<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Courtesy of Gamespot at </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">--------------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div><h1 class="news-title instapaper_title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.71429rem; padding: 0px; font-weight: 500; font-family: quatro-slab, 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 2.02736rem; line-height: 2.14286rem; color: rgb(20, 20, 21); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(244, 245, 245);">Republicans Made a Video Game About Defeating Democrats</h1><h2 class="news-deck" itemprop="description" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.71429rem; padding: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-family: quatro-slab, 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.26564rem; line-height: 20px; color: rgb(20, 20, 21); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(244, 245, 245);">National Republican Senatorial Committee releases 8-bit game called Mission Majority that has you playing as an elephant named Giopi.</h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.4rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC)--the group devoted to electing Republicans to the United States Senate--has released an 8-bit video game called Mission Majority. It's free, and you can<a href="http://www.missionmajority.com/" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false" data-mce-href="http://www.missionmajority.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;"> play it right now at this link</a>.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.4rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In the game, you play as an elephant named Giopi and your task--as the game's title suggests--is to get a majority in the Senate. You do this by collecting keys--each key represents helping a Republican campaign get more volunteers. You must also avoid Taxers, evil-looking characters dispatched by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and President Obama to thwart your efforts, according to the game.</span></p><blockquote data-align="left" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 30px 1.42857rem 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; font-style: italic; float: left; clear: left; max-width: 40%; position: relative; border: none;"><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"This year's Republican Senate candidates are the strongest in decades (if not ever), and we want to raise awareness in every possible way" -- NRSC</span></p></blockquote><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.4rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">As you jump on these characters, you will suppress their high taxes until they are destroyed. You must also avoid or crush Mudslingers. "To escape their false and empty rhetoric, jump on them and mute their misleading words," the NRSC says.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.4rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">At the end of each level, you are presented with an opportunity to donate to the NRSC, visit a store to buy items based on the game, sign up to help campaign with the NRSC, or advance to the next level. Before you can even play the game, however, you have to connect your Google or Facebook account.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.4rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"As a party, Republicans have a great opportunity to win the Senate majority and create positive change in Washington," the NRSC <a href="http://www.nrsc.org/blog/people-say-dc-is-full-of-games-but-none-are-quite-like-this-one" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false" data-mce-href="http://www.nrsc.org/blog/people-say-dc-is-full-of-games-but-none-are-quite-like-this-one" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">wrote on its website</a>. "This year's Republican Senate candidates are the strongest in decades (if not ever), and we want to raise awareness in every possible way. With that in mind, we are having a bit of fun with our approach."</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.4rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This isn't the first time politics and video games have mixed, of course. In the lead-up to the 2008 presidential election, then-hopeful candidate Barack Obama <a href="http://www.npr.org/2012/10/01/162103528/presidential-campaigns-rock-the-gamer-vote" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false" data-mce-href="http://www.npr.org/2012/10/01/162103528/presidential-campaigns-rock-the-gamer-vote" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">launched an in-game ad campaign through a number of titles</a>, including <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/need-for-speed-carbon/" data-ref-id="false" data-mce-href="/need-for-speed-carbon/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Need for Speed: Carbon</a>.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.4rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">--------------------</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.4rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Video</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.4rem; padding: 0px;"><img src="cid:4797B091-D1AF-4C4E-A704-80E360F0038F" alt="image.jpeg" id="4797B091-D1AF-4C4E-A704-80E360F0038F" width="640" height="340"></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.4rem; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://youtu.be/WvhY57EYt9c">http://youtu.be/WvhY57EYt9c</a></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.4rem; padding: 0px;">--------------------------------------</p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"There's room at the top they are telling you still.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- John Lennon</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div></div></div></div></body></html>