Alas, I missed the prediction post, but I thought it would be much closer than even 100. Winning by over twice the electors is just… wow. He had the early lead and just never looked back. It was difficult to watch… like a Bengals football game. They win one occasionally.
— Ian 
> Not sure why I called them “delegates” instead of “electors,”
“delegates” is correct; the electoral college is composed of delegates from the states.
— Name
cris@tablet:~$ sha1sum electionprediction.txt
84b578e1250ead30cdf21ebfc494016648835e58 electionprediction.txt
cris@tablet:~$ cat electionprediction.txt
Thu Jun 12 09:50:42 MDT 2008: I predict Obama will win the general election.
— Chris
Right winner, wrong count. I had Obama with 289.
http://zgp.org/~dmarti/misc/election/
[original commit]
10ff6b6ccb96af36fdda07afcde08bc5 election results
> ./election-results
Barak Obama will win 2008 US Presidential election!
Of course I cheated.
— Srijith
I didn’t have an election prediction, but this is fun. We can do the same thing making predictions about Obama’s first year in office. I’ve already started compiling my list.
I wasn’t hopeful enough ;)
Obama 304 McCain 210
# => 69e9ca64948b34a9a8aac8a383a0d551
$ md5sum obama
1dc1269b7f13ea3727870001b54d2e47 obama
$ cat obama
Obama 52, McCain 45, Paul an obviously distant 3rd
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Not bad, totally wrong about Ron Paul though.
— Adam