Troubling Times - A 1968 Presidential Election Game (Rules, Sign-up, and OOC)

[Huey Long is a Republican]

President Lyndon Baines Johnson (D-TX)/Senator Hubert Horatio Humphrey (D-MN): 486/61.1%
Senator Barry Morris Goldwater (R-AZ)/William Edward Miller (R-NY): 52/38.5%

After the 1964, The Republican Party went into shambles. The once burgeoning Conservative movement within the Republican Party was quickly squashed due to the Landslide defeat of Johnson v Goldwater. Now, Nixonites and Rockefeller Republicans reign supreme. However, for the Democratic Party, a civil war is coming. The Vietnam war is deeply unpopular with the American populace at large and many Democrats have come out in opposition of the war and against President Johnson. With Riots running through the country and a President deeply unpopular due to a very disastrous war abroad, how will the country survive and who will lead them away from the chaos?

Possible Republican Candidates:

Former Governor Harold Stassen (R-MN) - Snowguy716
Senator John Tower (R-TX)
Governor James A. Rhodes (R-OH)
Senator Clifford Case (R-NJ) - x-guy
Senator Howard Baker (R-TN) - terp40hitch
Former Senator Barry Morris Goldwater (R-AZ) - Jaguar4Life
Senator Margaret Chase Smith (R-ME) - Mycool
Former Governor William Scranton (R-PA) - Sherrod Brown 2020
Former Secretary of Treasury C. Douglas Dillon (R-MA) - UWS

Possible Democratic Candidates:

Senator Rober Francis Kennedy (D-NY) - GoTfan
Representative Patsy Mink (D-HI) - Faust

Independents


New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller (I-NY)/Illinois Representative John Anderson (I-IL) - ?/?
Former Governor Ross Barnett (SD-MS)/Senator Richard Russell Jr. (SD-GA) - ASPN/JasonHitchcock


RULES:
(of which I stole from HCP, who stole from Wxtransit, who may or may not have stolen from Lumine's game, thanks, Lumine, wxtransit, and HCP)

This game will cover the 1968 US Presidential Election from January 1st, 1968 to November 5th, 1968, divided into three main phases:

Primary Phase: Assuming campaign announcements to have come earlier in the year, this primary season will take us from January 1968 to July 1968, with players from the Democratic and Republican Parties fighting to emerge as the frontrunner or even the nominee of their respective parties.

Convention Phase: Both main parties will enter this phase to decide on their eventual nominee. Considering at this point in time, all Conventions were brokered, a Candidate will only have to win Delegates here to get the Nomination, so you will have to battle for every state's delegates and bargain to the Nomination.

General Election Phase: Taking us from August 30th to November 5th, 1968, with eight turns of a week to account for the final stage of the campaign as players play the Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates, and potentially some key surrogates for their campaigns.

2.- The in-game length of turns will vary from days to an entire month depending on the circumstances, but all turns will last 5 days/120 Hours in RL. Duly informing of a turn absence will yield no penalty (a polling freeze or very limited loss), but simply not posting will bring consequences.

3.- Personal message me for endorsements! No candidate may recieve more than 2 per turn, and there are some special endorsements that will be reserved for key events or dates (for example, New Hampshire or Iowa Governors, or relevant newspapers like the Des Moines Register or the New Hampshire Union Leader).

4.- There will be debates if I get messages from all people in that party in the primaries that they want one, or they can agree for it here.

5.- Like other games, I will use a number randomizer to determine positive and negative news for the candidates. 1-5 will be positive experiences (1 being great news) and 95-100 will be negative experiences (100 being terrible news). 6-94 will be no news. Real life news will also feature as part of the game for players to exploit (or influence).

6.- Third Party candidates are allowed to join, but their respective gameplay will be focused on the General Election. The only exception is the Americans Independent Party, which may be a factor if a player wants to run as Wallace and tries to make him far more successful than OTL.

7 - If your candidate is not included in the provided list below, make sure to personal message me so that I can approve/reject the candidate. Please make your candidates realistic (they must be real people who would plausibly seek the nomination in 2020, if you don't know if they could work, just ask).

8. Have fun.

[Huey Long is a Republican]

I would probably push the start to January 1st because they didn’t really have primaries, it was basically just a fight at the convention.

I would also like to sign up as James Rhodes

there were primaries, but good point. Also, granted.

[Huey Long is a Republican]

all the primaries are OTL, btw, so be ready for those

[Huey Long is a Republican]

I call Barry Goldwater this time a more moderate and libertarian verison

Granted, though I doubt you'll get much traction. You were crushed in 1964, after all

[Huey Long is a Republican]

I’ll be George Romney

Granted

[Huey Long is a Republican]

I call Barry Goldwater this time a more moderate and libertarian verison

Granted, though I doubt you'll get much traction. You were crushed in 1964, after all

I’m gonna be playing the more moderate and libertarian verison of Goldwater that was present later on in his life.

