• Frontrunner by Lantern Games.
• The Political Machine by ???
• Power Politics 3 by by Randy Chase and Kellogg Creek Software.

If I’ve missed any let me know so I can make a complete list.

Political Icon 2004 is as much a political critique of politics as it is a campaign game. From what I can tell, most campaign games are essentially campaign simulations, designed to model the election system. To that end they reify political ideologies and issues, and reinforce traditional party politics. Is it really that interesting to play a Republican who is strong on the environment?
My game is more of a politics role playing game. The mechanics are adapted from sim dating games (there are several examples on New Grounds — many are Not Safe For Work) where your character has limited time, energy, and cash. In dating games, you must raise your attributes — like strength or personality — in order to get the cute girl. In PI2004, your attributes are Personality, Politics, and Popularity.
Most of the strategy in the above political games involves choosing which states to fight for and what tactics you will use. There are no states in PI2004, mostly because I want it to be a game about politics on an abstract level, not about the national Presidential election. While a political game about running for President might be fun, it really goes for the throat. Where are the local elections? Can you run for mayor, or governor, or senate instead? A strong enough simulation system should be able to do this — and in fact I think it is vital if you want to make a “game” out of politics.
PI2004 also doesn’t have political parties or traditional issues. Issues are instead indicated by graphical icons which can mean whatever you want them to mean. Debate is a matter of choosing icons that are appropriate to the question, truly a glass bead game.
Well, I’ll write more about this later. I welcome input on other political games of this type.