Political Games Forever

This is a nice post on USA Today’s 2008 Presidential election Candidate Match Game. I found the multiple-choice options a little limiting, but I then found out that the options were tied into a very interesting feature of the game. That is, comparing the presidential candidates’ positions to the most popular poll answers.

Here it is:

As you can see, with ‘Poll’ selected (a USA Today poll) (and the default options on the right), the top three candidates are all Republicans. 1. Mitt Romney (Gov., Massachusetts) 2. Mike Huckabee (Gov., Arkansas), and 3. Duncan Hunter (Rep., California). This sort of visual representational scheme also can give you an idea quite quickly of where to look for major weaknesses or strengths in candidates. A nice touch is how the candidates rise up after you answer each question. Kudos to USA Today on the visual design of this Presidential election ‘game’!

In President Forever 2008 + Primaries (our far more involved game), in the 2008 Beta scenario (soon to be the official scenario), interestingly enough Romney and Huckabee are the most centrist of the Republican candidates. Hunter, however, is the farthest to the right of all the candidates. (You can look at this by going to the Platform screen on a turn, and then clicking on an issue icon. The Political Spectrum screen will then come up. Then click the ‘All’ button. Voila.)

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