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I made various predictions in various places. Here's how I did:

1. Green won't win a set. Correct
2. The NDP, as much as I want them to get back to 40+ seats right now, will not do even 28. Wrong, happily.
3. (December) The Liberals will either win a ten-or-less-seat minority, or the Tories will win a 10-or-less-seat minority. Wrong, but the difference is only 21 seats, still fairly low.
4. Martin's gone. Correct
5. Harper's staying. Correct
6. Jack Layton's staying. Correct
7. I want to say that the Bloc will only do 55 if we're lucky, but I suspect it will approach 60. Wrong, happily.
8. (January) Conservative minority or maybe even majority. Correct
9. Liberal attack ads would either win the election or be mocked for decades to come. Correct (the latter)


Riding Profiles:
1. Kitchener Centre: I didn't explicitly predict, but kinda thought Liberal. Correct
2. Fredericton: I said Liberal. Correct
3. Kitchener—Waterloo: I didn't explicitly predict, but kinda thought Liberal. Correct
4. Vancouver Centre: I didn't predict, and had no idea. Hedy Fry won, BTW.
5. Western Arctic: I said NDP. Correct
6. Halifax: I said NDP. Correct
7. Prince Edward—Hastings: I said Conservative. Correct
8. Thunder Bay—Rainy River: I didn't predict, and had no idea. Boshcoff (Lib) won.
9. Skeena—Bulkley Valley: I said NDP. Correct
10. Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie: I said Bloc. Correct
11. Calgary Centre: I said Conservative. Correct
12. Nepean—Carleton: I said Conservative. Correct
13. Westmount—Ville-Marie: I said Liberal. Correct. Holy crap, the BQ came fourth here.
14. Tobique-Mataquac: I said Conservative. Correct
15. Kitchener—Conestoga: I said Conservative. Correct
16. Toronto—Danforth: I said NDP. Correct
17. Ottawa West—Nepean: I said Conservative. Correct
18. Trinity—Spadina: I said NDP. Correct

(looks up)

Wow. I didn't mean for this to be a "Cam rocks" post, I thought I had fucked up far more of my predictions. Maybe I should find a high-paying political strategist job. I'm sure that's stable employment.

Date: 2006-01-24 11:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] primary-suspect.livejournal.com
Cool, was just going to ask you if you were going to look at how you did on your predictions. Congrats on being the smart. Maybe you could start a popular 1-900 political pyschic hotline or something.

The conservative in my riding totally smoked the liberal candidate.

Date: 2006-01-24 06:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] simplisticton.livejournal.com
Good work Cam! You deserve a pat on the back for all your hard work during the election.

Date: 2006-01-24 07:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] c9.livejournal.com
The argument could be made that rather than preaching to the choir, I could have been helping out our local 3rd-place NDP candidate...

Date: 2006-01-25 05:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] simplisticton.livejournal.com
Well yeah, but I wasn't going to say that. Because the same could be said about me.

Next time, I'm volunteering though. I'm saying it here so you can all guilt me into it when I try to wriggle out.

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