Tilden rolls a 5. @Brooski, want to spend the 1 to get the popularity gain?
We are now in the auction for the last card and impulse. Bidding starts with @Ironsight.
Bid is 2 IP. @Navaronegun
@Cuthbert only has 1 IP so he can’t bid. @Panzeh
Assuming I win the bid I’ll take the card and no action. @Panzeh to raise or fold
@Ironsight gets the card.
We now move in to the second Polk administration.
The first issue on the table for President Polk is Open Relations with Japan. This is a difficulty 6 issue for the President alone. If resolved, +1 popularity. If failed/ignored: place in next deck.
@Panzeh, would you like to spend the 2 influence to Open Relations with Japan?
Panzeh
1622
Play Abigail Smith on Polk and spend 1 IP to resolve the issue.
In a match that defined May-December romance, notes bachelor James K. Polk (born 1795) married Abigail Smith (born 1744), who had once been betrothed to John Adams. The 51-year age gap was the subject of much mockery in the political press, but Abigail Smith brought a lifetime of political participation and influence to their marriage, and undoubtedly helped her husband accomplish his agenda.
The next issue on the table is the admission of the State of Missouri. Missouri will be admitted as a slave state thanks to the compromise on the extension of slavery, with Maine to follow.
Admission of Missouri is a difficulty 2 issue for the Secretary of State and Congress. Admission grants one popularity, and the state is worth 6 electoral votes.
@Panzeh, will you appoint a Secretary of State to resolve this issue?
Panzeh
1624
Polk will delegate this issue to his VP @Ironsight
Clinton accepts the delegation. He reappoints the former Secretary of State Daniel Webster to another term. Webster accepts and carries the issue of Missouri statehood to Congress. The Clinton-Webster faction casts 15 Yes votes. @Brooski
Wait. In a senior moment I skipped past @Navaronegun. My apologies.
Yes with 5 votez! @Panzeh
Tracker says you have 19 votes @Cuthbert. Current vote is 20 Yes, 31 No. When @Panzeh casts 11 Yes votes it will be 31-31. At that point Clinton will break the tie with a Yes vote that brings MO into the Union.
So we can probably turn it over to @CF_Kane unless anyone objects.
