prez infinity mafiascum 2016: the general creaks into action

Maestro · Post Post #125 (ISO) » Sun Jan 22, 2017 6:19 pm

I've been following this with interest. :3
Anybody got Sanders yet?

ForWhomTheJellyRolls · Post Post #126 (ISO) » Sun Jan 22, 2017 6:22 pm

Hell yeah! I got Sanders. To be fair I think I based at least some of my character (Peanuts) off of him.

Maestro · Post Post #127 (ISO) » Sun Jan 22, 2017 6:23 pm

I just did a very easy super-awesome thread search and saw. Sorry! Back to lurking now.

N · Post Post #128 (ISO) » Sun Jan 22, 2017 7:12 pm

N · Post Post #129 (ISO) » Sun Jan 22, 2017 7:12 pm

oh god that's even creepier without context

Vijarada · Post Post #130 (ISO) » Sun Jan 22, 2017 8:56 pm

i think the context makes it far creepier, myself (that's him winking at someone who said they were a sex worker, right?). but i'm not sure he's actually a human.

Majiffy · Post Post #131 (ISO) » Mon Jan 23, 2017 8:41 am

In post 129, N wrote:oh god that's even creepier without context

Yes. Yes it is.

Drench · Post Post #132 (ISO) » Sun Jan 29, 2017 8:31 pm

Events up to February 6th

3 days until New Hampshire
14 days until South Carolina (Republican) and Nevada (Democratic)
276 days until the Presidential Election

doing updates day-by-day makes me want to die so have like....idk 4 days at a time let's see how this goes

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:

Abbott

and

Serduchka

are...not spinning their wins????? Like okay guys whatever. It's literally gonna be top of the paper news for at least the next week though so maybe it doesn't matter.

Serduchka

, at least, is doing Meet the Press and nailing the War on Terror stuff and it's all good, while

TSL

tries to do an attack ad on military intervention cheering just bombing the shit out of places that don't exist. Good stuff.

McGriddles

is negative as shit,

Negarir

is on Fallon, and

Mothma

still exists, also on Meet the Press. And

Abbott

gets

Gov. Mary Fallin

.

Thursday:

TSL

tees up a contro ad against

Negarir

, while

Mothma's

own backfires.

Sen. Joni Ernst

leaps for

Abbott

, and

Sen. Tim Kaine

is America's Dad, but more importantly,

McGriddles'

surrogate.

Reckoner

loves Social Security, the commie. And

Spire

gets a lil bit of heat from

Serduchka

.

THE FIFTH

DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY

DEBATE

A boring affair. Honestly, literally, just boring.

McGriddles

boasted, and it worked, but he was still just okay.

Peanuts

boasted, and it worked, but he was still just alright.

Serduchka

boasted, and it worked, and her preparation shone through, but she was just good. The only real excitement was

Spire

pulling out the #receipts on

Reckoner

by reading his GP2 posts out loud, but this is 2016, we're adults, it made him seem more human, whatever. And, sure enough, this debate was fought to a draw between the two, with

Spire's

energy making up for an inability to really settle in, and

Reckoner's

good luck in getting some easy questions his way.

1. Reckoner (8 points)
1. Spire (8 points)
3. Serduchka (6 points)
4. Peanuts (5 points)
5. McGriddles (3 points)

Friday:

Spire

has so much money yeah boy awesome job yep.

Reckoner

and

Peanuts

are doing well on the pundit shows, while all of that pushes the lackluster debate to like, the bottom of page two, so yikes. And we have even more endorsements, to the point that they're just going in the week in review now.

Saturday:

Would you believe that the Iowa caucuses are still top news? Yeah, incredible stuff.

Reckoner

continues to work behind the scenes, doing real well in a policy speech on terror.

TSL

does some good work on Fox News Sunday (which is also tomorrow), but also is being really negative.

Khan

tells a really good joke on Fallon about tax rates, which, lmfao, and

Spire

, despite his massive collapse in Iowa, is still a really good candidate, and does blisteringly well on Meet the Press.

Week in Review

The news cycle strength is how good or bad your media was for the week, if you had any media at all. 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.

News strength doesn't work great when it's a bunch of days bigger than one and less than seven so just hold your horses.

Spoiler: Ads

Spoiler: Scandals

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. After each election, updated ALLOCATED delegate counts will be provided.

