prez infinity mafiascum 2016: the general creaks into action

Majiffy · Post Post #300 (ISO) » Sat Feb 25, 2017 9:39 am

Wait I think I've got a meme for this hold on let me just check my back pocket here oh yes here it is

Spoiler:

Kublai Khan · Post Post #301 (ISO) » Sat Feb 25, 2017 10:49 am

How often has it happened that a presidential nominee picked a primary rival as a running mate?

Majiffy · Post Post #302 (ISO) » Sun Feb 26, 2017 10:52 am

Heeeell that's a damn fine question that I don't have an answer to. Certainly not in recent times.

xRECKONERx · Post Post #303 (ISO) » Sun Feb 26, 2017 11:40 am

kerry picked edwards

Majiffy · Post Post #304 (ISO) » Sun Feb 26, 2017 12:24 pm

I actively try to forget about the 2004 election as often as I can.

Drench · Post Post #305 (ISO) » Sun Feb 26, 2017 3:57 pm

well it's 100% happening because i removed all other options lmao

Majiffy · Post Post #306 (ISO) » Sun Feb 26, 2017 4:01 pm

Hawt.

Serduchka/McGriddles 2016 bb

Drench · Post Post #307 (ISO) » Wed Mar 01, 2017 4:56 pm

i don't like doing updates after like midnight est (please ignore that most updates have been around then) but that'll probably happen.....today

Drench · Post Post #308 (ISO) » Thu Mar 02, 2017 4:13 am

March 16th

6 days until March 22nd elections
10 days until March 26th elections
237 days until the Presidential Election

Headlines

The papers are released each day in the morning, and describe what happened the previous day. The first day of the cycle is a Wednesday, and the last a Tuesday, but the first newspapers are Thursday's, and the last Wednesday's.

Wednesday's and Thursday's papers:

Literally splashed across every page is the complete dominance of

Negarir

's election wins (and

Serduchka

too, I guess).

Spire

is hot on Colbert, a few endorsements come in (

Gov. Eddie Calvo, Gov. Jay Nixon, Mayor Muriel Bowser

for

Abbott,

Spire

,

Negarir

, respectively), it is all very nice. That was Wednesday, anyway: Thursday brings more endorsements (

Sen. Mazie Hirono

for

Abbott

,

Governor Lolo Moliga

for

Reckoner

), and the latter blasts

Spire

in Wyoming big time.

Friday:

Negarir

gives such a good speech about how all terrorists are nerds :') and

Spire

just wants to kill 'em with drones instead of soldiers :') anyway. More fun for those two on the cable shows; along with

Abbott

and

Serduchka

, it's all super fun. Even more endorsements down the pipeline:

Sen. Jim Risch

for

Abbott

;

Gov. Doug Ducey

for

Spire

;

Fmr. Gov. Jeb Bush

for

Serduchka

???;

Gov. Kenneth Mapp

for

Negarir

. Fun stuff!

In Review

The news cycle strength is how good or bad your media was for the week, if you had any media at all, and if the cycle was a week long. The ads just tell you who's producing what, and what's being targeted in each. Scandals are self-explanatory. The full picture has basically everything that happened, but unformatted, so you can cry while you read it.

Spoiler: News cycle strength

Spoiler: Ads

Spoiler: The rest

MAPS

Ignore McMullin. Leaders of each state are colour-coded; white states means it's too close to call. The percentage list on the right-hand side is the popular vote; the lines and segments down the bottom are PROJECTED delegates. Earned delegates are located in posts #1 and #2.

No maps. Yeah, we've got:

Next time, on this thing!:

Another withdrawl.

Drench · Post Post #309 (ISO) » Thu Mar 02, 2017 4:22 am

Suspension of Campaign VII

Thursday, March 17th, 2016

Yeah, this was probably coming.

Reckoner

(D) has suspended after a consistent yet underwhelming run.

The races have coalesced into two two-handers, even if the Democratic race had three people left. That's how it felt, at the very least. With

Spire

and

Serduchka

directly opposed, there might have been room for

Reckoner

to squeeze through, and yet March 15th laid that to rest. The races reach their most natural state now: two factions of each party, duking it out.

