I am against tariffs unless it can be proven that the other country is acting unfairly in in trade by not buying American products, the other country is taking advantage of near slave labor wages, or they are flooding the American market with cheap low quality products in order to kill the American companies.
and, this is certainly a mind-boggling point. Does Bush know this? I'm sure he and Dick had a nice long talk and this was explained to him.
Matt, Jimmy and Prashanth your files should be there. For those whose copy of Jack Kemp is messed up here is the stats. //------------------------------------------------------------------------ CANDIDATE JackKemp //------------------------------------------------------------------------ FirstName "Jack" LastName "Kemp" Image "Kemp" _CHARISMA 5 _COMELINESS
What about Joe Lieberman? He's there. Sorry I didn't get him on my list. doctimus, your has been sent and the Jack Kemp stats are in.
Leslie I sent yours. I just noticed that by mistake I made Jack Kemp a Democrat. Actually, I haven't even done anything with him, so feel free to build him up.
It's 'stop-loss', and I'll go ask my neighbor (an AF recruiter) to provide me with the contract. The current military is over extended, yes. But you have to look at the reasons it came to be over extended. 8 years of Clinton downsizing didn't help matters much. I don't think that you can blame Bush for the entire pr
Actually, it does. Show me where. Stop gap was a separate law first used in the early 90s. Either way, the fact remains that 4 more years of the current policies will greatly overextend the current military.
Evan and Chris, yours have been sent.
If I am a member of a Reserve Component of an Armed Force at the beginning of a period of war or national emergency declared by Congress, or if I become a member during that period, my military service may be extended without my consent until six (6) months after the end of that period of war. That con
Excuse me have you been living in a cave? First and foremost, everyone get this through your skull! Bush *can not* impose a draft all by himself. He has to have the senate backing for that! Do you think your senator would vote *for* this? Not if he wants to keep his/her political career going they won't! I g
Anyone, Bueller?
Use Speeches. It will make the difference. They won't believe an ad on it's own as hearing it from you personally to back it up. If your Charisma is high the more they believe you. You could put an ad out saying how much (for example) you hate Spinach, but there's nothing so powerful as the population hearing how much you loathe
You can't define a political campaign by negatives. Kerry was the "Anybody but Bush" candidate. Jon Stewart showed a campaign poster of Kerry that said "I'm not Bush." I think that was a satirical but accurate assessment. The fact that the election was close at all surprised me. Here are my concerns these days (not necessa
whoman: Yes. I think that's fairly obvious. That said, they should come up with a better lableling system. I would consider 10% a pretty good margin of victory, but this map calls that even.
I finally did my dream matchup, RFK/Nixon in tough mode. I turned the unrest level to rioting to match the '68 status of the nation. The end result: RFK/Proxmire ticket 450 EC, 85.8 million votes spending 39 political points and $29.57 million; Nixon/TR 88 EC 56.8 million votes spending 6 political capital and $23.4. Nixon won only TX, MS, LA, AR, AL, KS, AK, UT, WY, SD, and ID. Even though I lost Texas 76-23, I could have very easily taken the sta
The war on terror and the war in Iraq are two totally separate things. The war in Iraq is a very small part of the deficit. If you are to believe administration figures, then the deficit is triple what the cost of the war in Iraq is. How about this, Washington stops wasting our money.
While I certainly don't agree with Moore, and he probably got more people to vote for Bush than against, he does make a good point. There was a poll published just before the election that stated that 75% of Bush supporters think the the war on Iraq and the war on terror were linked and that a similar number believe that Saddam Hussein played a role in 9/11. Never saw the film because I believe it caused a backlash because with the kernels of truth,
Je ne parlez pas francais
My guess would be that at the times you are searching, noone is there. I have never tried it myself, but there should be a button to set up challenges or be able to contact opponents.
This should probably be in the expansion suggestions thread, but I did not want it to get lost there. I think a new skill in the game should be luck. Some candidates are able to do just about anything and keep it from hurting them (Reagan comes to mind), while others could drown in three inches of water (McGovern and Dukakis come to mind). The luck skill could come into play as a random event with say a very effective or ineffective ad (Willie Horto
I know from experince that winning an endorsement makes that issue come up in at least 4 % important to the electorate. The game book says that speeches and ads change how important it is to the people, but how many ads does it take. I've had elections where I've advertised heavily on jobs, outsourcing and deficit reduction only to have that be a non-issue to the electorate. Are speeches more effective to make an issue important. I wish speeches we
The reason the map seems so purple is that it must have a limit of over 60% to turn it towards blue or red. The county I live in voted 55% to Kerry but is purple, while Johnson county to the south is blue, having voted over 60% for Kerry. Realistically, it would almost always be this way. Very few elections have a candidate consitently over 60%. The last to do so was Reagan in 1984, though Bush won quite a few states this time around over 60%.</fon
I wouldn't use the argument that Bush will definitely impose a draft. In some ways he already has, by imposing stop gap, those who wish to get out of the military cannot, those who wish to get out of Iraq can only do so by re-upping, and has brought to Iraq soldiers who did not know they needed to resign from the military when their inactive reserve time was up. Additionally he has used the reserves in a way which can only be described as exploitive.
Phillipe, you should have yours now..
Right now France is in the mode that anything that is in opposition to the American imperials is OK, whatever that means. Its lucky we weren't thinking that way in 1944 and bypassed France.