| 2012 presidential election results: Obama 332 Romney 206 Electoral College Contest standings: Page 1 | Page 2 1t. Jonathan Sickinger (@jsicky) South Hadley, MA Party: Democrat Supports: Barack Obama (D) 538 points (out of 538) States wrong: none
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 0 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 46 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 233 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: North Carolina Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 3.4% (51.2% to 47.8%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.96% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1111538 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? College/school? How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Followed Weather Nerd during Isaac and Sandy Anything else? BCS champ: Alabama 1t. Scott Woods (@gswoods) Jonesboro, AR Party: Democrat Supports: Barack Obama (D) 538 points (out of 538) States wrong: none
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 0 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 46 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 232 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: North Carolina Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 3.4% (51.1% to 47.7%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.27% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1205456 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? College/school? How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? started following Brendan on Twitter during hurricane Isaac Anything else? BCS champ: Alabama 1t. Steven Liedel (@SCLiedel) Lansing, MI Party: Democrat Supports: Barack Obama (D) 538 points (out of 538) States wrong: none
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 0 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 46 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 232 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: North Carolina Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 4% (51.9% to 47.9%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.2% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1200001 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? College/school? How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Anything else? BCS champ: Alabama 1t. John Markos O'Neill (johnmarkos) San Francisco, CA Party: Democrat Supports: Barack Obama (D) 538 points (out of 538) States wrong: none
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 0 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 46 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 225 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: NC Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 2% (51% to 49%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 1% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1150000 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? I like universal health care, and I think Romney would be a disaster. I have qualms about drones, warrantless wiretapping, insufficient stiumuls, and economic inequality. My vote gets California'd, and I'm tempted to vote for Jill Stein, but I love me some Obama, and I want to be part of this. College/school? B.A. St. John's College, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1993. I spent my first two years of college at its sister campus, St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland. How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Twitter. Anything else? I live in California, and I'm strongly considering voting for Jill Stein, but I still hope Obama wins. And I still love Obama, despite my disappointment in him. Also, I'm not answering the next question, because I don't care about spectator sports. Scratch that. I don't care about spectator sports unless my child is playing. BCS champ: Other 1t. Lockhart Steele (@Lock) New York, NY Party: Independent/unaffiliated Supports: Barack Obama (D) 538 points (out of 538) States wrong: none
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 0 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 48 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 228 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Florida Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 4% (51% to 47%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.4% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1250001 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? College/school? How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Anything else? BCS champ: 1t. Kevin Curran (@KevinCurranX) Austin, TX Party: Supports: Barack Obama (D) 538 points (out of 538) States wrong: none
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 0 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 48 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 232 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Colorado Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 3% (51.1% to 48.1%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.48% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1110003 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? College/school? How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Anything else? BCS champ: 7. Josh Knight (@thejoshknight) Kentucky Party: Democrat Supports: Barack Obama (D) 537 points (out of 538) States wrong: NE2 (1)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 0.5 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 47 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 230 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Colorado Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 3.4% (51.2% to 47.8%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 1% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1168433 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? He promotes equality for minorities, believes in Climate Change, and favors Roe vs Wade. Fairness, stance on social issues, and I believe he will help the middle class more than Romney would. I believe Romney's policies would favor the wealthy. College/school? Apollo High School How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? I found about him through his tweets about Hurricane Sandy. Anything else? BCS champ: Oregon 8. Becky Loy (@milehighbecky) Denver, CO Party: Democrat Supports: Barack Obama (D) 533 points (out of 538) States wrong: ME2 (1), NE2 (1)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 2 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 45 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 230 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Montana Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 8% (53% to 45%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 2% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1250001 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? Because once you go black, you never go back College/school? I never graduated the second grade. Thanks for bringing up that painful memory. How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? I saw him pee on the floor once. Anything else? If my map wins, the universe owes me a lucky lotto ticket. BCS champ: Other 9. Jamie Gray (@Jamee999) Uppingham, England Party: Independent/unaffiliated Supports: Gary Johnson (L) 532 points (out of 538) States wrong: IA (6)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 1 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 50 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 230 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Iowa Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 0.5% (47.4% to 46.9%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 5.01% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1200000 Why the support for Gary Johnson (L)? Gary Johnson is awesome, and Obama and Romney suck. (Although I think if I were an Ohio voter I might vote D and then wanna throw up about it) College/school? Currently applying to college. Hopefully Sarah Lawrence '17. Went to the wonderful King's School, Peterborough. How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Twitter, Mid-Majority originally, I think. Anything else? I feel everyone else has an unfair advantage, as they can influence the result of the election by voting in it. BCS champ: Alabama 10. Andrew peterson (@apetersonpt) Madison, wi Party: Democrat Supports: Barack Obama (D) 525 points (out of 538) States wrong: VA (13)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 1 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 45 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 225 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Colorado Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 3.3% (50.9% to 47.6%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 1.1% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 11111111 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? College/school? Bradley university How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Twitter Anything else? DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM! BCS champ: Oregon 11t. John Schultz (@jwschultz) Columbus, OH Party: Democrat Supports: Barack Obama (D) 523 points (out of 538) States wrong: NC (15)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 1 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 47 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 237 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Crazy Florida Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 2% (50.5% to 48.5%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.44% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1321098 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? I'm with Obama on social (pro-choice, gay marriage, healthcare) and economic (listen to Paul Krugman, tax Mitt Romney) issues. College/school? University of Michigan, 2006, BS - Computer Science & Latin How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? My mom used to mention Brendan because she's interested in weather stuff, and I happened across him on twitter and was surprised he wasn't totally in the bag for Republicans like she is. Anything else? I was brought up very conservative and clung to my hardline social stances halfway through college, despite knowing for years that all of the arguments I had memorized were ridiculously tenuous. When I started thinking for myself, I switched sides of the aisle and have not looked back - I feel confident in all my positions now. I wonder if anybody makes the opposite switch without coming into a heap of money -- and if so, how? Why? I'm just trying to curry favor with Brendan with my BCS pick (although I did watch the Pitt/ND game with Domers and had a blast). Also I'm sick of the SEC lovefest of this millenium. BCS champ: Notre Dame 11t. Karen Torgersen (@vtktorg) Raleigh, NC Party: Democrat Supports: Barack Obama (D) 523 points (out of 538) States wrong: NC (15)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 1 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 45 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 237 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: North Carolina Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 3.3% (51.5% to 48.2%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.3% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1333333 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? Proven record and he needs to be allowed to finish what he started. College/school? Virginia Tech 78 & 86 BA & MBA How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Katrina Anything else? BCS champ: Alabama 11t. Kevin Whitaker (@whitakk) Princeton, NJ Party: Independent/unaffiliated Supports: Barack Obama (D) 523 points (out of 538) States wrong: NC (15)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 1 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 46 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 224 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: North Carolina Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 4.6% (51.7% to 47.1%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.43% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1288632 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? reluctantly. College/school? Princeton, 2013 How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? the twittersphere Anything else? BCS champ: Oregon 11t. Tom Smithwick (@ObiWanKobe) Moorpark, CA Party: Democrat Supports: Barack Obama (D) 523 points (out of 538) States wrong: NC (15)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 1 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 45 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 216 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: North Carolina Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 5.7% (52.1% to 46.4%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.67% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1117643 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? Romney would be a bigger disaster than Bush II College/school? Pepperdine BS-Business How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Twitter weather tweets Anything else? BCS champ: Oregon 11t. V Wagner (@vee5280) Denver, CO Party: Prefer not to say Supports: Prefer not to say 523 points (out of 538) States wrong: IN (11), NH (4)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 2 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 53 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 242 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Florida Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 2.8% (50.1% to 47.3%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.43% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1202542 Why the support for Prefer not to say? College/school? How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Anything else? BCS champ: Kansas State 16. William Aycock (@Vovin7) Spearfish, SD Party: Independent/unaffiliated Supports: Barack Obama (D) 521 points (out of 538) States wrong: IA (6), IN (11)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 2 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 54 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 228 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: South Carolina Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 2.7% (51.3% to 48.6%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.35% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1177770 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? Follow Brendan, Andrew Sullivan's Blog, Ezra Klein, Barro @ WSJ, The Nation, many others on Twitter and read several European newspapers on line every week. Romney is just a basic flake; venture vulture - no integrity; GOP is a dying sad party - too ideologically captured by fundamental religion, pro-life, trickle down economics - but they are the ones that have put us in so much debt recently - W Bush is responsible for at least 5.44 trillion of new deficit I believe etc. College/school? Emory University, University of Georgia School of Law; Loyola UNiversity in MD [MS & CAS in Counseling] How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Gratefully Follow him on Twitter; Appreciate how he keeps up with so much especially with Sandy and its aftermath - me being way out here in SD now. Lived & worked in WDC for many years before going back to grad school at Loyola & working in MH in the prison system in WY & CO Anything else? BCS champ: Oregon 17. Joshua L. Rubin (@terprubin) Gaithersburg Party: Democrat Supports: 514 points (out of 538) States wrong: DE (3), NC (15), NE2 (1), NM (5)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 3.5 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 45 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 210 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Virginia Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 2.6% (51.3% to 48.7%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.1% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1555555 Why the support for ? College/school? U of Maryland BA, MA; Johns Hopkins MSEd How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? NHS Anything else? BCS champ: Alabama 18t. Alec Taylor (@alectaylor) London, UK Party: Prefer not to say Supports: Prefer not to say 509 points (out of 538) States wrong: FL (29)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 1 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 49 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 246 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Florida Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 0.6% (48.6% to 48%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 1.72% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1057193 Why the support for Prefer not to say? College/school? University of Oxford, UK How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Via the blog Anything else? BCS champ: Alabama 18t. Brendan Loy (@brendanloy) Denver, CO Party: Democrat Supports: Barack Obama (D) 509 points (out of 538) States wrong: FL (29)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 1 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 47 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 237 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Colorado Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 1.3% (50.1% to 48.8%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.63% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1203482 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? Because the Lamestream Media told me to College/school? Newington High School Class of 1999 USC Annenberg School of Journalism Class of 2003 Notre Dame Law School Class of 2007 How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? I am Brendan. Anything else? Salsa is yummy. BCS champ: Notre Dame 18t. Chris Bennett (@denverctb) Denver, CO Party: Independent/unaffiliated Supports: Barack Obama (D) 509 points (out of 538) States wrong: FL (29)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 1 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 48 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 231 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Colorado Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 1.6% (50.5% to 48.9%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.42% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1125006 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? I think of myself as a radical centrist, but have only voted GOP for POTUS once (Geo HW Bush in '88). I disagree with any portrayal of BO as anything but a slightly center-left pol who is aligned with my values. College/school? Geo Washington Univ BA Univ of Denver MBA How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? DU Hoops/ Mile High Mids / Twitter Anything else? BCS champ: Alabama 18t. Craig Hanford (@chanford24) Fort Wayne, IN Party: Democrat Supports: Barack Obama (D) 509 points (out of 538) States wrong: FL (29)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 1 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 46 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 246 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Virginia Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 1.8% (50.5% to 48.7%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.68% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1197338 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? College/school? Purdue University, 1986, Mathematics and Statistics How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? midmajority.com Anything else? BCS champ: 18t. David Kreutz (@davidkreutz) Seattle, WA Party: Independent/unaffiliated Supports: Barack Obama (D) 509 points (out of 538) States wrong: FL (29)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 1 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 47 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 236 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Virginia Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 2.6% (50.8% to 48.2%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.68% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1176592 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? Better path forward for the future. Not a flip-flopping untrustworthy liar :) College/school? USC 1999-200 UW 2000-2004 B.S. in Applied and Computational Mathematical Sciences with a minor in Mathematics How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Freshman year roommate, groomsman, etc. Anything else? Nope. BCS champ: Kansas State 18t. Dominic Pody (@spork_and_knife) Charlottesville, VA Party: Democrat Supports: Barack Obama (D) 509 points (out of 538) States wrong: FL (29)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 1 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 48 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 225 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Virginia Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 0.9% (50.2% to 49.3%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.35% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1156654 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? College/school? How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? #AOUEOU Anything else? BCS champ: 18t. Doug Mataconis (@dmataconis) Warrenton, Virginia Party: Independent/unaffiliated Supports: Gary Johnson (L) 509 points (out of 538) States wrong: FL (29)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 1 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 47 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 244 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Virginia Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 2.6% (50.8% to 48.2%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.6% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1245632 Why the support for Gary Johnson (L)? Because he's the candidate that most closely represents my political views. College/school? Rutgers University, B.A., 1990 George Mason University, J.D., 1993 How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Long time website ready/Twitter follower Anything else? BCS champ: Alabama 18t. Ed Wines Milford, MA Party: Democrat Supports: Barack Obama (D) 509 points (out of 538) States wrong: FL (29)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 1 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 47 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 228 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Florida Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 2.1% (50.8% to 48.7%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.99% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1389538 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? College/school? How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Through a google search for "electoral college contest". Anything else? BCS champ: Alabama 18t. Evan Hensleigh (@futuraprime) Brooklyn NY Party: Democrat Supports: Barack Obama (D) 509 points (out of 538) States wrong: FL (29)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 1 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 48 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 225 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Colorado Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 1.6% (50.1% to 48.5%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.45% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1139394 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? I think Obama has done a reasonably good job overall, and Romney is incoherent, vague, or self-contradictory on what he'd do differently. College/school? Swarthmore College, 2004, History How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Twitter Anything else? BCS champ: 18t. Fog Mountain Columbia Falls, MT Party: Independent/unaffiliated Supports: Barack Obama (D) 509 points (out of 538) States wrong: FL (29)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 1 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 46 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 243 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: VA Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 2.1% (50.4% to 48.3%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.42% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1218842 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? Obama has moved us to a more constructive foreign policy, and has taken the right steps to improve the economy, to the extremely limited extent the Congress has allowed. Romney's proposals, to the small extent he's revealed what they are, would be counterproductive. College/school? BA, philosophy, 1996, from a Western state school -- you don't need to know which one How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Linked on Geekpress Anything else? BCS champ: 18t. Gary Lefmann Denver, CO Party: Democrat Supports: Barack Obama (D) 509 points (out of 538) States wrong: FL (29)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 1 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 47 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 220 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Virginia Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 3% (51% to 48%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.7% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1150500 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? College/school? Metropolitan State University of Denver. Graduation date: To Be Determined. How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Friend and former co-worker. Anything else? BCS champ: 18t. Greg Diment (@gsdiment) Kalamazoo, MI Party: Independent/unaffiliated Supports: Barack Obama (D) 509 points (out of 538) States wrong: FL (29)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 1 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 47 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 238 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Florida Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 1.9% (50.5% to 48.6%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.6% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1123010 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? College/school? Kalamazoo College 1984 How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Through Facebook and high school friend Paul Hsieh. Anything else? BCS champ: Alabama 18t. IndyMuttMom (@IndyMuttMom) Indianapolis, IN Party: Independent/unaffiliated Supports: Prefer not to say 509 points (out of 538) States wrong: FL (29)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 1 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 45 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 238 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Virginia Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 1.9% (49.2% to 47.3%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 3.3% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1210220 Why the support for Prefer not to say? College/school? Indiana University. Go Hoosiers!!! #iubb (ha) How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? I'm a loyal Twitter follower. :) Anything else? Thanks for doing this! BCS champ: Oregon 18t. Janna Kregoski Fort Collins, CO Party: Independent/unaffiliated Supports: Barack Obama (D) 509 points (out of 538) States wrong: IN (11), NM (5), VA (13)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 3 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 48 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 235 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Colorado Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 6.3% (53.2% to 46.9%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.4% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1311500 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? College/school? How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Anything else? BCS champ: 18t. Jennifer Pease (@jennpease) New York, NY Party: Democrat Supports: Barack Obama (D) 509 points (out of 538) States wrong: FL (29)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 1 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 48 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 235 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Florida Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 2.2% (50.5% to 48.3%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.98% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1085023 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? I am a married, gay parent, and I am a woman. Oh, also, I am not a millionaire or a corporation. For me, the choice between Obama and Romney appears pretty clear. College/school? Dartmouth College '00, B.A. in English How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Newington High School (we were on the school newspaper staff together!)