Reckoner

was a successful candidate, and if luck had been a bit kinder, may have lived to avoid this day altogether. But luck was not on his side. His campaign was one of consistent missed opportunities and lacking results; it was a candidacy that could've been, but wasn't.

Reckoner

managed a heck of a lot of 3rd placed results, a heck of a lot of missed delegates via close calls with the threshold, and an inability to break through the crowd.

While other candidates built momentum, the

Reckoner

campaign never really lifted nor deflated. His candidacy was not one to collect late-deciding voters, nor soar on the wings of vanquished competitors. If it were, he would be a favourite to win; alas, luck did not break his way, and instead, his consistent 20% base must find another home. He was not broke--his campaign had over two million left--but, eventually, reality outweighs everything else.

A contested convention grows more unlikely, but it all depends on where the votes go. A full 900~ delegates will arrive at the convention pledged to someone other than the two leaders--if the margin is small enough, they will decide the Democratic nominee. The only question about that margin now is: will it?

Next time:

we finish up the pre-22nd shit hey

Drench · Post Post #310 (ISO) » Thu Mar 02, 2017 4:38 am

March 18th

4 days until March 22nd elections
8 days until March 26th elections
235 days until the Presidential Election

Headlines

The papers are released each day in the morning, and describe what happened the previous day. The first day of the cycle is a Wednesday, and the last a Tuesday, but the first newspapers are Thursday's, and the last Wednesday's.

Saturday's papers:

Whew okay.

Negarir

, for some fucking reason, lmao, is hitting

Khan

with an attack ad. I mean, you pay for it, you gotta use it, I guess. He also like, does Fallon, so yay.

Spire

is out and about loving gays on multiple shows, while

Abbott

says we should save money by scrapping the Human Rights Commission (this is an auspol joke).

Sunday:

Negarir

HATES Iran. Cool.

Serduchka

is like, all leadery like on On The Record, like?

Dickhead Gov. Pat McCrory

endorses

Negarir

.

Maverick Sen. John McCain

endorses

Abbott

.

Spire

thinks corruption is bad.

Monday:

With a heavy heart, I must announce that "

Negarir

has the Big Mo'!". This means he has a lot of momentum. I like to imagine Wolf Blitzer saying Big Mo'.

Sen. Jeff Flake

is #WithHim (

Abbott

), and everyone's giving good speeches and shit.

Tuesday:

I feel like I start every headlines bit with "

Negarir

did shit", and yet, here he is, doing shit. This time, it's free trade on Maddow, and it's apparently good.

Sen. Richard Burr

is very into

Abbott

and his gun control policy, while

Gov. Gary Herbert

hops onto the

Spire

train.

In Review

The news cycle strength is how good or bad your media was for the week, if you had any media at all, and if the cycle was a week long. The ads just tell you who's producing what, and what's being targeted in each. Scandals are self-explanatory. The full picture has basically everything that happened, but unformatted, so you can cry while you read it.

Spoiler: News cycle strength

Spoiler: Ads

Spoiler: The rest

MAPS

Ignore McMullin. Leaders of each state are colour-coded; white states means it's too close to call. The percentage list on the right-hand side is the popular vote; the lines and segments down the bottom are PROJECTED delegates. Earned delegates are located in posts #1 and #2.

REPUBLICANS

DEMOCRATS

Next time, on this thing!:

elections

xRECKONERx · Post Post #311 (ISO) » Thu Mar 02, 2017 9:00 am

ugh unfollow

Majiffy · Post Post #312 (ISO) » Thu Mar 02, 2017 9:16 am

Hahaaaaaaaa suck it "kingmaker"

Kublai Khan · Post Post #313 (ISO) » Thu Mar 02, 2017 9:32 am

In post 312, Majiffy wrote:Hahaaaaaaaa suck it "kingmaker"

On the GOP side, whoever I don't stab is king.

stab stab stab

Drench · Post Post #314 (ISO) » Fri Mar 03, 2017 1:14 am

AMERICAN SAMOA (

REPUBLICAN

)

anuzzer day, anuzzer election

Nine delegates. No threshold. Proportional shit. It's whatever but it's the smallest so it comes first. This is another one of those weird "one vote = one delegate" contests, don't ask me why.

