Mideast Record-Courier Polls: Regional Consolidation

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

This poll is for all registered voters and will run for three days.

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I would appreciate a poll that lets you choose multiple options. For example, I'm okay with both four and three regions.

But thanks for putting this up anyway!

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I am also okay with three or four at this point. Each has a benefit regarding my ultimate desire of a bicameral system (now or later if necessary).

[Leinad]

I concur with my two colleagues from North Carolina: 3 or 4 would be best.

3 seems to be the consensus, although I've thought it might be a good idea to make it 4 and then reduce it to 3 later if need be.

As the poll states, no one really seems content with keeping it at 5. And that makes sense. There's not enough active players to make all the elections competitive (although we've had a couple goot At-Large Senate Special Elections recently), so reducing the number of offices would theoretically help in that regard.

[DemPGH]

My thought is that there should have been a reduction to three last year sometime and a reduction to two this year, but for purposes of the survey, I voted three. I think it's worth shooting for because four wouldn't fix anything.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Two might be too low. For new people to get interested in the game, it helps to have enough offices. Most often newer people who run and lose go inactive or become zombie voters, which is obviously not desirable. Going too low could severely reduce the ability for new players to get involved.

The most interesting and exciting race, is between two candidates for Governor who joined only three/four months ago. Both served in the regional legislature.

Having too few regions would be counterproductive and we shouldn't chase the absolutist of lows in participation but match it with the new average.

[Adam Griffin]

Two is an interesting concept, but you'd be getting really close in practice to having two (or three?) federal governments (each region representing half of the game). Four regions is silly and doesn't go far enough - the major problem even before the recent woes is activity and too many offices; you cannot solve that problem while simultaneously creating a new federal system by getting rid of just one region. I don't know how many times I've written eloquent arguments about this over the past two years, but I'm tired of doing it.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Two is an interesting concept, but you'd be getting really close in practice to having two (or three?) federal governments (each region representing half of the game). Four regions is silly and doesn't go far enough - the major problem even before the recent woes is activity and too many offices; you cannot solve that problem while simultaneously creating a new federal system by getting rid of just one region. I don't know how many times I've written eloquent arguments about this over the past two years, but I'm tired of doing it.

Both Jesus and Marx had only small groups attracted to their arguments as well. Of course neither stayed that way.