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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 2631289" data-attributes="member: 177">If he campaigns for a specific set of five candidates, and the majority agrees with him on that entire specific slate, yes, you'll see a complete turnover. But otherwise, the incumbents can still win.  Campaigning for turnover in general ("Don't vote for incumbents!") is likely to fail, because there are usually more non-incumbent nominees.  Given our current system, a minority focused on a small number of candidates can out-vote the majority spread over a larger group of candidates.  Now, I have to take an odd position - though we've been told campaigning is allowed, I for one think that's only because we haven't seen it in action.  Even if it remains entirely civil - imagine 15 candidates each with their own camapaign thread, which they have a vested interest in keeping on the front page.  Even a small number of supporters can keep the thread there without being mere "bumping".  We start seeing complaints when there's even four threads on a given topic on the front page of General at one time.  Imagine 7, or 15 of them!  This is going to make exactly zero of the apathetic folks more interested in voting, and probably turn off some of the people who are still interested enough to vote.I thought I remembered a rule against campaigning, and I didn't question that becuase it makes sense.  Active campaigning can turn General into a circus!</blockquote>