CAS votes in thier president with a belching contest, which is kinda difficult to do with voting ballots.

Or wet t-shirt contests if the candidates are female.

Yeah, but that's the way it should be done in all countries.

Roz Hernandez ran again, and evidenced by a comment in SoNA calling her a, "two-time Presidential loser."

Personally, if I was a normal, everyday breeder UCASer there is no way I'd vote for Haeffner. Especially since every time I read the UCAS chapter of SoNA I get this real sense of dread and sadness, and it pains me to think of such a place.

The problem is that the '57 election had a lot of backstory they had to create for the candidates, and while I can believe it was intentional to downplay the '56 election, no one cared in '52 or even really mentioned it in '60 in canon or OOC. It seems too specific and uninteresting to put a lot of effort into it beyond a reference in SOTA:2064 or some other product with room for fluff.

You know... CAS has had two or three women Presidents. UCAS has had 0.

And they're backwards?

Well said.

IIRC, the UCAS has indeed had a female President. I don't recall if it was just an interim position though, nor do I remember her name off-hand (Betty Pritchard maybe???).

I do not understand in what way Saeder-Krupp is impeded in doing so now if they intended? With Cross, Knight, or without.

I do not expect a full-blown adventure like Super Tuesday, more like an annual update on what is going on behind the scenes. Something like "State of the Art", only about What's On, What's Off, Who's In, Who's Out. Fast Facts, Adventure Hooks.
Currently, you can see development only in the broad scale or on specific aspects.

Wasn't that the point behind SOTA?

I guess a Presidential election just doesn't seem exciting because, well, because the damn President and Vice President are bulletproof--or at least they are protrayed that way, and the mainstream media loves them.

Not that there isn't a shortage of reasons to not like them, and the litany of complaints can be awe-inspiring. Just around the second term a great dragon popped out of the rift less than (eh...) a mile from the White House, the shedim were unleashed (through said rift, apparently) creating zombies, the UCAS is playing the continent's cop, it's gotten overrun with security, parts of it are under martial law or "emergency" status pretty close to it, the environment sucks, there are no resources and recycling doesn't even cut it, the government's so corrupt that the VP is an active boardmember of a megacorporation and no one blinks and eye, oh... the whole SCIRE thing.

The most offensive thing is just how backwards the country is, and how the UCAS seems to be infinitesimally less free than the US is (in theory or reality).

But even beyond all that, people like the Dynamic Duo and, more to the point, who's going to demand changes who isn't going to be labeled a A/B/etc.-wing nut, assuming anyone notices at all?

BTW, I have begun noticing similarities between the '57 candidates (well, not Brackhaven) and the Dems. But that just shows how screwed up I am.

Of course, it just had a slightly different emphasis. Or how much information did you gain from it about the recent political or economical development?

It is not about the result of the election but about the way it is going. The drek-digging, the mud-slugging. Opportunities plentiful, I'd say.

I stumbled about this one as I first read Dunk's Secrets. Well, it is a non-profit-org, but still.

Anticipation of evolution?

While I am at it: Go Kerry! </ad>

I wouldn't know. I haven't seen it anywhere around here, and I don't buy books blind.

I meant Ares.

We could always consider these folks.

Thank you SO much for that visual, now excuse me, I have to go gouge out my mind's eye.

I think UCAS gets the attention because most cannon material is set in Seattle which is a part of the UCAS.Besides when you look at how the governments are set up the UCAS has a strong executive branch but the CAS seems to be a fist full of sand in a swiss watch-it dfoesn't budge and so lets the local government rule.

I am actually preparing some adventure work on this, because our ingame timeline reached a convenient point (we're lagging a little)

Yet there isn't that much info on it either. My reason to stay well behind the official timeline is because then I can see development and do my own thing without contradicting canon. However, this only works if there is official development. Instead, some things are almost never mentioned in years. And then, all of a sudden, a loud pop occurs, and the last five years' events are revealed as everything was there all the time, you just didn't see it. Hard to work with that.

That would really be participation of the players' community! Would it be representative, or worse, coherent with the über-plot, though?

