Posted by Robert Archer in Questions for the Candidates

Posted by Admiral Joe P (Election Coodinator) in Questions for the Candidates

SNIP the big exposition

I could go on, but I hope by now that you see where I’m coming from. So, I would like to know the following:

1. Do you think that the expectation you campaign in a similar fashion as described above is a reasonable one to have? Why or why not?
   

Rob, you did not answer this question. I would like an answer to this please; it makes a big difference in the interpretation of the rest of these answers.

1. Why isn’t your ticket posting new content on the Election Ship on a daily basis? Irrespective of answering questions, why have you not made HQ posts at least once every three days?
   

Overall I think Louis and I have done a good job in posting as much as we can within our real life demands allow. We have put up our campaign hq posts, detailed what we plan to do in this coming term and overall answered questions to the best of our ability. We’re new to much of this yet so we want to discuss with each other the ideas and responses we give, and aligning that with our free time of life takes time sometimes.

Sorry, I’m confused by this slightly. Is your answer that you’re too busy (“as much as we can within our real life demands allow”), or that you think that more elaboration is unnecessary because you’ve been complete as possible?

Also, why do you keep saying you are new to this? You are the only person in this race who has been President before.

1. Why don’t you have a campaign website?
   

Simply put? I don’t got the skills for it. If I had the skills I would make the time to get something up.

Oh okay. I think you’re selling yourself a little short there, but ehh.

1. When did you and your running mate decide to run?
   

Roughly speaking about mid-late February 2019 I asked Louis and from there we started planning things out.

So like, a week before everything started?

1. How much time have you spent outside of publicly viewable election season deciding what your message with your running mate?
   

Roughly speaking Louis and I talk in general on this election almost every day or so.

Okay, what does that look like? How long do you talk for?

1. Do you actually plan to do any campaigning besides answering questions on the Election Ship?
   

Given that I view campaigning outside the election ship asking for votes as you outlined above with Drew in poor light (I personally didn’t like it at the time and thought it a cheap tactic) no I don’t plan to campaign off the election ship just to ensure I don’t break any rules by certain wording or in in group sense (like discord) contact someone who didn’t want to get contacted. Call it being rule shy but I would rather err on the side of caution then cause issues.

I think you misunderstood the question. I didn’t ask if you would go around asking for votes or campaign off of the Election Ship, I asked if you intended to do anything besides answer people’s questions. It seems like your answer is “No”, is that the case?

1. Do you think that you have presented a persuasive affirmative argument for favoring you for the Presidency over your opponent? Do you think it is necessary to do that? Why or why not?

Joe

I think we have presented persuasive arguments for favoring us. Louis and I have posted our HQ posts here https://www.star-fleet.com/core/command/election/notes/31915/ here https://www.star-fleet.com/core/command/election/notes/31916/ here https://www.star-fleet.com/core/command/election/notes/31917/ and here https://www.star-fleet.com/core/command/election/notes/31918/ all of which outline our plans for the coming term I feel in a solid easy to understand light. I do think it is necessary to provide a persuasive arguement so the club at large knows what they are getting into with each candidate.

Hope this answers things for your Joe thanks

Robert Archer

Okay, so… with what you just said in mind… let me summarize what I think you’re saying, and you tell me if it’s correct or not. You think that, generally as far as this campaigning thing goes, you’re doing as well as you possibly could be, and that also is well enough. That is, you have put forward an affirmative argument for yourself that should persuade members to vote for you over Dave, you think people understand what that argument is and are more likely to find it persuasive than not. That is, you think you are going to get the most votes based upon your actions here, because those votes persuaded people.

If that summary is correct (feel free to dispute it), what is your basis for believing that?

Joe