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eU.S. Fractures as D.C. Comes Under Attack
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At 5:06 A.M. server time, the Portuguese Army launched a full-scale invasion of the American capital, Washington D.C. The early morning assault came after a hard-fought Portuguese victory in West Virginia and decisive American victories in Iowa and Arkansas. With the American seat of government under attack, fracture lines among the country's most influential voices became apparent.
By 8 A.M., the citizen shout bar filled with a slew of campaign shouts and links to stories for and against the four best-known presidential candidates: Harrison Richardson, the incumbent president from the United States Workers Party; Emerick, a former Libertarian candidate; Chris Stanwick, formerly of the UIP and recently of the Umbrella Party; and Joshua Hoss, a dark-horse candidate from the UIP.
"Do PEACE a favor, vote Emerick for President!" one shout reads. "DO NOT SUPPORT CHRIS STANWICK," TimRugbyFlanker declares. In the midst of a strained war against PEACE, presidential campaigning took on a bitter note that surprised even veterans of previous acidic campaigns. One government source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said, "We still think HR will pull it through, but the way politics has gotten, he may not have much influence beyond the USWP."
American politics has grown bitter as PEACE continues to rack up votes, and there are now open questions as to whether any president elected on August 5th will have the crossover ability to speak as a representative of the entire United States. With members of different parties determined to support only their party candidate, the United States runs the risk of fracturing into factionalism and party-line infighting.
Even once unified parties have devolved into bitterness. In the Libertarian Party, Congresswoman Daphne Lilac issued a press release openly calling for Liberarian PP Claire Littleton to resign. The letter follows several days of strained relations between Lilac, who backs Chris Stanwick's campaign, and the Libertarian leadership backing Emerick.
A fracture in the Libertarian party would spell chaos for two-time candidate Emerick, who narrowly lost to Harrison Richardson in July's presidential race. Indeed, factionalism may be a positive case for the USWP, as an increasing field of Anti-Richardson candidates runs the risk of splitting the vote and returning Richardson to power for one more term. Where Richardson will serve if D.C. falls, however, is the question of the hour.
At 5:06 A.M. server time, the Portuguese Army launched a full-scale invasion of the American capital, Washington D.C. The early morning assault came after a hard-fought Portuguese victory in West Virginia and decisive American victories in Iowa and Arkansas. With the American seat of government under attack, fracture lines among the country's most influential voices became apparent.
By 8 A.M., the citizen shout bar filled with a slew of campaign shouts and links to stories for and against the four best-known presidential candidates: Harrison Richardson, the incumbent president from the United States Workers Party; Emerick, a former Libertarian candidate; Chris Stanwick, formerly of the UIP and recently of the Umbrella Party; and Joshua Hoss, a dark-horse candidate from the UIP.
"Do PEACE a favor, vote Emerick for President!" one shout reads. "DO NOT SUPPORT CHRIS STANWICK," TimRugbyFlanker declares. In the midst of a strained war against PEACE, presidential campaigning took on a bitter note that surprised even veterans of previous acidic campaigns. One government source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said, "We still think HR will pull it through, but the way politics has gotten, he may not have much influence beyond the USWP."
American politics has grown bitter as PEACE continues to rack up votes, and there are now open questions as to whether any president elected on August 5th will have the crossover ability to speak as a representative of the entire United States. With members of different parties determined to support only their party candidate, the United States runs the risk of fracturing into factionalism and party-line infighting.
Even once unified parties have devolved into bitterness. In the Libertarian Party, Congresswoman Daphne Lilac issued a press release openly calling for Liberarian PP Claire Littleton to resign. The letter follows several days of strained relations between Lilac, who backs Chris Stanwick's campaign, and the Libertarian leadership backing Emerick.
A fracture in the Libertarian party would spell chaos for two-time candidate Emerick, who narrowly lost to Harrison Richardson in July's presidential race. Indeed, factionalism may be a positive case for the USWP, as an increasing field of Anti-Richardson candidates runs the risk of splitting the vote and returning Richardson to power for one more term. Where Richardson will serve if D.C. falls, however, is the question of the hour.
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Nick, you certainly haven't been helping matters lately either. Your last article about the "shattered legacy" of HR was quite polemic and partisan. If you want to improve the political culture don't step down into the fracas.
And I mean this as a friend, which I consider myself to be to you.
Divide et Impera!
To be honest (and until the CvP makes their intentions known) there is only one Anti-HR candidate - Joshua Hoss. Emerick serves in the current administration and so far as refused to voice his concerns on whether or not the current administration is doing a good job. If you want more of the same I am sure either of those two would do (HR did say that a vote for either would be fine), but if you are not happy with the way things are going then you may want to check out someone else.
Zoli gtfo
Guys, just be patient. In a couple of weeks Zoli and the rest of PEACE will have to go back to high school.
Really Nick? Not including me in this? Not cool
Brendan E Austerion: Better thank yourself for Zoli for his help, and tips...
@mccvii - high school was so 90's
mccvii: The current and former leaders and officials of eHungary are mostly between 20-30 years of age, 20% vs 80% female vs male, partly students, partly employees (no unemployed is known by me), there are lawyers, architects, IT-experts, developers, financial strategists, brokers in our group, not rl-losers. We are all native hungarians mostly living in Hungary, partly hungarians living in Romania.
We have mostly come to free our original territories from eRomania.
Now we want to have only some fun.
Kovacskoko
ex-MoFA of eHungary (2 times)
Sales director of a market-segment leader software company in real life
lol I believe I was quoted in this article Nick
He's serve in Florida. It has the highest population and that'd be the new capital.
As long as the Hungarians don't force us to work in their underground sugar mines all will be fine.
<a href="http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/operational-pause-lifted-peace-poised-to-resume-offensive-880949/1/20" target="_blank">http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/oper[..]1/20</a>
PEACE Resumes Offensive!
Well done, Nick. You do your fair share for partisan politics, friend.
Man Nick, you sure know how to be hypocritical.
Read this
<a href="http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/a-modest-proposal-879818/1/20" target="_blank">http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/a-mo[..]/1/20</a>
...but you didn't exactly FINISH high school Zoli...you got kicked out!
JOSHUA HOSS FOR PRESIDENT!
Hoss for BOSS
The US have pretty much destroyed itself by not being able to unite. It saddens me.
DC is under attack?! Can we please not loss my home territory? (Again eRebulik's bordering regions baffle me, West Virginia is close to DC but it doesn't share an immediate border. As any body from the DC area should know the only states that border the District are Maryland and Virginia...)
This is a sad article that does nothing to make the situation better
Emerick might not be on the ballot as it is likely the Libs will go with Hoss and seeing as Stanwick won't have any top 5 support it seems that Hoss will have the best shot at winning.
@Kovacskoko - perhaps you are correct, however, another, much more humorous alternative is that your mom still writes your name on the waistband of your underwear. Which is more accurate still remains to be seen.
Anyhow.. have fun at the August meeting. Maybe next time instead of a cake you can cut little fruit slices into the shape of the white house.
Everdale I told you to knock off the partisan crap weeks ago you didn't listen and are still spewing it out you are part of the problem not the solution. You have no idea whats going on in your own party let alone the rest of the country. All your claims about the Libs are not true if you even care about being set straight come on IRC and I'll explain to you why you are wrong.
The Politicians should stop arguing and help with the battle for D.C.
Vote Josh Hoss for a better eAmerica.