The Clown Show: President Infinity 2020

[Izulde]

56 candidates are running for the 2020 Democratic nomination
26 candidates are running for the 2020 Republican nomination, hoping to dethrone Trump as a clear and present danger to the Republic
6 Libertarian candidates are running, and Meme candidate Vermin Supreme is actually leading in a few states
5 Green Party candidates are running

In the spirit of anything goes, the parties have abolished the age minimum rule for Presidency. If Trump can win, anyone can.

Democratic Candidates Initial Polling
Joe Biden: 16.4%
Bernie Sanders: 8%
Hillary Clinton: 7.5%
Elizabeth Warren: 5.7%
Mario Cuomo: 5.6%
Kamala Harris: 5.5%
Mark Zuckerberg: 3.9%
Andrew Gillum: 3.1%
Howard Schultz: 3%
Gavin Newsom: 2.9%
Beto O'Rourke: 2.8%
Amy Kloubchar: 2.7%
Jay Inslee: 2.7%
Al Franken: 2.6%
Jeff Merkley: 2.4%
Tulsi Gabbard: 2.3%
Terry McAuliffe: 2.3%
John Bel Edwards: 2.3%
John Kerry: 2%
Steve Bullock: 1.8%
Pete Buttigieg: 1.6%
Cory Booker: 1.6%
Wayne Messam: 1.5%
Mike Gravel: 1.4%
Tim Kaine: 1.3%
Marianne Williamson: 1.2%
Tim Ryan: 1.2%
Bill de Blasio: 1%
Michael Avenatti: 0.8%
Alexandra Ocasio-Ortez*: 0.7%
Julian Castro: 0.5%
Andrew Yang: 0.4%
John Delaney: 0.3%
Deval Patrick: 0.3%
Martin Heinrich: 0.3%
Tom Steyer: 0.2%
Polling at 0% Nationally, Though Above That In Some States
Michael Bloomberg
Michael Bennet
Joe Sestak
Kristin Gillibrand
Seth Moulton
John Hickenlooper
Eric Swalwell
Richard Ojeda
Sherrod Brown
Michael O'Malley
Lincoln Chaffee
Eric Garcetti
Alan Grayson
Joseph P. Kennedy III
Luis Gutierrez
Eric Holder
Stephen Colbert
Jason Kander
Mitch Landrieu
Stacey Abrams

* - Age restriction abolished. Also the human player :D

29.5% of the Democratic electorate nationally is currently Undecided. Biden is leading most of the states, though Sanders has WI, FL, CO,WA, and VT.


Republican Candidates
Donald Trump: 27.3%
Mitch Romney: 9.6%
Mike Pence: 9.5%
Ted Cruz: 7.6%
Bill Weld: 7.1%
Dennis Kasich: 6.9%
Marc Rubio: 6.1%
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson: 3.7%
Nikki Haley: 3.4%
Rand Paul: 3.2%
Jeb Bush: 3.2%
Jon Huntsman: 2.4%
Susana Martinez: 2.1%
Carly Fiorina: 1.9%
Lindsay Graham: 1.8%
Larry Hogan: 1.3%
Jeff Flake: 1.1%
Joe Walsh: 0.9%
Ben Sasse: 0.7%
Lisa Murkowski: 0.1%
Republican Candidates Polling 0% Nationally But Higher In Some States
Mark Sanford
Susanne Collins
Bob Corker
Tom Kristol
Tom Cotton
Mark Cuban

The map is all Trump red, except for Utah, which is a Romney outpost. A whopping 35.8% of the Republican voters are currently Undecided.

Libertarian Candidates
Adam Kokesh: 18.4%
Jo Jorgensen: 18.2%
Vermin Supreme: 17.3%
Justin Petersen: 16.8%
Justin Amash: 15.1%
John McAfee: 14.2%

Just 16.6% of the Libertarian voterbase is undecided. States are pretty evenly split, and there's a ton of white on the map. I have a hunch this comes down to Jorgensen or Amash

Green Candidates
Jill Stein: 22.4%
Howard Hawkins: 20.9%
Ian Schlakman: 20%
Jesse Ventura: 19.4%
Ajamu Baraka: 17.2%

Only 3.9% of the Green Party is Undecided, but this is a *very* close race. No one, including Baraka, the lone candidate who doesn't have a state in his corner, can be dismissed.

Initial General Election Polls
Biden: 55.7%
Trump: 34.7%
Supreme: 4.9%
Jorgensen: 4.7%

LOL! 32.5% nationally undecided in a general election. I'm going to say this is an unreliable web poll that memed its way into getting Vermin the Libertarian nod and almost 5% of the vote.

[Young Drachma]

yessss I was thinking the other day I ought to reload this.

[Izulde]

AOC's theme is going to be Free Trade, Leadership, and Russian Interference. At least two out of three should prove beneficial in both Iowa and New Hampshire. With 56 people running, if we can't get out the gate in those states, we're finished before we begin.

Biden is hit with a major scandal a week in, but that's nothing compared to the one that hits Buttigieg, which is in the news for several days and will probably make him toast. AOC rises up to 4% in national polling, thanks largely to her PAC running a national ad against Biden on abortion in the midst of his scandal.

Iowa takes a while to get momentum going, and we're not seeing an improvement in polling - in fact, we decline, but we start catching fire in New Hampshire. Then again, Iowa is so fractured, Clinton's 9% is enough to have her winning the state. We're not the only ones trying to build early.

First Democratic debate sees the left-for-dead Buttigieg inspire with an absolutely dominating performance. AOC finished 2nd, Warren 3rd. Biden and Schultz bombed.

More scandals for Biden. Yang, McAulliffe, and Schlakman also get hard. For some reason, we can't seem to break through in Iowa, and the momentum we were building in New Hampshire seems to have disappeared - we go from 5.7% all the way to last.

AOC absolutely crushes everyone in the second debate.

By the beginning of August, we've picked up a slew of endorsements to finally start catching up in that game. Mostly in New York, New England, and the West Coast. A mix of governors, Congresspeople, and the intelligentsia.

But we're dead last in Iowa and New Hampshire, as people keep attacking us. We're still holding on for 1.5% nationally, keeping afloat by our endorsements.

Come September, we're sitting at 5.2% in Iowa, 1.1% in New Hampshire, less than 0% nationally. But the polls have been so ping-pongy it's hard to know what to trust. 7.5% for Buttigieg now leads Iowa by the way, so perhaps not so dead as first thought.

Nationally, Biden leads the Democratic field... with 6.3%. Sanders at 5.8%, Clinton at 5.5%, Harris at 5%. Republicans still feature Trump with a sizable lead at 12.7% ahead of Pence at 8.8%, Haley at 7.7%, and the fast-rising Romney at 7.4%. Still solidly Trump's map, but there's definitely some weakening states.

We jump up to 2nd nationally in late September with 5.7% but slide to 4.6% in early October, still good for 5th, which is good because there's a debate coming up and we missed the third one. Somehow we're randomly 2nd in Florida, too.

More stuff happens. We kick ass in debates that feature all the candidates polling 1% nationally (and we're just at 1%), but we're not making grounds in any states.

The Libertarian and Green Parties have been deadlocked in Iowa and New Hampshire polling. Then with no one making the 25% threshold in South Carolina, Jo Jorgensen beats out Vermin Supreme 17.5% to 17% to take all the Palmetto State's delegates. Same thing happens with the Greens, where Howard Hawkins' 20.4% beats literally everyone else's 19.9% to steal the delegates.

Even saltier is when Jill Stein wins all the Florida delegates by 0.1%!

We get to the proper Iowa... and the game breaks.