The National Weekly Atlasian

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Gporter should stage a military coup.

[Lief 🗽]

I'm flattered that my name apparently gets thrown around a lot. I had no idea.

[DownWithTheLeft]

Well in fairness I've heard you touted as a VP candidate

[Meeker]

I suggest amending the Constitution to allow Bgwah to run again.

[SPC]

I suggest amending the Constitution to allow Bgwah to run again.

Perhaps he could pull a Putin by running for Senate and subsequently running for PPT.

[DownWithTheLeft]

All Five Senators Will Run for Re-Election

In a move that has not happened in some time, all five senators have declared their intentions for re-election.  The five candidates will be challenged by Afleitch and PurpleState, and perhaps more candidates will enter.  Not much speculation has come for other candidates.  The JCP struggled to find a candidate to replace BaconKing before he re-entered the race, so conventional wisdom is they will not run another candidate.  The RPP has announced they will definitely not another candidate, and instead give their 3rd preference to PurpleState.  The DA seems maxed out at 3 candidates, the SDP is running one candidate, and there next best candidate, AG Marokai, has stated he will not be running.  Will other candidates emerge?  Most likely no, but we will have to wait and see.

[Marokai Backbeat]

You always flatter me, DWTL.

[DownWithTheLeft]

You always flatter me, DWTL.

Well, tell me its not true.  Your party doesn't even really have any candidates after yourself

[Associate Justice PiT]

     I recently was looking through the voter rolls & the SDP actually has fewer active voters than the DA now. You guys were saddled with a flaky bunch for your party.

[Marokai Backbeat]

     I recently was looking through the voter rolls & the SDP actually has fewer active voters than the DA now. You guys were saddled with a flaky bunch for your party.

Yes yes, I know

[Rowan]

I suggest amending the Constitution to allow Bgwah to run again.

No.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

I suggest amending the Constitution to allow Bgwah to run again.

No.

I totally support that.  I probably won't vote for Bgwah, but I dislike Presidential term limits.

[Associate Justice PiT]

I suggest amending the Constitution to allow Bgwah to run again.

No.

I totally support that.  I probably won't vote for Bgwah, but I dislike Presidential term limits.

     Same here. I'd vote in favor of such an amendment, even though I disagree with the partisan motivation.

[Franzl]

I do agree with term limits in real life, but it's not really needed in Atlasia.

[DownWithTheLeft]

National Weekly Atlasian Vote Tracker

Last Voter: Constine
Voters: 3
Quota: 1

Round 1:
DWTL              1 (DWTL)
Franzl             1 (Franzl)
SPC                1 (Constine)
PurpleState    0
Afleitch           0
Lief                 0
BaconKing      0

[DownWithTheLeft]

Elections in Full Swing, Incumbents Look in Good Shape

As the April elections get underway, all five incumbents look to be in good shape.  Sens. DWTL, Lief, and BaconKing seem all but locks to re-elections.  Sen. SPC also appears in tremendous shape but could face some difficulty.  The most interesting race seems to be for the fifth seat which currently sees the three members of the DA grabbing at it.  Sen. Franzl as well as Mideast Assemblyman PurpleState and Fmr. Pres. Afletich all seem on equal pegging heading into the race.  Franzl may get a slight advantage due to incumbency, but the race is still anyone's call. 

Many are already speculating ahead to June's open seat presidential race where the RPP will hope to grab its first win of the top spot fresh off of becoming Atlasia's largest party.  It is likely that the JCP will not give it up without a fight.

[SPC]

As of now, the following would be elected to the Senate:
Sen. SPC
Sen. BaconKing
Sen. DWTL
Sen. Franzl
Speaker PurpleState

[DownWithTheLeft]

Dirty South Election Tracker

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EXECUTIVE OFFICES:

Governor:
Gov. Duke                    7  (PiT, DWTL, BaconKing, Duke, Dan Adams, NCYankee, DaveHawk)

Lt. Governor:
Lt. Gov. Daniel Adams  7  (PiT, DWTL, BaconKing, Duke, Dan Adams, NCYankee, DaveHawk)


INITIATIVES:

Repeal of Freedom of Currency Act
Aye 4 (BaconKing, Duke, NCYankee, DaveHawk)
Nay 3 (PiT, DWTL, Dan Adams)

