Mark_W

It's not a fair ballot because Americans have never had proper pancakes

Aye sure

Nay to Alan Greenspan for Treasury, Aye to the rest.

Equality Democrats and Stuart Symington for Democrat Leader.

Is Stuart Symington eligible? If not I'll stick with Kefauver assuming he still is?

Ken Hechler for House Minority Leader in our only vote.

He could endorse mine 😅

If they're eligible Senate Majority Whip - Frank Moss House Minority Leader - Ken Hechler

I sense danger

I do think factions swapping in the year drafted isn't ideal. I wouldn't say 10 years, but they shouldn't be available to steal the year they're drafted.

Feeling more comfortable about not getting to draft Ted now.

Scratch that Progressive to Liberal Helen Gahagan Douglas George Brown Jr Dolores Huerta Harvey Milk Robert C Weaver Glen H Taylor Thomas B Adams Noam Chomsky Thomas D’Alesandro Jr Leonard Woodcock John Dingell Carl Levin Elmer Austin Benson Frank P Graham Henry B Gonzalez Lyndon LaRouche LW Populist to Progressive Mike Gravel Karl Rolvaag Quentin Burdick Gus Hall William C Bulitt Jr Jose Mujica Henry Howell Progressive to LW Populist Richard W Leche I don’t think I have any eligible conversion options or Kingmakers.

Private Sector: Carl Levin Military Sector: John Tunney Judicial Track: Sarah McNamara (No Judicial Ability) Governing Track: Richard Lamm Legislative Track: Herb Kohl Administrative Track: Yvonne Burke Backroom Politics Track: Dianne Feinstein I'll work out the other stuff this evening if that's alright.

93% Socialist 92% Democratic 91% Green 91% Women's Equality 90% Peace and Freedom 88% Transhumanist 74% American Solidarity 31% Libertarian 7% Republican 4% Constitution 94% AOC 93% Kamala Harris 91% Bernie Sanders 89% Elizabeth Warren 89% Pete Buttigieg 88% Joe Biden 80% Amy Klobuchar 70% Tulsi Gabbard 65% Elon Musk 62% Mark Cuban etc.

It shouldn't have that big an impact even if you do get everything right though. Do that AND nerf.

I think it will often depend entirely on the context of the playthrough. Public opinion on almost any of these topics could be vastly different depending on how the country has developed. I think the AMPU 2 solution could be to have meters for things like Religious Affiliation, Fundamentalism, Luddism that are moved depending on the length of time a policy is in place (eg. if you pass and implement disproportionately more evolution>creationism in education legislation, then over time the religious affiliation meter moves towards agnosticism/athiesm. If you pass and implement legislation that discriminates against religious groups then fundamentalism goes up over time, if you improve access to quality education for a long time then levels of luddism drop etc.) and then the significance of court cases is determined by the circumstances. Eg. Roe Jr. vs. Wade Jr. is a huge case if the population is split in terms of religious affiliation, there are higher levels of fundamentalism. If the court finds in favour of abortion rights but the country has large religious membership and moderate to high fundamentalism, or if the court finds against abortion rights in a country with low religious membership or fundamentalism. For marrying AI/Robots it could be a combination of luddism/religious membership+fundamentalism. I'm sure there's other things that could be tracked, but ultimately I would think the importance of the case should be determined by the context of the playthrough.

And for the sake of throwing out ideas, I would love to see your take on a Weimar Republic political game.

These are the ones I'm most interested in/would be most keen to help out with 1. The Long War 2. Victorian Prime Minister (I would really love it if a good system could be created to allow the game to expand further into the future and allow for the formation of new political parties/death of older parties depending on how a game plays out) 3. A game set in 1888 London 4. Build London 5. Creating the Bible

No no no we need a great music industry sim much more than a tv sim.

Gus Hall withdraws having achieved nothing and asks his communist supporters not to assassinate JFK if he wins Lee, no such request is made re. Reagan (JFK endorsment).

Estes Kefauver backs out and endorses JFK, Gus Hall will persevere for the time being.

Kefauver focuses on New Jersey and gives a Policy Speech

Estes Kefauver focuses the campaign on IL

Ah ok (why would you do your speech now, you better not be throwing this 😅)