We’ve been patiently waiting for the New York State Board of Elections to certify the results of the NY-23 special election so that we could name the winners of our 2009 predictions contest. Well, the numbers are finally in, so here we are! But first, thanks as always to everyone who participated. We received 110 valid entries, which is about as many as we had in 2008. Not bad for an off-year election!
If you are listed as a winner, send me an email and I will send you a super-delicious Green’s babka posthaste. Without further ado:
| Name | Pts |
|---|---|
| Zeitgeist9000 | 7 |
| andyroo312 | 11 |
| pinhickwv | 13 |
Congratulations to all the winners! If you’d like to find out how you did, please click here. The average score was 29. KainIIIC, Tiger in Blue Denver, and overall winner Zeitgeist9000 nailed NY-23 exactly (average error: 7). No one got NJ-Gov on the nose, though GoodWellOK and third-place finisher pinhickwv were off by just one point (average error: 9). Six folks got VA-Gov (second-place finisher andyroo312, brownsox, gabjoh, GOPVOTER, PropJoe & Zeitgeist9000, once again), while seven got ME-Init (bennytoothpick, David Kowalski, DGM
GoodWellOK, Lois, Mark & stevenaxelrod). (Average errors were 5 and 7, respectively.) Also, only one person correctly picked the victors of all four races. NJCentrist rightly named Owens, Christie, McDonnell and “Yes” as the winners of the four big 2009 races. Nice going!
In any event, props once again to our winners, and thanks once more to all who participated. If you didn’t win this time, have no fear – one thing I can predict is that there will be more babka in the very near future!
Enjoy the sweets!
And hooray for me, I finished “above the fold” this time as opposed to NY-20 when I was waaaaaaaaaaaaaay off.
And, BTW, I noticed there are no customer reviews yet for the Chocolate Babka. I’d like to propose a SSP tradition, for contest winners to post customer reviews!
I’m tied for fifth: not a bad result. Hopefully I’ll bring home the babka next time!
But finished near the bottom? Am I reading that right? As for myself. Typical. Just like being back at school – top of the middle.
… we don’t get much Babka down in Dixie. Never heard of the stuff until I hit this website. Congrats to the winners.
J/k
I know NY-23 was Owens 48-46-6.
What were the other three?
I think someone got my prediction wrong on ME-IN, I was predicting that No would win by 6 points.
In fact, looking back at my own predictions, I did pretty bad (the only thing I even came close on was VA-Gov).
I’m not exactly well-versed on chocolate babkas, so I suppose part of me feared a pastry getting a tad stale over a few days of delivery. Alas, I was very wrong. It’s downright marvelous. I love the texture, it’s sweet but not too sweet, and I ate about half of the thing in one sitting. Just perfect.