Help the Southeast Study for Serious Act
Aye 7 (PiT, DWTL, BaconKing, Duke, Dan Adams, NCYankee, DaveHawk)
Nay 0

Ten Commandments Act
Aye 3 (DWTL, Dan Adams, DaveHawk)
Nay 4 (PiT, BaconKing, Duke, NCYankee)

Act to Repeal Dirty South Capital Relocation Act
Aye 3 (BaconKing, NCYankee, DaveHawk)
Nay 3 (DWTL, Duke, Dan Adams)
Abstain 1 (PiT)

[Eraserhead]

No KOTBP related acts?

[DownWithTheLeft]

DWTL Analysis of the Elections

Well, the dust has settled and the elections are over.  Purple State, who looked dead has won, and the DA has swept into a tie for the senate lead electing 3 senators.  The election saw the senate lose possibly its most right-wing member in SPC, and most left-wing member in Lief.  Now what can we take away from this?

What has happened to the Atlasian left?
While the JCP continues to hold their at-large senate and dominate the Pacific region, the non-JCP is simply nowhere to be found.  I must admit that in strategy planning, the RPP never expected that Lief would lose, that SDP support had drained up that much.  The SDP was beginning to crumble when the Xahar scandal broke, but is the party down for good?  I think it may be, but they may rise from the ashes with a new party that possibly encompasses SDP members and some JCP members as well as left-leaning DA members.

Tales of my death have been greatly exaggerated...
Many seem to see this election as some sort of death curse on the RPP, and I could see why they would want to see this like that.  The fact is, when the RPP won two seats last time around it was nothing short of a miracle.  I, in fact, did not think running two candidates was even in our best interest.  We still hold 4 senate seats, 2 executive mansions, and have a prescene in nearly every region.  Sure the party that started out when the RPP did, the SDP, may have died but we are still going strong and do not feel defeated at all.  We missed by a very short number of votes of getting two seats, and more importantly we showed loyalty having not one member vote out of party.  Our 20+ voter block will be necessary for winning the next presidential election.

Well, maybe I'll have more thoughts later but for now good luck and congrats to the winners

[Purple State]

I don't think this election meant the death of either the hard right or left, but rather a rise of the center. The two leading voices of the extreme ends of the spectrum, Lief and SPC, were defeated while Afleitch and I joined the ranks of the Senate.

The RPP and SDP/JCP (or whatever rises from the ashes of the SDP) will surely play a large role in coming elections and in spurring policy initiatives; however, the DA's big-tent philosophy of practical governance and moderate ideology have won the day for now. This was my no means a referendum against the left or right, but was certainly a call for more pragmatic government and increased compromise.

[DownWithTheLeft]

I think you may be reading too much into it.  The elections are so close, it usually comes down solely to turnout.  If we had turned out our remaining 4 or 5 voters, we would have two seats?  Would that have meant right had prevailed over center?  No, just as the election of 3 DA candidate does not signal a victory for the center over the right.  The elections are about strategy and tactics, last time the right did the best job of it, this time the center.  Next time, who knows

[SPC]

NWA May/June Elections Tracker
Declared candidate
Speculative candidate
Incumbent*

President/Vice President
Senator PiT/Senator HappyWarrior
Senator Lief
VP Meeker

Senate

Pacific
Senator RealisticIdealist*
MaxQue

Midwest
Senator Masterjedi*
Wiston Disraeli
Vepres
Governor GMantis

Southeast (OPEN)
North Carolina Yankee

Mideast (OPEN)
Assemblyman Dan
Assemblyman Persepolis

Northeast
Senator Smid*
Eraserhead
RowanBrandon

Governors/Regional

Southeast
Governor Duke*

Lt. Governor Dan Adams*

Mideast (May)
Governor Inks*

Assemblyman Persepolis*
Assemblyman Dan*
Assemblyman Peter*

Northeast
Governor AndrewCT*

VACANT

[Countess Anya of the North Parish]

SPC i think you forgot GPORTER is running for prez.

[Purple State]

SPC i think you forgot GPORTER is running for prez.

That.

And loving how you post your own speculative candidacy for a seat. Can we consider that as good as a declaration?