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Our game is on a (hopefully very short) pause due to a discussion that I brought up. The game is broken into different historical eras. Each of these eras have different biases. For example, Arizona in its early years was slightly liberal, became a conservative hotbed in the 60's, and now is shifting more purple. The game takes these historical trends into account.
In our specific case, for our era, the trends were definitely very blue, and the game reflects that. However, the reason for these trends was the great depression and tanking of the economy. Republicans controlled everything when that happened, and ended up paying for it politically. So far, so good. But in our playtest, the depression hasn't happened yet. The economy is solid, quality of life is good. So it doesn't make sense that the republicans are getting killed in this midterm.
For our playtest, I don't think we're going to change anything, but it has opened up a discussion about how the historical era biases should be implemented.
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