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dreachon Oct 30 2008, 08:33 PM Post #31
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Haha, it's cool. It actually wasn't that bad. My wife mixed it with a bunch of hot peppers, onions, garlic, and some other vegetables, then sauteed it in a shit ton of soy sauce. Would have been better with chicken, but it what can I say? I liked it.
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brumdog44 Oct 30 2008, 08:38 PM Post #32
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Eelbor the You are discounting the two Independents in the Senate Joe L and bernie the Socialist whom is less liberal than Obama BTW

BTW I hope Gordon Smith from ORE gets his ass kicked that sell out running for cover no spine worthless asslicking girl walking weak incompentent worthless kick in the balls good for nothing non leading tofu eating yellow bellied convictionless limp wristed surrending coward is a real piece of shit in my book.

Not that I have an opinion on him.

Don't even get me going on Ted Stevens
I just had tofu last night :'(

Dreach,

Tofu is fine when eaten by a man of convictions. We might disagree on many issues but i believe you have been convicted I meant have convictions.
I'm going to have to disagree.

If John Wayne had eaten tofu, then he wouldn't have been John Wayne....he would have been some treehugger dressed up in cowboy clothes.

Convictions don't make the man. The lack of eating tofu does.

Tofu is the Kelvin Sampson of the food world.
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brumdog44 Oct 30 2008, 08:39 PM Post #33
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Brum how late can we turn in our picks? I would like to wait a few more days to look at the polls before i make a prediction. Oh, and if I end up having the same count as someone else i apologize. I am not looking at anyone else's picks before I make mine, so I might duplicate.
Picks are fine up until Nov. 4th.
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brumdog44 Oct 30 2008, 08:41 PM Post #34
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Haha, it's cool. It actually wasn't that bad. My wife mixed it with a bunch of hot peppers, onions, garlic, and some other vegetables, then sauteed it in a shit ton of soy sauce. Would have been better with chicken, but it what can I say? I liked it.
What are these veggie-ta-bles that you speak of? I may be liberal, but not that liberal.

Oh wait.....aren't veggie-ta-bles the things that meat eats? I choose to get my veggies by eating meat that ate them.
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Brum i updayed my picks. I will probably keep updating them until late Monday night
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brumdog44 Nov 1 2008, 08:55 PM Post #36
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Yeah, saw your change of Iowa to McCain. Funny stuff.

BTW, Montana poses a new problem for McCain....Ron Paul is on the ballot there. Rasmussen had McCain 50%, Obama 46 %, and Paul at 2%. However, 6% of those the McCain voters polled indicated that they may switch to Paul.
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Ok, here are my official picks. I have been saying for the last 6 months that Obama was going to win in a close one, so I am going play it cautious and stick with that in my picks, though I think it is more likey that Obama would win in a landslide that McCain would win outright.

Colorado (9): Obama
Florida (27): McCain
Indiana (11): McCain
Iowa (7): Obama
Missouri (11): McCain
Nevada (5): Obama
New Hampshire (4): Obama
New Mexico (5): Obama
North Carolina (15): McCain
Ohio (20): McCain
Pennsylvania (21): Obama
Virginia (13): McCain

TOTAL DELEGATE COUNT:
McCain 260
Obama 278

PREDICTED POPULAR VOTE, TO NEAREST % (as listed at 5 pm, Nov 5th):

McCain 47
Obama 51

WILDCARD STATE: in this category you will list a state that you feel a candidate could possibly take from their opponents column of non-swing states; if none are taken, the winning wildcard state will be the one in which percentage wise the candidate came closest to taking.

McCain: I don't think McCain will take any states that Obama should win, but if I have to pick 1 I guess i would say Penn for a few reasons. #1 small Bradley effect, #2 Obama's "cling" gaffe, #3 McCain and Palin have spent a whole lot of time and money in the state here recently.

