1782-1784
REMOVE FLIP FLOPPER
John E Colhoun (B2), Andrew Pickens (B3), Isaac Shelby (B3), Anthony Wayne (B3), Edward Telfair (B4), William Few (B5), Wade Hampton I (B5), Thomas Sumter (B5), Gabriel Duvall (B5), George Wythe (R1), Robert Goldsborough (R2), Peleg Wadsworth (R4), Charles Lee (R4), John Pickering (R5) and Ralph Izard (R5) lose flipflopper.
RELOCATE POLITICIANS
Charles Lee (R4) fails to move PA to DE.
IDEOLOGY SHIFTS
B1: Jonathan Grout shifts from Lib to Mod; gains Flipflopper. Jonathan Ingersoll shifts from Lib to Mod; gains Flipflopper. William Grayson shifts from Cons to Mod; gains Flippflopper.
B2: Thomas Chittenden shifts from Lib to Mod; gains Pliable.
B3: Andrew Pickens shifts from Cons to Mod. Isaac Shelby shifts from Cons to Mod; gains Flipflopper. Joseph Bloomfield shifts from Cons to Mod; gains Flipflopper, Two Faced. Anthony Wayne shifts from Cons to Mod; gains Flipflopper, Pliable.
B4: Thomas Mason fails to shift from Cons to Mod; gains Pliable. John Sevier fails to shift from Cons to Mod; gains Flipflopper, Pliable. Michael Jenifer Stone fails to shift from Cons to Mod.
B5: Thomas Sumter fails to shift from Cons to Mod; gains Flipflopper. David Hall shifts from Cons to Mod. James Gunn shifts from Cons to Mod.
POLITICIAN CONVERSION
Because Red Moderates are at lowest enthusiasm, we need to check if anyone switches parties. John Langdon (R2, CC Rep) jumps to B5. Thomas Scott (R2) jumps to B5. Nathanael Greene (R3) jumps to B2.
Thomas McKean (R1) fails to convert John Jay (R5). McKean converts William Smallwood (R2). McKean converts Tench Coxe (R2).
John Hancock (B2) fails to convert William Floyd (B3).
William Cocke (B5) fails to convert William Floyd (B3).
Caesar Rodney (R3) fails to convert John Jay (R5). Jay loses Pliable. Rodney fails to convert Charles Coatesworth Pinckney (R5). Pinckney loses Pliable.
Ethan Allen (B1) fails to convert William Floyd (B3).
Thomas Johnson (R2) fails to convert Richard Butler (R5). Butler gains Integrity.
Nathaniel Niles (B4) fails to convert William Floyd (B3).
Henry Middleton (R5) fails to convert Robert Goldsborough (R2).
KINGMAKERS AND PROTEGES
John Hancock (B2) takes on Samuel Allyne Otis (B2) as protégé. Otis gains +1 Leg (3), Business, Leadership.
Richard Peters (R2) takes on Joseph Reed (R2) as protégé. Reed gains +1 Adm (1), Science.
FACTION PERSONALITIES
R1 – LW Pop/Prog/Lib/Mod; Civil Rights, Reformists; Public Education, Environmentalist, Public Housing, Human Rights, LW Media (gained Reformists, Public Housing)
R2 – Mod; none; Private Education, Law & Order, Big Tech (lost Big Oil & Gas, Globalists, Big Pharma)
R3 – Mod; none; Environmentalist, Globalists, Labor Unions, Transportation (lost Big Oil & Gas, Big Pharma, gained Globalists)
R4 – Mod; none; Wall Street, Private Education, Environmentalist, Public Housing, Law & Order, Labor Unions, Military-Industrial, Free Trade (lost Public Education, gained Private Education, Law & Order, Labor Unions)
R5 – Cons/Trad; Nationalists, RW Activists; Big Corporations, Wall Street, Big Oil & Gas, Isolationists, Protectionist
B1 – Mod; Civil Rights, Reformists; Science (gained Civil Rights)
B2 – Mod; none; Big Oil & Gas, Environmentalist
B3 – Mod; Expansionists; Big Agriculture, Big Pharma, Labor Unions (lost Big Oil & Gas, gained Big Pharma)
B4 – Cons/Trad; Theocrats; Law & Order (lost Nationalists, Big Oil & Gas, gained Law & Order)
B5 – Mod; Expansionists; Big Agriculture, Globalists (gained Globalists, lost Labor Unions)