Thanks for the kind words. I mostly got interested in making a political simulator because I like to play in government simulations. American Government Simulation (
www.americangovernmentsimulation.com) is one of my favorite. RIght now, I am a committee chair and need to do a lot of manual things. I realized that I could write a program to automate all of the thread moving, vote counting, and so on, and so I began this project. Plus, it is a good way to learn PHP/MySQL.