How all election campaigns start

Based on historial tenancies; positions and party strength are determined.
Several factors influence an inital position: The Region, The Province and the leader of the party.
Ridings issue positions are selected.
Candidates, candidate values, candidate attributes and positions are selected.
Candidates run for nomination in a riding. The Candidates with the best overall score is choosen for that party. If no other person is running then the candidate is acclaimed.
Leaders are selected from the best and the brightest from each federal party.

Polls are run daily throughout the entire campaign.
Candidates actions are completed throughout the day and are used to calculate the totals.
Party Leaders can perform a number of tasks: Travel to Riding, Speech, Fundraise, Develop Policy , Debate Prep, Media Visit, Grassroots Campaign, Community Visit.
The amount of tasks they can perform depend on their stamina attribute. Each action requires different attribute(s).
Factors that go into the poll calculations are Riding Issue Positions vs Candidates Issue Positions, Candidate Popularity, Riding / Provincial / Federal Bonuses, Party Provincce Strength
Only the top 5 riding issues are use in the poll calculations for each riding.

Candidates have attributes made up of: Popularity, Strength, LocalParty, Charisma, Debating, Stamina, Integrity, Networking, Visionary, Finance
These attributes help for various tasks along the campaign trail. A high finance rating helps for raising money while a high stamina would allow a candidates to perform more actions in a single day. Giving a speach would require multiple attribute values and a high popularity score goes directly towards the final score.
Candidates have 5 Social, Business and Personal Values selected at the start of the game that can connect with voters.
Candidates positions on the issues can vary slightly from the party position at the beginning of the campaign. But during the campaign a candidate can change his view slowly.

The parties that take place in the campaign are the NDP Liberal, Green Party, Conservative, Bloc.
The bloc can only run in quebec ridings.
Party strength overall, in different provinces and regions depends on historial success as well as future promise.
Each party has platform of 5 issues. New issues can take the place of less important issues during the campaign.

Riding issue positions are determined by Regions Typesand a random factor.
Ridings are part of National Regions, City Types, Cities and Provinces.
Ridings have a detailed breakdown of the different population types and statistics.

Issues play an important part during the campaign.
Each riding has a different importance for each issue and the top 5 are part of the final poll calculations
Issues play an important role for parties as they try to change the importances of issues in Ridings they visit to match their platforms.

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