REPUBLICANS

DEMOCRATS

Next time, on this thing!:

A Republican debate, and New Hampshire.

xRECKONERx · Post Post #133 (ISO) » Mon Jan 30, 2017 8:16 am

HOW ARE MY CHANCES GOING DOWN

Papa Zito · Post Post #134 (ISO) » Mon Jan 30, 2017 8:24 am

In post 133, xRECKONERx wrote:HOW ARE MY CHANCES GOING DOWN

low energy

xRECKONERx · Post Post #135 (ISO) » Mon Jan 30, 2017 10:38 am

Majiffy · Post Post #136 (ISO) » Mon Jan 30, 2017 12:16 pm

I'm just not getting enough bang for my buck these days

I guess money really can't buy happiness. Or maybe I should quit politics and buy hookers and blow.

inspiratieloos · Post Post #137 (ISO) » Mon Jan 30, 2017 11:41 pm

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.

Drench · Post Post #138 (ISO) » Tue Jan 31, 2017 1:05 am

In post 137, inspiratieloos wrote: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.

fog of war exists so you need to expect a few points margin of error on everything
and i mean......it was a massive upset in dem!iowa but serduchka was steadily climbing there the last few days, and you can't stop the undecideds just heading en masse to one candidate
it's 2008 all over again if reck were hillary and i were obama

Drench · Post Post #139 (ISO) » Tue Jan 31, 2017 1:32 am

Events up to New Hampshire

3 days until New Hampshire
14 days until South Carolina (Republican) and Nevada (Democratic)
276 days until the Presidential Election

THE SIXTH

REPUBLICAN PRIMARY

DEBATE

Wew lads!

Defender

literally gets owned by

Negarir

--like, Twitter-levels of own, like Rubio pre-NH levels of own--and boy does it literally make him the loser in this. He loses so much that

Abbott

and

TSL

, for once, aren't last!!! But they're still pretty shit, and they both give

Negarir

more ammo to play with.

Mothma

and

Khan

are both pretty good, but there really is no beating

Negarir

, whose prep, charisma and energy all combined with some own goals from others. A performance that, while not totally dominant, was at least clearly better.

1. Negarir (9 points)
2. Mothma (6 points)
2. Khan (6 points)
4. TSL (3 points)
5. Abbott (1 point)
6. Defender (-2 points)

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's papers:

Iowa is still massively in the news, but

Negarir's

victory in the debate is the next best thing.

Spire

is on the receiving end of a

Serduchka

attack ad, but who knows whether it'll work?

Reckoner

cries while doing karaoke for the victims of terror and it's a hit.

McGriddles

calls for all abortions to be performed by the woman's partner, which is kinda fucked up and not well received.

Peanuts

loves to give money to poor people, and

Defender

finds his gaffe right down the bottom of the page, next to coverage of

Khan's

Fallon turn.

Monday:

BRONCOS WIN THE SUPER BOWL anyway.

Peanuts

is something else on Fallon, in a good way, and

Negarir

finds his win spun away by, of all people,

Abbott

. That anti-

Spire

ad finds purchase, and while

Serduchka

campaigns to Save Medicare in Nevada,

TSL

is doing a little bit of saving of her own on FNS. Don't know what I mean by that but whatever, it's good for her.

Tuesday:

Iowa is still on top.

Serduchka

recites the fucking capitals or something and it works on Fallon.

Defender

and

Khan

are also doing good things in re the whole knowing things about the presidency on FNS and O'Reilly, respectively, while

Reckoner

is actually campaigning, in New Hampshire.

Spire

is still the national leader in Democratic vote share, and now that the Democrats and Republicans are even, that's not reflecting well on him. Protesters do shit at p

Abbott

and

Serduchka

events; it's probably a they-won-Iowa thing even though the game says it's about gun control and unions, respectively. Which is very on-message. That's the ball game before New Hampshire--but this is just what's breaking through. New Hampshire loves its retail politics, and who knows how that'll impact the final vote.

The Week That Was

Week in Review

The news cycle strength is how good or bad your media was for the week, if you had any media at all. 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: Ads

Spoiler: Scandals

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. Once delegates start being earned, that will be added separately.

