Win the white house

Running for the presidency isn't easy! In Win the White House, manage your very own presidential campaign by debating your opponents, strategically raising funds, polling voters, launching media campaigns, and making personal appearances. Keep a close eye on the map as you battle for electoral votes.Played 3.5 million+ times on iCivics.org, this NEW and IMPROVED version of Win the White House includes all new ways to put your stamp on your campaign: - More avatars- New campaign slogans- Running mate options -Maverick Option for creating your platform- Refreshed content, art and game play- Option to print your personalised campaign materialsSign up for an iCivics account to earn Impact Points and game-based achievements! Teachers: Check out our classroom resources for Win the White House. Just visit www.icivics.org!Learning Objectives: Your students will ...-Explain the electoral process (primary and general elections, Electoral College)-Identify the influence of the media in forming public opinion-Analyze how parts of a whole interact to produce outcomes in complex systemsGame Features:1. Create a candidate. Pick an avatar, home state, political party, and campaign slogan. 2. Choose the issues that matter to you. Battle it out with other presidential hopefuls in a primary debate by choosing the best arguments for the issues you care about. 3. Win the primaries. The primary season doubles as the game tutorial in Win the White House. Gain campaign skills by spending time and resources in Iowa and New Hampshire.4. Win the election. As the party candidate, you must work to gain and keep momentum through targeted media campaigns and personal appearances. Running for office isn't cheap, so you'll need to find funding in friendly states. Your ability to poll will also keep you in the know and help guide you to a presidential victory!

Was falling like leaves from the trees. When Beatle George Harrison visited the White House, Ford wanted to give him a WIN button, “but he couldn’t find one,” Reuters reported.“WIN was what the advertising world would call over-promise,” said Edward Block, a Chicago executive, when he took over the struggling program.Greenspan, the newly appointed head of the Council of Economic Advisers, had privately been skeptical from the start. In his 2007 best-selling book “The Age of Turbulence,” the former Fed chief gave an in-the-room-where-it-happened account of the planning.“My first experience of policymaking in the Roosevelt Room of the White House almost sent me racing back to New York,” Greenspan wrote. “It was a senior staff meeting at which the speech-writing department unveiled a campaign called Whip Inflation Now, WIN, as they wanted it to be known,” that would involve national voluntary efforts and citizen summit meetings to fight rising prices.“I agreed with the president’s priorities, but I was horrified to learn how his White House staff planned to tackle the issue,” Greenspan wrote. “ … The speech-writers had ordered up millions of Whip Inflation Now buttons, samples of which they handed out to us in the room. It was surreal. I was the only economist present, and I said to myself, This is unbelievable stupidity. What am I doing here?”In March 1975, financial columnist Sylvia Porter, who headed Ford’s citizens anti-inflation group, announced the end of WIN. “As an acronym, it is dead, and God bless it,” she said.WIN buttons

For vaccine research and development, and $400m for farmer financial relief programmes.Trump administration unveils bird flu plan as egg prices soarGetty Images9. Unveiled $5m 'gold card' visa planTrump unveiled plans for selling a "gold card" visa for $5m (£3.9m) that will offer wealthy buyers permanent residency in the US and a path to citizenship.The president told reporters that the visas would function similarly to green cards, which allow immigrants of varying incomes to live and work permanently in the US, but would go to "high-level people"."The people that can pay $5m, they're going to create jobs," Trump said. "It's going to sell like crazy. It's a bargain."Trump says $5m 'gold card' immigration visas will 'sell like crazy'10. Pushed ahead with spending plansRepublicans in the US House of Representatives narrowly passed a multi-trillion dollar government spending bill on Tuesday, a major boost for Trump that advances his agenda. It includes $4.5 trillion (£3.6tn) in tax cuts, funded partially by spending reductions but also by potentially increasing the US government's substantial debt pile.However, there are still a number of steps the spending plan must go through in order to become law.US House narrowly passes Trump-backed spending bill11. Moved to invite Super Bowl winners to White HouseTrump said he would invite the Philadelphia Eagles to the White House to celebrate their recent Super Bowl win, despite rumours that the champions might decline the invitation."Absolutely, they'll be extended an invitation," Trump said in the Oval Office on Tuesday. "They deserve to be down here, and we hope to see them."The Eagles skipped a visit to the White House when they won in 2018, but the team plans to attend the event this year, US media reported.Trump to invite Philadelphia Eagles to White House after Super Bowl win

