I do know this is an issue–I’ll be fixing it before the story is published! It should be possible–though very difficult–to pass as a democrat, and it is intended to be impossible if playing as a Republican.
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I believe there should be added a US house and senate relationship.
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Yes it should at least be possible
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I’m guessing the same applies to trying to pass a moderate/conservative abortion bill as a democrat?
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completely cooked hoffman with barely any corruption this guy is ASS
edit 1: with a democratic VP as a republican pres and paid 5 million for the bipartisan bill and rejected cassidy’s 50 million
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A republican from California wins the election in a total landslide… where have i seen that before?
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In Year 6, we need a chance to get a 2/3 majority of the Senate under our control and repeal the 22nd Amendment.
For a stable and secure society.
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I have 52% approval rating and 67% democratic leadership
How come I got whooped from both senate and house???
I chose Edwards btw
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Didn’t increase the midterm variable high enough
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How do you even increase that to reach a good amount? It should depend on the public’s opinion brah
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Btw, my campaign against Hoffman consisted of attacking him, I followed attacks to him to the core and chose Sam and yet somehow, I end up losing in the political debate.
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Public popularity does help, you get one point for being above 50% and two points for being above 57%. Raising money for your party and not pissing off Cassidy helps as well. And of course personal donations.
Even then, the absolute absolute best you could hope for is losing the house by enough of a narrow margin that the opposing party fights over it and getting a net gain in the Senate. A president getting wiped out in the midterms has been the political reality for the last 70ish years, with a few very specific exceptions
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Pluh
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I hope the midterms whoopomg happens with Trump lol
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Just become silly. Did you get the whole speakership deja vu achievement?
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no
how do i win the debate anyways
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You need either high charisma or high media approval, I forget if there are any other ways to get it
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I had 64 charisma, 65 media approval and I went through the strategy of attacking Hoffman by doing it all the time and choosing Sam.
And yet somehow, Hoffman wins…
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Great game! Recently did a play with a all out conservative Republican while being as morally, financially and politically corrupt as possible… Got away with the whole impeachment but ended up losing re-election to Hoffman in a landslide.
On a side note, I noticed that the epilogue says that my MC lost the primary to Nunez, while that isn’t the case and I only lost the general.
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Broadly: still no major updates to share–I have a running list of small balancing tweaks to make but the story is still in content review. I’ll share any news with you as I get it 
To answer some comments:
I think (will need to check my own code here) that the debate is the only major instance where constantly attacking your opponent does more harm than good. Broadly, it seems that most voters respond negatively to negative or aggressive comments during general election debates. Interestingly, it seems like negativity has much more of a positive impact during primary election debates–think Trump calling Rand Paul ugly in 2016 (not the best example, but perhaps the most humorous). His aggressive and combative style helped him break through the primary field, but it’s generally believed that it did more harm than good against Clinton in the general election debates.
Still, the debate has very little impact on how voters decide to vote (both in real life and in the story), so regardless of whether you win or lose it, it doesn’t change the end result by much at all. I think it’s a one-point change to the election variable if there is one at all.
Glad you enjoyed it! The impeachment process definitely will hurt you in the general election depending on how far it went, but the fact you were able to survive it is a good sign that I balanced that portion well.
Thanks for mentioning this–really helpful feedback! I’ll make sure that I fix this before the release.
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