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Rick Perry will see Super Tuesday through and reject the offer.

Rick Perry will campaign in South Carolina and embrace local issues as his own.

He's gonna send me the sheet tomorrow.

Ricky Perry will focus on NH, embrace local issues in NH, and attack Rice.

Btw, I was looking through the pols sheets. It looks like Nathan Deal (GA governor, my faction) is marked as both foreign-born and openly LGBT. I don't think that either of those should be marked for Deal.

In the other playtests I followed, I'm pretty sure that minor candidates could only act in their home state. I don't remember if minor candidates could act more broadly once they performed better.

Rick Perry will campaign in Iowa and embrace local issues as his own.

Major candidate: Governor Rick Perry of Texas Minor candidate: Senator, former secretary, and former governor Lamar Alexander of Tennessee

Let me know if there is any recommended faction for a newbie. Otherwise, I'll take Blue 2 if available.

I've read Meachem's books on Jefferson and Jackson and found them likely. He's obviously a good writer, but the detail is always lacking. With detail and Jefferson, it's hard to beat Dumas Malone's series on him. It's six volumes and about 3,300 pages, but each book does begin with a chronology of the events covered in that volume. If you get to Jackson, I've read the first volume of Robert Remini's three-part biography and found it quite good.

I'd be available if you want to throw a new playtester into the mix. I've pre-ordered the game. While I don't post much, I have been on the forums following every playtest. Otherwise, I look forward to having a new playtest to follow.

Carter is an interesting choice on that list, but I agree completely. The others are mostly hot-headed or else too passive (Taylor, Harrison). Carter was neither, instead too active and confident. If you've never read the relevant edition of James David Barber's The Presidential Character (the first major work of political psychology on the presidency), he actually predicts that Carter's mix of activity and outlook would lead to Carter being an all-time great president. That personality would instead be his downfall.

Adams was probably too temperamental and combative to be a truly great president, but I think that he ranks highly for foreign policy. I also feel like he doesn't get enough credit for his work in the Revolution.

I have pre-ordered the game, but obviously, I understand not wanting to give the rules out to somebody you don't know and hasn't been active on the forum.

I've been lurking and following the game's development for a few months. I'd love to help out. With access to the rules, I could develop some simulations to calculate how many pols are expected to die in wars according to the current rules if it would be helpful.