When more than 50 million smiley face buttons were sold.But signs of skepticism also began emerging. New York Times humor columnist Russell Baker wrote that he wore his WIN button to the butcher shop “and focused its powerful message on the hamburger. The price purred and rose immediately… Back to the White House. ‘This one doesn’t work, give me another.’”Baker said White House officials directed him to an expert, who told him: “You are using the button wrong. You are supposed to aim it at yourself, not at rising prices.”Comedian Bob Hope, a Ford friend, quipped, “President Ford went on television to tell us how we can whip inflation and within half an hour the price of whips went up 50 cents.”Some pushed back against the buy-less theme. Staffers for Michigan Gov. William Milliken, a Republican like Ford, donned buttons reading BAC for “Buy A Car." Democratic lawmakers, including young Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware, criticized Ford’s economic plan as trying to fight inflation with slogans.Some businesspeople balked at Ford’s companion proposal to impose a surtax on high earners. Nate Goldberg, a Phoenix advertising professional, began selling a LOSE button, for “Let Others Share Equally.” Buttons mocking Ford’s theme appeared. One said WIN stood for “Where Is Nixon?”In November, reporters spotted what looked like a distress signal from White House press secretary Ron Nessen, who inadvertently wore his button upside down. It spelled NIM. Nessen said it stood for “No Immediate Miracles.”By December, use of the WIN buttons

Work tirelessly to Make America Great Again,” Trump said in a statement. “It is a well deserved honor to have Susie as the first-ever female Chief of Staff in United States history. I have no doubt that she will make our country proud.”But who is exactly is Susie Wiles, and what does the Chief of Staff at the White House do? Here's an explainer. What does the Chief of Staff do?A chief of staff serves as the president’s confidant, helping to execute an agenda and balancing competing political and policy priorities. They also tend to serve as a gatekeeper, helping determine whom the president spends their time and to whom they speak — an effort under which Trump chafed inside the White House.In his first administration, Trump went through four chiefs of staff — including one who served in an acting capacity for a year — in a period of record-setting personnel churn.The chief of staff is “absolutely critical to an effective White House,” said Chris Whipple, whose book “The Gatekeepers” details how the White House chief of staff role shapes and defines a presidency. “At the end of the day the most important thing is telling the president what he doesn’t want to hear.”“On the plus side, she’s shown that she can manage Trump, that she works with him and can sometimes tell him hard truths, and that’s really important,” said Whipple. “On the minus side, she really has no White House experience and hasn’t really worked in Washington in 40 years. And that’s a real disadvantage.”Who is Susie Wiles?The daughter of NFL player and sportscaster Pat Summerall, Wiles worked in the Washington office of New York Rep. Jack Kemp in the 1970s. Following that were stints on Ronald Reagan’s campaign and in his White House as a scheduler.Wiles then headed to Florida, where she advised two Jacksonville mayors and worked for Rep. Tillie Fowler. After that came statewide campaigns in rough and tumble Florida politics, with Wiles being credited with helping businessman Rick Scott win the governor’s office.After briefly managing Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman’s 2012 presidential campaign, she ran Trump’s 2016 effort in Florida, when his win in the state helped him clinch the White House.Two years later, Wiles helped get Ron DeSantis elected as Florida’s governor. But the two would develop a rift that eventually led to DeSantis to urge Trump’s 2020 campaign to cuts its ties with the strategist, when she was again running the then-president’s state campaign.Wiles ultimately went on to lead Trump’s primary campaign against DeSantis and trounced the Florida governor. Trump campaign aides and their outside allies gleefully taunted DeSantis throughout the race — mocking his laugh, the way he ate and accusing

The proliferation of legal sports betting has introduced millions to a hobby that can be costly. Many new players discover that beating the house is not easy. But it’s not unrealistic at least to give yourself a better chance. Taking a look at the habits and tools used by sharp bettors — also known as “sharps,” “professionals” or “wiseguys” — gives us clues as to how professionals sustain a track record of success.Here are six things you can do to give yourself a fighting chance against the house.1Know your bet’s break-even rateReturn to menuThe break-even rate is, quite simply, the rate you would need to win a given bet to break even over the long term. Your edge over the house appears when the odds are more forgiving than your bet’s break-even rate. The bigger the difference, the higher your edge.To start, let’s consider a simple coin flip. The win rate for betting on the outcome is 50 percent: Half the time we would expect the coin to land on heads, with the other half on tails. In sports betting terms, the fair moneyline equivalent for such a bet would be +100: Bet $100 to win $100. Wagering on a moneyline better than +100 — which would provide a break-even rate of less than 50 percent — would turn the coin flip bet into a winning proposition over time because the 50-50 odds are above the break-even rate. Odds worse than +100 would carry a break-even rate above 50 percent and would be expected to reduce your bankroll.For example, if you were offered odds of -110 on a coin flip — bet $110 to win $100, as you might see during the Super Bowl — your edge would be worse than nonexistent. You would be expected to lose 5 cents for every dollar wagered. If the odds were +110 — wager $100 to win $110 — you would be expected to win 5 cents for every dollar bet. Sports betting isn’t as black-and-white as flipping coins, but if you are able to estimate a bet’s chances of winning, you can