Alright, but be prepared for a lot of grilling on Flip Flopping

[Huey Long is a Republican]

I call Barry Goldwater this time a more moderate and libertarian verison

Granted, though I doubt you'll get much traction. You were crushed in 1964, after all

I’m gonna be playing the more moderate and libertarian verison of Goldwater that was present later on in his life.

Alright, but be prepared for a lot of grilling on Flip Flopping

I’ll explain it in my announcement speech

Alright

[Huey Long is a Republican]

Omg a chance to play as one of my all time favorite senators?! How about Margaret Chase Smith?

Granted! I wish you luck

[Huey Long is a Republican]

You have no idea how tempted I am to play as Nixon

JUST DO IT! DON'T LET YOUR DREAMS BE DREAMS!!!

[Huey Long is a Republican]

Hmmm, I'll be Reagan, then.

Granted

[Huey Long is a Republican]

In case anyone is wondering, the title is a reference to "Troubling Times" by Jerome How, which was used for "Bobby Kennedy for President"

Link: https://youtu.be/FEY5CGlKmVU

[Huey Long is a Republican]

We need Dems!

[Huey Long is a Republican]

We need like two Dems and we can start. I'm stunned at how many people joined as a Republican

[Huey Long is a Republican]

We need like two Dems and we can start. I'm stunned at how many people joined as a Republican

Why only two

There needs to be at least more than one Democrat to have a real contest for both parties. Isn't fun if one person is waiting for weeks for the other party to have a Nominee

[Huey Long is a Republican]

We need like two Dems and we can start. I'm stunned at how many people joined as a Republican

Given what's presumably going on Vietnam, Johnson, if he ran would be very vulnerable, especially in a general election.

That said, I'm surprised no one has claimed Bobby/Ted Kennedy or Eugene McCarthy yet.

Someone, tell Maniac and President Johnson about this!

[Huey Long is a Republican]

We need like two Dems and we can start. I'm stunned at how many people joined as a Republican

Given what's presumably going on Vietnam, Johnson, if he ran would be very vulnerable, especially in a general election.

That said, I'm surprised no one has claimed Bobby/Ted Kennedy or Eugene McCarthy yet.

Someone, tell Maniac and President Johnson about this!

You do it. I'm not recruiting for your election game.

I was joking. I'm a jokester sometimes

[Huey Long is a Republican]

We need like two Dems and we can start. I'm stunned at how many people joined as a Republican

Given what's presumably going on Vietnam, Johnson, if he ran would be very vulnerable, especially in a general election.

That said, I'm surprised no one has claimed Bobby/Ted Kennedy or Eugene McCarthy yet.

Someone, tell Maniac and President Johnson about this!

You do it. I'm not recruiting for your election game.

I was joking. I'm a jokester sometimes

I wasn't. I'm pretty sure we have posters with those names.

Yeah, we do. I was making a joke because they made TLs about RFK and Johnson

[Huey Long is a Republican]

We need like two Dems and we can start. I'm stunned at how many people joined as a Republican

Given what's presumably going on Vietnam, Johnson, if he ran would be very vulnerable, especially in a general election.

That said, I'm surprised no one has claimed Bobby/Ted Kennedy or Eugene McCarthy yet.

Someone, tell Maniac and President Johnson about this!

You do it. I'm not recruiting for your election game.

I was joking. I'm a jokester sometimes

I wasn't. I'm pretty sure we have posters with those names.

Yeah, we do. I was making a joke because they made TLs about RFK and Johnson

Well, why don't you ask them? You know, the worst that can happen is that they'll say no.

I'll give it a shot.

[Huey Long is a Republican]

I think I’ll join as Republican Senator Clifford P. Case from NJ.

Granted

[Huey Long is a Republican]

Can I claim Bobby Kennedy?

Granted

[Huey Long is a Republican]

Can I join as Humphrey?

Granted, however, if Someone does select Johnson, you will need to drop out

[Huey Long is a Republican]

I think I might join in as Eugene McCarthy,

Granted

[Huey Long is a Republican]

Everyone, feel free to post Campaign Announcements, I'll post the Gameplay Thread later today

[Huey Long is a Republican]

I want to be Eugene McCarthy

Sorry, he's already taken

[Huey Long is a Republican]

Can I join as Humphrey?

Granted, however, if Someone does select Johnson, you will need to drop out

Isn't it first come, first serve though?

yeah, I thought about it for 5 seconds and then deleted Johnson