... I think Brendan was a freshman when I was a senior. Anything else? BCS champ: 18t. Joshua Pugh (JPughMI) Lansing, Mich Party: Democrat Supports: Barack Obama (D) 509 points (out of 538) States wrong: FL (29)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 1 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 47 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 232 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Virginia Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 2% (50.6% to 48.6%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.62% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1200000 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? My involvement in politics started with the Obama campaign in 2008, and although I was incredibly satisfied with his presidency after the passage of the Affordable Care Act, I believe he has delivered on several other very significant promises he made during the campaign in 2008. I believe he will continue to work tirelessly on rebuilding the economy so it works for everyone. College/school? I attended Alma College and graduated in 2011 with a Political Science degree. How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Brendan and I met on Twitter during the 2011-12 college basketball season. Anything else? BCS champ: Kansas State 18t. Ken Stern (@maineiac13) Thomaston, ME Party: Democrat Supports: Barack Obama (D) 509 points (out of 538) States wrong: FL (29)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 1 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 47 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 231 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Virginia Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 2.5% (51.2% to 48.7%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.09% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1285599 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? College/school? USC B.S. UCLA J.D. How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Anything else? BCS champ: Oregon 18t. Matt Hargleroad (@cowboyaltitude) Bellingham, WA Party: Democrat Supports: Barack Obama (D) 509 points (out of 538) States wrong: FL (29)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 1 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 46 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 230 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Florida Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 0.6% (50.3% to 49.7%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.12% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1.213,791 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? College/school? How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Anything else? BCS champ: Kansas State 18t. Michael Fraser Dunn Loring, VA Party: Independent/unaffiliated Supports: Barack Obama (D) 509 points (out of 538) States wrong: FL (29)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 1 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 47 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 231 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Virginia Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 0.8% (50% to 49.2%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.8% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1311435 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? Best leader for the job on almost every issue for the challenges facing the 21st century world citizens. His economic policies, foreign policy, immigration, environmental, attitudes towards women, healthcare, social security, medicare, potential appointments to the Supreme Court, climate change, are all closer to my point of view about what role our country should play and what role the Federal gov should play. College/school? 1971 Economics How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? On line search Anything else? BCS champ: Alabama 18t. Michael Rollins (@mk_rolls) east lansing, MI Party: Democrat Supports: Barack Obama (D) 509 points (out of 538) States wrong: IN (11), MT (3), NC (15)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 3 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 48 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 235 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: MT Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 3.4% (51.1% to 47.7%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.97% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1255538 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? College/school? How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Andy Glockner RT's Anything else? Just got off work and got your email about the glitch, which on further review was my error most likely. BCS champ: Oregon 18t. Mike Wiser Lansing, MI Party: Independent/unaffiliated Supports: Barack Obama (D) 509 points (out of 538) States wrong: FL (29)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 1 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 47 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 242 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Colorado Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 1.3% (50.2% to 48.9%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.36% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1243657 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? As much as I am not thrilled with Obama, he did finally come through on a few campaign promises that mattered to me, albeit much later than he should have. My main consideration is whether to vote instead for Johnson, who has absolutely no shot of winning, but would register my generally libertarian preferences. College/school? USC, 2003; Stanford, 2006; Michigan State, 2013 How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? I've followed his endearing insanity ever since watching him wax enthusiastic about his time lapse photography of planes taking off at the Newark airport in the spring of 1999. Anything else? I've paid far less attention to the election this time around than in previous years. If I get interested enough, I may resubmit; I am far from confident in my picks on Colorado and Virginia in particular, and Florida and Ohio probably bear more intense scrutiny than I've given them. BCS champ: Florida 18t. Rhett Butler (@rhettlbutler) Las Vegas, NV Party: Democrat Supports: Barack Obama (D) 509 points (out of 538) States wrong: FL (29)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 1 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 47 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 230 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Virginia Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 3.6% (51.8% to 48.2%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.43% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1177777 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? I don't subscribe to "Hope and Change" but I do realize the issues we have in our country are not easily fixed, and take more time than a few years. Things have gotten better in the last four years, and I would like to see that continue. College/school? UNLV - graduating December 2012. How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? twitter, duh. Anything else? Oasis is the greatest rock and roll band ever. BCS champ: Ohio 18t. Steven Smith (sesmithesq) Simi Valley, CA Party: Democrat Supports: Barack Obama (D) 509 points (out of 538) States wrong: FL (29)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 1 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 46 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 233 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Colorado Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 3.8% (51.3% to 47.5%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.9% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1302456 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? College/school? How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Anything else? BCS champ: Alabama 18t. Sverrir Steinsson ReykjavÃÂk Party: Supports: 509 points (out of 538) States wrong: FL (29)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 1 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 48 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 230 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Ohio Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 1.5% (51% to 49.5%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 2% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1150000 Why the support for ? College/school? How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Anything else? BCS champ: 18t. Travis Mason-Bushman (@polarscribe) Bloomington, IN Party: Democrat Supports: Barack Obama (D) 509 points (out of 538) States wrong: FL (29)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 1 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 45 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 230 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Ohio Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 1.5% (50.6% to 49.1%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.3% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1004039 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? College/school? BS in journalism, University of Idaho, 2010 Currently working on an MS in outdoor recreation, Indiana University, 2013 How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? @midmajority 4eva Anything else? BCS champ: Oregon 18t. William Schlimme (@lazybears) Edwardsville Party: Democrat Supports: Barack Obama (D) 509 points (out of 538) States wrong: FL (29)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 1 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 47 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 238 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Florida Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 2.2% (51.1% to 48.9%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.62% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1100533 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? College/school? University of Illinois How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Twitter Anything else? BCS champ: Oregon 44t. Daniel Sloan (@soundofphilly) Ambler, PA Party: Prefer not to say Supports: Jill Stein (G) 508 points (out of 538) States wrong: CO (9), IA (6), MN (10), NM (5)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 4 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 48 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 230 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: OH Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 5.7% (52.1% to 46.4%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.9% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1090234 Why the support for Jill Stein (G)? She frankly discusses and aligns herself with issues and positions which are the most important to me. College/school? Undergrad in suburban Philadelphia, 2003. MBA in southern California, expected graduation, 2014. How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Nate Silver Anything else? The election needs more of a frank discussion of policy with real stats. An Obama/Huntsman election would have been the most interesting. Also, the election season is way too long. Finally, as top earners, my wife and I feel that it is our duty to pay more taxes as our income goes up. As someone who came from very little, this is my way of giving back. In a way, it's a very American thing, to help those less fortunate than you. BCS champ: 44t. Diana Gonzales (@trojanchick99) Los Angeles, CA Party: Democrat Supports: Barack Obama (D) 508 points (out of 538) States wrong: FL (29), ME2 (1)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 1.5 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 48 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 238 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Virginia Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 1.7% (50.2% to 48.5%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.37% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1100437 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? College/school? University of Southern California, 1999, BA in Classics and Biology How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Twitter Anything else? BCS champ: USC 44t. Elliott Fontenette Austin, TX Party: Democrat Supports: Barack Obama (D) 508 points (out of 538) States wrong: FL (29), NE2 (1)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 1.5 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 47 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 222 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Florida Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 2% (51% to 49%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1243655 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? I agree with his policies College/school? LSU - Undergrad, UT - Law School How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? His coverage of Hurricanne Katrina in 2005 Anything else? BCS champ: Alabama 47. Ricardo Valenzuela Palo Alto, CA Party: Democrat Supports: Barack Obama (D) 507 points (out of 