Election 43 B.C. - Historum

Wrierhans · August 8th, 2012, 09:21 AM

Watching the U.S. presidential election unfold has me reminded quite frequetly of a very familiar campaign run by Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus. Only due to the defeat by the Parthians was Crassus removed from the campaign for Consul. So I want to know who would you have voted for and why. Caesar, Pompey, or even Crassus had he survived?

Foxglove · August 8th, 2012, 10:41 AM

I'd go for Pompey for the usual reason whenever I'm voting--he strikes me as being perhaps the least bad of the lot.

I can think of lots of reasons to vote against Caesar, but I can't think of any reason to vote for Crassus. At any rate, I think the two of them eventually got what they deserved--and maybe Pompey did, too.

As you can see, I'm not too keen on any of those lads.

**okamido** · August 8th, 2012, 10:45 AM

Seeing as how there was no work, I would have voted for whichever was going to increase the bread doll, or whomever simply wanted to buy my vote outright.

Ultimately, I don't think the common man cared too much for who was in power, as long as they were fed.

Gmann101 · August 10th, 2012, 06:34 AM

Where's the poll?

**Ancientgeezer** · August 10th, 2012, 08:02 AM

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Election 43 B.C.
Watching the U.S. presidential election unfold has me reminded quite frequetly of a very familiar campaign run by Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus. Only due to the defeat by the Parthians was Crassus removed from the campaign for Consul. So I want to know who would you have voted for and why. Caesar, Pompey, or even Crassus had he survived?

43BC??? They were all dead.Pompey in 48, Crassus in 53 and Caesar in 44.

Maybe some years earlier Crassus would have been hard driven to explain his wealth, Pompey ridiculed for criticising the Olympic Games and questions asked about Caesars sexual adventures, but then, maybe not. More appropriate is that Romans knew how to get rid of idiots who ran for office.

Tapio, the king of forest · August 10th, 2012, 08:22 AM

Doesn't matter who votes who; Caesar can never lose. If he doesn't get elected consul he gets double that glory later.

Gmann101 · August 10th, 2012, 10:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Tapio, the king of forest

Doesn't matter who votes who; Caesar can never lose. If he doesn't get elected consul he gets double that glory later.

**Mandate of Heaven** · August 10th, 2012, 03:05 PM

I don't think they would all run for consul in the same election. There is no need as they had a pact as triumvirate.

Wrierhans · August 11th, 2012, 07:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Ancientgeezer

43BC??? They were all dead.Pompey in 48, Crassus in 53 and Caesar in 44.

Maybe some years earlier Crassus would have been hard driven to explain his wealth, Pompey ridiculed for criticising the Olympic Games and questions asked about Caesars sexual adventures, but then, maybe not. More appropriate is that Romans knew how to get rid of idiots who ran for office.

My apologies for the date. I am aware of the dates surrounding the triumvirate of Pompey, Caesar, and Çrassus, however 43 B.C. felt, "catchy" for some unknown reason. As for Crassus's wealth, that would be due to his witty accumilation of property through fires as well as I would have to argue a good sense for business and his birth into the higher Roman family. Pompey in my opinion is just as crafty and protrayed as a blumbering idiot. Our President today seems, in my personal estimation, to reflect Pompey. Caesars sexual adventures? Who in those promiscuois days did not have sexual adventures much like today it seems. Does ridicule for Olympic games and sexual adventures have bearing on an election?