prez infinity mafiascum 2016: the general creaks into action

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I don't even remember what my candidate was supposed to stand for any more. I feel like a real politician already

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Depends on how volatile the numbers are and what happens when someone drops out, if McGriddles drops and endorses Serduchka for example.

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Reminder I am literally the Anti-Hillary and have zero scandals on me of any kind (I know definitely the Repubs but probably you Dems too) and am by far the richest person in the race. I don't need to do shit. All I need to do is let you degenerates do your degeneracy (both parties) and keep the pressure on for them, outlast you all, and in less than a digital year you'll all be singing along to Taylor at my Inauguration.

Don't forget you're losing your primary, another point of difference.

I'm also scandal free so far btw.

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Spire continues to be perfect and I hate it.

I was wondering, is my candidate constantly going QUIETLY COMPETENT on everyone's asses a matter of just having a different skill allocation than the others or just plain luck?

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What are the polls in New Hampshire saying?

And how accurate are polls in this game anyway? I'm pretty sure that being 40% off would get people fired if it happened irl.

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Atm looks like it'll be Serduchka.

*grumble grumble* 40% polling errors *grumble grumble*

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Spire

, for all his strengths as a candidate, is failing at the one thing that counts: delegates. A state win would've been something to hang his hat on--instead, he just has 72 delegates. Not bad. Not great.

I think the problem is more that I'm ahead in the states that are later on the list. I have average polling of ~20% but only ~10% of the current vote and 3/4 of the states that haven't voted yet are some shade of red.

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And now I'm polling first again despite having the least delegates... This primary is weird.

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Wait... Am I campaigning in Democrats Abroad? How does that even work?

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I think Spire is staying in the race because of the high projected polling/delegates and everyone else is staying because they hope Spire will drop.

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So... I think this was the moment where Spire was supposed to start making inroads on overtaking Serduchka. Doesn't look like that worked too well.

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So Drench, how are the relationships between all the candidates?

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If neither of them drop out, we could still very easily be seeing a contested convention.

bingo. my biggest worry here is that this extremely plausible scenario happens and i get leapfrogged out of the nomination which would suck!!!!

Going by the relationships wouldn't the most likely scenario be Reck kingmaking for Sercuchka at a contested convention unless things go hilariously wrong for you?

Fair enough, that's info I didn't have (what's the game's projected delegate count sitting at now?)
Serduchka is basically hoping for one of her opponents to drop out at this point, which is certainly possible? All down to whatever method the AI uses to decide...

The only Dem who might drop is Reck and projections say he's going to be kingmaker if he stays in, so it depends on whether the AI gives value to that.

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spire might offer the vp slot who knows

What would that depend on?

Irl candidates generally go for a VP who offsets their weak points in skills/policies right?

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and Spire goes for Serduchka's jugular in Pennsylvania.

Dammit Spire, show some party unity.

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I noticed that Serduchka over performs polling by 10-20% everywhere, while Spire tends to be between -5% and +5%, is that just random/lucky or some sort of property of the candidates/game?

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Wouldn't you want a brokered convention for higher VP chances?

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What makes someone win? What makes someone poll big, and then stay there? This campaign is defined by inertia (and upsettingly so: most of the runs I've done on the side have been photo finish contested conventions on at least one side, so we got way unlucky here), but how's one person Get Ahead And Stay Ahead to start with?

So, how many times did you run this and what were the most common results?

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And the GOP?