Forward? – A 2012 Election Game (Sign Up and Rules Thread)

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I'm thinking Bobby Jindal for the Republicans. Is the schedule using in-game dates or real-life dates?

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Good. We begin tomorrow afternoon, there's roughly 20 hours left for more players to sign in.

Late entries (so called "white knights") are allowed as well, but treated as having entered the race at that moment rather than before September.

Do we post our announcement speeches now or after the game begins?

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I will be

The picture can't be seen, who is it?

It's a catcher's mitt...oh.

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June 15, 2011

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Jindal 2012: The change we need. The voice we deserve.

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Official Statement from the Jindal Campaign

These remarks from the Chambliss campaign are simply troubling. Not only did he use racist slurs, and suggest that Governor Jindal was not born in America, when in fact, he was born in Baton Rouge, but he also resorted to baseless and shallow attacks on the Governor's character. These remarks were far below the standard for the office of President of the United States. We, and America, will not stand for this unacceptable type of campaigning. For this reason, the Jindal campaign will remain vigilant in its commitment to communicate the issues to the American people, and to campaign solely on the issues that matter, and to not repeat the low standard set by the Chambliss campaign.

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Okay,  a few notes:

1.- I'm writing Turn One, it will be up today. Once I open the Gameplay thread, please refrain from posting there until I announce that the turn is ready.

2.- OOC commentary goes on this thread and only on this thread. I'll delete posts that are not IC in the Gameplay Thread to keep things in order and avoid confusion.

3.- I'll allow the use of RL speeches for the announcements such as the Trump speech because I hadn't noticed until now, but from here on no RL speeches are allowed, you'll have to write your own. Merely copying speeches from RL will have a penalty of its own.

4.- It may take until the night for the turn to be ready, I'll be including Nevada and South Carolina polling as well and that takes some extra time.

5.- Do try not to promote other games here, mostly because I don't want the threads going way too off topic.

Be prepared!

Woohoo!

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OOC: I have just one word to describe these allegations towards Jindal:



what

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OOC: I have just one word to describe these allegations towards Jindal:



what

OOC: It did not actually happen in real life, and I don't even believe 75% of everything of what my characters say, I'm just playing the game and running an inflammatory campaign.

I know You make for an interesting opponent, to say the least.

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OOC: wtf man I dunno I wanna see how Jindal responds to this  Dang A sitting U.S Senator... who’s running for President..... chicken diddler???

Me too, Haslam. Me too.

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The information was "chickengate" governor.

OOC: I realize this, but the debate was before the release of information, so Jindal did not have knowledge yet of...whatever you call it.

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Lumine, will the number of ads be limited according to state or national polling?

National polling, it better reflects the strength of a campaign than strong polling in a single state (and to prevent players strong in a single state to abuse a loophole and run too many ads).

I will post my campaign tonight. I can post one ad, right?

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Lumine, will the number of ads be limited according to state or national polling?

National polling, it better reflects the strength of a campaign than strong polling in a single state (and to prevent players strong in a single state to abuse a loophole and run too many ads).

I will post my campaign tonight. I can post one ad, right?

Yes, one per turn until you reach at least 10% on national polling.

Alright, thank you.

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Im being bullied by Adam

Hm?

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Im being bullied by Adam

I’m not bullying you. I don’t know how you are getting that

What is happening to this game

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Can people please stop stealing the early state endorsements? Don't make Christie eat someone.

Woah now who said we were stealing these?

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People would be surprised at some of the requests for endorsements I've recieved (and rejected).

Anyway, 6 1/2 hours left here, at which point I won't accept more material.

Please don't tell me someone asked an endorsement from David Duke..

I hope not.

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Does the turn end sometime this evening?

It's only been two days by my count, it should be ending tomorrow night.

Oh, ok, thanks.

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Shouldn't it end at 1 AM on the 9th? Not that I care whether it ends at 1 AM on the 9th or the vening of the 9th, I just need confirmation I haven't lost the basic ability to add.

I think Lumine was saying that it ends on the evening of the 9th.

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I'm getting scared. What will happen to me? Starting to like Jindal's State of the Union response?

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Also, my laptop broke down until about an hour ago (that's why you haven't been seeing any of my speeches/ads even though my schedule's been posted). Thankfully, I've already typed most of them up so it shouldn't take too long to post them.

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Three hours left.

Oh, ok. I think I'll post another ad, then.

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Turn is over.

Is Spiral's post counted?

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Does the turn end tomorrow or Saturday?

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oi the whole knocking on doors is Jindal's thing, credit me pls

(just kidding)

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The turn is about to end and a lot of major candidates haven't posted...

It's ending Saturday, according to Lumine. I'm just too busy this week and today (Friday) and will get it up as soon as the week is over.