The Let's Play Archive

The Political Machine 2016

by TheMcD

Part 9: - Week 2, Take 2

Week 2, Take 2



The people have spoken!

code:
State:

Ohio:       IIIII <- one added tiebreaker vote from me
California: IIII

Action:

Build:             IIIII <- one added tiebreaker vote from me
"Raise Awareness": IIII
Fundraise:         I

(Outreach 1)

Issue:

Securing The Borders: III
Fighting ISIS:        III
Don't Care:           I
I broke the tie in favor of Ohio and Build because getting a HQ up in Ohio quick is definitely something I would have done if I was playing.

With those votes, I decided on this plan:



Fly to Ohio...



...build an Outreach Center.



Fly to California... and, well, this is where a bit of a problem for me comes in. You told me to "raise awareness", and, well, a lot of things do that. My original plan was to hold a speech, but derp, turns out we're one stamina point short for that. I could put down an ad, but that's not primarily an awareness booster, more an issue score booster.



So the awareness boosting option is to upgrade our Outreach Center from level 1 to level 2, moving our "slight state awareness bonus" to a "state awareness bonus" that helps us every week. This should be the most effective option for boosting awareness quickly.



And so, that's week 2 in the books. Time to move to week 3 and see what that holds for us.



Michelle's turn is relatively simple. She builds a campaign HQ in New York, and she also puts down a ground game ad over her supporting Reducing Wealth Gap. That latter one seems a bit a wasted move, given that we're not going to contest New York (or maybe we are? I wouldn't, anyway). Finally, she flies to Pennsylvania for the awareness boost and maybe building a HQ next turn.



We keep losing electoral votes in these polls and I don't know why. Again, I have no idea how this shit works on even the most remotest of levels.

VOTING

As established, vote for a State, an Action and an Issue. Issue carryover from the last two votes is that Fighting ISIS, Securing The Borders and Social Security is wanted.

Personally, I still think we would be well off continuing to build. Still many states out there we could do something with.

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