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Aug 9, 2023·edited Aug 9, 2023Liked by ettingermentum

Was trying to deliberately torch my campaign and I managed for McGovern to get 400+ EV... Great game so much fun!

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Just won as Hillary in 2016 with 49.7% of the vote and Trump getting 44.2%. The only way I could have blown it out even further would have been to just run as Bernie himself.

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You can run as Bernie as one of the mods on the showcase site!

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I will aim for nothing short of 75% of the vote. Deep South focus. Did that with Clinton and it paid off. I suspect that there will be a bonus with Bernie on calling out Trump as an out of touch psycho. Surprisingly paid off with Clinton (who is also out of touch), so I can only think Bernie will get even more credit for it. We shall see.

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This is actually much harder than you'd think. I have tried several permutations, and I can't even get a minor victory for Bernie. I don't believe this scenario is an accurate depiction of reality. It also waaaay over estimates the power of Bloomberg. Either it is a great simulator of showing how capitalism will always rally against someone like Bernie, or it is skewed. Maybe the first? That aligns with my overall ideology for sure. The only path to truly progressive politics is mass organization of the working class.

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You can totally win as Bernie—I’ve won in blowouts with him before in that scenario! You just need to make sure to get the right responses to the Bloomberg questions.

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This is telling me to never be a politician. I'll stick with Co-chair of North Alabama DSA. 🤣 Too radical to romance Bloombergians. But I will keep pressing buttons on this game until I get a favorable outcome. Wanted to run with Teri Sewell, but I got the best outcomes with Klobuchar

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Aug 8, 2023Liked by ettingermentum

Hell yeah! I'm glad TCT is finally living up to it's potential. My only complaint was that on the main site the mod selection is a bit janky still. This new showcase site fixes a ton of those issues. Thanks to everyone who worked on it, this looks amazing.

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Aug 8, 2023Liked by ettingermentum

This is the peak content I paid for. Also Jesus the Campaign Trail has come far, this is honestly so good it makes me want to restart work on a SDKÚ-DS 2012 project I wrote out a few months ago. Incredible work on part of the lead dev, you and the entire team.

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Thank you for the kind words! That project sounds fascinating. Best of luck to you.

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Sounds fun.

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Aug 8, 2023Liked by ettingermentum

Cool scenario, but it's a little unclear who I'm running against. Didn't realize that Wallace was the nominee until the final results came in!

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It should tell you that he was nominated in the question about the convention.

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Aug 8, 2023Liked by ettingermentum

President jackson won.

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