What we learned on Election Day
Day 1,021, 00:36
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by ligtreb
EDIT: The original article is now outdated
The admins intervened around the world, taking away illegal votes from multi-accounts. Krems is now the winner in the USA by 6 votes.
I wrote an update to this article, but am leaving the original below for historical purposes.
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First, I want to congratulate Cromstar on his election to President of the United States. Cromstar is a long-time friend of mine and I'm confident he will do well as President. He's well-qualifed and has the right temperament for the job.
That being said -- I have not been more surprised at the result of an election in a long time. I expected Krems to win easily. Most of the active citizens I know expected Krems to win easily. And why not?
Krems was president during successful military campaigns into Russia.
Krems had the advantage of incumbency.
Our economy grew under Krems, as was found by Congressional Budget Office Director Dr. Tango
How could Krems not win?
Well, we learned three things on election day:
1) You have to campaign to win, no matter how successful a president/candidate is
2) Party endorsements matter
3) Pizza the Hut got a much higher total of votes than is comfortable
CAMPAIGNING
A plurality of the country either didn't see the accomplishments that happened under Krems' presidency, didn't care or thought Cromstar can do better. I'm not saying that's right or wrong, but these are the facts.
A plurality of the country wanted to see campaigning and Cromstar campaigned a ton. He wrote often, got his name out there, advertised and worked on party endorsements (more on those later).
Cromstar did everything a Presidential candidate should do. Krems did not. I saw no campaigning from Krems or his staff, while I received personal messages and saw forum posts and articles in support of Cromstar daily.
The country has spoken: Campaigning matters. Cromstar successfully convinced a pluarility of the country he is the better candidate, and thus deserves to be our President. I look forward to seeing him in action this month.
Every future Presidential candidate should take note: No matter how awesome you are, you have to campaign to win. No exceptions, not even incumbents.
PARTY ENDORSEMENTS
Another contributing factor to Cromstar's big upset was party endorsements.
3 of the Top 5 parties in the country backed Cromstar
2 of the Top 5 parties in the country backed Krems.
Cromstar won narrowly.
Outside of his own party (SEES), Krems was only able to win the Federalist endorsement. Cromstar worked hard at winning party endorsements, spending lots of time in the IRC rooms and forums of the USWP, UIP and ADTP. It paid off, clearly.
In the past, Presidents were able win by overcoming more party endorsements. I know this firsthand, when I became Vice President under Chocolate McSkittles, the largest party in the country (the APF) endorsed Colin Lantrip. Choc and I won anyway.
Now, I'm not so sure. Party endorsements are important. Every party member should register on their party's forums and vote in their Presidential Primary. Each Top 5 party had low turnout in their primaries, we see now they are extremely important.
Every future Presidential candidate should work hard at winning party endorsements.
PIZZA THE HUT
He got nearly 200 votes. This is unacceptable, read some of my old articles for info why. The tl;dr version: Pizza the Hut has approved the citizenship requests for dozens of Phoenix members who have a history of fighting against America.
I fear that as our active population continues to decrease, there's a real chance that Pizza the Hut could not only get his party into the Top 5, but he can win the Presidency and get his anti-American sympathizers a majority in Congress.
This is a real problem folks. One that can't be ignored. Never underestimate him, there's a reason why our CIA has named Pizza the Hut the #1 threat to America.
THAT'S ALL FOR NOW
Thank you all for reading, it is greatly appreciated.
The admins intervened around the world, taking away illegal votes from multi-accounts. Krems is now the winner in the USA by 6 votes.
I wrote an update to this article, but am leaving the original below for historical purposes.
*************************************************************
First, I want to congratulate Cromstar on his election to President of the United States. Cromstar is a long-time friend of mine and I'm confident he will do well as President. He's well-qualifed and has the right temperament for the job.
That being said -- I have not been more surprised at the result of an election in a long time. I expected Krems to win easily. Most of the active citizens I know expected Krems to win easily. And why not?
Krems was president during successful military campaigns into Russia.
Krems had the advantage of incumbency.
Our economy grew under Krems, as was found by Congressional Budget Office Director Dr. Tango
How could Krems not win?
Well, we learned three things on election day:
1) You have to campaign to win, no matter how successful a president/candidate is
2) Party endorsements matter
3) Pizza the Hut got a much higher total of votes than is comfortable
CAMPAIGNING
A plurality of the country either didn't see the accomplishments that happened under Krems' presidency, didn't care or thought Cromstar can do better. I'm not saying that's right or wrong, but these are the facts.
A plurality of the country wanted to see campaigning and Cromstar campaigned a ton. He wrote often, got his name out there, advertised and worked on party endorsements (more on those later).
