US elections: Prediction thread

By Kim on November 4, 2008

>2008 Election Contest: Pick Your President – Predict the winner of the 2008 presidential election.

This is fun!

You can make your own electoral map to illustrate your predicted result at The Washington Post. I’m not sure if embedding will work in comments, but if it doesn’t, after you’ve gone through the process, you’ll also be given a url to your map to which you can link. You may have to make up a US phone number if you don’t have one, though!

Posted in Elections, USA | Tagged barack obama, election results, electoral college, electoral college map, John McCain, Pick Your President, prediction map, predictions, US election 2008, USA Election 2008, Washington Post | 11 Responses

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11 responses to “US elections: Prediction thread”

Steve
November 4, 2008 at 10:59 pm | Permalink

>2008 Election Contest: Pick Your President – Predict the winner of the 2008 presidential election.

I was thinking of calling it Gore’s Revenge
Steve
November 4, 2008 at 11:00 pm | Permalink

Nope, embedding doesn’t seem to work.

But here it is “Gore’s Revenge”

http://projects.washingtonpost.com/2008/pick-your-president/15816/
Steve
November 4, 2008 at 11:02 pm | Permalink

Oh crap…that shows how much I REALLY know about US politics, I got the colours (or should that be colors?) around the wrong way.
Down and Out of Sài Gòn
November 4, 2008 at 11:22 pm | Permalink

It’s not mine, but I like it: best case scenario.
Jon
November 5, 2008 at 12:07 am | Permalink

Mine isnt quite as good as the above, but I think it is plausable…

I present to you…OBAMASSACRE

http://projects.washingtonpost.com/2008/pick-your-president/15842/
fatfingers
November 5, 2008 at 12:12 am | Permalink

What the hell. No thought, just pure gut instinct:
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/2008/pick-your-president/15846/

Steve, you were probably thrown by Labor being red here in Oz, and the Libs blue.
Kim
November 5, 2008 at 12:26 am | Permalink

The consistent red/blue Republican/Democratic colouring only dates from 2000. When networks first used coloured graphics on election night in 76 it was the other way round. Then, after 1980, it was kinda all over the place:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_states_and_blue_states#Origins_of_current_color_scheme
Ben Raue
November 5, 2008 at 6:01 am | Permalink

I made my prediction yesterday at my own blog: I went with 349-189, with Obama picking up all the Kerry states, plus Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, Iowa, Missouri, Ohio and Virginia.
Ben Raue
November 5, 2008 at 6:40 am | Permalink

Oh, and the colour-coding that we have in Australia is similar to that used in most western democracies: red for centre-left and blue for centre-right. The US is the only country that seems to reverse the two colours.
CountArach
November 5, 2008 at 8:27 am | Permalink

My tip:
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r44/CountArach/Likelyresults.jpg

Senate – 59 Dems (Including Lieberman and Sanders), 41 Reps.
House – 257/177
Popular vote – Roughly 52/47
Paul Burns
November 5, 2008 at 8:55 am | Permalink

I was tempted to co;our the entire map in blue, but that wouldn’t be serious, would it?