fundraising. Good advertising campaigns will help convince the electorate that they are right for the presidency or a player can create campaigns focused on tarnishing other candidates in the lead. Negative advertising campaigns run the risk of backfiring and therefore painting a player's campaign as overly negative. Visiting the voters in their states, or barnstorming, works well towards drawing voters and also helps to boost the morale of the candidate's foot soldiers in that state. Barnstorm too often though, and your message will fall on deaf ears. A candidate also needs to work on creating a well established campaign by investing time, money and command points into developing the campaign. A well established campaign brings in more fundraising dollars and provides the player with more Command Points to work with. Playable candidates The United States 2008 scenario includes most of the candidates that decided to run as well as those that declined to run. Candidates that are still officially running are turned on by default and are all playable. Withdrawn candidates are turned off by default, but can be turned on by the player to run a purely fictional race. Republican candidates Rudy Giuliani, former Mayor of New York City. Mike Huckabee, former Governor of Arkansas. Duncan Hunter, Representative from California. John McCain, Senator from Arizona, 2008 republican candidate for president. Ron Paul, Representative from Texas and 1988 Libertarian Presidential nominee. Mitt Romney, former Governor of Massachusetts, 2012 republican nominee for president. Tom Tancredo, Representative from Colorado. Fred Thompson, former Senator from Tennessee. George Allen (off), former Senator from Virginia. Sam Brownback (off), Senator from Kansas, withdrew October 19, 2007, and later endorsed John McCain. Bill Frist (off), former Senator from Tennessee. Newt Gingrich (off), former Speaker of the House from Georgia. Democratic candidates Joe Biden, Senator from Delaware, future vice president and president of the United States and winner of the 2020 presidential election Hillary Clinton, Senator and former First Lady from New York, 2016 presidential candidate. Christopher Dodd, Senator from Connecticut. John Edwards, former Senator from North Carolina and 2004 Democratic Vice-Presidential Nominee. Dennis Kucinich, Representative from Ohio. Barack Obama, Senator from Illinois, was elected president in 2008 Bill Richardson, Governor of New Mexico, former Representative from New Mexico and former United States Ambassador to the UN. Wesley Clark (off), retired General of the United States Army. Declined to run and endorsed Senator Hillary Clinton. Evan Bayh (off),