Thursday, November 20, 2008

Presidential Forecast Contest Results

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With the resolution of Missouri for McCain and NE-2 for Obama, the final EV count is 365-173. Which makes the winner of our Presidential Forecast Contest reader Roger Lewis, who had the only entry which correctly guessed the exact number of Electoral Votes. (Full list of entries here). Interestingly, no one got all the states (even ignoring NE-2) correct. It was the MO/IN combination that was difficult - only two entries correctly gave MO to McCain and IN to Obama. Roger had the two states wrong, but still nailed the total EV count since both states had 11 EVs.

Johnny, tell Roger what he's won:

Roger, you've won an assortment of credentials to Democratic Conventions, both from this year and from years past. You've also won an official Obama-Biden yard sign, and other Obama "stuff".

Thanks to everybody for taking part.

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congrat RL! btw, i just took my obama biden sign down yesterday. i put it in the back of my closet. not sure why i cant bring myself to toss it, other than i have worked on so many national and statewide races from 2000 on, and not ever had the winner's name in my front yard. it felt so GOOD, i had to leave it up for a while:)
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I think we should also give some "runners up" kudos to Dody. If it had not been for Montana, it would have been a perfect call. (Predicted IN/MO correctly).
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Roger Lewis · 853 weeks ago

Thank you glorious DemCon website so much... winning this helps make up for getting stuck with a Conservative minority govt up here in Canada. The lawn sign is awesome. I do not even have a lawn so I'll hang it like art. Historical ephemera, my head is swimming with excitement. God bless nebraska and all of you. this has to be the coolest contest i ever won but you got the sweetest deal with your new president, thanks to hard work from people like you.. thanks again, Roger
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