It's looking like Obama/Biden may not finish at all...

"Scott Seidman" wrote in message
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Here's a wild prediction
- if the election were tomorrow, Obama would take Florida and Georgia,
but McCain would take...are you ready, NY, NJ, and sorry, Tom, but PA.


It's more likely that McCain drops of natural causes between now and Nov
4.

I got a shiny new nickel says that in light of the title of this thread,
nobody wants to look at the flip side of that coin.

Wolfgang
or needs to given the author of that title.

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On Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:03:46 -0700, mb wrote:

Here's a wild prediction
- if the election were tomorrow, Obama would take Florida and Georgia,
but McCain would take...are you ready, NY, NJ, and sorry, Tom, but PA.

Hm (redux)........

Then again, through the much neglected (in these latter days) expedient of
assigning to the alphabet a simple rising scale of integer values, starting
with A=1 and proceeding through Z=26, and applying the fundamental
principles of gematria to the names of the candidates we see that "Barack
Obama" = 68 while "John McCain" tips the scale at a whopping 90! Gadzooks!

However, it is naive to suppose that the obvious approach taken above is
necessarily the RIGHT one. After all, if divination were as simple as that,
EVERYBODY would be doing it and there would be no basis at all for the
establishment of a defensible hierarchy among practitioners. No, there
simply HAS TO be more to it than that! Thus, reversing the order of the
assigned of numerical values (a perfectly legitimate technique given that
solutions to knotty problems are rarely perfectly linear and immutable in
all dimensions) yields: "Barack Obama" = 229 and "John McCain" = a paltry
178.

But, again, reason alone (never mind experience) tells us that putting the
cart before the horse will likely result in no greater advantage than doing
it the other way around if no means have been made available to link the two
in one way or another. Let us provide a (provisional) link. Adding the
sums; 68+229 and 90+178 gives a ratio of Obama:McCain = 297:268. Still not
particularly revealing one might suggest, but a moment's reflection reveals
that the numbers in this ratio, when combined, approach to something close
enough to the number of electoral votes available in the upcoming election.
Hm........

Suggestive......highly suggestive. But still not conclusive. What else can
we do?

Well, in fact there are innumerable (if you will pardon the feeble attempt
at humor) other things we can do, with varying degrees of applicability and
resulting in correspondingly variable degrees of revelatory value, but
simply plugging numbers into formulae memorized by rote (or provided on a
"cheat sheet") is hardly the way to teach the neophyte the principles
involved in any complex discipline which requires an ability to assess the
nature of the problem and the available pathways to solution.

Thus, I eagerly await readers' input of ideas about what might qualify as a
next logical step in a series of permutations which could shed light on this
fascinating and potentially economical alternative to all the fuss and
bother of holding elections.

Wolfgang
lambda lemma ding dong.

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McCain would take...are you ready, NY, NJ, and sorry, Tom, but PA.

TC,
R

pass the pipe, Rick. I have 3 polls in front of me that have Obama in front
here by 9, 11 and 15 percent. None of them have McCain able to top 40%. Oh,
and two polls currently show McCain behind by 5-9% in Virginia, and McCain
flat out conceded Michigan today.....keep whistling, my friend, you'll be
past the graveyard soon!g
Tom

On Oct 2, 3:41*pm, "Tom Littleton" wrote:

pass the pipe, Rick. I have 3 polls in front of me that have Obama in front
here by 9, 11 and 15 percent. None of them have McCain able to top 40%. Oh,
and two polls currently show McCain behind by 5-9% in Virginia, and McCain
flat out conceded Michigan today.....keep whistling, my friend, you'll be
past the graveyard soon!g
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *Tom

Just wait one blooming second there Tom. What makes you think Rick
favors Palin/McCain? Or that he is a Republican? Where did he say
that? Huh? Huh?
You shouldna make assumptions about folk. Its, . . assumptious.
Dave
R is a nefarian if I am not mistakis

On Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:41:51 GMT, "Tom Littleton"
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McCain would take...are you ready, NY, NJ, and sorry, Tom, but PA.

TC,
R

pass the pipe, Rick. I have 3 polls in front of me that have Obama in front
here by 9, 11 and 15 percent. None of them have McCain able to top 40%. Oh,
and two polls currently show McCain behind by 5-9% in Virginia, and McCain
flat out conceded Michigan today.....keep whistling, my friend, you'll be
past the graveyard soon!g
Tom


I can't explain it, call it a "sense" - I was talking to another ROFFian
about 2 weeks ago (who shall remain nameless to protect the guilty...)
and while they are an Obama supporter, they weren't as sure as I was
that Florida was trending Obama, and now, it's trending Obama. My sense
is that none of the polls are gonna be accurate when folks close the
curtain. Oh, sure, Illinois is solidly Obama, Arizona is McCain, but I
can see states that folks are sure will go this way or that going that
way or this at this point. And last night didn't help matters one bit.

TC,
R