Spoiler: The American Samoa Republican Caucus; Tuesday, 22nd March, 2016

So, next is Idaho (D), then the twin contests of Utah and Arizona.

Drench · Post Post #315 (ISO) » Fri Mar 03, 2017 1:20 am

IDAHO (

DEMOCRATIC

)

27 delegates. So, that's fun.

Spoiler: The Idaho Democratic Caucus; Tuesday, 22nd March, 2016

arizona's cool let's go there

Drench · Post Post #316 (ISO) » Fri Mar 03, 2017 1:26 am

ARIZONA

don't ari-zone out ha ha because this is 58 republican delegates winner-take-all and 85 democratic delegates in the usual way ha ha so definitely don't zone out ha ha ha

Spoiler: The Arizona Republican Primary; Tuesday, 22nd March, 2016

Spoiler: The Arizona Democratic Primary; Tuesday, 22nd March, 2016

ooh tah to finish

Drench · Post Post #317 (ISO) » Fri Mar 03, 2017 1:35 am

UTAH

the gop was so adorable in this one irl they did it via online voting bless 'em
40 gop dels, 37 dem dels, all

15%

threshold'd, good times

Spoiler: The Utah Republican Caucus; Tuesday, 22nd March, 2016

Spoiler: The Utah Democratic Caucus; Tuesday, 22nd March, 2016

and that was march 22

Spoiler: Progressive Results

Drench · Post Post #318 (ISO) » Fri Mar 03, 2017 2:01 am

March 23rd

3 days until March 26th elections (Washington, Alaska, Hawaii) [Democratic]
9 days until Wisconsin
230 days until the Presidential Election

Headlines

The papers are released each day in the morning, and describe what happened the previous day. The first day of the cycle is a Wednesday, and the last a Tuesday, but the first newspapers are Thursday's, and the last Wednesday's.

Wednesday's papers:

Splashed across the front covers, you could probably have guessed, are the election results.

Serduchka

does better out of it than

Spire

, and

Negarir

obviously dominates. Brussels is pushed down below the fold, while

Negarir

continues to make cash and have the """"""big mo"""""".

Serduchka

, even as she's endorsed by

Sen. Bill Nelson

, makes a gaffe on unionism, which is honestly personally mortifying.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo

, hilariously, goes for

Abbott

(maybe it's the tone?), and this graphic applies to

Negarir

:

Thursday:

whoooo could have belieeeved that candidates would talk about terrorism in speeches after brusselllllllls what a shockkkkkkk. That's

Spire

and

Negarir

doing it, by the way.

Abbott

gets everyone's favourite union-buster

Gov. Scott Walker

while in Wisconsin, and

Spire

goes for

Serduchka

's jugular in Pennsylvania.

Friday:

Look you gotta give it to the AI for trying.

Negarir

's been sitting on this

TSL

ad for days, let him air it, even as he goes on Colbert. The endorsement race gets even more nonsensical and lit, with

Sen. Chuck Schumer

vouching for

Abbott

(maybe it's a New York thing).

Sen. Marco Rubio

is #allin for

Negarir

, and

Gov. Tom Wolf

personally betrays me by endorsing

Spire

.

Serduchka

tries to cover up the lack of endorsements today with a few cute questions on Meet the Press.

Transparency Notice:

At this point, the dummy player slot I use to view all this (good ol' Evan McMullin) locked up the nomination of his party. I have decided to select the Vice President (Mindy Finn, who I frustratingly overlooked when I was neutering my stats to zero) as early as possible to avoid shockwaves closer to the general election. The Vice President is also player-controlled (and will therefore do nothing), and the ticket is not on any ballot bar the District of Columbia, nor will it be on any ballot bar DC, so there should be a tiny effect, if any effect at all. Just letting y'all know.

Saturday:

IT LITERALLY IS A NEW YORK THING

Abbott

completes the set with

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand

.

Serduchka

finally gives a speech on terrorism, and gets

Gov. Jay Inslee

on the day of Washington state's primary. That's basically the news.

In Review

The news cycle strength is how good or bad your media was for the week, if you had any media at all, and if the cycle was a week long. The ads just tell you who's producing what, and what's being targeted in each. Scandals are self-explanatory. The full picture has basically everything that happened, but unformatted, so you can cry while you read it.

