Prize to be determined later, but will probably involve alcohol. If you think a number is too low, take the over. If you think a number is too high, take the under. If you think it’s exactly right, say push.
- 298 electoral college votes for Barack Obama
- 53 percent of the popular vote for Barack Obama
- 57 U.S. Senate seats for Democrats
- 51 percent of the vote for Jim Marshall in Georgia’s 8th District
- 45 percent of the vote for Jim Martin in Georgia’s U.S. Senate race
So, for example, if you think Obama will win more than 298 electoral votes, take the over.
You can enter your predictions in the comments like this:
over, under, over, under, push
And if you live in Cobb County, remember to vote Rusty Tanton for tax commissioner! This is how I will run staff meetings.
Update 11:14 a.m. I’ve added a tiebreaker: name the exact minute Twitter first goes down tonight. You can’t pick the same minute as anyone else.
Also, FYI for people who pick “push” on percentages, we’ll round up decimal places five or higher (i.e. 52.3 percent counts as 52 percent, 52.6 percent counts as 53 percent).
Over
November 4th, 2008 at 7:59 amUnder
Over
Over
Under
Over
November 4th, 2008 at 8:04 amPush
Over
Under
Push
Electoral College – Over
November 4th, 2008 at 8:04 amPopular vote – Over
Senate – Push
Marshall – … under
Martin – Push
I’m going nil, as it were…
Under, under, under, under, under.
November 4th, 2008 at 9:31 amOver (340+)
November 4th, 2008 at 9:36 amUnder (52)
Over (58)
Under (50)
Over (47)
Electoral College – Over
Popular vote – Under
Senate – Over
Marshall – Over
Martin – Under
I heard that Gail Downing wants to increase taxes on nearly every small business in Cobb County. Vote for Tanton!
November 4th, 2008 at 9:49 amGail Downing also pals around with terrorists.
November 4th, 2008 at 9:53 amOver
November 4th, 2008 at 10:24 amOver
Push
Under
Over
We might need a tiebreaker for people who make the same picks…
November 4th, 2008 at 10:56 amPretty good line setting there Mr. Rusty
Over
November 4th, 2008 at 10:58 amOver
Under
Under
Over
Garrett suggested over/under on when Twitter goes down. We can make that into a tiebreaker by instead saying name the exact minute it goes down, and you can’t say the same minute as anyone else.
November 4th, 2008 at 11:02 amExpect the Fail Whale to surface and blow around 7:03pm EST.
November 4th, 2008 at 11:16 amOver
November 4th, 2008 at 11:18 amOver
Under
Over
Under
8:06 PM
Over
November 4th, 2008 at 11:18 amUnder
Over
Over
Under
9:42 PM
Fail Whale makes an appearance at 8:31pm.
November 4th, 2008 at 11:25 amTwitterFAIL! 6:03pm
November 4th, 2008 at 11:25 amI’m going ot go out on a limb & say that Twitter will actually stay up – but may shut down specific parts of their service to do so.
November 4th, 2008 at 11:27 amJoseph, if that happens I guess whoever picks the later time among the tied players will win since they predicted it to stay up longer.
November 4th, 2008 at 11:32 amNo Fail Whale on web access, RSS may fail at 9:10pm.
November 4th, 2008 at 11:56 amTwitter just went tango uniform!
November 4th, 2008 at 1:12 pmTwas just a blip
November 4th, 2008 at 1:15 pmVerifying this could be a problem since sometimes it seems to randomly crap out for one person and not anyone else.
November 4th, 2008 at 1:15 pmAdding the tiebreaker…twitter goes down at 7:27 pm.
November 4th, 2008 at 1:21 pmover
November 4th, 2008 at 6:25 pmunder
over
over
over
With 96 percent reporting nationally and 99 percent in Georgia, preliminary results look like according to CNN:
338 electoral votes for Obama
52 percent of the popular vote
56 seats for Dems (with 4 still undecided)
57 percent for Jim Marshall
46 percent for Jim Martin
So if this were final, you would have wanted to have taken:
over, under, under, over, over
The only one I think will change is the number of U.S. Senate seats, though there’s an outside chance yet a couple of others could with some absentee ballots yet to be counted.
There were a couple of Twitter features disabled last night, but no reported full-blown outage. If we have a tie, whomever picked the latest time will win.
It’s looking like no one will get all five right.
November 5th, 2008 at 7:36 amHuh, Obama just crossed the 53 percent threshold with 97 percent reporting. We’ll see if that holds.
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