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Written by HEM Tiberius
The results of this first election cycle polling package really give us a perspective on the mood and feelings of Europeia. Besides the two declared candidates, we also did polling data on political darkhorses and rising stars.
In the race for the Presidency we found that Anumia held 21 votes compared to 9 for Sopo. Professor J. Leno from the EuroUniversity states, "The spread may appear to be mounting, but Anumia cannot lose himself within complacency." Anumia is easily the more prominent of the two, and has held leading positions in all three branches of the government before.
In a time where most people aren't angry at the establishment, this is actually bad news for Sopo. He previously ran during a time of high discontent with the status quo and received strong support, despite his last second bid, because of it.
What is often fun is throwing a popular name into the mix. In a scenario where we threw Pope Lexus X as a candidate for the presidency this election the results where as followed:
It's surprising to some that Lexus fails to make a huge impact in the race. He narrowly snags second place from Sopo, but Anumia still holds a fairly commanding lead. "If anything helps him sleep tonight, it is the fact that his supporters are strong ones, staying with him even if Lexus threw his hat in the ring." Professor Leno says.
But how strong are they? From the 9 votes Lexus gains, 7 of them came from Anumia and only 2 came from Sopo. Could a strong candidate have potentially ousted Anumia from his frontrunner position?
That question is answered below:
Former President Oliver Grey has rebounded from his lackluster term as President as most people toss memories of the Grey/HEM administration into the history books. Within the last few months sound leadership from the bench has placed the legal veteran and intellectual in a position where a redo of the Presidency would be incredibly possible, even against a candidate as strong as Anumia.
In this scenario Sopo loses 4 votes compared to 8 from Anumia. "This indicates that Anumia's base is around 13ish votes," Professor Josh Lyman from Harvard University comments, "There seem be around ten people out there who are looking for something 'else', while 5 or so voters are committed to Sopo."
But what of our Vice President?
The end result is basically the Lexus matchup except that Sopo loses more votes and Anumia loses less. Jus does an excellent job running close to Anumia and would've ran a strong campaign based off of these numbers. A future run may prove to be too tempting to resist.
Other Information
- President PhDre ends with a 75/78% approval rating (first number with outliers, second one excluding outliers)
- Jerrymania only received one vote in his poll, it was subtracted from Anumia's total.
Without a doubt most people believe we need less Senate seats with a slim plurality believing the right numbers is seven.
- 7 voters believe the current election system is effective, 8 disagree, and 15 are uncertain.
