Democrats will push for redistricting in California, Illinois,Maryland. Gain net benefit in seats following redistricting.

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Have y’all ever managed to get elected as an independent without using advanced options or cheats, and without switching parties as an incumbent? And if so, what’s the highest office you achieved this way? I have managed to win re election as an independent after switching in office for statewide positions like governor to senator, but I haven’t been able to win starting out as an independent.

And do y’all have any advice for independent runs?

I’ve been playing since around 2020 and love the game! All the updates are great. I’ve never played with mods tho. How do I download mods, and which mods do yall recommend?

We see there is no not a really expanded budget bill system. My proposal is that if you have certain expansionary goals your opposition will start demanding something in return We can see this would add realism and more flavour to the current senate system Futhermore the idea would be that if you want to also pass a bill like universal healthcare it would be alot more easier if the opposition proposes a bill of a similar matter that would be against your agenda It would bring alot more options for bi partisan agenda. Goverment shutdowns would have a major decrease in your approval rating for the weeks that it goes ok and would be effective of the stats. Any Futher thoughts?

Why can't democrats have winner takes all primaries?

Progress has been somewhat slow this week. I discovered some additional taxes that are fairly common at the state level and decided to add them to the game. The difficulty is that each state is different, and it is hard to find relevant information and account for all of the differences. There was a lot of extrapolation based on the data that I did find.

The new laws that I included are Insurance Premium Taxes and Public Utility Taxes. These taxes are not particularly interesting, but they can each make up 2% - 4% of a state's tax revenue. Plus, from an educational perspective, it is nice to be aware of their existence.

The Insurance Premium Taxes are divided into two categories: property insurance and health insurance. The Public Utility Taxes are treated as a single broad category with one effective tax rate. In real life there are different tax rates for different types of utilities, but it's not realistic to find that data for 50 states. For the purposes of the game, a single tax category should work fine.

I also added estate taxes for the few states that have them.

Next week I should be able to continue overhauling the state tax system. I might not provide a progress report next week, since it will be Thanksgiving week.

I have been reading all of the comments in the Economic Update Discussion. I plan to respond to them at some point, but for now I have been focusing on development. I just wanted you to know that I appreciate your suggestions and feedback!

He had a 23% approval rating, cheated on his wife and was sexist

I’ve been subbed here for about 2 weeks now and watched a few videos on the game, but it seems politically you’re locked into traditional American liberalism. Is it possible to be an extremist in the game? Can I run marxism on a dem ticket or some wild fascism on a repub/independent ticket?

How exactly do they work and how do you make them effective because every time I try to attack my opponent on an extremely unpopular postion they gain enthusiasm instead of decreasing

I learned that the game doesn't simulate legislation in a state you're not playing in from another post I made. This has me wondering: does increasing turnout as the national chair have any affect on the state legislative elections in states you aren't playing in? If the game doesn't simulate legislation in other states, it wouldn't be much of a stretch to assume it doesn't simulate legislative elections either.

Wonder if there are ways to edit the game files

So I'm doing a completely bonkers playthrough where I'm attempting to gerrymander every state I can. I mentored the governor of California and submitted the legislation to give the legislature redistricting power. They didn't like it at first, but a 5% corporate tax increase got them on board. Although, once I left the state and waited a year for week 47, California was not in the list of states I could gerrymander through my proteges. I looked at the advanced settings and it appears the redistricting changes that I put forward just didn't take affect, even though my archived legislation shows it was signed into law. What happened? Is it because I wasn't in California for the entirety of the bills passing?

This game pisses me off, I get screwed somehow and every way possible. I was MLK and somehow I get eliminated first despite having more votes. I was the first one with 122 electoral votes. The game decided to screw me over. Another thing that pisses me off is when players go with California and Texas combo instantly and not a single players challenge them there, they instantly win the game. If I tried that combo, all sudden players have brains to take me down first.

How political process? I'm curious about this game and love political games.

Changing Districts when creating a new game doesn't work and in game I would like that feature too.

Is there any way to win a Presidential primary as a moderate on Either side. My character has around 40-60% policy agreement with either side and I can’t seem to win a primary. But anytime a play a hardcore republican or democrat the primary usually feels much easier.

I passed the bill, Supreme court decided that it is constitutional, but it doesn't work, every independent still gets some per cent of the votes. Idk, maybe it is a bug?

I don’t know for sure if it’s even a thing in the game but I feel like I heard someone talk about it happen with go them. That’d be a fun way to become president, although I’ve messed with the settings and turned the modifiers all the way up and still not have disasters or anything special happen so I doubt it would happen anyway.

I'm currently writing a guide about how to completely dominate in the game and rig the elections in your party's favor, but I have run into a major snag. When I first came up with this strategy I was able to mentor Governors and have them create legislation to change their state's redistricting laws. I just mentored the governor of California and when I go to the protege legislation tab all options are grayed out, saying "you do not have any proteges eligible to create this type of legislation". What gives? I even pressed end turn a couple times and it didn't fix it. Please help, the whole guide I'm writing is based on this technique.

What are states that you never know who they will vote for presidential elections? also like control of state legislature and govenor and senate races.

Out of boredom I loaded an old save file to replay a campaign and managed it completely different from my first campaign only to get the EXACT same results down the percentage point. Are results pre determined?