October 24, 2010
— CAC Hey, if they can "process" their numbers, certainly you morons can beat 'em to it!
So here is the deal.
Tom Jensen has a thrill up and down all eight of his legs right now over his California Gov and Senate polls, seems to be developing one for Manchin in West Virginia, and has constantly shown Buck down even when everyone else gave him an edge (before his er...interesting recent comments). He will probably throw a bone to us for Kentucky, but pah. So...
I (CAC) will personally send an e-gift card for Rifftrax to the tune of $5.00 (enough for a flick and a short) for whomever gets closest to Jensen's "results" he will be releasing soon for:
KY Senate
CO Senate
CO Gov
CA Gov
CA Senate
WV Senate
Very simple entry:
List all six, pick Jensen's "winner" and by how much (for Colorado list Tancredo ) or if you feel bold the %'s (which yield a margin anyway)
Winner will be determined the following way-
Moron/moronette who nails all 6 of Jensen's poll winners gets the gift certificate.
Tiebreaker:
If more than one of you pick all of Jensen's winners (and as predictable as he has been I suspect that will happen), then we will go by what your prediction of Jensen's winner margin will be (You must pick all 6 winners first, nailing 5 of them with the right margin but predicting the wrong overall winner on the last is worthless- as with elections, being off by 1 means nothing if you still lost. Particularly this year.)
Tiebreaker #2:
In the event that two different morons post the exact same numbers and winners, then whomever posted it first here. Contest closes when Jensen releases his FIRST poll number.
If we are going to laugh at his polls, lets have some fun with it!
I will name the winner once all of Jensen's poll results are posted on his polling firm's blog. You MUST have your picks in before Jensen posts the first of these results.
UPDATE- PPP began releasing with Colorado numbers this morning, entry is closed.
UPDATED- ACTUAL PPP polls (note that California used a sample size larger than even the registration figures for the state, throw it in with the LA/USC and Suffolk turd pile):
*updated below 10/26*
Kentucky Senate PPP ACTUAL Paul 53- Conway 40
California Senate PPP ACTUAL Boxer 52- Fiorina 43
California Governor PPP ACTUAL Brown 53- Whitman 42
Colorado Governor PPP ACTUAL Hickpooper 47 Tancredo 44
Colorado Senate PPP ACTUAL- TIED AT 47
West Virginia Senate PPP ACTUAL Manchin 50 Raese 44
EVERYBODY missed colorado because it ended a tie.
So I will go by the morons who nailed the most RIGHT winners out of 6
Morons who nailed 5 of 6:
Apologetic California, Just Another Poster, Doc, Rocks, JC
Now who came closest to Jensen with their numbes:
AC scored an average error of 5.8, nailed CA Senate margin
JAP scored an average error of 5.0, nailing none exactly but only off 1 on 2 races.
DOC scored an average error of 5.0, nailed WV Sen margin exactly.
Rocks scored an average error of 5.2
JC scored an average error of 4.0
JC, your nickname is PPP Chief Analyst now and enjoy your prize.
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Posted by: Serious Cat at October 24, 2010 10:48 PM (bAySe)
California Senate - Boxer
California Governor - Brown
Colorado Governor - Hickenwhatever
Colorado Senate - Buck
West Virginia Senate - Rease
Picking the % is too hard as who the heck knows what the undecided will be. Would it be better to guess by how far ahead the leader is?
Posted by: Serious Cat at October 24, 2010 10:52 PM (bAySe)
Posted by: Apologetic California at October 24, 2010 10:54 PM (8VZ5l)
#5
Ill accept it. Just take a stab at how far ahead Jensen's poll will show the pick.
ex-
"Jensen will say Boxer by 9, Brown by 13, Hickey by 3, etc"
Posted by: CAC at October 24, 2010 10:55 PM (lV4Fs)
Posted by: Apologetic California at October 24, 2010 10:59 PM (8VZ5l)
California Senate - Boxer by 9
California Governor - Brown by 11
Colorado Governor - Hickenwhatever by 14
Colorado Senate - Buck by 2
West Virginia Senate - Rease by 3
Posted by: Serious Cat at October 24, 2010 11:05 PM (bAySe)
Posted by: Just Another Poster at October 24, 2010 11:14 PM (HAdov)
Posted by: Doc at October 24, 2010 11:15 PM (MYT77)
California Senate - Boxer by 9
California Governor - Brown by 13
Colorado Governor - Hickenlooper by 8
Colorado Senate - Bennet by 3
West Virginia Senate - Raese by 4
Posted by: JonathanEllis at October 24, 2010 11:20 PM (BdzEV)
Posted by: Serious Cat at October 24, 2010 11:33 PM (bAySe)
Posted by: LeBron Steinman at October 24, 2010 11:34 PM (lK2r3)
So, let's say that you have R > D -- mainstream Republican polling higher than mainstream Democrat before the elections.
Then you have r > R -- an insurgent (maybe Tea Party) republican takes out a mainstream Republican in the primary.
Then, just for argument's sake, let's say that r < D in the general election. Big.
Conventional analysis would say that the R's missed a pickup opportunity. Alternatively, r got less support than R would have. Or r's are flawed candidates.
Myself, I'm leaning toward: "primaries are more important than previously supposed."
Even the Tancredo/Maes, Mirkanovitchskivitch/Miller, and Rubio/Crist glitches reinforce the same theme -- party hacks saw primaries as ceremonies of anointment. They used the vote as a ceremony to annoint the connected, rather than an actual contest.
Posted by: cthulhu at October 24, 2010 11:37 PM (/0IOT)
Kentucky Senate: Paul by 1
California Senate: Boxer by 6
California Governor: Brown by 11
Colorado Governor: Hickendoper by 13
Colorado Senate: Bennet by 1
West Virginia Senate: Manchin by 5
Posted by: Rocks at October 24, 2010 11:38 PM (AoVGn)
Kentucky Senate: Paul by 2
California Senate: Boxbrain by 7
California Governor: Brownstain by 9
Colorado Governor: Dickandpooper by 9
Colorado Senate: Benngay by 1
West Virginia Senate: Muenchhausin dead heat
Posted by: Guy Fawkes at October 24, 2010 11:51 PM (ruu60)
California Senate - Boxer by 6
California Governor - Brown by 10
Colorado Senate - Bennet by 2
Colorado Governor - Hickenlooper by 9
West Virginia Senate - Manchin by 6
Posted by: JC at October 24, 2010 11:58 PM (7PT3B)
Posted by: The Lemon Merchant at October 25, 2010 01:02 AM (9cflz)
California Senate: Boxer up 8
California Governor: Brown up 11
Colorado Governor: Hickenlooper up 11
Colorado Senate: Bennet up 4
West Virginia Senate: Manchin up 9
Posted by: Gregory of Yardale at October 25, 2010 02:25 AM (YPivX)
Posted by: The Lemon Merchant
Sometimes these poles are not on the up and up.
Posted by: scif at October 25, 2010 02:32 AM (TqLxU)
Posted by: thomas sabo jewellery at November 23, 2010 08:08 PM (eaBkY)
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the poll is shit, so who cares how wrong he is?
Posted by: SantaRosaStan, aka Aqua Buddha at October 24, 2010 10:38 PM (dS2wQ)