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Part I


Wilson Pollack and Moishe won all the votes cast in their respective states. This is only so uncharacteristic in Moishe's state, not so much Wilson Pollack's because he ended up running unopposed due to exclusion of the Nationalist Party candidate. In Alabama, however, this seems to suggest that Moishe's opposition was either nonexistent or not voting. Regardless, I don't supposed this is something we see often. o_o

Illing INC, Wilson Pollack, and Ananias won the election with no presentation. I cannot understand how this should happen. Pollack was running alone, so this is somewhat understandable, though I would have shown respect for your constituents by at least trying. He's also unemployed, so I'm not sure if he's even active. Feel free to prove me wrong, but we may be having a 50 member Congress. I believe these three Congressmen should publish goals in their newspapers and make known what their intent is even though they have already been elected. o_O

West Virginia, South Dakota, Wyoming, and North Dakota had the highest turnouts. South Dakota's turnout has been a matter of intense controversy for some, most particularly, the losing candidate. SirChaos, the third place contender, recently wrote an article about how the RFC winner, James MacKennon, "came in, with 1-2 days to go before the election, moved into our state, brought a group of friends to move here, and get him to win the election." With a small population it was easy for the MacKennon group to win South Dakota. While this would seem extremely unethical, in eRepublik, there's frankly not much to complain about. It happens a lot and regional matters are not nearly as important as they are in real life. While hospitals and defense systems are important, there are not as many specifically regional things involved in Congress. I extend sympathy to SirChaos and Cooper Jackson, but all's fair in love, war, and politics, whatever you may think about it. 😕

Arkansas, North Carolina, and Wisconsin had the lowest turnouts. The number of votes wasn't bad, per se, only the percentages, that were barely over 20% Other states had less people voting, but had a higher turnout. For example, my state of Maryland had only 10 voters, but that was a higher turnout than in these three states. 😐


The effect of the Christmas elections may have ousted some prominent politicians. Justinious McWalburgson III, a prominent UCP politician, lost in Florida. However, turnout in Florida was relatively high at about 42% and he only lost by 12 votes. Uncle Sam, Rocco Baldelli, Lukasz Makowski, LeoRuby, and Nonesuch have all be regarded as significant by significant portions of the US population, but all of them lost in Congressional elections. Turnout on Christmas may have taken quite a toll on our government. 🙁


A large amount of Congressmen were elected with only 3 or 4 votes in their regions. There seem to have been some ties, as well, and the seat went to the more experienced (in experience points) candidate in such situations. If mandates were something to be readily considered in eRepublik, very few candidates would have one. Moishe does, though. 100% of the vote with opposition. Nice. 🙂


Overall, we had1174 Americans (14% of the population) vote on December 25th in the year 2008, the last elections of that year. :-}

Fun Number: I reached 14 subscribers. Summa Res Publica is currently ranked the 201st newspaper in the USA. There are small things to be said for that, I guess. Vote and subscribe if you please. 😃