Winter 2008 Progressive Primary - Official Thread

[minionofmidas]

Culebra, Puerto Rico

[minionofmidas]

Be. It'll get my fourth preference (behind my own and the Alaskan locations.)

[minionofmidas]

3 Adak, Alaska
7 Austin, Texas
6 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
9 Seattle, Washington
1 Culebra, Puerto Rico
4 Milwaukee, Wisconsin
10 Richmond, Virginia
11 Annapolis, Maryland
2 Nome, Alaska
5 Belle Fourche, South Dakota
8 San Francisco, California

[minionofmidas]

How are delegates chosen?

Do you mean how they are calculated/elected? or how they are picked?

Picked. Can I be a delegate, for instance?

After it's clear who has how many delegates from which region, the candidates ask ordinary voters to pleas be their delegates. That's how we did it last time around, anyways.

EDIT: Earl's also put it nicely.

[minionofmidas]

How will you be breaking ties in deciding which city to eliminate first? And will you allow ballot altering?

[minionofmidas]

Just a note to voters, uncommitted is not an option.

I don't care.

[minionofmidas]

Just a note to voters, uncommitted is not an option.

I don't care.

You're going to have to commit eventually.

I have time til February 24th for that.

[minionofmidas]

I think its because of the fact that Polnut was an idiot last time around and actually dropped out once he lost the primary. People want to give him a chance and because they don't want him to be an idiot and drop out again they are voting for him in the primary. That and there is a general leftist base within the progressive primary that no centrist could win. Remember that I only won mostly because of my connections and support from the JCP.

There are also people out there who vote more for vice presidential than for presidential candidates. Jas won votes that wouldn't be accessible to either you or Mr Moderate in that segment. [/draws conclusions about others based on self]

[minionofmidas]

write-in SENSEI/JAS or JAS/SENSEI on February 21st!

I for one was planning on doing so anyways... but I had never previously intended to actually campaign for others to do so. I've just changed my mind on that.

[minionofmidas]

I rolled a 5. What does that mean now?

[minionofmidas]

To Al what I have to say is that this is politics even if its a virtual version that has no bearing on reality when you are competing for a position the knives will eventually come out dogs of war are let loose.

Actually I would say that Atlasia has often been, in its own small way, much more vicious than real life politics (usually) is. Thinking of Kissinger's remark about student politics being so bitter because the stakes are so small.

Fighting over scraps, eh?

[minionofmidas]

I'd like to make an official complaint about the voting system.

I was going to lodge an objection when I saw that thing, then decided the three hours were up... indeed it was about 9 hours. Then I decided to just ignore this joke instead.