My reelection chance isn't at 5% and it still is completely unaffected by self-promo ads, playing invoke founding fathers 20 times, and congressional speeches.
You need to pay attention to your current level of constituent support when you're running ads. Both types of direct ads can do nothing if you use them wrong. This is explained in the mission descriptions. Those are important; I don't know why nobody seems to read them.
Kalsions comment about ability decay was referring to the fact that Claim fiscal infeasibility was previously super effective on the win bill, and is now not very effective on the win bill. Is it intentional, or is there any way to reverse it?
I'm not sure why so many players have themselves convinced of so many wrong things about ability plays, but there is no ability decay, and there is no "super effective".
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That's because you used gerrymandering. Both of you have CSPs far into the negative.