NOTE: This is not an official survey or whatever. It's just me and my curiosity.

After election polls show a potential lead by the SIP, polls close early due to terroristy threats. Military units close down voting booths to combat the bomb threat, and the Republican candidate wins by a narrow margin.

-Frank

Anyone care to explain their vote?

Does it matter? The election is a joke.

But I imagine the technomancer will win because it's a good tie-in for Emergence and because anywhere else she would deserve to die or lose in a humiliating blow-out because the people she's relying on to vote for her either wouldn't, or would get drowned out in the mass of people voting for a more legitimate candidate like Brackhaven.

Either way, this is just one more example of why I think politics in SR is anything but intelligent and well-written.

Whoever is the best at bribing

I hear Strouthers has a Master Shedim working on her campaign staff...

His staff.

Right you are, SL James. His staff. I misread the candidate's name as Julia, instead of Julius.

I think Seattle Independence would be interesting, and that's certainly the candidate I'd prefer. But Brackhaven is a racist, and a Republican, and clearly the more "villainous" of the three candidates, so I think it's fair to say he's going to win.

Brackhaven. Why settle for the lesser of two evils?

The coverage of politics is generally pretty much crap. However, politics is not a field for the stupid.

That said, I'd be shocked if actual politicians were involved anywhere in this thing. Parties usually only submit novices for high political office when they are expected to lose, and in a city-state like Seattle there would be no shortage of people who earned their way in the parties, and in the public eye.

Good start.

I voted for the incumbent because Brackhaven is a racist and therefore a loser asswipe who should be ejected into outerspace (he's probably a sexist, homophobic, antilabour, tree killing, toxic totem worshipper too.)

You make that sound like a bad thing.

damn trees... thinking they're better than us.

yeah and they "produce more pollution than cars." (RWR)

I voted for Dunklzahn! (Post-Humously)

Which book is this election set up in?

Thanks JonkWK, I haven't gotten to read through that one yet.

My answer my be boring and may not agree later with books...

But I say let the PCs actions effect the outcome of the race. I'm not saying that the people the PCs back should win, but I feel that a game where the PCs back one of the "runners" could be a fun game.

Thanks for the idea...

yeah, the main problem there is "not agreeable with later books".

assuming the SOP is followed, every year IRL is gonna be equal to one year advanced in game time...

Brackhaven, Brackhaven, gooooooooooo, Brackhaven!

One of the more disappointing things about the whole thing was that when I was writing up some information about ... stuff ... the Technocratic Party effectively imploded in 2068 after Colloton's win, proving that its role as the third-party was not going to survive its own dismal history, the fact that the UCAS government is optimal for only two major parties, and that the two political parties which have been fighting each other since Lincoln was first elected finally got sick of their shit and took them out to the woodshed.

Instead it was the Archconservatives, which is fucking boring, and the Republican Party is tearing itself apart rather than using its newfound influx of former Technocrats to dominate American politics for the next generation. And on top of that, we get a man who has been painted as teh devul for the last decade IRL as their gubernatorial candidate. It's so clever that Republican is an evil wingnut that it makes me want to bash my nutsack with a hammer.

It won't be Brackhaven, we just ended his career last night. With a bullet.
Go Ork Underground! Power To The People!

One word: Master Shedim (ok, it´s two )

What brought the idea that Strouthers is supported by a Master Shedim?

I voted for Josaphine because I think a bid for independence on Seattle's part would make a great campaign. A near loss with suspicious goings on or a clear win that gets revoked some how, either by political fanagling, by military intervention, or assassination (character or otherwise) would be even better. Viva la Revolution!!!

Brackhaven winning would certainly make for interesting times in Seattle. Which I think is probably reason enough to have it happen. Then somebody can go and assassinate him. Everybody wins!

Of course if he did win I'd expect him to be pretty devious and subtle in playing out his anti-metahuman agenda. In my campaign (circa 2061) I had him playing quite the philanthropist- offering to build brand new Ork and Troll schools that could cater to their specialist needs. Of course none of my players seemed to be buying it, even though I was quite open to the idea that Brackhaven might actually be, at heart, a good guy playing a difficult game.

Just thought it'd make for a nice twist. Brackhaven turns out to be helping the Ork cause, but he's been playing it real subtle so as not to give the game away or lose his support. EDIT: I was certainly trying to portray him at the very least as a 'realistic racist'. But that's another thread entirely. Let's not go there again.

I think the fact that he pissed off the President (and de facto head of his "new" party) means even if he wins, he may have lost more than he would have gained. I mean, considering that the election of 2070 is also a referendum on her administration, whatever role and power the Republican party has in Washington (which I've been working on building up as, "a lot"), and the fact that she's going to be starting her own re-election campaign just a few months after the election means that even having a Republican governor of Seattle in Brackhaven may be more of a pain in the ass than it's worth. And when it comes the the future of campaigning, when people stop wanting to be seen with each other it tends not to bode well for them or the party.

I like your thinking, Witness.