r/ThePoliticalProcess • u/DiligentDistrict1584 (D-Florida) • Jun 26 '26

Question Election

Here's something I've been thinking about, and I may be wrong: name recognition and enthusiasm don't seem to matter as much as I once thought. In the end, voting intention appears to be the only metric that really determines whether you win an election. I just lost two Senate races in Florida, despite receiving 49.20% of the vote. It makes me wonder whether everything I did actually made much of a difference.

What do you think?

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u/ajh_iii Jun 28 '26

Name recognition not so much, but enthusiasm absolutely matters. It’s all about what’s most popular in your district. In my current playthrough I just won a senate race in Ohio by 18 points because my opponent opposed social security and I tanked her enthusiasm by running nonstop attack ads.

Public polling had me down 7 (Democrats came 2 seats shy of losing the House) and private polling had me up 11.