REPUBLICANS

DEMOCRATS

Next time, on this thing!:

NEW HAMPSHIIIIIIRE

Drench · Post Post #140 (ISO) » Tue Jan 31, 2017 2:07 am

NEW HAMPSHIRE

Polling began in two communities at midnight, and owing to state law, was closed a few minutes after, once the votes of all registered electors had been received. Dixville Notch and Hart's Location have been doing this a while and it means nothing, so you won't get their results. Voting for the rest of the state began at varying times in the morning, and closed at 7pm sharp.

The Republican primary allocates delegates proportionally, with a threshold of

10%

. The Democratic primary, as with all caucuses and primaries in the Democratic contest, has a threshold of

15%

to earn delegates.

After Iowa, this race has been solidified in one corner, and upended in the other. So, let's start with the expected result from Iowa: the Republicans.

Spoiler: The Iowa Republican Caucus; Monday, 1st February, 2016

The Democrats had a tight race--it could truly go to anyone. Especially when over 3 in 10 voters are undecided heading to the caucus, if they vote at all.

Spoiler: The Iowa Democratic Caucus; Monday, 1st February, 2016

Spoiler: Progressive Results

xRECKONERx · Post Post #141 (ISO) » Tue Jan 31, 2017 3:38 am

mother fucker im done

Drench · Post Post #142 (ISO) » Tue Jan 31, 2017 3:47 am

why do you suck so much lmao

Kublai Khan · Post Post #143 (ISO) » Tue Jan 31, 2017 4:00 am

Reck is Lessig.

N · Post Post #144 (ISO) » Tue Jan 31, 2017 12:56 pm

xRECKONERx · Post Post #145 (ISO) » Tue Jan 31, 2017 1:29 pm

Reck is Dean circa 2008

polling strong, underperforms

Majiffy · Post Post #146 (ISO) » Tue Jan 31, 2017 2:28 pm

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Aronis · Post Post #147 (ISO) » Tue Jan 31, 2017 3:16 pm

In post 140, Drench wrote:In sixth place, with 19,073 votes and 6.7% of the vote,
Mothma
. She fails to meet the delegate threshold, and overperforms final polling by 0.3%.

Can I choose to drop out and endorse someone?

Drench · Post Post #148 (ISO) » Tue Jan 31, 2017 4:20 pm

In post 147, Aronis wrote:
In post 140, Drench wrote:In sixth place, with 19,073 votes and 6.7% of the vote,
Mothma
. She fails to meet the delegate threshold, and overperforms final polling by 0.3%.
Can I choose to drop out and endorse someone?

it's out of my hands; if your candidate decides the pain is too much to bear, she'll drop

ISO · Post Post #149 (ISO) » Wed Feb 01, 2017 8:40 am

The Sun sets for the chances of some but always remember that for the TSL campaign, it is always Dawn.

Candidate	Vote share	# of votes	Delegates won	+/- final polling
Abbott	27.1%	77,437	7 dels	-4.2%
TSL	21.8%	62,221	5 dels	+2.5%
Khan	21.5%	61,331	5 dels	+9.3%
Defender	11.6%	33,285	3 dels	-2.7%
Negarir	11.4%	32,569	3 dels	+4.8%
Mothma	6.7%	19,073	0 dels	+0.3%
Total		285,916	23 dels

Candidate	Vote share	# of votes	Delegates won	+/- final polling
Serduchka	36.0%	91,148	14 dels	+1.3%
McGriddles	26.6%	67,326	11 dels	+1.7%
Peanuts	17.5%	44,365	7 dels	+1.0%
Reckoner	10.3%	25,991	0 dels	-2.8%
Spire	9.6%	24,232	0 dels	+0.6%
Total		253,062	32 dels

Candidate	Vote share	# of votes	Delegates won
Abbott	32.3%	152,551	19 dels
TSL	18.7%	88,465	9 dels
Khan	16.5%	78,240	8 dels
Negarir	12.2%	57,823	7 dels
Mothma	10.5%	49,446	5 dels
Defender	9.8%	46,323	5 dels
Dels left			2,419 dels
Total		472,848	2,472 dels

Candidate	Vote share	# of votes	Delegates won
Serduchka	46.2%	195,983	65 dels
McGriddles	19.7%	83,744	11 dels
Peanuts	15.2%	64,433	7 dels
Spire	10.1%	42,894	0 dels
Reckoner	8.8%	37,117	0 dels
Dels left			4,682 dels
Total		424,171	4,765 dels