{"id":4375,"date":"2004-10-29T00:33:43","date_gmt":"2004-10-29T00:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=4375"},"modified":"2004-10-29T00:33:43","modified_gmt":"2004-10-29T00:33:43","slug":"and_the_winner_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=4375","title":{"rendered":"And The Winner Is&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few years after I graduated from high school, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmhschool.org\/\">my school<\/a> started doing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmhschool.org\/votes2004\/\">mock elections<\/a>.  Since 1988 their mock election has accurately chosen the eventual winner.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmhschool.org\/votes2004\/\">VOTES 2004<\/a> was today, and the winner was&#8230; John Kerry! Let&#8217;s hope their record of success continues.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a pretty interesting setup.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmhschool.org\/votes2004\/involved.html\">From the web page<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Two  schools from each state participate in the highlight of the month-long  project\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u009da mock election at which a winner is declared just days before  the general election. The VOTES election is unique in that it simulates  the electoral college process of selecting a candidate: the winner must earn at least 270 out of 538 electoral votes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And here is the breakdown of the results:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"imageleft\">\n<strong>Candidate <\/strong><br \/>\nJohn Kerry<br \/>\nGeorge Bush<br \/>\nRalph Nader<br \/>\nDavid Cobb<br \/>\nMichael Badnarik<br \/>\nMichael Peroutka<br \/>\nOthers\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"imageleft\">\n<strong>Electoral Votes<\/strong><br \/>\n326<br \/>\n212<br \/>\n0<br \/>\n0<br \/>\n0<br \/>\n0<br \/>\n0\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"imageleft\">\n<strong>Popular Votes<\/strong><br \/>\n26,920<br \/>\n22,771<br \/>\n2,253<br \/>\n758<br \/>\n572<br \/>\n230<br \/>\n56\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"imageleft\">\n<strong>Percentage<\/strong><br \/>\n50.20%<br \/>\n42.50%<br \/>\n4.40%<br \/>\n1.40%<br \/>\n1.00%<br \/>\n0.40%<br \/>\n0.10%\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"spacer\"><\/div>\n<p>Voter Turnout 70%<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Pretty cool I must say.  I can&#8217;t wait to see how accurate it is this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years after I graduated from high school, my school started doing mock elections.  Since 1988 their mock election has accurately chosen the eventual winner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,138,122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-interesting","category-random-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}