoleon can represent us well. There are battles in that region we simply won't be able to fight- and that is where we disagree. Where we agree, in terms of game reform and advancing the interests of communities there is common ground.

I would support this party endorsing Napoleon.

I first want to hear Jerseyrules and his stances. Napoleon is pretty far away from us politically.

[ZuWo]

Voting on symbols closes tomorrow.

As of today, "Whig" and "Royal Purple" got the most votes.

Shall we now proceed to the endorsements?

[ZuWo]

Alright, I am not chair of the Whig Party but I think it's time to begin the endorsement vote if that's fine with you. I've taken (and slighly adapted) this endorsement format from the IFP.


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2012 Whig Party Convention - Endorsements

For President of Atlasia

[ ] ZuWo/Jbrase
[ ] Polnut/Tmthforu94
[ ] EarlAW/Dr. Cynic
[ ] Duke/Andrew
[ ] Barnes/Windis
[ ] Write-in:

For Governor of the Northeast Region

[ ] Napoleon
[ ] Rowanbrandon
[ ] Jerseyrules

For Emperor of the Imperial Dominion of the South

[ ] PiT

For Northeast Regional Senator

[ ] Simfan34
[ ] Scott

For Midwest Regional Senator

[ ] Marokai Blue

For Mideast Regional Senator

[ ] MOPolitico

For IDS Regional Senator

[ ] NC Yankee

For Pacific Regional Senator

[ ] Sbane

[ZuWo]

2012 Whig Party Convention - Endorsements

For President of Atlasia

[1] ZuWo/Jbrase
[3] Polnut/Tmthforu94
[4] EarlAW/Dr. Cynic
[2] Duke/Andrew
[5] Barnes/Windis
[ ] Write-in:

For Governor of the Northeast Region

[2] Napoleon
[3] Rowanbrandon
[1] Jerseyrules

For Emperor of the Imperial Dominion of the South

[1] PiT

For Northeast Regional Senator

[1] Simfan34
[2] Scott

For Midwest Regional Senator

[1] Marokai Blue

For Mideast Regional Senator

[1] MOPolitico

For IDS Regional Senator

[1] NC Yankee

For Pacific Regional Senator

[2] Sbane
[1] write-in: realisticidealist

[ZuWo]

You raise a valid point, TJ. But MOPolitico, for example, asked explicitly for our endorsement (in this or the other thread of our party).

[ZuWo]

You raise a valid point, TJ. But MOPolitico, for example, asked explicitly for our endorsement (in this or the other thread of our party).

Whoops, I must have missed it. I've edited my ballot then.

For the record, that was here. We were in the midst of a discussion whether we should highlight our opposition to abortion in our platform, so it's no shame to have missed MO's post

I would love an endorsement from the Whig-Communitarian Party, fwiw .

[ZuWo]

bump

More votes are appreciated!

[ZuWo]

I move to give the Andrews an endorsement by proclamation.

You might get many 2nd preferences from the Whigs, that's all we can do in our love to your ticket!

[ZuWo]

Turnout was lousy, but here are the results from the endorsement votes (I guess it's getting time to release the results since the elections are very close):

President:

ZuWo/Jbrase

Northeast Governor:

Jerseyrules

IDS Governor:

PiT

Midwest Regional Senator:

Marokai

Northeast Regional Senator:

Simfan

Mideast Regional Senator:

MOPolitico

IDS Regional Senator:

NCYankee

Pacific Regional Senator:

sbane

[ZuWo]

I just wanted to say thank you to all Whig Party members. The election statistics that SoFE/RG homely compiled shows that 13 of 14 members of our party turned out to vote, and you all gave me and Jbrase your first preference. That's great.
In order to win elections in the future, we need exactly this kind of discipline.

[ZuWo]

The concern is, How do we as conservatives gain influance to shift the minds and hearts of Atlasians without giving up our conservative principals? We stay active and recruit fellow conservatives to join the site. I'm talking to a friend from church IRL about joining. The left has had a firm hold for a long time. If we want the ending of abortion, and an encouragement of true family values along with lower taxes, less regulation, and a strong yet noninterventionist foreign policy we should plan for the long term. Let's go and take our message to the regions. To Zuwo, I encourage that you run again and maybe we can bring our much needed paradigm shift to Atlasia.

Your ideas are good. However, I think that before we talk people we know into joining this forum and this game, we should simply try to contact conservatives on the Atlas forum - people who are already here. While this is a time-consuming effort, it pays out in the long term. Indeed, the current electorate is rather liberal, so one way we can increase our future chances without having to give up our ideals is to recruit more conservatives to the game.

To address your point about me running for President once again: I am honored, but we have many great guys in this party and I'd say I had my turn and next time it's up to someone else.

[ZuWo]

I don't oppose those efforts either. I was brought in by Tmfth on an old RPP drive last year. Would you consider running for governor of the Mideast?

I'm not ruling out anything. The ME Assembly is my core priority right now and I will fully dedicate my energy to my job as Assemblyman in the next time. But yes, I cannot deny that the office of ME Governor has a nice ring to it.