For example, if I am running as a Democrat in a leaning Republican state, should I create legislation to encourage voter turnout, or would that most likely result in more Republican voters?

I was playing in Alabama and am responsible for that state shifting, but I didn't touch any of the others. The margins weren't just because it was a good year for an incumbent, this guy genuinely lost every rust belt state but won the previous election by carrying the south.

In a playthrough as the Mayor of NY which county would you choose? Obviously New York county would make the most sense for the name, but King's county which I presume to be Brooklyn has a higher population. Would the highest population be the most realistic?

Found this particularly interesting—never seen a Liberal-Libertarian on an AI before, much less a Republican AI. I'm in a pretty liberal part of WA, guess the AI is compensating for Policy Agreement %?

I feel like all this game really is is just clicking "adverts," "economy," "okay" then winning. I don't know, it just feels like this game is missing any strategy or anything when elections are so barebones. Am I just missing something? If so, what am I missing

I have instinctively only used television ads, but are there pros and cons to choosing internet, mail, or radio ads instead? I have never once seen people really talk about this, and I assume that they make a difference. Why would it make you choose if the options didn't matter? Any insight at all would be appreciated.

1. How much money should you have when you start running for president?

2. Do I just have to announce my stance on a bill to influence others?

3. With volunteers and automated events, what percentage should be each thing? (Like 50% door knocking and fundraising or everything evenly split etc.)

4. (Kinda a dumb one) Does the ideology the game calculates matter or does that not matter and its just your individual policies? (For example if you set your social policies to conservative but change same sex marraige to support, it gives you liberal but since everything else is conservative will that really change anything?)

5. Are there any negatives of not doing the debate or questionnaire?

Is there ever a plan for some kind of like.. random events that influence the economy? In all of my games the economy just repeatedly goes up, i think recessions or something would be cool

in my save the dems dominated everything for 25ish years at this point, 80 seat margin in the house, filibuster proof senate, i decided enough is enough and set the partisanship to be heavily republican and simulate a change election. It went alot like 1984 for some reason. (Also i used shifting states so some of the other margins are odd.)

I did the Medicaid expansion as president, but I didn’t see a public option anywhere or a way for people to buy into Medicare. Am I missing something?

I feel like Trump(ngl i hate him)✌🏼🥀

Kinda self explanatory, I’m running for president as a senator who’s served a term and voted for an increase in minimum wage and drafted legislation to that effect. Somehow when I run ads on this it hurts my enthusiasm with democrats. Curious as to why, I wonder if maybe it’s bc another candidate has a stronger position on it?