Founding Fathers Forum Game: A republic, if you can keep it.

New England

@Ironsight

It’s over now.

CC Pinckney has to play to Georgia. Madison has to play to DE. Burr is blocked. Hamilton plays to NJ.

Federalists win 151 - 58 if my math is correct. I don’t believe any state split cards would affect the result at this point.

Edit - CC Pinckney will resign his post of Office of the General to accept the Vice Presidency.

@CF_Kane

The Election of 1808

In the election of 1808, John Quincy Adams stepped aside for the good of the Federalist-National Party, allowing relative unknown Charles C. Pinckney to stand for Vice President. Although the election was tainted by claims that Aaron Burr, the Vice Presidential nominee for the Democratic-Republican Party, was tainted by his association with high level Federalists, the results were a resounding win for the Federalist-National Party and a second term for President Alexander Hamilton.

Of particular interest was the strong presence of the Federalist-National Party in the Carolinas, Georgia, and Tennessee, states known for producing primarily Democratic-Republican statesmen. Whether the southern strategy would outlast Charles C. Pinckney was a question that the Federalists would be asking for some time.

Conservative Party wins the election 151-58. Alexander Hamilton is reelected President (+3 popularity) and CC Pinckney is elected Vice President (+1 popularity).

We now move to the Newspaper phase. @Cuthbert, does Alexander Hamilton, as president of the Federalist-National party, wish to publish any newspapers (2 available). There are currently no Liberal newspapers.

Once @Cuthbert makes his decision, we will move to the card draft. Draft order will be:
@Ironsight
@Panzeh
@Cuthbert
@Brooski
@Navaronegun

Publish both please

Done. Cards going to @Ironsight now.

Since JQ Adams was able to focus more on Congress after stepping down as VP, he quickly uncovered some talk among some Southern statesmen that their states might secede from the Union if slavery ever came into question as their legal right. Adams was popular enough to dissuade them from any further talk on the matter, gaining some influence in the process.

Play Secession and JQ Adams gains one IP.

Hamilton’s second inaugural was one of the great speeches in American history, one that every schoolboy learns to this day. He spoke at length about the new states that had recently been added and the potential of new lands and new technologies to build a continent-spanning empire.

Hamilton plays Make an Influential Speech and gains one Influence

Zachary Taylor, a Kentuckian and officer in the Indian Wars, joins Madison’s faction. (@Brooski plays Z. Taylor, a Liberal form Kentucky with 2M/0 and 0 votes.)

@Cuthbert is up again in the Round, where he may spend influence to make a speech, whip up support, and/or found/improve a newspaper.

Order for the Round is:
@Cuthbert
@Panzeh
@Ironsight
@Navaronegun
@Brooski

Once that is complete, we will bid for the last initiative, this time starting with Panzeh and ending with Cuthbert.

Pass

@Panzeh

@Cuthbert @Panzeh, hold up for a minute, I need to distribute influence. 1 to each faction. 1 to Hamilton and Madison as party leaders. 1 to Hamilton and Burr for special abilities. @Cuthbert, do you still pass?

Influence updated. You all can proceed.

Yes, I still pass, don’t want to risk some of the big issues appearing.

@Panzeh is up.

Spend 1 IP for Polk to give a speech.

God damn it why is Polk the most able statesman in American history

You done @Panzeh?

That’s it. @Ironsight

Pass @Navaronegun

Pass., @Brooski

Polk is true to his nickname, the Napoleon of the Stump. He gives a rousing speech in his native Tennessee that gets reprinted in all the largest papers. (Polk rolls a 6, nailing it on the first attempt.)