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Show us your exit polls!

Let's see how you ran your campaign!

from PolMach Forums
This thread is a thread for people who want to show off their exit polls and tell a little bit about how they won (or lost). Have fun!
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Reply #76 from PolMach Forums Top
for all you people who think reagan is unbeatable, listen to this. I beat him with 443 electoral votes. without cheating. with a custom candidate (no maxed out stats). How? i built hqs in california, texas, new york, florida, pennsylvania, illinois, ohio, michigan, and georgia. then, I got all the win endorsements besides NAFTA (he got it first) then I went to all the swing states and dropped a couple of smear mercheants and spin doctors, then spent the rest of the time creating tv ads in swing states, which got me more of his states and made more of his states swing states, then getting them.
Multiplicity - Control multiple PCs using one keyboard and mouse
Reply #78 from PolMach Forums Top
I had an interesting game the other day. I forget who my opponent was, but I was Tommy Douglas, and for some wierd reason, I didn't get a running mate. I still won though, but it would have been a lot easier with a running mate.
Reply #79 from PolMach Forums Top
I had an interesting game the other day. I forget who my opponent was, but I was Tommy Douglas, and for some wierd reason, I didn't get a running mate. I still won though, but it would have been a lot easier with a running mate.


There's got to be joke there somewhere.
Reply #80 from PolMach Forums Top
There's got to be joke there somewhere.


No, actually. I seriously had no running mate. When it was time to pick one, the choose running mate screen flashed, I clicked on something, and it went back with no exttra money or running mate. When the election results came up, it just said Tommy Douglas. And in the newspaper, there was just a background in the spot where the running mate was. Wierd, eh?
Reply #81 from PolMach Forums Top
No, actually. I seriously had no running mate. When it was time to pick one, the choose running mate screen flashed, I clicked on something, and it went back with no exttra money or running mate. When the election results came up, it just said Tommy Douglas. And in the newspaper, there was just a background in the spot where the running mate was. Wierd, eh?


Maybe it was Thomas Eagleton.
Reply #82 from PolMach Forums Top
Maybe it was Thomas Eagleton.




Well, we don't have running mates in Canada, so maybe that was it.
Reply #83 from PolMach Forums Top
So many important things I had to do today, and instead I spent the whole day playing this game. But this particular campaign was a blast:

Just for fun I created a candidate that I named "Bambi", with high charisma, high comeliness, and very low intelligence and credibility. I don't like the wacky issues in the "fantasy issues" list, (especially when matched with such a serious and realistic candidate ...) so I figured out how to hack the table and put in some issues of my own. Except, oops, typo: I was trying to come up with a "gun" issue to go along with gun control, etc, so I came up with "Hunting", like a conflict over hunter's rights versus environmental or animal rights people. Except that I intented to make Hunting be minus 15 for the Democrats, and instead I made a typo and made it plus 241. (If you know how to convert decimal to hex you'll see how I made that mistake.) Which made defending hunting about 8 times more important to the Democrats than any other issue. I was playing the Republican, so the Democrat was running around campaigning on just about nothing else. I kept trying to bring up other issues, but neither he nor his constituents cared much about anything else. And so he beat my poor Bambi to a pulp on that issue. Not that it did him much good ... final results:

Electoral Popular
Bambi: 464 75,338,000
Tom Vilsack 74 54,947,000

Issues:
All Bambi Vilsack
Hunting 65% 34% 65%
Preemptive War 10% 95% 4%
Abortion 3% 72% 27%
Universal Health 3% 56% 43%
Iraq 2% 64% 35%
Privatize SS 2% 83% 16%
Bear arms 2% 89% 10%
Jobs 2% 57% 42%
Judicial legislation 2% 34% 65%
Crime 2% 50% 49%

Interesting that he could make one issue 65% of the campaign, totally trounce me on it ... and still lose big.

Oh, a candidate like Bambi should be very careful about what TV shows she goes on. She lost a lot of support early on when she was left stammering trying to come up with an answer to what to do about Korean nukes. Besides that she seemed to make a pretty good candidate.
Reply #85 from PolMach Forums Top
i don't know how to post a screenshot, but I had an interesting game today. I tried to replay the 1972 election, because I wanted a challenge. Nixon vs. McGovern. I set it to weak economy, global war, and national rioting, and made Nixon the computer on Masochistic. It was hard because I was McGovern, and only had 11 stamina and limited fundraising capacity. I chose Shriver as my running mate, Nixon chose Cheney. I lost the popular vote by about 2 million, and was outspent and out-capitaled, but won the electoral vote 326-212 due to a narrow wins in California and a couple of other big states. I also got creamed on the issues:

