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Brett Burton

You sure it's legal for mister Burton to become POTUS? I'd say it's even more of a birther debate than before

Never even heard of that guy! 'Brett' and 'Burton' are names of some of my friends, which I mixed up, so..

A total unknown better not be POTUS by January ...

Middle Way? I could see Ahnold pulling it off. Sex scandal, citizenship and all.

There's always this handy little guide to help determine if there's a legitimate shot...
http://2008election.procon.org/view.resour...sourceID=001566

Not much my place to say, but couldn't you just Brett Burton your way into a military character with substantial rank? It's sort of a stretch to no-name into POTUS, not to mention in an RP where we're going from current events onward. (Unless I missed the memo and this round is starting at the end of the last round) It'd be simpler to just elect the already known candidate of your choice, reflecting an event that may shape the election, and then policy swapping after the first year I'd say into office.

Then, with this military character of yours you can have influential events from him occur. Nothing massively state-changing, but some melodrama never hurt anybody.

'Tis just my two cents.

US politics simply doesn't permit a nobody to become president in six months. In 2016 it would be a different story.

Thus my suggestion for writing this character in elsewhere.

Politician, Military, up and coming Programmer... whatever you want, but give it some back story over the next in-game 4 years.

/Stops tossing pennies in/

Every candidate sucks, though, and what major event would cause any of them to suddenly change policy?

If it helps any, the vote is going to be very highly split--something like 31% Obama, 33% Romney, 36% Burton--and I still plan to write several posts in the coming week or so to fully legitimize/explain this. Give me a little time to flesh it out, remembering that 3Q2012 is lasting for two weeks, so there's plenty of time to change things around if it doesn't work out.

... When did a President keep all his promises and carried out strictly his projected policy?

/Now I'll stop, with certainty, throwing in my pennies... I need them, you know... to throw at people... like really cheap strippers./

Everybody seems to be forgetting that there's this thing called a Vice President...

Where are those strippers?

I can tell you where those strippers aren't, and it's not in my head.

It's in my ego.

I'm all for it. If a do-nothing junior Senator from Illinois can become President, and beat a very qualified candidate in the primaries, then I think anyone could provided that he (or she) has a good group of handlers.

Okay, well... Max has a point.

I, also, have more pennies than I thought prior. Dammit, I'm going to stop though on a moral anti-clutter grounds.

American Presidential campaigns cost a hell of a lot of money to run in. If you don't have money, nobody sees you in the media, and then no one votes for you. To get money, you need to bend over for people who already have money. That means established political parties, and private entities.

No billionaire who has an itching to see his taxes cut is going to back his money on an unknown. If there isn't some existing track-record then the people with big bucks don't care, which is why its important to work your way up (see: Obama, not a regular fixture in Federal politics up until relatively recently but kept getting bigger jobs and getting on the radar more and more until 08, and the rest is history).

Like I said, plausible in four years. Not now. As for candidates sucking, welcome to politics.

And like hubris said, no President ever does it by the book. All kinds of events (or funding streams!) can change policies. Look at the Bush. Would he have gone on a merry crusade in the Middle East without 9/11, media hysteria, American desire for revenge, and so on? Nope.

Damn pennies.

Give me a few days to expand this.

Sounds like a UNASUR intervention is around the corner in Ecuador...

Strike that, time to call the meeting.

You shaln't trample on the independence of a Latin American nation! Especially with a neo-imperialist organization, seeking to strip the nationalistic flare as only the UNASUR knows how!

How's that Soviet support coming along?

Two notes on Ecuador:

1. Is that Betrand Russell, back from the dead writing about sexual politics in Latin America?

2. If there isn't a bodies-without-organs reference (or other Deleuzian jazz) in the next post I will be very cross with you.

How's that Soviet support coming along?

Psh. .