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
|
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Florida
|
Virginia
|
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North Carolina
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New Mexico
|
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Missouri
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West
Virginia
|
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Indiana
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Pennsylvania
|
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Montana
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Ohio
|
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Georgia
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Arizona
|
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Colorado
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Nevada
|
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Iowa
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Minnesota
|
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New Hampshire
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Michigan
|
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New York
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Oregon
|
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South Carolina
|
South Dakota
|
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Wisoncin
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Oklahoma
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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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