Spoiler: News cycle strength

Spoiler: Ads

Spoiler: The rest

MAPS

Ignore McMullin. Leaders of each state are colour-coded; white states means it's too close to call. The percentage list on the right-hand side is the popular vote; the lines and segments down the bottom are PROJECTED delegates. Earned delegates are located in posts #1 and #2.

REPUBLICANS

DEMOCRATS

Next time, on this thing!:

a trio of democratic contests which will definitely have votes involved

Drench · Post Post #319 (ISO) » Fri Mar 03, 2017 2:16 am

ALASKA, HAWAII, WASHINGTON (

DEMOCRATIC

)

ALL IN ONE POST BAYBEY!!!! 20, 35, and 118 delegates respectively. Let's go from smallest to largest.

Spoiler: The Alaska Democratic Caucus; Saturday, 26th March, 2016

Spoiler: The Hawaii Democratic Caucus; Saturday, 26th March, 2016

Spoiler: The Washington Democratic Caucus; Saturday, 26th March, 2016

Spoiler: Progressive Results

Drench · Post Post #320 (ISO) » Fri Mar 03, 2017 2:26 am

hopefully there will be one update post between elections and one election post between updates from now until the acela primaries, which are 30 game days away
so yay we get out of the boggy march contests and into the quick flying april ones, helped by the fact that we don't have to do it in real time because i'm sure we all remember, the wait between like, march 15 and wisconsin was intolerable, let alone to new york

anyway that's it for the mo unless you yell at me on skype and i'm still awake

inspiratieloos · Post Post #321 (ISO) » Fri Mar 03, 2017 5:00 am

In post 318, Drench wrote:and Spire goes for Serduchka's jugular in Pennsylvania.

Dammit Spire, show some party unity.

Drench · Post Post #322 (ISO) » Fri Mar 03, 2017 5:03 am

please stop trying to murder me

seeduchka needs around 58% of the vote from now on to clinch on the first ballot, it will be close

ISO · Post Post #323 (ISO) » Fri Mar 03, 2017 10:15 am

In post 301, Kublai Khan wrote:How often has it happened that a presidential nominee picked a primary rival as a running mate?

How do you define rival? Biden was in the running in 2008 for a hot minute.

Drench · Post Post #324 (ISO) » Sat Mar 04, 2017 6:21 pm

March 27th

5 days until North Dakota (Republican)
226 days until the Presidential Election

hello naughty children its politics time

Headlines

The papers are released each day in the morning, and describe what happened the previous day. The first day of the cycle is a Wednesday, and the last a Tuesday, but the first newspapers are Thursday's, and the last Wednesday's.

Sunday:

Guess what election-related coverage is on the front page. Lots more terrorism-based coverage with

Serduchka

and

Negarir

both drumming up their plans in the press.

Sen. Bob Casey, Jr.

breaks my heart by endorsing

Abbott

, and

Gov. Dan Malloy

breaks for

Spire

.

Monday:

We got a bunch of people (

Serduchka

,

Negarir

) doing talk shows today which is neat. The generic polling is tied.

Negarir

has talked too much about government's role.

Sen. Orrin Hatch

is literally so old he endorsed

Serduchka

the Democrat.

Gov. Jack Dalrymple

, who exists, endorses

Abbott

.

Tuesday:

This is literally the endorsement ticker at this point.

Sen. Heidi Heitkamp

for

Negarir

;

Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin

for

Abbott

.

Negarir

gets a bit of heat for not leading the generic polling, and he/

Serduchka

do more shows. I don't know where the other two are.

Wednesday:

Negarir

makes a mistake on Hardball and gets a little more negativity, although the election headlines more than make up for it.

Spire

is endorsed by

Gov. Larry Hogan

, while a pair of senators go for

Abbott

and

Serduchka

respectively:

Sen. Barbara Mikulski

and

Sen. Mike Lee

.

Thursday's papers:

blah blah blah

Negarir

on Colbert. blah blah blah

Abbott

calls corruption "efficient" in a lmao gaffe. blah blah blah

Gov. Jack Markell

endorses him anyway.

