Game of the year, couple of questions- debates, etc.

I havent run into a debate option in the game, is it available?
Do you get to do more than 1 interview per game?
What's the best strategy thus far that people are using?

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Frogboy

Join Date 03/2001

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We decided not to put in the debates into the game, they just weren't "fun". So instead we put in the operatives (Which I think was a good trade off!).

There's typically 3 to 5 opportunities to go onto the news shows per election.

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You asked what strategy has been successful. In the campaign mode, I've been using my stamina in the first 10 rounds or so to pile up HQs and capital, which I cash in for endorsements. Usually piling on two or three endorsements is enough to throw a 40-50 states in my direction, even if only marginally. I then hit the big states (CA, PA, IL, TX, FL, NY) for fund raising and begin rolling out ads and speeches. I tend to make a lot of speeches, sometimes two in a state in one visit: slamming my opponent in one, pimping my own position in another.

It's worked well in campaign mode: As Bill Clinton, I walloped the first five campaign opponents, and beat Nixon, though he was leading up until the end -- he outspent me almost 3 to 1! I won it by rolling through the midwest repeatedly giving speech after speech after speech in the last four weeks, and built up enough mindshare that the in-contestation states broke my way. It was fairly dramatic.

Can't get past TR yet, though. But I shall!

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