SimCandidate - Why Aren't There More Political Sims?

Thanks to Slate for their piece discussing why there aren't more videogames simulating current-day politics. The article posits: "The U.S. presidential campaign may be the first true election of the digital age, but it's still missing one key ingredient. Where is the video-game version of Campaign 2004?" It goes on to suggest that "presidential politics lends itself naturally to the idiom and audience of today's games. Political campaigns are already structured like games, with an escalating series of discrete competitions that determine the eventual winner. In addition, there's an existing body of readily available data, going back many decades, that could be harnessed to craft the simulation" Would you play a modern-day political sim videogame?

Comments

Seems to me...

[Otter]

• People who aren't interested in politics wouldn't be interested in the game.
• People who are interested in politics tend to have strong views, and wouldn't be interested in modulating them to score points.
• The people who are interested in changing their opinions to win approval are already running for office in reality.

Re:Better question

[Sylver Dragon]

And this would be worse than our current crop of congresscritters, how?
At least they might be open about the fact that they are clueless idiots.