Monday, November 5, 2012

2012 U.S. ELECTION CONTEST



2012 ELECTION CONTEST

brought to you by Eric Macramalla (who has approved this contest)

Please email the completed form to me by noon on Tuesday November  6. Email forms to EricUSElection@yahoo.ca.

There is no entry fee - the contest is free to enter. I will donate $250 to the winner's charity of choice. Results will be posted on my blog. This is all very exciting.

1. Who will win the Presidency? ___________________ (200 points)

2. Who will win the popular vote?_____________________ (200 points)

3. How many electoral votes will Obama get? _____________________ (1000 points)

4. How many electoral votes will Romney get?  _____________________     (1000 points)

(The scoring for questions 3 and 4 is as follows: if you correctly predict the number of votes, you get 1000 points. For every vote you are off, you lose 100 points.)

5. Pick who will win these states (100 points per correct answer):


State

Candidate Who Will Carry State



State

Candidate Who Will Carry State
Florida




Virginia


North Carolina




New Mexico


Missouri




West Virginia


Indiana




Pennsylvania


Montana




Ohio


Georgia




Arizona


Colorado




Nevada


Iowa


Minnesota

New Hampshire


Michigan

New York


Oregon

South Carolina


South Dakota

Wisoncin


Oklahoma


Bonus Questions (100 points each - try and not use Al Gore's Internet to find answers):

6.        Since and including Gerald Ford, how many Presidents have been left handed: _____________________
  
7.        Name those left handed President:
 _________________________________________________________________________

8.        In 1860, the first year the presidential election fell on November 6th,  he was elected to office:
            _________________________________________________________________________

9.       This was President Obama’s yearly salary as President:
           _________________________________________________________________________

10.      Which President said this: “I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.”
           _________________________________________________________________________

11.     Who said this: “I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people."
            _________________________________________________________________________

12.     This Vice-presidential candidate looks like a cross between Jake Gyllenhaal and Mr. Bean:
           _________________________________________________________________________

13.      This University student asked President Obama and Governor Mitt Romney for a job on national television:
          _________________________________________________________________________

14.     This Presidential candidate became known for saying this: “let me finish":
          ________________________________________________________________________

15.      In the 1976 presidential debate, he famously stated "There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe." That didn’t go over too well.
          _________________________________________________________________________

16.     He did a lot of sighing and rolling of his eyes during a Presidential debate:
          _________________________________________________________________________

17.     This Republican candidate in 2011 said “I am not going to be silenced and I am not going away”. Then in that same speech, he suspended his campaign. Who is he?:
          _________________________________________________________________________

18.      At a Vice-Presidential debate, this candidate opened with “Who am I? Why am I here?". He never got a chance to answer those questions though and people were a bit confused. His name?:
          _________________________________________________________________________


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