President Forever and other 270soft games Megathread

Leon Thotsky

Leon Thotsky

"But this pimp is, at the top of Mount Olympus
Ready for the World’s game, this is my Olympics" - Kanye West

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Rosenheim

Rosenheim

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I picked this game up the other day and, after a few practice runs, finally won the Democratic Primary. A certain June 2014 interview never happens and many more Clinton controversies emerge, with a huge one exploding about a month before primary season, blowing the field wide open. O'Malley never enters the race, but Jim Webb, Andrew Cuomo, and Mark Warner jump in and continue on far past their expiration dates. Sanders lasts long into the contest, but eventually he concedes and endorses me against Clinton, helping me win California.

Through blood, sweat, tears, I get a plurality of the delegates and thus, a contested convention. Clinton bitterly refuses to concede and we go through a full vote, with every candidate's delegates but Sanders going to Clinton. Fortunately for me, Sanders had more than enough to put me over. This loyalty is rewarded.

Thus begins the general election campaign in earnest against the Republican's Jeb Bush/Jan Brewer line up (they also had a contested convention, with it going down to Cruz and Bush).

"Pretty Fly for a Schweitz Guy", Schweitzer/Sanders 2016:
Puce Green - Schweitzer victories
Yellow - Clinton Victories
Orange - Sanders Victories
 

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frustrated progressive

frustrated progressive said:
As a little fantasy scenario, I destroyed the party system, and built a new one on its wreckage.
  • The Nationals: Third-positionist, and radically so, except on LGBT issues, where they are merely conservative. I changed their party color to brown (obviously). Used the Republicans as the base party. (It's too bad you can't create an entirely new on, at least as far as I know.)
  • The Liberals: Socially liberal, economically center-right to right-wing. Their party color is a Welshwoman.View attachment 301542 Used the Democrats as the base party.
  • The Conservatives: Rightwing in everything, although not fanatically so. Their party color is gold. McMullinites are the base. I never intended to create them, I only added them in when I realized I couldn't mix and match leaders from the parties to make Kasich Clinton's veep, and that, without a Republican on the Liberal ticket, there might as well be a conservative party.
  • The Socialists: Basically OTL's Greens, just under the Red flag.
I then set all of the leaders' positions to that of their parties. I had planned to party-switch Veeps, as mentioned earlier, but, when that wasn't possible, I chose the most appropriate-seeming ones for each (Booker for the Libs, and Tim Scott for the Nats).
Clinton was leading until the last four days, when Trump, who had probably been sitting tight on it since the beginning of the campaign (at least I never saw a Clinton scandal previous to it), unleashed a scandal with -16 coverage slant, and -15 power. IRL, that's probably equivalent to a bona fide indictment or something. Here's the map.
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In case you can't see it, the Conservatives are the second-place finisher in Utah.
I think it went pretty well, although the inability to veep-switch really hampered the new party system aspect; almost all endorsers stayed with their OTL parties, except for the unions. I'm also worries that the Conservatives (who, despite their low vote share, spent a lot of time successfully attacking Clinton) split the fiscally conservative vote too much. I'd also just like conformation on whether it is, unfortunately, impossible to transfer leaders from one party to another. If it can be done, can someone please explain how?
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Returning to this scenario, are there any default handicaps for third parties which you can turn off in Campaign Editor?
 

Milo

Feel the Chafee 2020

To say 2020 was a straight forward election is understatement. Although not as dramatic as 2016, it did lead to the rise of a very unlikely POTUS, Lincoln Davenport Chafee. Chafee started as a rank outsider in a very contested field (11 Candidates gained delegates of some sort). It is far to say to say that this contested field helped him by dividing the vote among several different candiates and indeed it was only towards the end of cycle that an 'anti Chafee candiate emerged clearly in the form of Kamala Harris and Martin Heinrinch. Chafee only gained 8 million of the 30 million cast in the Democratic Primaries (although he was the candidate with most votes and delegates), so its no surprise that his choice of Harris as VP was a sigh of unity after a somewhat contested convention. Chafee had learned from his disastrous performance four years earlier, he focused on his debate performance and building up a base in big states instead of focusing on the likes of Iowa and New Hampshire (finishing a close 3rd in both).

Trump himself faced several primary challenges and for all the media talk even after Rand Paul's victory in New Hampshire, he easily won renomination ,many Republicans simply wanting to beat Democrats and party leader wanting to hold onto there seats. Polling was grim for Trump and threat of losing Texas is what many people state as the catalyst for his dumping of Mike Pence as VP and being replaced by Rick Perry. If 2016 had been the revolt against the establishment, 2020 was the revolt against Trump and Republicans who allowed him to remain in office. This Liberal revolt swept the country in former Republican strongholds like Georgia and North Carolina. Trump failure to hold onto any of his gain bar Ohio show the his weakening appeal. Chafee was an understated campaigner with a message of hope and competence and a yearning to return to normality struck a chord and his landslide demonstrated his. Trump fate was sealed by the debated where he flopped and even after 4 years of Office he seemed incapable of well being presidential to say the least. Its no wonder that the Chafee/Harris ticket beat the Trump/Perry ticket in the Liberal Revolution of 2020.



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