538) States wrong: FL (29), ME2 (1), NE1 (1)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 2 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 47 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 230 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Virginia Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 1.3% (50.1% to 48.8%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.55% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1178596 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? Decent social policies. Helpful economic policies. Republicans would be an economic and social disaster. College/school? USC Biology BS 2003 Stanford Molecular & Cellular Physiology PhD 2011 How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? From USC Anything else? BCS champ: 48t. Bob Fisch (@rfisch_00) Round Hill, VA Party: Democrat Supports: Barack Obama (D) 504 points (out of 538) States wrong: FL (29), NM (5)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 2 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 48 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 225 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Virginia Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 1.1% (50.2% to 49.1%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.7% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1045000 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? College/school? How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Twitter, and The Mid-Majority Anything else? BCS champ: Notre Dame 48t. Chris Palmer (@chrispalm) Amherst, MA Party: Democrat Supports: Barack Obama (D) 504 points (out of 538) States wrong: FL (29), NM (5)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 2 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 48 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 244 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: FL Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 4.3% (51.8% to 47.5%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.56% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1104398 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? Because I prefer my social policies not from the 1950's. Also because its crazy to think you can recover from the greatest economic disaster of recent memory in less than 4 years. And he brews his own beer. College/school? Undergrad at the University of Vermont in Dec of 2009 graduated with a double major in Political Science and History. Now working on my masters in Public Policy at potentially one of the only more liberal areas in the country than Vermont, at UMass Amherst. How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? We do stuff on the internet involving #BALLZ. After seeing people tweet out that they entered the contest enough times on twitter, peer pressure won out and I entered. Anything else? I copied the vast bulk of my map from 538. The backlash against Silver this week has been ridiculous but not unsurprising. I think there is something to be said for the media's portrayal of a closer race then there might actually be. Also, my favorite fruit is Pineapple. Be sure to mention that if I somehow win this thing. BCS champ: Oregon 48t. Owen Randall (@owenrandall) San Francisco, CA Party: Democrat Supports: Barack Obama (D) 504 points (out of 538) States wrong: FL (29), NM (5)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 2 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 48 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 238 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Colorado Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 1.2% (48.7% to 47.5%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.89% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1421231 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? College/school? How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Anything else? BCS champ: Ohio 51. Kelly Koehler Waterloo, IL Party: Democrat Supports: Barack Obama (D) 503 points (out of 538) States wrong: FL (29), NV (6)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 2 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 46 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 230 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Florida Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 1.8% (49.3% to 47.5%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 1.35% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1122334 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? College/school? How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Anything else? BCS champ: 52t. David Wandling (@davidawandling) Charleston, WV Party: Democrat Supports: Barack Obama (D) 500 points (out of 538) States wrong: CO (9), FL (29)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 2 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 47 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 242 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Colorado Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 1.8% (50.3% to 48.5%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.31% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1050838 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? College/school? West Virginia University. BA in History (2002), Doctor of Jurisprudence (2005) How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Twitter Anything else? BCS champ: Alabama 52t. Heimir Hannesson Iceland Party: Independent/unaffiliated Supports: Gary Johnson (L) 500 points (out of 538) States wrong: CO (9), FL (29)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 2 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 47 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 224 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Colorado Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 2% (49.9% to 47.9%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 1.57% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1189426 Why the support for Gary Johnson (L)? College/school? University of Iceland How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Facebook Anything else? BCS champ: Notre Dame 52t. Neil Shader (@Burghpunk) Arlington Party: Democrat Supports: Barack Obama (D) 500 points (out of 538) States wrong: CO (9), FL (29)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 2 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 47 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 236 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Virginia Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 2.9% (51.1% to 48.2%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.6% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1201538 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? College/school? Ohio University (undergrad) American University (graduate) How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Twitter Anything else? Condoleeza Rice should be the next NFL Commissioner, and pretzels are the best snack food ever. BCS champ: Ohio 52t. Russell Saunders (@russellsaunder1) York, Maine Party: Democrat Supports: Barack Obama (D) 500 points (out of 538) States wrong: CO (9), FL (29)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 2 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 46 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 235 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Virginia Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 2.6% (51.3% to 48.7%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.2% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1050226 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? Marriage equality, reproductive rights, foreign policy, healthcare reform College/school? How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Anything else? BCS champ: 52t. Scott Harris (@scott_harris_jr) Hamden, CT Party: Democrat Supports: Barack Obama (D) 500 points (out of 538) States wrong: CO (9), FL (29)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 2 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 47 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 235 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Colorado Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 1.7% (50.5% to 48.8%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.7% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1334782 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? College/school? UMass, undergrad, political science & english Columbia, grad, english How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Twitter Anything else? GO DUCKS BCS champ: Oregon 52t. Sean Buuck Minneapolis, MN Party: Independent/unaffiliated Supports: Barack Obama (D) 500 points (out of 538) States wrong: CO (9), FL (29)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 2 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 48 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 237 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Colorado Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 0.7% (49.4% to 48.7%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.78% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1172369 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? College/school? Sociology/Political Science BA, Indiana University 2011 Sociology PhD, University of Minnesota expected...in the future How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Occasional Mid-Majority reader for several years, saw the contest on Twitter. Anything else? Yes. BCS champ: Alabama 52t. Shawn Cunningham (@vegasrebelfan) Henderson, NV Party: Democrat Supports: Barack Obama (D) 500 points (out of 538) States wrong: CO (9), FL (29)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 2 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 48 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 236 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Virginia Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 2.1% (50.9% to 48.8%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.3% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1133260 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? College/school? UNLV - economics / political science How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Twitter Anything else? BCS champ: Alabama 59t. Kenny Ocker (@kennyocker) Portland, Ore. Party: Independent/unaffiliated Supports: Barack Obama (D) 499 points (out of 538) States wrong: FL (29), NH (4), NV (6)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 3 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 46 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 235 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Colorado Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 1.6% (50.7% to 49.1%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.62% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1255469 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? I'm a moderate, but the Tea Party scares my pants off. College/school? University of Oregon, 2012 grad in journalism. How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? The Mid-Majority! Anything else? #tmm9 BCS champ: Oregon 59t. Thomas Marino (@thomasVmarino) Quakertown, PA Party: Republican Supports: Barack Obama (D) 499 points (out of 538) States wrong: CO (9), FL (29), NE2 (1)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 2.5 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 46 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 238 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: NC Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 0.7% (49.3% to 48.6%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 1.8% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1200000 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? too much mixing of religion on the GOP side College/school? st Joseph's univ/ BS 1989 How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? google Anything else? Sandy will have no impact BCS champ: Alabama 61t. David Sokolowski Elkhart, IN Party: Independent/unaffiliated Supports: Barack Obama (D) 498 points (out of 538) States wrong: FL (29), IN (11)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 2 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 46 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 236 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Florida Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 0.4% (48.3% to 47.9%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 2.3% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1138610 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? Now that we've turned the corner, it doesn't makes sense to go back to the same policies that put us in the mess in the first place. College/school? ND Law School, JD Canisius College in Buffalo, BA How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? NDLS Anything else? BCS champ: Alabama 61t. Jim Kelly (@pthread) Berlin, Germany Party: Independent/unaffiliated Supports: Barack Obama (D) 498 points (out of 538) States wrong: FL (29), IN (11)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 2 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 48 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 235 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Florida Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 2.3% (50.7% to 48.4%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.5% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? See the New Yorker's endorsement. Add that I very much appreciate the way he has improved our prosecution of "the war on terror" (hate that phrase). It's one of the main reasons I canvassed for him before. Also, gay rights, etc. College/school? BA in Central European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies with a focus on Russia and the Caucasus/Central Asia. Graduated in... 2007? How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? I stumbled on the blog through links via Brian Merrell. Now I'm a Brendan Loy fanboy. Anything else? Maryland will win the BCS championship with their