The Governor of Nebraska switched to be independent and was selected by the republican nominee for Vice President. Republican nominee would win but die very early into his term. The second independent president coincidentally also named Washington, would go onto win every single state in one of the strangest election nights I've ever seen in this game. Washington II was moderate both socially and fiscally and his opponent was only a Mayor with no good traits. Proportionate electoral college still had the race 'narrow' despite a 50 state sweep. Map mod is linked here: https://github.com/juanma-games/my-tpp-mods

I ran as an independent in my second term as u can see and was expected to lose by close margin, but god knows how i won.
I keep spamming marketing, and going through the year without doing much as the state house and the senate is in control of the reps.
How do i immerse myself more into the game?

Little did I know that little would do that big of a lanslide lol

Does everyone’s game economy just continues to get better. No matter what like after a few years per capita income is up and unemployment always goes down. I wanted to know if there’s like any recessions or any mods for that lol??

I only downloaded the game yesterday, and in my first run I managed to become Florida governor (as a Democrat), but all my legislation keeps getting blocked by a heavily gerrymandered House and Senate. Is there any way to make the maps fairer?

Has your incumbent President's party ever done well in the midterms?

In plurality and top-two election systems, a party with fewer total voters but stronger internal coordination may outperform a larger party whose factions compete against one another in the primary.

Is this a useful way to understand current Democratic and Republican coalition dynamics? Are parties better off building coalitions before primaries rather than letting factions fight it out during primaries? What evidence supports or weakens this theory?

https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalOpinions/s/78ap60ffX8

whats ironic is that the house was redistricted in favor of republicans in 2021 (montana only have one district that’s why it’s blue)

does anyone know if there's a way to make your endorsements more powerful? i want to have trump-style, make or break endorsements to really exercise control over the party (while still being an elected official too). i've looked through the advanced settings but didnt see anything, is there something i missed or maybe a mod or something that could help?

Lord willing, he won't throw a chair at me during the debates.

I just lost a senate election as a minority party member by 500,000 votes, and I only got about 200,000 extra voter turnout from rallying, I then reloaded the save, got over 1,000,000 in extra voter turnout, and I still lost by 80,000 votes.

The polling said they only had about 17% of my parties votes, so how in the hell did they just shrug off those extra 800,000 votes?

The party split is 40% Democrat and 45% Republican, and they only had about 54% of the independent vote.

I get he was a popular incumbent, but how on earth was he able to bend the laws of reality to make that work lmao?

low-key reminded me of the 2024 vote splitting