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The standard difficulty, can't remember what it is called... medium? average? And in this case, I'm sure it was not building level. I was surprised at this trend in a previous game, so, as a check, I started a new game, made sure the candidates had the same experience rating, built my outreach building on turn one, and watched carefully what he did, checking what he built each turn and double checking the map. Mirroring his building, he got WAY ahead on endor

Early in the game, both I and my opponent build an outreach center (level one) on turn one. We have the same experience rating. Yet, he has two endorsements before I can afford my first. Obviously, I am missing some factor here. What do I need to be doing to keep up?

Upon further experimentation, I don't think positive ads work as the text says they do. The text on the ad creation screen for radio says: "Change your position on issue; state change 2, national change 1 +1 national awareness increase plus 2% to position per week" So as a test, I run a radio ad for a couple weeks. In neither that state nor in other states do the voters change their position. In that state, voters recognize my position better. (In

Dems, Independents, Republicans, I and my opponent all believe reducing unemployment. So I attack my opponent in a speech for not believing in reducing unemployment. The result is that my Dems, Indpendents, and Republicans believe less strongly in reducing unemployment. My opponent's rep is somewhat affected, too -- he is perceived as believing less strongly in reducing unemployment, but not enough to make this strategy workable. This seems just plain w

I got that from the tutorial (the only manual I see). Now that you point it out, I see the help text on the ad screen, too. And it makes much more sense this way. But the tutorial/manual should be corrected.

I remember playing this game in the past, but I am just picking up the 2012 version now, and I am finding the advertising choices very odd. In the real world, TV ads are king. Effective television advertising (and the money to do it) has dominated recent presidential elections. But it seems to me that TV ads are not the clear choice in this game. A radio ad campaign costs considerably less, and changes voters minds twice as much! And increases national awaren