[Pfeiffer] February Congressional Results/Analysis
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Congressional Elections
Solid work, USWP.
Turnout this month saw a slight dip in our overall vote percentage, but a slight uptick in our turnout numbers. From 79 to 83%, so I've got no complaints. We held our 13 seats, and once again I am confident in saying that our party boasts the best Congressional delegation in the Top 5. I am of course discounting Oblige bribing sixth party legends like Publius and Pearlswine with seats.
Party line voting still favors the weaker of the Top 5 parties, and I once again ask the wigs to reconsider this mechanic and shift back to regional voting. I'll lose the sleep for the rush sniping gives me, no question.
Members Elected
The Feds again lead with 18 Congressmen.
USWP with our characteristic high turnout producing 13 Congressmen.
AMP falters a bit, down from 10 to 9 Congressmen.
LAP does surprisingly well, garnering 9 Congressmen.
WTP drops to last place, with only 8 Congressmen.
I was a bit surprised to see WTP fall to fifth, given that LAP is the newest and arguably weakest of the Top 5, but with Oblige's blanket offer to Econ Council members for free Congressional seats, I'm not going to complain that we're getting some of those guys back.
Turnout numbers
I'm too lazy to make graphs this month, so I'll just give you the numbers. As always-
Disclaimer: Yes, I understand that these aren't pure turnout numbers, as we have players in 6th parties (or no party) who vote.
USWP - 229/274 = 83.5%
LAP - 160/202 = 79.2%
AMP - 168/226 = 74.3%
Feds - 328/465 = 70.5%
WTP - 151/238 = 63.4%
Personal Thoughts
While overall turnout was up, really look at the election shows us something weird. Feds picked up the most ground, voter wise, and added a seat to their delegation. LAP saw an impressive jump, which I attribute to not being as new, the addition of a PP who is willing to throw around his name and money to court 6th parties and 'foreign' voters and packing his delegation with non-LAP members.
Noted changes: Feds have 'aged up' their delegation, having more older and/or returning players than they did last month. LAP sees four of their nine seats go to Econ Council members who were not LAP members prior to this election. An interesting tactic.
BUT, here's the fun bit. The big winner and the big loser.
BIG WINNER
Economic Council
With the lack of bench depth in LAP, new member and PP Oblige hands out seats to Econ Council members in what appears to be an attempt to bolster the party reputation for having strong Congressmen. He fails to realize that nobody is going to give him credit for Pearlswine, Publius, Hekter, or Bobby. This makes the Econ Council the big winner, and Oblige wearing the dunce hat.
BIG LOSER
Despite WTP dropping to fifth and AMP holding third in votes received, the AMP was the only party to not gain a single vote from last month. 120 new votes, and not a single one went to AMP, costing them a seat in Congress and making them this months big loser.
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~Pfeiffer
Comments
Beep boop.
Bop
"Disclaimer: Yes, I understand that these aren't pure turnout numbers, as we have players in 6th parties (or no party) who vote."
If you understand it, why do you do those statistics than? Those are really wrong numbers. I don't want to make you angry by writing it, but I don't see a sense in that statistics.
Anyway, good article. Voted.
Btw.. what's your deal with Tyler Swift? 😃
The numbers show the influence of the parties. USWP is able to punch above our weight because some of our bigger names pull in votes, and we have strong relationships with some of the smaller parties and generally apolitical communities.
That is what the numbers are meant to highlight, and why I've pointed it out two months in a row.
The numbers aren't wrong, it's simply impossible to offer a more precise breakdown.
I agree that the numbers aren't wrong. But there are many factors you didn't consider. E.g. inactive members in parties, non-voting members in parties..
You didn't answer my last question😁
Sure, but (generally) inactivity is fairly uniform. At best you're talking maybe 2-3% difference in a party between the most active and the least, with the larger the party the larger the amount of dead people.
Also because Taylor. It doesn't need a reason.
Ok.
pwned
Betty Boop?
cCc Econ Council cCc
cCc 79% voter turn out for LAP with no sixth party deals cCc
You are proud to not support 6th Parties?
Hadn't considered the EC angle, interesting.
Great analysis as always, voted for Tay Tay
good job, my vote o/
~vote
I DEMAND A RECOUNT
I really would love to see the game go back to regional voting. I miss the days of staying up until reset to snipe and the work the congressmen had to do to win their seats
And the whinging wasn't as big of a deal. Give someone a region that isn't a fortress and they have a shot, and it's on them to get themselves a win...or at least within sniping distance. Now you've got to pick your favorites.
Which I don't mind, tbh.
Also, not sure every party could find 50+ people.
Or like, any party.
Cause game be dead, yo.
Truth, I highly doubt any party could find 50 people not to mention additional regions. Dead game is dead
Part of me thinks they made this change because of Murica.
OLD
PP - In charge of party funds, sorting regions for congress candidates, nominating CPs.
Congress - Run against people in region thus giving parties greater interest in how many regions and not what percent, forces hard campaigning and actual interest.
NOW
PP - In charge of nominating CP.
Congress - Run as a statistic.
And that's not even touching on BETA differences, either.
That's how i won my first congressional medal! I beat out Artela. Messaged like a mothertrucker!
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Regional Voting!
Solid analysis. Saved me some writing.
\o !
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cCc Trrbl EC Elitists cCc
Idk about everyone else but I like my EC LAP Congress buddies. Hekter has been pretty valuable to the party also and has done his part to help out since he has joined LAP along with AF work since he rejoined AF as well.
newer kids might not know, but old fu*ks will remember..
we used to run for Congress in individual states or occupied regions. Party Presidents would approve a candidate and assign them to a state or region, then the candidates would individually run an old fashioned campaign-- which sometimes turned into an interesting all out media brawl. Custer vs Pfeiffer and Custer vs Emerick stand out as particularly bloody battles, but damn, the adrenaline rush of hustling up votes and watching for the midnight results just couldn't be beat!
anyone else remember a particular campaign or political feud that really got you all jazzed up?
Or when the region you were running from could be conquered during an invasion and leave you without a seat xDXD
remember when Ajay/RGR slipped through the net and ran in some US-occupied region of Spain, and we ran a resistance war for Spain and lost the region in time to bump him off the ballot? hahahaha!
Still happens.
I remember when SEES tried to snipe out Fionia, and when MMF ran Zoli.
Good times.
And then Bernanke banged Mrs. Swift and the world is in order again!
Pfeiffer = Total Opposite of Tim Tebow.
AMP also lost about 30 members that voted in the last election in a failed (weak) PTO attempt. The voter turnout still increased, though our membership shrunk.
v for taylor
FIST
Were you behind a bush for that pic, Pfeiffer. 😉 Confirmed for stalker.