nevermind, I found another thread asking tthe same question... and I don't like the answer... (you CAN'T set your candidates positions before the game).... you do so thru advertising and speeched DURING the game... that is great to REINFORCE your positions among the voters, but not to establish your positions in the first place...
Frankly that is just nuts... How you start in the polls in each state should be dependent on the voter's perception of your position on the issues. Clearly each state leans toward one candidate or another at the start of each campaign on each issue, so somewhere "hidden" in the code, clearly the candidates have "positions" on the issues at the start of each campaign.
I must be missing something, but how in the heck do you set a custome candidate's positions on the various issues in the game? surely these can be set on a candidate basis, and not left simply to what speeches a candidate gives or what ads he/she runs during the course of any given campaign....
I got the impression from a brief message board chat with the designer that it still be biased towards the Democrats I completely disagree with that assesment, and based on more discussion over at PP3 I beleive you may have changed your opinion of this as well?
very possible... in 2000 had Gore won WV but lost VT it owuld have been a 269/269 deadlock... would have gone to the House for decision...
next time a bug is reported I would suggesst that the response not be "no, no, no, it can't be a bug! it must be your personal attributes or something that we can't see on your screenshot!" for several days straight
of course Iran and North Korea were and are bigger threats- anything is bigger than nothing. And we will never war against Iran or North Korea for the simple reason that Bush has no personal agenda or vendetta against the leaders of those countries; the sole reason we went into Iraq.