fourteenth string quarterback. Go Terps! BCS champ: Other 63t. Brennan (@brennan) bpmonaco@gmail.com Party: Supports: 496 points (out of 538) States wrong: FL (29), VA (13)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 2 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 47 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 239 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Virginia Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 1.6% (50.7% to 49.1%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.2% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1100633 Why the support for ? College/school? How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Anything else? BCS champ: 63t. George McIntire (@gorejusgeorge) San Francisco, CA Party: Independent/unaffiliated Supports: Jill Stein (G) 496 points (out of 538) States wrong: FL (29), VA (13)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 2 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 57 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 230 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Virginia Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 2.3% (50.9% to 48.6%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.8% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1328900 Why the support for Jill Stein (G)? College/school? How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Anything else? BCS champ: Alabama 63t. Glenn Butler (@Glenniebun) Stratford, Connecticut Party: Democrat Supports: Barack Obama (D) 496 points (out of 538) States wrong: FL (29), VA (13)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 2 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 47 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 225 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Virginia Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 5.3% (51.6% to 46.3%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.11% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1406581 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? Though imperfect, he still represents the closest thing to a sane, adult perspective on leading the country to be found among the two significant candidates. One hopes the Republicans' congressional obstruction will result in a significantly reduced caucus so that more genuine progress might be made in the future. College/school? Southern Connecticut State University, BA in English, graduated in 2006 How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? I saw the link on Twitter. Anything else? BCS champ: 63t. James Ray (@wrxkaboom) jray279@gmail.com Party: Democrat Supports: Barack Obama (D) 496 points (out of 538) States wrong: CO (9), FL (29), NH (4)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 3 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 47 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 235 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Colorado Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 4.8% (49.6% to 44.8%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 3.41% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1233972 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? College/school? University of Houston '03 BS Political Science, History University of Alaska Southeast '10 MA Public Administration How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Twitter Anything else? BCS champ: Kansas State 63t. Jeff Morrison Des Moines, IA Party: Prefer not to say Supports: Prefer not to say 496 points (out of 538) States wrong: FL (29), VA (13)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 2 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 50 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 240 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Virginia Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 1% (49% to 48%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.5% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1111111 Why the support for Prefer not to say? College/school? Iowa State '04 How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Began reading during Katrina Anything else? Will be working very hard and very late Election Day. Pray for me. BCS champ: Alabama 63t. Jon Vermandel (@JonVermandel) Williamsburg, Virginia Party: Independent/unaffiliated Supports: Mitt Romney (R) 496 points (out of 538) States wrong: FL (29), VA (13)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 2 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 47 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 239 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Ohio Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 1.2% (50.2% to 49%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.71% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1301222 Why the support for Mitt Romney (R)? College/school? How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Anything else? BCS champ: Alabama 63t. Jonathan Bohan (@JonathanBohan) Roslindale, MA Party: Democrat Supports: Barack Obama (D) 496 points (out of 538) States wrong: FL (29), VA (13)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 2 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 47 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 224 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: FL Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 2.7% (51.2% to 48.5%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.35% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1145237 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? College/school? How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Anything else? BCS champ: 63t. Kirk Becker (@cepheuskb) Gainesville, FL Party: Independent/unaffiliated Supports: Gary Johnson (L) 496 points (out of 538) States wrong: FL (29), VA (13)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 2 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 49 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 241 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Colorado Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: -0.1% (48.3% to 48.4%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.83% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1183487 Why the support for Gary Johnson (L)? The 2 major candidates are real dbags. College/school? How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Twitter Anything else? BCS champ: Notre Dame 63t. Michael Greiner (@devyanks90) Norfolk, VA Party: Independent/unaffiliated Supports: Barack Obama (D) 496 points (out of 538) States wrong: FL (29), VA (13)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 2 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 46 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 231 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Virginia Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 0.3% (49.3% to 49%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.68% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1183904 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? College/school? Old Dominion University, Mechanical Engineering Technology, May 2013 How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? The MidMajority, Twitter Anything else? #RIPWAC BCS champ: Alabama 63t. Patrick Cullen (@BPRTbone) Plymouth, MI Party: Supports: 496 points (out of 538) States wrong: FL (29), VA (13)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 2 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 48 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 236 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Florida Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 1.3% (50.1% to 48.8%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.44% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1180315 Why the support for ? College/school? How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Anything else? BCS champ: Alabama 63t. Sam Mann (@mannsg28) Williamsburg, VA Party: Republican Supports: Mitt Romney (R) 496 points (out of 538) States wrong: FL (29), VA (13)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 2 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 48 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 247 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Virginia Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 0.9% (50.1% to 49.2%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.46% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1189763 Why the support for Mitt Romney (R)? President Obama is not proficient on economic issues. Whatever the problems with the Republican Party are, and there are significant ones, Romney will be much better for the economy and the budget going forward. College/school? B.A. 2007, Washington & Jefferson College; J.D. (expected 2013) William & Mary School of Law How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Began following him on Twitter to follow the hurricane Anything else? I thought it would be closer in the Electoral College, but looking at the map, I gave Romney the toss-ups (Ohio is not really a toss-up. As an Ohio absentee voter, I am reasonably sure of this.) BCS champ: Oregon 63t. Terry Corcoran (@CorcoranNYC) Brooklyn, NY Party: Democrat Supports: Barack Obama (D) 496 points (out of 538) States wrong: FL (29), VA (13)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 2 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 48 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 232 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Colorado Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: -0.7% (48.6% to 49.3%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.4% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1150000 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? College/school? USC/Pepperdine Law How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Twitter Anything else? BCS champ: Alabama 75t. andrew hunter (@muroyals) columbia, mo Party: Republican Supports: Barack Obama (D) 494 points (out of 538) States wrong: FL (29), IN (11), NH (4)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 3 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 47 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 244 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: new hampshire Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 1.1% (50.3% to 49.2%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.04% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1322000 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? College/school? How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Anything else? BCS champ: Kansas State 75t. J. Scott Fitzwater (@jscottfitzwater) Jackson, MS Party: Independent/unaffiliated Supports: Jill Stein (G) 494 points (out of 538) States wrong: FL (29), NC (15)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 2 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 46 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 220 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Virginia Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 3.7% (50.8% to 47.1%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.44% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1148372 Why the support for Jill Stein (G)? I believe in what Dr. Stein has to say and I don't like either major party. College/school? Ohio How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Mid-Majority Anything else? BCS champ: Alabama 75t. Katie Ray (@frogkaytee) Houston, TX Party: Democrat Supports: Barack Obama (D) 494 points (out of 538) States wrong: FL (29), IN (11), NH (4)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 3 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 46 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 223 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Colorado Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: -1.6% (49.2% to 50.8%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 4.23% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1279476 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? College/school? TCU-1999-BA History How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Twitter Anything else? BCS champ: Alabama 78. Robert O'Brien (@hagrin) Centereach Party: Independent/unaffiliated Supports: Mitt Romney (R) 491 points (out of 538) States wrong: FL (29), OH (18)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 2 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 46 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 228 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: OH Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: -0.8% (49% to 49.8%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.24% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1088633 Why the support for Mitt Romney (R)? I'm a fiscal conservative as my primary concern. (I'm a social liberal though, women's rights, pro-abortion, etc. so no candidate matches what I am, but the economy is my primary concern). College/school? Cornell University 2001 How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Weather Nerd, Andy Glockner Anything else? I thought Romney ran a bad campaign. A better run campaign and he would have beat Obama, even as a weak candidate. Should have hammered home the Obamacare as a tax Supreme Court decision more, more on the economy, more on the definition of unemployment with people dropping out of workforce. BCS champ: Alabama 79t. Nick Scott (@nscott08) Charlotte, Michigan Party: Republican Supports: Mitt Romney (R) 490 points (out of 538) States wrong: FL (29), IA (6), VA (13)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 3 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 49 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 238 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: virginia Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 0.5% (48.9% to 48.4%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 1.1% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1284335 Why the support for Mitt Romney (R)? College/school? How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Anything else? BCS champ: 79t. Victoria Holliday (@vaholliday) san francisco, ca Party: Democrat Supports: Barack Obama (D) 490 points (out of 538) States wrong: FL (29), IA (6), VA (13)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 3 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 48 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 236 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: florida Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 0.6% (49.3% to 48.7%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.3% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1234745 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? College/school? Masters in Poli-Sci from SFSU How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Twitter-verse Anything else? BCS champ: 81t. Aaron Weiner (@makefoil) Brooklyn, NY Party: Democrat Supports: Jill Stein (G) 487 points (out of 538) States wrong: CO (9), FL (29), VA (13)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 3 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 48 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 242 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Colorado Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 0.1% (49.5% to 49.4%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.63% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1301052 Why the support for Jill Stein (G)? College/school? University of Chicago, 2008, B.A. Math How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Anything else? Calculated by taking the fivethirtyeight.com predictions and uniformly adding 1% to Romney and subtracting 1% from Obama. This flipped two states, but not the election. BCS champ: 81t. Andy Glockner (@andyglockner) Denver Party: Supports: 487 points (out of 538) States wrong: CO (9), FL (29), VA (13)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 3 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 46 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 234 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: VA Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 1.8% (50.6% to 48.8%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.3% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1100102 Why the support for ? College/school? How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Anything else? BCS champ: 81t. Chris Bravo Berkeley, CA Party: Democrat Supports: Barack Obama (D) 487 points (out of 538) States wrong: FL (29), IA (6), MN (10), NV (6)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 4 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 46 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 232 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: North Carolina Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 3.7% (51.1% to 47.4%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.34% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1189342 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? College/school? How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Anything else? BCS champ: USC 81t. Craig Smith (@smithcp1) Harlingen Party: Supports: 487 points (out of 538) States wrong: CO (9), FL (29), VA (13)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 3 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 50 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 245 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Wisconsin Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 1.6% (50.5% to 48.9%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.3% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1100997 Why the support for ? College/school? How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Anything else? BCS champ: Alabama 81t. Emily Wood (0) Chicago, IL Party: Independent/unaffiliated Supports: Barack Obama (D) 487 points (out of 538) States wrong: CO (9), FL (29), VA (13)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 3 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 48 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 232 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Virginia Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 0.7% (49.6% to 48.9%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.58% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1139462 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? I think Obama's policies have done pretty well at saving the country from another great depression. Just compare what his policies have accomplished during his term vs. what Hoover's policies have done. Also, Romney is a lying SOB and has no integrity. He can't be trusted. College/school? How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Anything else? BCS champ: Kansas State 81t. Ethan Calof (@ecalof) Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Party: Independent/unaffiliated Supports: Barack Obama (D) 487 points (out of 538) States wrong: CO (9), FL (29), VA (13)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 3 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 52 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 225 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Ohio Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: -0.6% (49.1% to 49.7%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.98% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1056783 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? To put it simply, he's the best of a bad lot IMO. Romney's social conservatism is unacceptable to me, and I appreciate Obama's willingness to at least try and reach across the aisle to gain consensus. College/school? I will graduate in 2013 from Dalhousie University in Halifax, NS, with an honours degree in Russian Studies. How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? I know of Brendan via all sorts of mid-majority jazz on Twitter. Found this contest via Twitter as well. Anything else? This election is going to be far closer than it should be, mostly because neither main candidate inspires much confidence. Pres. Obama should be cruising to a second term, but his missteps (particularly with pressing forward Obamacare) have made this tough. As well, I find it amusing how often my country, Canada, has come up in the debates as if the candidates blindly assume we will agree to everything they propose to do with us. BCS champ: Oregon 81t. Jack Little (@JackBLittle) Birmingham, AL Party: Republican Supports: Mitt Romney (R) 487 points (out of 538) States wrong: CO (9), FL (29), VA (13)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 3 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 48 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 224 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Colorado Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 0.1% (49.6% to 49.5%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.6% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1207585 Why the support for Mitt Romney (R)? College/school? Auburn University Finance/Political Science How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Twitter Anything else? BCS champ: Oregon 81t. Joe Loy Newington CT Party: Democrat Supports: Barack Obama (D) 487 points (out of 538) States wrong: CO (9), FL (29), VA (13)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 3 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 49 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 247 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Colorado Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: -0.3% (49.2% to 49.5%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.8% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1205682 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? He's the best candidate Available. / Also I've gotten to kinda like his runningmate Chris Christie. :) College/school? Georgetown, U of Hartford How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Brendan's my son. / I googled for contests :) Anything else? about Myself: naaah. about the Election: the uproar over the 2012 Inversion will make the 2000 kerfuffle look like a Picnic. We Democrats will smirk Sauce for the Gander but Republicans will cry 'FRAUUUD! & descend in their maddened thousands upon the Nevada Recount, under the banner of Occupy Carson City. Upon realizing that now he must completely Reverse the holdings of Bush v Gore in order to reach the desired result, Justice Scalia's head will essplode, even as white people Riot in the streets of the nation. ;> about my Prediction: don't bet the Farm on it. about Whatever: whatever :) BCS champ: Notre Dame 81t. John Day (@johnbday) Philadelphia, PA Party: Republican Supports: Mitt Romney (R) 487 points (out of 538) States wrong: CO (9), FL (29), VA (13)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 3 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 50 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 235 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Ohio Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: -0.2% (48.9% to 49.1%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.42% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1274263 Why the support for Mitt Romney (R)? College/school? How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Anything else? BCS champ: Alabama 81t. Ross Lancaster (@rosslancaster) Lewisville, TX Party: Independent/unaffiliated Supports: Gary Johnson (L) 487 points (out of 538) States wrong: CO (9), FL (29), VA (13)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 3 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 48 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 237 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Colorado Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: -0.1% (49.2% to 49.3%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.77% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1195000 Why the support for Gary Johnson (L)? Lack of confidence in Obama and Romney to manage the economy well. I'm also broadly fiscally conservative/socially liberal. College/school? Graduated with an M.A. in Political Science at University of North Texas in Aug. 2012. B.A. in Political Science at UNT in 2010. How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Mid-Majority scholarship sponsor, Twitter buddy Anything else? BCS champ: Alabama 81t. Steve Guertin California Party: Democrat Supports: Barack Obama (D) 487 points (out of 538) States wrong: CO (9), FL (29), VA (13)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 3 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 47 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 231 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Virginia Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 0.9% (49.8% to 48.9%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.4% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1216793 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? I'm a liberal Democrat College/school? How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Anything else? BCS champ: Alabama 92t. Dustin German (@dusting53) Dekalb, Il Party: Republican Supports: Gary Johnson (L) 486 points (out of 538) States wrong: FL (29), NH (4), NV (6), VA (13)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 4 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 50 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 232 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: NH Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: -0.2% (48.2% to 48.4%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 3.5% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1250000 Why the support for Gary Johnson (L)? Actual conservative. College/school? undergrad: iowa '12 marketing, management grad: northern '14 sports management How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? midmajority/twitter Anything else? BCS champ: Ohio 92t. Tory Tomlinson (@T2Va) Arlington, VA Party: Democrat Supports: Barack Obama (D) 486 points (out of 538) States wrong: CO (9), FL (29), NE2 (1), VA (13)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 3.5 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 47 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 242 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Colorado Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 1.8% (50.5% to 48.7%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.42% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1100538 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? I'm a woman and I want to be in charge of myself. Also, equality is more important to me than taxes. College/school? Princeton in the mid-90s. History major. Also law school at UVa. How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Twitter! Anything else? No, too busy PANICking. BCS champ: Alabama 94t. Michael R James (@mrjames2006) New York Party: Other Libertarian Supports: Other 485 points (out of 538) States wrong: FL (29), IN (11), VA (13)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 3 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 48 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 235 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: New York Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 1.5% (49.4% to 47.9%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.8% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1200000 Why the support for Other? I'm unimpressed with the lot of them. College/school? Harvard, A.B. Economics 2006 How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? He's the PANIC guy. Anything else? BCS champ: Alabama 94t. nick hall (@nicknyc10k) New York, New York Party: Independent/unaffiliated Supports: Barack Obama (D) 485 points (out of 538) States wrong: CO (9), IA (6), MI (16), MN (10), NE2 (1), NM (5), NV (6)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 6.5 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 51 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 216 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Wisconsin Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: -5.8% (47.6% to 53.4%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.62% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1124452 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? Long-term plan, leadership in a time of extreme adversity, Macroeconomic causes for economic issues College/school? Tulane University How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Paul Hsieh Anything else? BCS champ: Alabama 96. Kevin Heaslip (@kevinheaslip) Logan, UT Party: Independent/unaffiliated Supports: Jill Stein (G) 483 points (out of 538) States wrong: CO (9), FL (29), NH (4), VA (13)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 4 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 47 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 242 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: NH Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 1.6% (50.1% to 48.5%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.72% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1000000 Why the support for Jill Stein (G)? College/school? University of Massachusetts Amherst (2007, PhD Civil Engineering), Virginia Tech (BS Civil Engineering 2002, MS Civil Engineering 2003) How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? MidMajority Anything else? BCS champ: Alabama 97. Shaun Curry (@ShaunCurry) Peace Dale, RI Party: Democrat Supports: Barack Obama (D) 482 points (out of 538) States wrong: CO (9), FL (29), ME2 (1), NH (4), VA (13)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 4.5 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 47 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 232 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Colorado Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: -1.3% (48.5% to 49.8%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.54% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1187328 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? 