[CaptainCrunch]

So I had to laugh, I played a political simulator game yesterday where you run for the president of the united states. You basically pick your party, do fund raising, debate in the primaries and then plan your appearances, and radio ads, you can do positive or negative campaigning.

At the start you pick your key 5 issues, and then you can pick a maverick issue that goes against your party.

I picked lower taxes, right to work, fighting terrorists internationally, government transparency and the rights of unborn children. Oh I forgot to mention that I ran as a repbulican. I picked gay rights as my maverick issue, that people had the right to marry no matter what the orientation.

I ran a gray campaign. I went after my democratic opponent because one of her key issues was voter reform, I also went after her because she was into nuclear dis-arming. I also hit the states where gay rights was a big deal, and managed to keep the normal repbulican states happy with my hard core stance on terrorism, lower taxes and government transparency.

I managed to swing California from a democratic fortress to a neutral state and won New York and kept texas which were huge fund raising states.

I think I won the election 280 something to 240

I think if I play it next time, I'm going to go completely negative.