Obama: There are several that are on the Obama map, but I am going to go with one I said early on might surprise some people. Georgia. For a couple reasons. First, the pendulum seems to be swinging towards the Dems here. They won a seat here in a run off, and the senate race here is competitve and the momentum in that race seems to be swing toward the Dem. Second, blacks have turned out in record numbers here during the early voting period, and I see no reason why that would change. If Obama can turn the youth vote out here too, he could pull it out.
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eelbor Nov 3 2008, 11:11 AM Post #38
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Hogville? Is this like your 'real' picks that you keep at home correctly predicting the final four. Or is this the one you turn into your office pool in hopes of correctly picking a few upsets that no one else will, thereby winning the office pool?
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Ok, here are my official picks. I have been saying for the last 6 months that Obama was going to win in a close one, so I am going play it cautious and stick with that in my picks, though I think it is more likey that Obama would win in a landslide that McCain would win outright.

Colorado (9): Obama
Florida (27): McCain
Indiana (11): McCain
Iowa (7): Obama
Missouri (11): McCain
Nevada (5): Obama
New Hampshire (4): Obama
New Mexico (5): Obama
North Carolina (15): McCain
Ohio (20): McCain
Pennsylvania (21): McCAin
Virginia (13): McCain

TOTAL DELEGATE COUNT:
McCain 260
Obama 278

PREDICTED POPULAR VOTE, TO NEAREST % (as listed at 5 pm, Nov 5th):

McCain 47
Obama 51

WILDCARD STATE: in this category you will list a state that you feel a candidate could possibly take from their opponents column of non-swing states; if none are taken, the winning wildcard state will be the one in which percentage wise the candidate came closest to taking.

McCain: I don't think McCain will take any states that Obama should win, but if I have to pick 1 I guess i would say Penn for a few reasons. #1 small Bradley effect, #2 Obama's "cling" gaffe, #3 McCain and Palin have spent a whole lot of time and money in the state here recently.

Obama: There are several that are on the Obama map, but I am going to go with one I said early on might surprise some people. Georgia. For a couple reasons. First, the pendulum seems to be swinging towards the Dems here. They won a seat here in a run off, and the senate race here is competitve and the momentum in that race seems to be swing toward the Dem. Second, blacks have turned out in record numbers here during the early voting period, and I see no reason why that would change. If Obama can turn the youth vote out here too, he could pull it out.
Hog check your math If McCain wins all the states you said he wins

Did you miss label one.

You gave McCain Penn, NC, MO, IN, OH FLA and VA

if he wins all of those he can lose Co, NM and Nev Iowa and New Hampshire are you giving Obama Georgia in your projections
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Ok, here are my official picks. I have been saying for the last 6 months that Obama was going to win in a close one, so I am going play it cautious and stick with that in my picks, though I think it is more likey that Obama would win in a landslide that McCain would win outright.

Colorado (9): Obama
Florida (27): McCain
Indiana (11): McCain
Iowa (7): Obama
Missouri (11): McCain
Nevada (5): Obama
New Hampshire (4): Obama
New Mexico (5): Obama
North Carolina (15): McCain
Ohio (20): McCain
Pennsylvania (21): McCAin
Virginia (13): McCain

TOTAL DELEGATE COUNT:
McCain 260
Obama 278

PREDICTED POPULAR VOTE, TO NEAREST % (as listed at 5 pm, Nov 5th):

McCain 47
Obama 51

WILDCARD STATE: in this category you will list a state that you feel a candidate could possibly take from their opponents column of non-swing states; if none are taken, the winning wildcard state will be the one in which percentage wise the candidate came closest to taking.

McCain: I don't think McCain will take any states that Obama should win, but if I have to pick 1 I guess i would say Penn for a few reasons. #1 small Bradley effect, #2 Obama's "cling" gaffe, #3 McCain and Palin have spent a whole lot of time and money in the state here recently.

