Electoral Vote Contest
In just over two weeks all the campaigning, debating, advertising and analyzing will be over and it’ll all be up the Electoral College.
As a little election-season fun, see if you can guess what the Electoral College result will be.
If you need a little help figuring out a good guess, you might find these helpful: The Electoral College, and 2012 Presidential Election. Post your best guess in the comment section.
Prize: the winner will receive a copy of two books:
The World-Tilting Gospel: Embracing a Biblical Worldview and Hanging on Tight and Fatal Illusions: A Novel
Whoever is closest to the actual electoral vote is the winner. Ties will be drawn from a hat (or similar randomizing tool). The contest is open to all registered SI users (register here), but the Publisher and Moderators, etc. are not eligible for the prize (only bragging rights). The deadline for your “prediction” is midnight, Friday, November 2.
(But don’t wait until Nov. 2, to post your guess. You can always revise it until the deadline.)
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I’m starting to think there could be a surprising conclusion to a race that has been declared a dead heat. The AZ Republic, as liberal as most any media outlet, endorsed Romney this week. It was shocking, to say the least.
Why is it that my voice always seems to be loudest when I am saying the dumbest things?
Hugh Hewitt cited statistics from at article at Polling Reports that gives hope to us Romney supporters. Rich Lowry on Hugh’s show mentioned a political observer named Josh Jordan, who has been watching and analyzing Ohio closely, and says that Romney has a good chance there.
Rick Franklin Gresham, Oregon Romans 8:38-39
I still say if election were held today Obama would win. Momentum is definitely in Romney’s favor but he needs to continue the upward trajectory.
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Greg Long, Ed.D. (SBTS)
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Grace Church, Des Moines, IA
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Likely if the vote was today he would. I think Ohio is not there yet, nor is WI, though I suspect both will be by E day.
… but there’s still time for a reversal in O’s favor. (I’m still waiting for the other shoe to drop on the Benghazi business, though. There’s much that doesn’t seem to add up in that story.)
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Hey Shayne McAllister: Your prediction on 10/23 left Ohio blank. Please add a new post with that clarified.
Spreadsheet thus far
I did the lettering myself (to save S/I $$)
My revised electoral score. Fixed an error or two and also moved PA back to Obama. Michigan might still go Romney. I still think OH will. I think FL will hold.
So…
Obama loses 225 to 313
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325-213 win for Romney
p.s. close to Aaron’s numbers
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my previous prediction stands. that other map was for argumentation purposes only.
My first comment was not intended to be specifically a prediction, rather a general statement. My post after that is my only specific prediction per your attractive chart.
Here is an interesting article that shows how easy it is for the polls to get the results they want just by skewing the polling sample to the party of their choice.
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/10/31/final-cbsnytq-polls-in-oh-fl-va-s…
Here is another one:
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/10/31/ppp-obama-leads-by-5-in-ohio-5045/
This one is interesting also, though I don’t get what the graphs are supposed to mean.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/morning-jay-polling-quandary-buckey…
Views expressed are always my own and not my employer's, my church's, my family's, my neighbors', or my pets'. The house plants have authorized me to speak for them, however, and they always agree with me.
Romney 290
Obama 248
Sandy 0
Chris Long
Romney 279
Obama 259
I can only hope.
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