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Ted Cruz

7 (6.5%)

Rick Santorum

16 (14.8%)

Michelle Bachmann

13 (12%)

Chris Christie

23 (21.3%)

Rand Paul

49 (45.4%)

Total Members Voted: 107

[GrizzlyAdamz]

Also jeez, freaking DC.

Oh, yeah yeah, DC stands out because its companions are states instead of cities.
Some parts of NYC, for example, are >50k/mi², 5x that of DC.

[Helgoland]

Wyoming's stretches of interstate are some of the ones that were re-routed to have curves in them because people kept self-hypnotizing and crashing when they were perfectly straight for a few hundred miles. Some of Wyoming's roads have a nighttime speed limit of 80 and a daytime speed limit of Within Reason.

Within Reason? Try importing some Germans - we'll raise it to OVER 9000!

Infinity, to be exact. Unless there's a construction site and you have to crawl along at 80 km/h.

[scriver]

What's the point of this poll? Is the only winning move not to play?

It's to decide the next US president, obviously. We are the Shadow Government.

[RedKing]

I think there have been an increasing number (or at least increasingly publicized) of incidents highlighting how corrupt and/or badly-run local governments can be.

[Morrigi]

I think there have been an increasing number (or at least increasingly publicized) of incidents highlighting how corrupt and/or badly-run local governments can be.

So it would seem.

[MonkeyHead]

That's a global thing though. Local politicians tend to be the ones who were not very good, and as such never made it to the big leagues.

[Lord Shonus]

Either that or FNGs that have no experience dealing with that sort of job, or with handling the power (and thus the potential abuses of said power) that go along with it.

[Squeegy]

How many of you guys here like/have done Model UN? I'm thinking of doing it at my college.

[Dutchling]

We did it. It was about making a new climate change programme or whatever. Factions were China, the United States, Africa, the European Union, and the United Nations.

The American president ended up defecting to China, which ended up with a victorious UN (me!). Was kinda strange.

[Bauglir]

That's a global thing though. Local politicians tend to be the ones who were not very good, and as such never made it to the big leagues.

And that's why I don't trust State governments more than the Federal one

[PyroDesu]

How many of you guys here like/have done Model UN? I'm thinking of doing it at my college.

I did.

None of my 3 resolutions (one of them drafted alongside another delegate during a conference) passed. Though one of them did pass initially until the people in charge of the committee lost the results and we had to recount - after several delegates got it into their head that I was trying to make a world currency by proposing economic benefits for use of renewable power.

And Dutch - you sure that was Model UN? It doesn't sound like it...

[USEC_OFFICER]

Nah, that definitely sounds like Model UN to me. Especially if it was high school Model UN and people weren't taking it too seriously. I'd chime in with some examples from my days in Model UN, but I'm drawing a blank here. Shows you how much I paid attention, I guess...

[Dutchling]

Well I guess it was different than the usual model UN. Especially since the UN itself also took part.

We didn't get to make reforms on our own or anything. We just had to set the CO2 reduction% to a certain level and have the different countries contribute money and somehow make everyone agree to that. They then all ended up getting points for various things (money left over, with UN not having any money to begin with, and China/US losing points if there's too much reduction).

[PyroDesu]

Well I guess it was different than the usual model UN. Especially since the UN itself also took part.

We didn't get to make reforms on our own or anything. We just had to set the CO2 reduction% to a certain level and have the different countries contribute money and somehow make everyone agree to that. They then all ended up getting points for various things (money left over, with UN not having any money to begin with, and China/US losing points if there's too much reduction).

Yeah, that's not Model UN as I know it. In MUNAIKI, it's basically a replication of the real UN, with students playing the part of delegates from different countries, which are determined by school (or team, if the school is big enough). Each country gets 1-2 delegates per council, and the delegates pick their topic from a list and write a resolution on it from the point of view of their country, and the whole council votes on each resolution after it's presented and argued for by the delegate(s) that wrote it, and argued against by anyone who so wishes. Then there's General Assembly, which I don't remember much of because it didn't involve me and I didn't pay attention.

[Dutchling]

Sounds like the only result from that is a ton of idealism.