[extropy-chat] An advance prediction for Tuesday

[Joseph Bloch]

For those who are interested in what the 2008 election might look like 
(according to the electoral college, not just a popular vote), take a 
gander here:

http://www.surveyusa.com

"on *Monday, 11/13/06*, SurveyUSA will release the results 60 
presidential pairings, in 50 states. That’s 3,000 separate, exclusive, 
copyrighted statewide poll combinations – results that handicap the 2008 
presidential election with breathtaking, and sometimes unexpected, 
clarity, to a level of precision never before contemplated. Some 
head-to-head pairings produce Electoral landslides. Other pairings 
produce the closest Electoral College results since Reconstruction. But 
there is learning from every match-up. And this learning is 
indispensable if you have a stake in who will be the *44th President of 
the United States*."

6 days and counting...

Joseph

Al Brooks wrote:

> Don't worry about it-- only autodidact futurists such as myself care 
> about an unconscionable remark a washed-up (Kerry is now finished) 
> politician makes.
> But here's a prediction for the 2008 election: even if a Democrat or 
> Independent wins the executive branch that year, the other branches 
> will remain conservative because the red states dominate the US; how 
> many states are there that are not red? several n. eastern seaboard 
> states (NY; NJ; MA; CT; VT; RI) and a few other states scattered 
> around the country. Not too good.
>
>
> */"Neil H." <neuronexmachina at gmail.com>/* wrote:
>
>     A tangential note: I guess my being in grad school tends to make me
>     live in kind of a bubble -- I had no idea what this comment about
>     Kerry was referring to until I looked it up just now. The particularly
>     funny thing is that I live a half-mile from Pasadena City College
>     (where Kerry made the comment), and pass by it every day on my way to
>     lab. I didn't even realize until now that Kerry had been in town.
>
>     Hmm.
>
>     -- Neil
>
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