1) I'm a Democrat; 2) Both sides are bad for nearly all but the top of the elite, my side just less so; 3) I actually believe an Obama re-election may force the GOP to rejoin the reality-based community. College/school? Drew University, BA 1982 Political Science/IR Boston College, Ph.D. candidate in Political Science 1982-85, left for work and never returned. How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? As I recall, I started following Brendan via Instapundit during the run up to Katrina. Heard about the contest by following Brendan on Twitter. Anything else? I'm glad I don't live in a swing state. I don't watch a lot of TV outside of football and don't listen to commercial radio, but I think it would be impossible to avoid the ads even with that. BTW, I hate thinking that Alabama will win the BCS again. BCS champ: Alabama 98t. Dave Roberts Washington, DC Party: Independent/unaffiliated Supports: Mitt Romney (R) 481 points (out of 538) States wrong: CO (9), FL (29), IA (6), VA (13)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 4 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 49 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 246 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Virginia Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 0.3% (49.2% to 48.9%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.58% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1234567 Why the support for Mitt Romney (R)? College/school? Georgetown SFS '01; Notre Dame Law '09 How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? NDLS Anything else? BCS champ: Alabama 98t. Michael Rosenkrantz (0) Newington, CT Party: Supports: 481 points (out of 538) States wrong: CO (9), FL (29), IA (6), VA (13)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 4 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 50 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 235 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Colorado Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: -0.6% (48.9% to 49.5%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 1.1% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1200000 Why the support for ? College/school? How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? I know Brendan from Newington Anything else? BCS champ: Alabama 98t. Paul Forsyth Knoxville, TN Party: Republican Supports: Gary Johnson (L) 481 points (out of 538) States wrong: CO (9), FL (29), NV (6), VA (13)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 4 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 46 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 238 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Colorado Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 2.9% (49.8% to 46.9%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.9% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1050000 Why the support for Gary Johnson (L)? I am angry with Obama, and I don't trust Romney. College/school? Duke, B.S., Chemistry, 2004 Univ. of Tennessee, J.D., 2007 How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Anything else? BCS champ: Alabama 98t. Ray Tracy Annapolis, MD Party: Republican Supports: Gary Johnson (L) 481 points (out of 538) States wrong: IN (11), MO (10), NC (15), NE1 (1), NE2 (1), OR (7), SC (9), WY (3)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 6.5 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 48 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 242 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Nevada Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 14% (56% to 42%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 2% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1285000 Why the support for Gary Johnson (L)? Economic/Healthcare Policies College/school? United States Naval Academy. 2013. Bachelor of Science, physics. How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Geekpress.com Anything else? BCS champ: Notre Dame 98t. Scott Allen (@smallen13) Indianapolis, IN Party: Democrat Supports: Barack Obama (D) 481 points (out of 538) States wrong: CO (9), FL (29), IA (6), VA (13)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 4 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 43 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 245 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Florida Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 1% (49.9% to 48.9%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.27% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1011356 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? a) I don't want the ACA repealed. b) The Republican Party has turned me into a liberal. c) It's fun to listen to my family bitch. College/school? Ball State University '03 How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Twitter Anything else? BCS champ: Kansas State 103t. Kevin Mackett (@sharpfork) Denver Party: Independent/unaffiliated Supports: Barack Obama (D) 480 points (out of 538) States wrong: CO (9), FL (29), NE2 (1), NV (6), VA (13)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 4.5 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 49 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 237 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Colorado Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 0% (49.8% to 49.8%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.4% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1333000 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? Obama has done a decent job with the mess he has handed over but was weak with the GOP. Romney doesn't seem genuine and his isolated wealthy life experience shows he doesn't understand how folks like me live. College/school? How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Anything else? BCS champ: 103t. Michael P Hadley (@michaelhadley3) Indianapolis, IN Party: Other Socialist Party of America Supports: Barack Obama (D) 480 points (out of 538) States wrong: CO (9), FL (29), ME2 (1), NE1 (1), NE2 (1), NH (4), VA (13)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 5 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 46 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 235 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Florida Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 1.9% (50.8% to 48.9%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.48% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1050499 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? He is as far left as I can find in a major candidate for president, despite being pretty central. College/school? IUPUI in Indianapolis Graduating in 2013 How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Coolest interneter ever Anything else? I hate the negative campaigning and the insanely dumb debates where nothing but talking points are spewed by both sides. BCS champ: Alabama 105. Shon Harris (@redsoxunixgeek) Salt Lake City, Utah Party: Independent/unaffiliated Supports: Barack Obama (D) 479 points (out of 538) States wrong: CO (9), FL (29), IA (6), MN (10), NM (5)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 5 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 49 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 240 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Ohio Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 0.4% (50.2% to 49.8%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.1% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1301500 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? Because I do not want Mitt Romney running the government like a Business. College/school? University of Utah How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Mid Majority / Twitter Anything else? BCS champ: Oregon 106t. Chris Bossman Tampa Party: Supports: Undecided 478 points (out of 538) States wrong: FL (29), IA (6), NE2 (1), NV (6), OH (18)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 4.5 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 48 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 225 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Florida Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 0.9% (49.6% to 48.7%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.56% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1188777 Why the support for Undecided? College/school? Notre Dame 1990 mba Mercer University 1989 bba How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? been around forver Anything else? BCS champ: Notre Dame 106t. Mike Miller (@mwmiller20) Middletown, OH 45042 Party: Republican Supports: Gary Johnson (L) 478 points (out of 538) States wrong: FL (29), OH (18), VA (13)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 3 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 47 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 226 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Iowa Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 1.5% (49.2% to 47.7%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 3.06% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1093670 Why the support for Gary Johnson (L)? Best fits my ideals, fiscally conservative, socially moderate/liberal College/school? Butler/Xavier How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Twitter/Mid-Majority Anything else? BCS champ: Kansas State 106t. Riccardo Schiaffino (@R Schiaffino) Denver Party: Independent/unaffiliated Supports: Barack Obama (D) 478 points (out of 538) States wrong: FL (29), OH (18), VA (13)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 3 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 49 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 238 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Colorado Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 0% (49.9% to 49.9%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.5% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1315261 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? Bercause I loathe Mitt Romney College/school? Trieste, Italy How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? From Katrina's day Anything else? Let's hope for the best, the country is not ready for another war BCS champ: Texas A&M 109t. Andy Palm Beach, FL Party: Democrat Supports: Barack Obama (D) 477 points (out of 538) States wrong: CO (9), FL (29), NH (4), NV (6), VA (13)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 5 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 43 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 215 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Florida Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 1.5% (49.5% to 48%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.5% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 750000 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? Guess College/school? How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Anything else? BCS champ: 109t. Carl Hoover Miami Party: Independent/unaffiliated Supports: Prefer not to say 477 points (out of 538) States wrong: CO (9), FL (29), IA (6), NH (4), VA (13)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 5 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 46 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 237 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: florida Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 1% (50.5% to 49.5%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.5% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1500000 Why the support for Prefer not to say? I am a teacher. I want to remain publically neutral College/school? FAU MAsters in Education 2003 Hope College BA 1985 How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Do not know him. Found it on the web Anything else? BCS champ: Alabama 109t. Grant Williams (0) Los Angeles, CA Party: Independent/unaffiliated Supports: Gary Johnson (L) 477 points (out of 538) States wrong: CO (9), FL (29), IA (6), NH (4), VA (13)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 5 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 50 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 