Cromstar did everything a Presidential candidate should do. Krems did not. I saw no campaigning from Krems or his staff, while I received personal messages and saw forum posts and articles in support of Cromstar daily.
The country has spoken: Campaigning matters. Cromstar successfully convinced a pluarility of the country he is the better candidate, and thus deserves to be our President. I look forward to seeing him in action this month.
Every future Presidential candidate should take note: No matter how awesome you are, you have to campaign to win. No exceptions, not even incumbents.
PARTY ENDORSEMENTS
Another contributing factor to Cromstar's big upset was party endorsements.
3 of the Top 5 parties in the country backed Cromstar
2 of the Top 5 parties in the country backed Krems.
Cromstar won narrowly.
Outside of his own party (SEES), Krems was only able to win the Federalist endorsement. Cromstar worked hard at winning party endorsements, spending lots of time in the IRC rooms and forums of the USWP, UIP and ADTP. It paid off, clearly.
In the past, Presidents were able win by overcoming more party endorsements. I know this firsthand, when I became Vice President under Chocolate McSkittles, the largest party in the country (the APF) endorsed Colin Lantrip. Choc and I won anyway.
Now, I'm not so sure. Party endorsements are important. Every party member should register on their party's forums and vote in their Presidential Primary. Each Top 5 party had low turnout in their primaries, we see now they are extremely important.
Every future Presidential candidate should work hard at winning party endorsements.
PIZZA THE HUT
He got nearly 200 votes. This is unacceptable, read some of my old articles for info why. The tl;dr version: Pizza the Hut has approved the citizenship requests for dozens of Phoenix members who have a history of fighting against America.
I fear that as our active population continues to decrease, there's a real chance that Pizza the Hut could not only get his party into the Top 5, but he can win the Presidency and get his anti-American sympathizers a majority in Congress.
This is a real problem folks. One that can't be ignored. Never underestimate him, there's a reason why our CIA has named Pizza the Hut the #1 threat to America.
THAT'S ALL FOR NOW
Thank you all for reading, it is greatly appreciated.
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1st? Congrats to the winners.
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Congrats Crom and well done to krems, incredible term leaves a lot for crom to live up to o7
Congratulations to all the winners. The one factor that is skewed is that the incumbent is assumed to have had the plurality to have won in the first place. Due to the political situation at the time we will never know who the voters actually wanted to win last month. If a large enough percentage of voters were disenfranchised by the results of last months game mechanic dodging election that could help explain the results of this months election. The other element to acknowledge is the relatively low total number of votes cast. Either our country had extreme voter apathy this month, or we are really starting to notice the effect of v2 on the population.
great article liggy ♥ i agree as well, cromstar is just reaping the bounty of his efforts so congratulations to him! and someone should ban PtH ASAP http://tinyurl.com/39ymvpr 200 votes is not a joke
#3 is very true. Good article liggy
PtH had me fooled too, i joined his party initially because of somthing said in one of the official US government papers. Once the admin said he was a PTO threat to the US i quite, but i still wasn;t sure who to vote for because everyone was saying everyone else had been a PTO candidate.
I just voted for the incumbent just to be safe.
Pizza the Hut is a America's future!
THe guy above me is a true blue non-native english speaking American.
True article is true.
what Steinus Maximus said.
True true. Good way to put it out there.
well you should recheck the election result xD
coz krems in now winner \o/
Killing the Rubots and fixing the economy work too. Not to mention admins finally doing something about multies.
What you learned on election day: the deletions made by the admins to the votes make a difference in the case of a close election, like this one. Krems is the winner now, congrats to him, but by now I don't much care about races for the president.
Article needs to be updated. good article tho.
Sending really involved players on ATO missions makes a difference, too. My guess is that this electorate was younger than others in the past.
yeah lets congratulate the runner up 1st!
Good point Jon, but you're not forced or required to go on ATO... you SIGN UP for it. I did because I couldn't care too much about the president of the US, and thus ended up with Bosnian citizenship for election day, but if you were involved and heavily supported Krems or Cromstar then simply don't sign up for ATO.
>You have to campaign to win, no matter how successful a president/candidate is
I would disagree.
Was Krems running?
Fail article is fail.
gagah Day 1,021, 07:16
>You have to campaign to win, no matter how successful a president/candidate is
I would disagree.
Yes, you would. Instead it is much easier to cheat. Now don't get me wrong I am not accusing you of cheating because I have no proof. However, you are a liar and a coward. I have demanded that you show proof that I am a traitor and I get complete silence. So once again here is your accusation http://eusforum.com/index.php?topic=28424.0 and I am still waiting for you to grow a pair and come out into the light you sniveling coward!
great article. anyway krems won 🙂
Fail pizza is fail.