I second that! Or even a book on its own: "Who is Who in 2064". I would buy it, I Promise. Does not need to be as thick as SONA or Dot6W.

By the way, what actually did happen to Schultz? Disappeared in SCIRE, alright. But since DEUS is gone? Anyone heard anything since?

Pritchard, probably. She was the highest-ranking Democrat for five years after Pres. Adams died (who IIRC was a Dem to his VP Steele's Technocrat), was the Speaker of the House from the time NAGNA came out to her ascendancy to the Presidency.

Interesting note, though, that of the five Speakers who ran for President of the US--not a one won.

One of the things that bothered me, and still bothers me about the '57 election was that there were 6 people running for President of the UCAS and only one had ever actually been elected to any office--Jim Booth. Hell, Adams wasn't an elected official when he became President. Neither was Steele, or Dunk. Actually, it goes back to Martin Vincenzo beating Pres. MaAlister in 2036. No idea about Pres. Preston.

Nothing, so far it's completely open to the author who will want to use it. IMO within weeks after the Will was read, even if there was many other world-shaking items in the will, there should have been plenty of press articles titling around the lines of "Dunkelzahn wants him dead : who's Lars J. Matthews ? An exclusive investigation". Maybe the whole thing happened and was solved under the radar (we don't know about every details of SR world afterall). Otherwise if the affair somehow arrives or comes back during the campaign, it could be a major reason for the Haeffner Administration to come to an end. People who would complain it would be an arbitrary choice from the authors could recognize that threat have been known for a long time. Of course if players are offered to vote (in a book or on the website), I guess they would care a lot less than UCAS voters about such an affair.

If Matthews happens to be a child molester or a terrorist, Daviar's popularity could probably get away with his death. But the slightiest indication that he could have been murdered could still be enough for an Impeachment, and since they're indenpendent, Haeffner and Daviar have no political party to rely on within the Congress. All'd be interested in eliminating her from the competition. Only Ares media machine could then maybe save her (well, Booth had Mitsuhama media machine with him during the 57 election, he ended good last, though true it's not clear if it's up to the 2056 rigged election issue or his so pleasant personality).

Nope, she is named, I just didn't bother to open my SSG. Her name's Natalie Stevens, she displaced one named Robert Castorelli.

BTW in NAGNA the Speaker of the House in the Adams Administration was William Sorenson. The President of the Senate was another democrat, Marianne Plaut. Talks in other chapter of NAGNA are dated from late 2053 and early 2054, but according to Super Tuesday Adams died the day after his inauguration in 2053, which should be late january 2053. So Ms. Plaut presidency might have ended with the 2052 Senate election.

Hmm, maybe I'm forgetting something from Super Tuesday. Else AFAIK there are no info on what Steele was doing before going on Adams' ticket. At least he was an elected VP when he became President (should the UCAS voters get away with the fact that when voting for ticket, the Constitution disctate that the VP can become their legit President).

Martin Vincenzo was an business man from Massachussets, no reference about an office he held before being elected. Jim Booth did hold the VP office before running the 56 elections, but he wasn't an elected VP. Don't know if he held an office before Steele chose him in 2053. You could argue he ran the 2057 election after being "elected" VP in the 2056 "election"

People probably forgot about Matthews, and just as likely, don't give a damn. I also figure that this would have come up in the first election.

Either way, I just don't see this as something big enough to threaten the Administration. It's just a human life, and given the description in SoNA, human life doesn't seem to mean squat to the FedGov anymore.

Ah, I stand corrected about Ms. Pritchard. But I thought the President pro tem was a Republican in NAGNA. Arnold Humphies or something; or if not in NAGNA, somewhere.

Yes, well technically he was elected in 2056. "Elected by whom," you may argue, but I'd still call that elected. Before he became VP in 2053, he was Adam's second (or third, or...) Secretary of State, appointed in 2051. Before that he was a corporate lobbyist and lawyer for the firm of Benton & Glakowitz.

I base my assertion, however, on the fact that they are described as "businessmen" and not "former/current/etc." governor, congressman, Senator, etc.