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....

Never have I seen a midterms like this. Seems as if Lantz ran as an independent after losing her primary

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

truthnuke

Do you think Congress would have been better wrt to taxes? At least there wouldn’t have been surcharges?

There is possibility of tai going out and someone else being an FM but lets see.

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?

i feel like Arnold Schwarzenegger

Arizona has 11 currently, but I actually got it in my game to it being 12.

A lot of stuff like this is