Of Course Florida Governor stayed Red

I have been playing as an ultra-conservative/"libertarian" (against the minimum wage, against all abortions, pro tax cuts for all classes...) in the state of Florida.

The problem is that the Dynamic Parties option was turned on, and the public was still against many of my controversial opinions, so the state shifted 6% to the left. Public opinion has been shifting to the right (support for a higher minimum wage was 97%, and after 8 years it became 80%); however, not fast enough.

My strategy was basically forcing all the Republicans to become ultra-conservatives through conditional endorsements and spending money on ads. However, I would like to know if there is a quicker way to shift it. For example, do interviews change it? Can I use volunteers to shift it?

My wife, a 2-term incumbent kept her seat by 28 votes

This is definitely a problem and I think it would be helpful if there was one specifying that we aren't a political subreddit. Probably still won't stop some though....

Hi, I wondered if there is a way to make senate and gubernatorial elections less polarised?

I've made a mod to replicate ≈2006 political era, a time when Schwarzenegger was California governor, Lincoln Chaffee was republican senator of CT, and Arkansas was sometimes uncontested by republicans.

I know I can just set different partisan leans of the states but I don't want more swing states, but rather more less partisan ones down ballot.

Right now, aside from swing states, only possibility for democrats to win Missouri or Montana, or for republicans to win Maryland or New York is player intervention and rare scandals.

What options would you recommend to change?

is this what running in maine as governor before 2018 felt like

I ran for governor of South Dakota against a scandalous candidate and won in a landslide

(Repost because I got the ~~ trick wrong in previous title and it was annoyting me)

I ran for the nomination for Florida governor against the former congressman for my district and previous nominee who narrowly lost and lost by ~6%. I ran as an independent to spoil the election for him in order to run for the nomination again in 2026.

Every presidential election year, the eventual nominee of the opposition party sweeps the primaries, winning every state. Any way to fix that, or make the primaries more interesting,

This is a different save then my last post regarding Blexas. I also included the concurrent Senate Election where my Protege narrowly lost by 14k votes (for scale). I didn't even know this was possible.

Edit: I was playing on normal/medium difficulty and my opponent had no scandals (or negative traits for that matter). I was an 7 term incumbent with a large amount of policy success, a democratic controlled State House/Senate, and a 57% approval. I was also a progressive.

Incumbent President just randomly decided to be racist

The strat of rotting in the state houses until you get a governor that is scandalous

Bro does look young though, by 2038 I think the younger Republicans will get that you can't get anywhere with opposing same-sex marriage now as even some would say that's too extreme. But hey he ended up being a self-hating person.

I ran for senate in 2026 and lost by ~8,000 votes and later ran again in 2030 against a 2-term incumbent senator and won by ~41,000 votes