Friday, November 07, 2008

Puttin' Up & Shuttin' Up

So last week, we made some predictions. And now that all the votes are in, we're left with a final (okay, provisional) electoral tally as follows:

Barack Obama: 365
John McCain: 175

So who won -- and, more importantly -- what did they win?

Well, no one guessed 365, but a couple of you guessed 364.

Attaturk was in for 364. Unfortunately, whether out of sheer laziness or an assumption that we could read his mind, he failed to provide a breakout of states to get him to said 364, so he's out.

racymind was also in for 364, specifing "Kerry states + IA,NM,OH,FL,VA,CO,NC,MO,NV" and "( Also the current MyDD map)". Since I don't know what MyDD map she's referring to, I'm disqualifying her. :-) Kidding. In any case, as it turned out, IN -- and not MO -- proved the shocker on election night. That said, racymind needn't fret. She loses, but she remains, as always, too cool for school.

jac picked 364, too. I'm going to assume that when he said "Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Virginia" that he meant to put the words "Kerry states plus" before that list. Well, like racymind, he doubted IN and so he's out, too.

karin didn't expressly state a number, but listed CA,CO,CT,DC,DE,FL,HI,IA,IL,IN,MA,MD,
ME,MI,MN,NH,NC,NJ,NM,NV,NY,OH,OR,PA, RI,VA,VT,WA,WI as her picks. This -- plus today's one electoral vote from the great city of Omaha, Nebraska -- gets her closest.

Karin, my friends, is the winner.

Now, what should we give her? Suggestions in comments, please.

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