237 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Iowa Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: -1.6% (47.6% to 49.2%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 1.85% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1156325 Why the support for Gary Johnson (L)? I am a civil and economic libertarian, and both the major party candidates are bad on one or the other College/school? Caltech, '99, BS Engineering USC, '05, MSEE University of Canterbury (Christchurch, NZ), '09, MBA How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Weathernerd. Anything else? I intend to unfollow you after a few more tweets about Democrats. :p BCS champ: Oregon 109t. Luke Gibbs (@werttrew) Springfield MO Party: Independent/unaffiliated Supports: Gary Johnson (L) 477 points (out of 538) States wrong: CO (9), FL (29), VA (13), WI (10)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 4 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 48 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 238 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: wisconsin Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 0.4% (49.7% to 49.3%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.56% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1101299 Why the support for Gary Johnson (L)? College/school? How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Anything else? BCS champ: 113t. Amy Booth Lakeside, Ca Party: Democrat Supports: Barack Obama (D) 476 points (out of 538) States wrong: CO (9), FL (29), IN (11), VA (13)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 4 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 52 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 220 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Ohio Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: -1.4% (48.1% to 49.5%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.44% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1020202 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? The issues he advocates for are important to me. College/school? USC How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? USC Anything else? I teach AP Government in Escondido, Ca. BCS champ: Alabama 113t. Jake Allen (@jakeallen47) Rochester, MN Party: Republican Supports: Mitt Romney (R) 476 points (out of 538) States wrong: CO (9), FL (29), ME2 (1), VA (13), WI (10)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 4.5 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 48 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 234 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Wisconsin Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: -0.4% (49.6% to 50%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.45% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1123456 Why the support for Mitt Romney (R)? BECAUSE POTUS IZ THE SUCKZZZ!! College/school? Wheaton College (IL), U of MN Law How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Twitter snark and stormblogging Anything else? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTfWOhDGifY BCS champ: Alabama 113t. Michael Pusatera (@mpusatera) Lake Saint Louis, MO Party: Other Libertarian Supports: Gary Johnson (L) 476 points (out of 538) States wrong: CO (9), FL (29), NE2 (1), NH (4), NV (6), VA (13)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 5.5 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 49 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 235 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Ohio Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 0.8% (49.3% to 48.5%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 1.05% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1195234 Why the support for Gary Johnson (L)? Because I believe in freedom and liberty College/school? University of Florida/ MS Computer Engineering How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? twitter Anything else? BCS champ: Alabama 113t. Ryan Ritter (@hls_ndtex) Dallas, TX Party: Independent/unaffiliated Supports: Barack Obama (D) 476 points (out of 538) States wrong: FL (29), IA (6), NH (4), VA (13), WI (10)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 5 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 52 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 220 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Florida Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 3.8% (51.4% to 47.6%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.85% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1486254 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? I don't feel like Mitt has any solid plans in this election. The tax reform could've been a radical boost, but had no substance. Further, I believe foreign policy is a much bigger issue than most make it out to be as there are several ties into economic issues, especially with China. Mitt is weak there and I'd prefer Obama's past four years of leadership instead. College/school? University of Notre Dame, Graduated in 2007 with a B.S. in Computer Engineering How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Twitter #PANIC -- ND football brings all kinds of folks together. Anything else? Just under 50% of the nation will be convinced that America is 100% fucked for the next four years. BCS champ: Notre Dame 117t. Derek (@derekpsullivan) seattle Party: Democrat Supports: Barack Obama (D) 475 points (out of 538) States wrong: CO (9), FL (29), IN (11), NE2 (1), VA (13)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 4.5 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 47 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 232 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: CO Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 1% (50% to 49%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.5% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1100000 Why the support for Barack Obama (D)? College/school? Western Washington University, 2006 How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Twitter Anything else? BCS champ: Oregon 117t. Jason Allred (@jason_allred) Logan, UT Party: Republican Supports: Mitt Romney (R) 475 points (out of 538) States wrong: CO (9), FL (29), IA (6), NV (6), VA (13)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Romney Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 5 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 51 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 240 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Iowa Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: -2.4% (48.7% to 51.1%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 1.15% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1184928 Why the support for Mitt Romney (R)? College/school? How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Anything else? BCS champ: 117t. Matt Wiser Baton Rouge, LA Party: Other Libertarian Supports: Gary Johnson (L) 475 points (out of 538) States wrong: CO (9), FL (29), IA (6), ME2 (1), NE2 (1), NH (4), VA (13)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 6 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 48 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 237 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Colorado Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 1.3% (49.9% to 48.6%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 1.2% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1171717 Why the support for Gary Johnson (L)? I'm pretty strongly libertarian, though not to the nutjob "fire departments are evil" fringe. Johnson's the first actually libertarian candidate who isn't a total whack job I've been able to vote for, as opposed to random culture warrior idiots like Bob Barr College/school? Rochester 02, LSU 05 (MS Math) 08 (MS Econ) 13 (PhD Econ) How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? You've been friends with my brother since the start of USC. Or this was all a massive and insane conspiracy to have someone at LSU to fight with over football. One of the two. Anything else? I hate the entire damn primary system. It encourages nominating either delusional morons or pathological liars. No one else can win over the extremists who control the primaries. Plus it's responsible for corn ethanol. Also, screw you Nicky Saban, you're keeping me from putting LSU for the next question. BCS champ: Oregon 120t. Daniel Dinunzio (@dinunziodjd) Newington Party: Republican Supports: Mitt Romney (R) 474 points (out of 538) States wrong: FL (29), NH (4), OH (18), VA (13)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Romney Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 4 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 49 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 236 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Ohio Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: 0.4% (49.3% to 48.9%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.75% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1209320 Why the support for Mitt Romney (R)? Fiscal Conservative!!! College/school? UConn 2012 UCONN MPA Candidate 2014 How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Newington!!!! Anything else? ROLLLLL TIIDDDEEE BCS champ: Alabama 120t. Davy Jones (@davyjoneslp85) Baltimore, MD Party: Republican Supports: Mitt Romney (R) 474 points (out of 538) States wrong: FL (29), NH (4), OH (18), VA (13)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Romney Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 4 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 51 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 253 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: wisconsin Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: -1.4% (48.9% to 50.3%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.7% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1000000 Why the support for Mitt Romney (R)? this country may not survive another 4 years on the road to serfdom College/school? MIT How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? hurricane Katrina blogging, then PJMedia, then twitter Anything else? BCS champ: 120t. Mike Bonfanti (@mikebonfanti) Monticello, FL Party: Republican Supports: Mitt Romney (R) 474 points (out of 538) States wrong: FL (29), IA (6), NV (6), VA (13), WI (10)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Romney Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 5 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 51 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 245 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Wisconsin Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: -3.2% (48.4% to 51.6%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.15% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1100000 Why the support for Mitt Romney (R)? College/school? University of New Hampshire - BA History & Poli Sci 1999 London School of Economics - MSs Comparative Politics 2001 Florida State University - JD 2005 How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Twitter Anything else? BCS champ: Alabama 123. Jeff Freeze (@bigfreezer) Burns Harbor, Indiana Party: Republican Supports: Mitt Romney (R) 473 points (out of 538) States wrong: CO (9), FL (29), NH (4), VA (13), WI (10)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Romney Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 5 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 48 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 232 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Ohio Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: -2.2% (48.4% to 50.6%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.46% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1045967 Why the support for Mitt Romney (R)? I believe President Obama is the wrong individual to lead our country and I don't believe his 1st term warrants the rewarding of a 2nd term. He has not ran on any sort of successful record and he used his mandate in 2008 to advance his healthcare agenda rather than being focused on our economy. College/school? Indiana University. How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Blog follower, beginning with your Katrina coverage. Anything else? BCS champ: Oregon 124t. Julia Prior (@juliaflyer) Dallas, Texas Party: Independent/unaffiliated Supports: Gary Johnson (L) 472 points (out of 538) States wrong: CO (9), IA (6), ID (4), ME2 (1), NE1 (1), NV (6), VA (13)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Obama Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 8 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 52 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 241 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Missouri Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: -4% (47% to 51%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 2% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 5438622 Why the support for Gary Johnson (L)? fiscally conservative, socially liberal College/school? University of Dayton 2006-2010 How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? TWITTERZ Anything else? BCS champ: Ohio 124t. Kelli Best (@kellilbest) West Michigan Party: Republican Supports: Mitt Romney (R) 472 points (out of 538) States wrong: CO (9), FL (29), NH (4), NV (6), OH (18)
Tiebreaker #1: Predicted winner: Romney Tiebreaker #2: Number of states wrong: 5 Tiebreaker #3: Difference between predicted & actual Obama EV total Tiebreaker #4: Predicted GOP Senate seats: 48 Tiebreaker #5: Predicted GOP House seats: 245 Tiebreaker #6: Predicted closest state: Wisconsin Tiebreaker #7: Predicted Obama popular vote margin: -2.3% (47.6% to 49.9%) Tiebreaker #8: Predicted Gary Johnson popular vote total: 0.32% Tiebreaker #9: Predicted Colorado raw Obama total: 1200312 Why the support for Mitt Romney (R)? College/school? BA William Jewell College, Psychology, 1996 MBA University of Illinois, 1999 How do/did you know Brendan/find this contest? Link from twitter feed, which I follow because of hurricane coverage Anything else? BCS champ: Notre Dame |