Obama: There are several that are on the Obama map, but I am going to go with one I said early on might surprise some people. Georgia. For a couple reasons. First, the pendulum seems to be swinging towards the Dems here. They won a seat here in a run off, and the senate race here is competitve and the momentum in that race seems to be swing toward the Dem. Second, blacks have turned out in record numbers here during the early voting period, and I see no reason why that would change. If Obama can turn the youth vote out here too, he could pull it out.
Hog check your math If McCain wins all the states you said he wins

Did you miss label one.

You gave McCain Penn, NC, MO, IN, OH FLA and VA

if he wins all of those he can lose Co, NM and Nev Iowa and New Hampshire are you giving Obama Georgia in your projections
Good catch BG. I meant to give Obama Penn. I have edited my post accordingly. It should add up now.

I am not predicting Obama to win georgia that is in my wild card section.
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Hogville? Is this like your 'real' picks that you keep at home correctly predicting the final four. Or is this the one you turn into your office pool in hopes of correctly picking a few upsets that no one else will, thereby winning the office pool?
Are you reffering to the Penn thing? That was a typo. I redid it. I have Obama winning 278-260. Or are you refferring to how close I have it? Like I said at the top of my picks, it could turn into a blow out for Obama. I think that is a more likely scenario than McCain winning. That being said, I think this country is fundamentally a centrist country. We aren't 55-45, we are 51-49. That is why the polls always tighten up, and that is why there isn't often a landslide nowdays, and that is why I am picking Obama in a close one. That, and I like to stay consistant.

And I only fill out one NCAA pool every year. I would rather be wrong once than wrong a half a dozen times.
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Colorado (9): predicted winner: Obama
Florida (27): predicted winner: McCain
Indiana (11): predicted winner: McCain
Iowa (7): predicted winner: McCain
Missouri (11): predicted winner: McCain
Nevada (5): predicted winner: Obama
New Hampshire (4): predicted winner: Obama
New Mexico (5): predicted winner: McCain
North Carolina (15): predicted winner: McCain
Ohio (20): predicted winner: Obama
Pennsylvania (21): predicted winner: Obama
Virginia (13): predicted winner: McCain

TOTAL DELEGATE COUNT:
McCain: 252
Obama: 286

PREDICTED POPULAR VOTE, TO NEAREST % (as listed at 5 pm, Nov 5th):

McCain: 53%
Obama: 47%

WILDCARD STATE:

McCain: Minnesota
Obama: Georgia
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Colorado (9): predicted winner: McCain
Florida (27): predicted winner: McCain
Indiana (11): predicted winner: McCain
Iowa (7): predicted winner: Obama
Missouri (11): predicted winner: McCain
Nevada (5): predicted winner: McCain
New Hampshire (4): predicted winner: McCain
New Mexico (5): predicted winner: McCain
North Carolina (15): predicted winner: McCain
Ohio (20): predicted winner: McCain
Pennsylvania (21): predicted winner: Obama
Virginia (13): predicted winner: Obama

TOTAL DELEGATE COUNT:
McCain 270
Obama 268

PREDICTED POPULAR VOTE, TO NEAREST % (as listed at 5 pm, Nov 5th):

McCain 48%
Obama 49%

WILDCARD STATE: Wisconsin (I have no idea)
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Summary of picks so far

Electoral votes:
Dreachon O 298, M 240
boilergrad M 293, O 245
BTown O 333, M 205
eel O 333, M 205
brumdog O 338, M 200
Hog O 278, M 260
HF O 286, M 252
aaron M 270, O 268

Percentage votes:
Dreachon O 54, M 43
boiler M 49, O 48
BTown O 55, M 41
brumdog O 51, M 46
eel O 50, M 48
HF M 53, O 47
Hog O 51, M 47
aaron O 49, M 48


AVERAGE PICKS:

Electoral vote: Obama 297, McCain 241
Obama 51%, McCain 46%
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brumdog O 338, M 200
Karl Rove agrees with you Brum.
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