President Forever results thread...

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From the lolz department: When I was endorsed by the Alabama News, it got a -1 spin, when most/all other endorsements are +/-. Alabama lol

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I played in my home-made France-in-the-US game as Nicolas Sarkozy, who picked Francois Goulard (lolz) as his running mate.

Fabius came from behind, losing every state, to beat Royal and picked DSK as his running mate.

Sarkozy/Goulard (R) 40,385,127 34.5% (383EV)
Bayrou/de Sarnez (Centrist) 33,092,866 28.3% (134EV)
Le Pen/Le Pen (C) 22,201,26319% (21EV)
Fabius/Strauss-Kahn (D) 21,223,763 18.2% (0EV)

Sarkozy won FL by 6,373 votes over Bayrou (his home state in this scenario)

California was a four-way race, Sarkozy taking 27% against 26.7% for Le Pen, 24.3% for Fabius, and 22% for Bayrou.

Le Pen was not on ballot in OK and Bayrou was not on the ballot in NH.

IL was weird. Sarkozy was leading or tied with Bayrou throughout the campaign there.

Like in France, pollsters were wrong on Le Pen: he was at 8% in the last poll IIRC.

     Did you then do a one-on-one race between Sarkozy & Bayrou to simulate the Deuxième Tour?

Yes.

I think all Bayrou voters forgot that there was a runoff that day and slept all day.

Sarkozy/Goulard (R) 60,338,870 99% (538EV)
Bayrou/de Sarnez (Centrist) 624,068 1%

Bayrou's best was 5.3% in DC.

Lol @ turnout. Any idea at what % turnout 61 million votes is?

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Primary battle!

Royal vs. Fabius vs. DSK vs. Hollande vs. Lang vs. Jospin

and

Sarkozy vs. Chirac (me)

After January prims.

Dem

Rep. I have no clue what happened. Chirac was down in all states by double digits, then I got Dupont-Aignan's endorsement (the annoying kid from Essonne, you know), came ahead in Maine, then, bum, landslide in Iowa and then landslide all states, even if I was down there.

After Feb.

Dem. DSK withdraws after Potomac primaries (loses MD, his 'home-state' here). Hollande and Jospin drop out and endorse Fabius after WI. Now, Fabius has 1542 delegates, Royal has 1153, and Lang has 70. Then Lang drops out for Fabius.

Rep. I secure the nomination for Chirac. I think there is a hack in this part of the game somewhere.

Final

Dem. Fabius is basically the nominee, but Royal wins a good number of primaries. Then she drops out.

Rep. Sarkozy stages a huge upset in PA and then polls ahead in all other primaries.

Chirac 1941 vs. Sarkozy 394

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Then what?

I just finished the primaries. Give me some time.

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Current map?

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New week- Chirac attack ads on Fabius, Le Pen boost to 7% nationally

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New map - Le Pen surges to 15.6% and has Big 'Mo

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New map - All candidates suffer, but Le Pen drops to 13.1%. My hard hitting ads on him helped.

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New map - Bad week for Chirac- tired, loses debate to Fabius

Fabius is now the man to destroy (I've got two scandals waiting).

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New map- Chirac rebounding a bit. Le Pen down to 10%, Bayrou up to 4%. I think the ads on Le Pen destroyed him.

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New map - Bayrou up to 6%, seems to hurt Fabius more than me.

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Update - Bayrou up to 10%, Le Pen at 8%, Chirac ahead of Fabius

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Update- This game is weird. Bayrou and Le Pen are now tied with 11-10% each about.

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Last poll

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Chirac/Fillon (R) 46,088,445 39.4% (327EV)
Fabius/Royal (D) 39,119,624 33.5% (211EV)
Bayrou/Morin (Centrist) 16,138,746 13.8%
Le Pen/Le Pen (C) 15,509,573 13.3%

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I have a question. With a French what-if, how would it work? A candidate needs to get an absolute majority of both the Electoral Votes and popular vote in the first round, or else the candidate with the most popular votes and Electoral Votes in the second round wins, for example?

Not at all. My scenario just uses French candidates in an American electoral system.

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but it took me about four weeks to research one scandal (WTF?),

That's nothing. It took me the whole election once to research a scandal on Fabius in my French scenario.

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Why the need to post a million 538-EV sweep maps?

Unless you win 99% of the vote at the same time, like Sarkozy

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What elections do you have?

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CPUSA @ 2%. Good days.

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Why the need to post a million 538-EV sweep maps?

I'm sure we get your point by now.

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KY and AK? Lolz.

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When you hack ads in the Canadian version, you automatically win in a landslide. I won a majority government as the Green Party just by hacking the ad codes.

I haven't noticed the same thing in the P4E. The election isn't a landslide.

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Why the need to post a million 538-EV sweep maps?

I'm sure we get your point by now.

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This game is alot more diffucult than I expected.

Yes, it's quite difficult sometimes.

And very weird. I lost 310-228 in the EV, but won 51.7-48.3 in the PV playing as Jean Royer.