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pepperbear

(5,648 posts) Tue Nov 20, 2012, 01:51 AM Nov 2012

Kids Know: 8th grader called election.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/political-prognostication-its-kid-stuff/2012/11/19/972c6e10-3270-11e2-bfd5-e202b6d7b501_story.html?hpid=z3

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But so did Sophia McCrimmon, an eighth-grader at Chickahominy Middle School in Mechanicsville, Va., who entered her prediction on Sept. 14 — weeks before Obama’s famous first debate.

“I figured Obama was going to win every state he won in 2008 except for North Carolina and Indiana,” she explained in an e-mail after being told she was a winner of the In the Loop Presidential Election Contest.

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Kids Know: 8th grader called election. (Original Post) pepperbear Nov 2012 OP

So did a bunch of ayahuasca swigging Indians. Warpy Nov 2012 #1

Warpy

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1. So did a bunch of ayahuasca swigging Indians.

Reply to pepperbear (Original post)

Tue Nov 20, 2012, 02:44 AM

Nov 2012

It was hard not to know, really, no matter how the pollsters tried to turn it into a horse race. It never was, not really. Obama had the EC votes going in and coming out again.

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