President Forever 2008+Primaries March 2, 2008
Posted by justingerman in 2008 Presidential Election, Gaming.Tags: 2008 Presidential Election, Duncan Hunter, Fred Thompson, Gaming, George Allen, John McCain, President Forever 2008, Ron Paul, Rudy Giuliani
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A couple months ago I layed out $20 for President Forever With Primaries, which is basically just a simulation game for the
entire 2008 Presidential Election cycle.
Though fairly simplistic, this game can likely provide hours of intrigue for political nerds. The game is turn-based and each turn you can choose if and where candidate travels to barnstorm or give speeches or if your candidate will do debate prep, issue knowledge or campaign strategy. Also you can set and change your campaign themes and positions on issues, as well as make appearances on a number of different talk shows. However, the debates and talk shows are pretty disappointing, as you can’t affect, at all, how your candidate performs during the actual debate, only by how much debate prep you do ahead of time. Also, candidates can do particular things to create news events and random news events can occur that benefit or hurt particular candidate. Campaigns can also attempt to frame the news events in beneficial ways for their candidates. Often funny headlines such as “Pop Artists Have Concert for Duncan Hunter,” can occur.
George Allen: America’s Biggest Moron February 24, 2008
Posted by justingerman in 2008 Presidential Election, Virginia Politics.Tags: 2008 Presidential Election, George Allen, Iowa Caucus, New Hampshire Primary, Presidential Primaries, South Carolina Primary, Super Tuesday
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If George Allen hadn’t called that guy Macaca he’d be the Republican nominee for President right now. I’m sure of it. Though it wasn’t necessarily the macaca itself that brought Allen down, as much as his campaign’s inability to manage the problem and the fact that he was tainted from that point on. If Allen has run a clean campaign and stayed out of trouble he probably would have won by about 5-12 points, and by even more if Harris Miller had been nominated. The next year, as Republicans searched in vein for the “true conservative” in the race, Allen would have stood out like Cindy Sheehan at a VFW rally. So let’s just examine for a minute what an Allen For President Campaign would have looked like and how it would have influenced the election.
