Midterm elections are coming up, and instead of running for office, I’m playing The Political Machine
Everyone always focuses on choosing the next President of the United states in the “big” election held every 4 years. But, what about local elections? Primary elections? Midterm elections? If you don’t think about these, you’re not alone. According to a recent article from npr.or
Everyone always focuses on choosing the next President of the United states in the “big” election held every 4 years. But, what about local elections? Primary elections? Midterm elections?
If you don’t think about these, you’re not alone. According to a recent article from npr.org, “for every 10 adults eligible to vote, only about four cast a ballot in the 2010 and 2014 midterm elections.”
There are lots of reasons why people vote - or don’t vote - and the article linked above does an excellent job of highlighting many of them. This year, America’s midterm elections will take place on November 6th. All 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 35 out of the 100 seats in the United States senate will be contested.
We’ll admit that we didn’t really take midterm elections into consideration when creating any iterations of The Political Machine - for these games, it was all about the main event: the election of a new president. But, smear campaigns, scandals, talk show flubs and failures, speeches - everything that comes along with a massive political campaign - are just as present in the midterm elections as they are in the “big ones.”
If you want to try your hand at running for office, The Political Machine is the safe way to go. Choose your candidate - or make your own! - and run up against the likes of Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Hillary Clinton, and more. If your approval ratings tank, just hit “new game” and wash away the pain of failure - that’s what I always do. ;)