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August Presidential Poll Results; And Not a Moment Too Soon
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Topic Started: Aug 14 2017, 05:44 AM (393 Views)
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Aditya Republic
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Aug 15 2017, 07:27 AM
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Aug 15 2017, 08:20 AM
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Somebody's got to keep you entertained.
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- Le Libertia
- Aug 14 2017, 06:15 PM
Tough crowd indeed. I am sad to see that I did not fulfill a majority of the region's expectations.
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Haven't seen much results on mentoring and population has been slowly slipping
Wanted to address this comment on LL with a bit of general NationStates knowledge, every region in the game has been slowly slipping in population right now. The only regions that grow in the depth of summer are small to mid sized UCRs with aggressive manual/stamp campaigns running constantly. Europeia is simply too big to stem the bleeding with the small amount of new nations that join the game in summer. Population decline during the season for population decline isn't an indictment of the interior minister at all unless we expect them to spend their own money keeping us stocked on stamps, and/or a Bob Moran level of manual recruiting persistence.
I want to echo Altmoras, here. I've heard people lamenting how low our population numbers our and saying it reflects poorly on Le Libertia, but I think it's nonsense. I've always spoken about how NS goes through boom and bust cycles, and this is one of those population bust cycles. I spoke about this a little on the Euro-Merridel Mixlr broadcast: there's just less Nations being created, period. It's hard to recruit people when you've got less of a pool of people to reach, and, it's hard to retain nations when everyone's off enjoying summer vacations and getting ready for school and not paying attention to NS and logging in. After August is over and people are settling back into their grinds near September, we'll probably see population start to rise.
Le Libertia is working incredibly hard, albeit quietly and diligently (which is very much his style). I truly hope you aren't dissuaded by these results, and I hope I'll see you in another Ministry again, soon.
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Family, Resume, and Awards Family  The Right Honourable Aexnidaral "Crist" Seymour Somerset

Son of North East Somerset and Rachel Husband of Pichtonia Seymour Somerset, Phantasus Chastain, and Ogastein Father of Isaris, Klatonia, XIV, and America Billiards Brother of JGlenn, Apollo, Brunhilde, and Ninja KittensResume and Awards "... Aex, who is treated like the Europeian version of Nickelback by a lot of people here."
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Aug 15 2017, 01:13 PM
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I'm wondering what people are referencing when they say this poll was harsh. The topline numbers are actually quite good, but I do agree that the comments and the "would you reconfirm" question suggest some sort of disconnect between the top-line approval numbers and people's attitudes.
Personally, I'd sum up this administration as "good, not great." Writinglegend throughout his time in office has developed an ability to keep drama down, which makes it difficult to point to many "aha! that's bad!" moments in his term. But otherwise, I'm not sure this administration is very distinguishable from President Darcness' or Aexnidaral Seymour's, with perhaps the exception of foreign affairs.
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Aexnidaral Seymour
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Aug 15 2017, 04:20 PM
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Somebody's got to keep you entertained.
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Yeah, definitely not that bad in the Grand scheme of things
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Family, Resume, and Awards Family  The Right Honourable Aexnidaral "Crist" Seymour Somerset

Son of North East Somerset and Rachel Husband of Pichtonia Seymour Somerset, Phantasus Chastain, and Ogastein Father of Isaris, Klatonia, XIV, and America Billiards Brother of JGlenn, Apollo, Brunhilde, and Ninja KittensResume and Awards "... Aex, who is treated like the Europeian version of Nickelback by a lot of people here."
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Kylia Quilor
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Aug 15 2017, 04:39 PM
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I would argue many of our presidential terms are similiar to the previous one, just differences in emphasis and specific success. For good or for ill, Europeian Politics has developed to a very narrow band of acceptable options, compared to some regions. To use a Polisci term, the Overton Window is actually fairly small.
Overall, I think this is good, because it prevents the wild swings in outlook and policy, especially Foreign and Military policy (my personal areas of primary focus) that can plague other regions (see: many GCRs, historically, several UCRs, etc) that could happen if we elected first one side of the spectrum then the other.
It does have its downsides, however.
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The Rt. Hon. Commodore Kylia Quilor, Dux Emeritus, Legatus, Quartius, Primus Pilus, Praefectus Vigilum Noctu, ERN
 I. Am. Not. A. Nice. Person. Never underestimate the power of cynicism, pessimism and negativity to prevent terrible things from happening. Only idealists try to build the future on a mountain of bodies. Unfocused populism is just as dangerous, if not more so, to a Republic's survival as creeping authoritarianism. Tell people how you feel, honestly and frankly. If you like someone, tell them. If you don't like them, tell them - the world would be a better place if we all knew where we stood.
Professional Credentials Curriculum Vitae Europeia: President x1 Minister of Foreign Affairs x2 Grand Admiral x4 Senator x11 Minister of Communications x1
Current Positions In Other Regions: Queen of Kantrias
Past Positions in Other Regions (Selected): MP (LKE), Minister of the Exterior (LKE), Reichstag Delegate (TNI), Minister (TNI), Reich Elector (TNI), TNI Contingent Commander, (UIAF), Director of Public Relations (Region Inc)
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Testimonials To My Character Named Testimonials [justified]I sometimes suspect that [Kylia] Quilor is here to harvest the tears of young, ambitious nations. - The Bruce O how much we have missed your cynicism [Kylia]. :p - Zaolat I'm so happy you're back but you're also crushing my dreams - Sopo [Kylia] is close to defining the modern Europeian conservative. - Hyanygo You carry an interesting dichotomy about yourself - a mix of fiery passion and cool reservation that both intrigues and concerns me. -Trinnien Kylia is the neighbor at the end of the street that you don't want to mess with during petunia season. -Cat I'd just like to thank KQ for resurrecting this thread, because it was truly what GP needed. </sarcasm>- Cormac Oh man, today I did not wake up thinking "I'll post something defending Kylia" ... but here we are. - Aexnidaral Seymour[/justified] Anonymous Testimonials - “Too much negativity and edginess”
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