The Atlasian Tribune - Mechaman's column

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Clearer paragraphs please.

Like that ?

Yes, thank you lol. The giant bloc form hurt my eyes.

Yeah, you're right. I will remember to do that next time.

You could still go back and simply edit your article by adding more paragraph breaks for those yet to read it. Should take you all of two minutes. I mean, if you actually care about editorial excellance and all.

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A Year in Perspective, by Tmthforu94

December…oh what fun elections those were. In the weeks before the election, DWTL constantly boasted about how he would easily be elected to the Senate. Others disagreed, and DWTL’s ignorance was his downfall. When the vote opened, less than 5 people voted for him: Inks, Daniel Adams, and one or two more. Ever since his miserable defeat, he has vanished. Rumor has it that he’s running for city council in New Jersey. Poor New Jersey.

Really?

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A man of great promise and yet had such flaws that made him a danger to the game.

Sums it up.

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A couple comments re: Vepres article (and Blue's response):

First, honesty compels me to note that Blue is mistaken in saying I'm a former DA member. I briefly was part of the tiny movement to refound the (American) Democratic Party here, but soon after joined the JCP.

Secondly, at the risk of rehashing Blue's response I think Vepres is markedly overstating the left's electoral strength here. The last presidential election was an Obama-McCain sized victory for Lief, but hardly a landslide as described. Considering his first term was successful (unless one is decidedly conservative), why wouldn't he be reelected by a reasonable margin. And as RL has influence on how we view politics in Atlasia, the last two years were pretty good for liberals politically, so why wouldn't that reflect itself somewhat here? Plus,  the election before that was decided by one vote! The last two senate elections involved reelecting some competent incumbents, and I was fortunate enough to finish third among the candidates last time. This is hardly "dominance".

Third, as Yank pointed out a fair bit of this success has to do with the split on the right between conservatives and libertarian conservatives, much of which was aggravated by the war between Hamilton and the rest of the RPP. My point here being it's hardly fair to attribute the right's electoral divisions to some kind of JCP "machine". The JCP is hardly an unstopable electoral juggernaut as some claim merely because it's met the basic organizational threshhold of not splintering.

Until recently, that is. With the new SDP breaking off and taking several notable JCP members, and possibly supporting Xahar for President, it's not at all premature to officially declare the JCP in trouble this season. Yeah, competative elections are exciting, but I'm seriously worried we won't have one this time around either, and not because the left is too strong......

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How long has this party system been in place? Almost a year and a half, right?

Hasn't the JCP held the presidency the entire time and won every national election since?

Well, if you define "every election" as 2 for 2, with the first one being a contested tie.

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But see, in the end all the SDP votes will likely flow to Bacon King, or Visa Versa. June was decided by one vote, yes, but as I pointed out this was the perfect storm for the Atlasian right (at least, from my perspective), with every non-leftist lining up behind PiT, and still he lost.

I'm not at all sure about that. I think it's a toss up whether they endorse Xahar over BK. Even then I could see a number of SDP voters backing Xahar. Again, the "JCP machine", ain't.