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		Forget Nate Silver, there's an even better predictor for the upcoming election (usatoday.com)		11
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thurstonxhowell		2012-11-04 08:01:17 AM

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Wyalt Derp		2012-11-04 08:00:00 AM

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"The first involves the Washington Redskins' final home game before an election, beginning in 1936. If the Redskins won that game, the incumbent party would retain the White House. That held true for 16 elections in a row, from 1936-2000. In 2004, however, the Redskins lost at home (of course they did) two days before George W. Bush was reelected to the White House."

Or was he?

dofus		2012-11-04 07:50:10 AM

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Kinda surprised I haven't heard about the cow plop method of prediction yet.

/One of the cool things about voting early is "It's not my problem any more"

randomdragoon		2012-11-04 12:41:20 PM

1 votes:

Who would have thought, out of a pool of >128 different sports predictors, that one of them would predict a binary event correctly 7 times in a row??

neenerist		2012-11-04 11:15:54 AM

1 votes:

Guntram Shatterhand: At this point it's not about predicting the winner, but predicting what the batshiat crazy right-wing is going to do when Obama wins.

Well, in this election cycle the Internet appears to have played a major part in countering the distortions emanating from their wholly-owned media outlets so one guess would be efforts to dampen anonymous on-line discussions because of terrorism and the children.

Guntram Shatterhand		2012-11-04 10:56:30 AM

1 votes:

At this point it's not about predicting the winner, but predicting what the batshiat crazy right-wing is going to do when Obama wins.

aurorous		2012-11-04 10:44:03 AM

1 votes:

I don't know about superstition but Alabama has been among the most accurate predictor of which presidential candidates are the least qualified and most backwards thinking since at least 1860.

neenerist		2012-11-04 09:07:45 AM

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Nome de Plume: Republicans have won every election held on Nov. 6.

No black president won a second term.

starsrift		2012-11-04 08:05:33 AM

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Summoner101: starsrift: thurstonxhowell: The size of my poo the Sunday morning before a presidential election has been a flawless predictor my whole life. If it's large, the Republican wins, if it's small, the Democrat wins. I had Ethiopian last night.

Checkmate, libs.

Isn't Ethiopia the country famous for having famines and continuing health issues owing to malnutrition?

Have you ever drank African water?

I've had my share of water-borne parasites in the digestive tract. The result, again, does not, er, favor the Repubs by this metric...

thurstonxhowell: [kitchentalks.com image 250x200]

That does look delicious.

Summoner101		2012-11-04 07:57:25 AM

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I would use the wind to predict the results of the election like I usually do, but Romney keeps changing directions so I can't be sure.

starsrift		2012-11-04 07:57:15 AM

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thurstonxhowell: The size of my poo the Sunday morning before a presidential election has been a flawless predictor my whole life. If it's large, the Republican wins, if it's small, the Democrat wins. I had Ethiopian last night.

Checkmate, libs.

Isn't Ethiopia the country famous for having famines and continuing health issues owing to malnutrition?

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