See amended OP - without sufficient candidates, there is no election.

I believe that in the absence of a President Elect on 20 January 2009, the senior member of the Senate assumes the office :-) I have never been sure whether that means oldest or longest serving... just grateful Strom Thurmond ...

Okay - not enough interest to sustain my initial idea - but enough for a stripped down version.

So far the expressions of interest were:

DEMOCRATS: 12

REPUBLICANS: 9

INDEPENDANT ETC: 3

MORE CAN COME FORWARD AT THIS STAGE!

The structure of the competiton will be as follows for REPS AND DEMS ...

Please see the now amended original post for Tournament Details

well if a Dem is elected this time, there will be irresistible pressure to let Arnie run in 2012... so maybe you're in

AlgyTaylor wrote:
Bloody foreigners, ruining this country. Deport the lot, I say.

Start off with the queen.

Which one?

I don't think you need worry too much about Zenophobia: most of the people here haven't even heard of Zeno or his paradoxes, so they aren't too afraid of him.

Xenophobia, however....

I will aim to post that at the beginning of next week when I will ask participants to sign up under a candidate name. There wd be a max 6 places for contenders under each candidate name.

INTERESTING --- there are more democrats than republicans.... but the reps have better average scores. More competition to be the Dem candidate... but a Republican President is still a reasonable bet!

Clearly this is not going to attract a hundred participants, so I am scaling down my format. We ...

I'm sorry - I didn't mean to start a fight about whether the war was/is a good idea; or whether "we" are winning it... I just don't see how it makes sense for a professional soldier to be required to explain himself to the LEGISLATURE.

After all, what does a woman who couldn't even sew up a small ...

I saw General Petraeus on TV last night, being questioned by a House committee and understand he is today to appear before a corresponding Senate committee.

Isn't this rather like asking a chef to come and explain his recipes to a herd of pigs?

As a relatively impartial Brit observer... just choose someone who can beat that power-mad harpie.

so far 5 would be Dems and 4 would-be Republicans....

a weak show but enough to run a reasonable campaign with "primaries" on either side??

Okay maybe a much scaled down "election" in view of the mass apathy!

there would be a certain number of slots in the name of eight announced candidates on each side -- more for front runners, fewer for also-rans. Your choice would have a small influence on ultimate outcome:

- less competition in the first round, for also-rans
- balanced by a tournament points ...

There are at present no credible declared independent candidates. If there are before Summer 2008, my format provides for their wild-card inclusion in the Presidential Election. But given that Mayor Bloomberg has in the past been both a Dem and a Rp. it seems to me fair that the wild cards shd be ...

Sorry - just not enough interest to make this a viable competition at present so I am asking for the thread to be moved to the ABANDONED forum. If anyone else fancies taking it up at a later stage, you are very welcome to do so: the post of Chief Juctice of the Supreme Court is hereby vacated!

Hi - I loved RISK as a kid - though i wasn't that great a player even then! Thats 30 years ago... and I am now finding out, playing online for the firstg time, just how little I know --- so although i know my way round the "classic" world, I have no clue about the other boards and could fairly call ...