UPDATE: two more players Monday morning...names linkified...
OK. I've talked it up here, here and here. Two days to go and it is still on and you can still join. Prizes. Real prizes of little or no value. Stuff from around my house. Maybe.
Anyway, here are the picks so far:
 | Electoral Vote | Prez | Key States | Senate | Wild Card |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alan | 285K/253B | Kerry | K: Fla, Pa, Mo, Oh; B: Me, Co | 48-D, 50-R, 1-I | Valesky, NYS, 49th |
| Hans | 270K/268B | Kerry | K: Fla, Pa, Me, Oh; B: Mo, Co | 50-D, 50-R, 0-I | Delfino, Co Clerk, Roch., NY |
| Wayne | 277B/261K | Bush | B: Fla, Pa, Mo, Oh; K: Me, Co | 45-D, 55-R, 0-I | Wash St. Aud Wm Baker (R) |
| Nicholas | 290B/240K/ 4N/1Bad | Bush | B: Fla, Mo, Co; K: Me, Pa, Me | 53-R, 46-D, 1-I | Smith. Somewhere someone called Smith beats the incumbent. |
| Ben | 305B/233K | Bush | B: Me, Co, Pa, Mo, Oh; K: Fla | 52-R, 47-D, 1-I | Robert J. Smith, (D), NJ Rep, 4th loses |
| Ben #2 | 309B/239K | Bush | B: 1/3 of Me, Co, Pa, Mo, Oh; K: 2/3 of Me., Fla | 52-R, 47-D, 1-I | Robert J. Smith, (D), NJ Rep, 4th loses |
| Lisa | 274B/264K | Bush | B: Fla, Co, Mo; K: Me, Pa, Oh | 50-R, 49-D, 1-I | Jim Jeffords. Somewhere he beats the incumbent. |
| Kateland | 300B/238K | Bush | B: Fla, Co, Mo, Oh; K: Me, Pa | 51-R, 48-D, 1-I | Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, loses |
| Kim | 273K/265B | Kerry | B: Fla, Mo K: Me, Pa, Oh, Co | 52-D, 47-R, 1-I | Mark Shurtleff, Utah A.-G. will win. |
| Rob | 274K/264B | Kerry | B: Co, Mo; K: Fla, Oh, Me, Pa | 50-R, 49-D, 1-I | Mo Wiltshire, Ga, W. Dist. wins |
| David | 227K/311B | Bush | B: Fla K: Co, Mo, Oh, Me, Pa | 53-R, 46-D, 1-I | Dave picks Wayne's pick. |
DIG THAT TABLE!!! First I ever created with my own blood, sweat and tears.
Once again, here are the rules:
- Electoral College overall: 50 points for being spot on, one point lost for every electoral college vote off +/- for the winner. No points for being 50 or over off score.
- President: 30 points for naming the winner.
- Key States: 10 points for picking the winner in the following states correctly - Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maine, Missouri, Colorado.
- Senate: 20 points for for being spot on, four points lost for every senate seat off +/- for the final count of the majority.
- Wild card: Pick your own non-Federal race at any level down to local district attorney for an incumbant to lose. 20 points if you picked right.
Comments
Kim - October 31, 2004 10:37 pm
I have absolutely no idea how this works so please go easy on me!
Electoral College - 273 Kerry / 265 Bush
President - Kerry
Key States - Kerry (Maine, Ohio, Colorado, Pennsylvania) Bush (Florida, Missouri)
Senate - 52 Democrats, 47 Republicans, 1 Independant
Wild Card - I'm supposed to pick the loser or the winner? Am I allowed to select the Utah's Attorney General race? If so, I pick Mark Shurtleff as the winner
Please email me Alan if I did this wrong, especially the Wild Card pick, I hate looking like a dork! :)
David - November 1, 2004 7:40 am
Prez: Bush
Electoral College: 311 Bush
Senate: 53 R, 46 D, 1 I
Bush Key States: Fla, Hawaii
Alan - November 1, 2004 8:38 am
Wild card?