Friday:

Hey guys

Negarir

's Ides of March positive coverage will be gone in a week, get hype.

Serduchka

is cute on Fallon.

Abbott

continues to rake them in, with

Sen. Chris Coons

, while

Serduchka

gets

Sen. Pat Toomey

(???).

In Review

The news cycle strength is how good or bad your media was for the week, if you had any media at all, and if the cycle was a week long. The ads just tell you who's producing what, and what's being targeted in each. Scandals are self-explanatory. The full picture has basically everything that happened, but unformatted, so you can cry while you read it.

Spoiler: News cycle strength

Spoiler: Ads

Spoiler: The rest

MAPS

Ignore McMullin. Leaders of each state are colour-coded; white states means it's too close to call. The percentage list on the right-hand side is the popular vote; the lines and segments down the bottom are PROJECTED delegates. Earned delegates are located in posts #1 and #2.

REPUBLICANS

DEMOCRATS

Next time, on this thing!:

north dakota is a cool state with many people

Candidate	Vote share	# of votes	Delegates won	+/- final polling
Negarir	55.5%	5	5 dels	+19.6%
Abbott	44.4%	4	4 dels	+7.5%
Total		9	9 dels

Candidate	Vote share	# of votes	Delegates won	+/- final polling
Serduchka	55.6%	13,290	15 dels	+16.5%
Spire	44.4%	10,594	12 dels	-0.7%
Total		23,884	27 dels

Candidate	Vote share	# of votes	Delegates won	+/- final polling
Negarir	52.6%	328,377	58 dels	+11.3%
Abbott	47.4%	295,662	0 dels	+9.1%
Total		624,039	58 dels

Candidate	Vote share	# of votes	Delegates won	+/- final polling
Serduchka	60.7%	283,184	52 dels	+18.1%
Spire	39.3%	183,051	33 dels	-2.3%
Total		466,235	85 dels

Candidate	Vote share	# of votes	Delegates won	+/- final polling
Negarir	62.3%	110,374	25 dels	+17.4%
Abbott	37.7%	66,829	15 dels	+8.0%
Total		177,203	40 dels

Candidate	Vote share	# of votes	Delegates won	+/- final polling
Spire	54.0%	42,977	20 dels	+14.8%
Serduchka	46.0%	36,549	17 dels	+9.1%
Total		79,526	37 dels

Candidate	Vote share	# of votes	Delegates won
Negarir	40.0%	8,051,585	710 dels
Abbott	38.7%	7,844,484	601 dels
Khan	6.6%	1,389,345	127 dels
Defender	7.7%	1,625,703	113 dels
TSL	5.9%	1,255,983	77 dels
Mothma	1.1%	242,511	5 dels
Dels left			839 dels
Total		21,210,862	2,472 dels

Candidate	Vote share	# of votes	Delegates won
Serduchka	37.6%	6,012,268	1,079 dels
Spire	22.9%	3,662,194	538 dels
Reckoner	19.6%	3,133,314	385 dels
McGriddles	11.4%	1,824,899	313 dels
Peanuts	8.6%	1,376,113	198 dels
Dels left			2,252 dels
Total		16,008,788	4,765 dels

Candidate	Vote share	# of votes	Delegates won	+/- final polling
Serduchka	56.5%	5,999	11 dels	+13.4%
Spire	43.5%	4,611	9 dels	+4.0%
Total		10,610	20 dels

Candidate	Vote share	# of votes	Delegates won	+/- final polling
Serduchka	54.9%	19,607	19 dels	+12.7%
Spire	45.1%	16,109	16 dels	+3.4%
Total		35,716	35 dels

Candidate	Vote share	# of votes	Delegates won	+/- final polling
Serduchka	63.0%	16,587	74 dels	+17.4%
Spire	37.0%	9,758	44 dels	+0.2%
Total		26,345	118 dels

Candidate	Vote share	# of votes	Delegates won
Serduchka	37.6%	6,054,461	1,183 dels
Spire	23.0%	3,692,672	607 dels
Reckoner	19.5%	3,133,314	385 dels
McGriddles	11.3%	1,824,899	313 dels
Peanuts	8.6%	1,376,113	198 dels
Dels left			2,079 dels
Total		16,081,459	4,765 dels