Issue All McGovern Nixon
Fighting Crime 33% 15% 84%
Homeland Security 24% 19% 80%
War on Terror 15% 42% 57%
Fighting internal unrest 7% 73% 26%
Capitalistic policies 4% 26% 73%
War in Iraq (Vietnam?) 3% 37% 62%
Right to Bear Arms 3% 10% 89%
A Strong Military 2% 75% 24%
Tax Cuts 2% 2% 97%
Social Security 2% 69% 30%

We both lost our home states (SD and CA). By week 7 or 8, he got the Chamber of Business and Women's Association, and the whole map turned red except SD, which went red later due to his HQ there and ad campaigns early. The only things that kept me hanging on were a couple of level 3 HQs and I won the Foreign Policy and Unions endorsement later, then some of the other Democratic ones. I built some HQs around some states I thought I had a remote chance, and eventually became competitive and won (barely). I also got 2 time wasters, and missed an interview because of lack of stamina and funds to get out of the state I was in.
Reply #86 from PolMach Forums Top

Old geek: "so I figured out how to hack the table and put in some issues of my own."

Where is the table and hold do I open it?
Reply #87 from PolMach Forums Top
Alright! I beat Ronald Reagan as Franklin Roosevelt on Crippling level. At first, he had all red, but slowly it all turned back to me. My running mate was Jimmy Carter. His was Condy Rice.





A while back, I cremed George W. Bush as Howard Dean, on the tough level. Dean/Jefferson v Bush/Cheney

As you can see, I never win Florida. Democrat, Republican, no matter who I play as, it always goes the other way . They just keep punching for Buchanan.
Reply #88 from PolMach Forums Top

As you can see, I never win Florida. Democrat, Republican, no matter who I play as, it always goes the other way . They just keep punching for Buchanan.


Try a social security TV ad in the early stages. If you make it in one of the early weeks (before 10), your rating for social security will be over 100, and hard for the opponent to catch up on.
Reply #89 from PolMach Forums Top
errr....dean4us, something is wrong with this picture. You have PA as a blue state against Reagan, but yet the tally you show has Reagan winning the state. How could that happen?

Additionally, I see you place alot of ads in CA, which is great. But you would be better served by placing some ads elsewhere as well. If you would have put another webmaster in Florida and run some ads there as well, you could have won that state. National ads are great in that they give a bonus to your issue for every state, but if you actually place an ad in the state you want to win, it will do more for you. The TV bonus is one time only while an ad within the state will continue to help until you take that ad off the table. This will help you win those swing states.

I also think you should have done some speeches on the environment and on deficit reduction to make those issues more important to the electorate. You had everyone convinced you were on the right side of those issues, but not many thought those issues were important.
Reply #90 from PolMach Forums Top
I would also take your operatives out of the state that you have a level 3 HQ in. You will have 100% awareness there, you may as well have those guys help you elsewhere.

BTW, who was your veep?
Reply #91 from PolMach Forums Top
It took awhile to get the courage, but I took on Honest Abe and came out victorious. If would like to post the map but don't have access to a site I can download from. Anyways my candidate is me Link
The final electoral count was 319-219, though he outspent me $41.21-36.84 million, but I used more political capital 39-6 with the foreign policy, union and environmental endorsements. I used a webmaster in Cali and Florida, a fixer on his movie director in Cali, a smear merchant in PA and a spin doctor in The final actual vote was 82.89-76.77 million.
The issues went as follows:
Issue Importance Dem Rep
Terror 45 50 49
Crime 12 42 57
Death Pen 8 83 16
Homeland 6 45 54
Environ 5 88 11
Deficit 5 89 10
NAFTA 4 9 90
Jobs 4 78 21
military 3 15 84
Iraq 3 28 71
Reply #92 from PolMach Forums Top
Gen. Washington, I accept your sword of surrender. The father of our country was not up to the task of modern politics. Again the candidate was me (see prev post)
The final electoral count was 335-203, though I was ticked he took my home state of Iowa. He outspent me $38.64-32.77 million, but it did him not with the popular vote as he was beaten 85.66-73.28 million. Political capital was my ally 47-3 as I got the foreign policy, union, environmental and affirmative action endorsements. I was greatly helped by movie directors which I used to place numerous ads in PA and TX. Placed with webmasters and those things are deadly.

The issues went as follows:
Issues Importance Dem Rep
Terror 31 62 37
Crime 17 47 52
Homeland 12 53 46
Jobs 8 74 25
Outsourcing 6 92 7
Death Pen 5 61 38
Deficit 5 90 9
St Military 4 14 85
Environ 4 100 0
EQ of results 2 21 78

can anyone even tell me what equality of results means?
Reply #95 from PolMach Forums Top
sorry about the size. the original images are nowhere near that big. I tried to make the image smaller but no luck.