David - November 1, 2004 12:42 pm
Wild card: the press _doesn't_ say they're surprised by the outcome.
Or does this count as a WC?
Alan - November 1, 2004 12:49 pm
Think Rhode Island. Think dog catcher.
Wayne - November 1, 2004 4:08 pm
Something is wrong with the Senate number totals in either your picks, or most others...you have 48-50 and 1. Everybody else adds up to 100. Or, am I seeing crooked after 10 hours of staring at a blinking curser.
David - November 1, 2004 4:39 pm
I'll sit out the wild card then -- I've been studiosly avoiding the news for the last 8 weeks or so. Or I'll take Wayne's pick, to randomly choose.
Wayne - November 2, 2004 3:22 pm
Last minute appeal. (The lawyers come next!!!)
Rule #4
<i>"Senate: 20 points for for being spot on, four points lost for every senate seat off +/- for the final count of the majority."</i>
Your numbers are lower then ours(99-you, 100-us), thus you can be only wrong 99 times, while the rest of us can be wrong 100 times. What gives? Leave it to me to start a ka-fluffle, eh?
ALan - November 2, 2004 3:46 pm
You are right. If you need that victory that you can count to 100 and I can't, you win. Wayne wins the count to one hundred prize. Yea, Wayne. Wayne wins, Wayne wins!!!<p><small><i>(#$*&#(*@&%'ing Wayne...</i></small>
Wayne - November 2, 2004 4:45 pm
And, the prize is...?
Wayne - November 2, 2004 4:56 pm
Jeez...I finally won an argument. This IS a red banner day!(Wonder where that saying comes from - I have not used it much, and wonder why it came to mind!)
John of Argghhh! - November 2, 2004 6:54 pm
Alan - thanks for the invite, but with my now famous 'tin ear' I'll just watch some TV, read some scifi, call it a night and hope that Bush wins.
Otherwise, I have to start writing checks to people to keep Kerry's hands off the stuff in the basement.
And I have to spend it before he starts taking it, too.
I'll piggy off the Flea. My wild card? Thune beats Daschle.
Alan - November 2, 2004 7:25 pm
You snooze well, John. If it weren't for great-grand-dad, you'd definitely be my favorite ex-Sgt. Major, Republican, gun collector. Well, he seemed to gathered daughters (at well into the double digits) rather than firearms and was probably a believer in the Em-py-yah rather than the Republic but you get the drift. You know, he was born in the USA, as well. Part of the ping-pong of the family back and forth over the Atlantic over the centuries.
Alan - November 2, 2004 10:43 pm
Valesky May Win!!!
Alan - November 3, 2004 7:40 am
As we operate under the electoral rules of the great state of Ohio - certainly the best flag of any state - results will not be known for days. Of note is my wild card race of which NYCO states this morning:<blockquote class="smalltext">he Valesky-Hoffmann contest won't be settled until all absentee ballots are counted in four different counties, and that will take over a week. The Senate Democrats are calling a press conference today to talk up Valesky's showing (perhaps, win) and their plans for reform. Meanwhile, Tom Suozzi had a less successful night.</blockquote>
Wayne - November 3, 2004 12:09 pm
A little help...my wildcard results(From <a href="http://www.spokesmanreview.com/elections/2004/results/general.asp" target="blank">Spokesman Review</a>)
State Auditor
Brian Sonntag (D): 63.00% (1080357)
<b>Will Baker (R)</b>: 33.44% (573444)
Jason G. Bush (L): 3.557% (61003)
Statewide precincts reporting: 99%
That David fellow is pretty sharp...
Alan - November 3, 2004 1:25 pm
But the incumbant was Sonntag and you pikced Baker to beat him. You and David get no points.
Wayne - November 3, 2004 2:27 pm
I know...but don't rain on my parade! :)