Road To The White House

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Some of you know I'm a gamer. A friend of mine discovered a set of play-by-email rules for a game called Road to the Whitehouse. In it players guide a candidate for party nomination through the caucusses and primaries in the order they actually occur. Issues get raised throughout the campaign and then pushed aside as new issues arise. Each candidate has a set of 'positions' on the various issues which provide bonuses toward debates. Winners achieve popular votes in the state where the debate took place and losers lose some. Popular votes are also accumulated through advertising in the individual states, by visiting the state, or by random endorsements from unions, consumer groups and the like. Congressional Votes are assigned as in reality.

Although the board game takes just a few hours to complete, the email version is being run in real time so we're in week 3 and my candidate arrived in Des Moines, Iowa on Presidents Day where 3 other candidates are about to be soundly trounced in debates.

I've never really kept up with how the whole congressional thing plays out and I'm learning a lot about the US political system. I've posted this to ask any of you political junkies out there if you have any advice for me about how to organise my candidate's travels, advertising budget etc. over the next four months. Maybe you've seen some great blunders occur or terrific coups. I'm totally green at this so anything you can offer will be appreciated.

Anne Serious for President!

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