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August Presidential Poll Results; And Not a Moment Too Soon
Topic Started: Aug 14 2017, 05:44 AM (394 Views)
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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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Aug 14 2017, 06:42 AM
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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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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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Yeah, definitely not that bad in the Grand scheme of things
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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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