October 9, 2003
WINNERS--1ST ANNUAL BROTHERS JUDD CALIFORNIA RECALL PROGNOSTATHON:
Congratulations to:
First Place: Mike Morley, who will receive the magnificent new Illustrated edition of James M. McPherson's Pulitzer Prize-winning Battle Cry of Freedom
Second Place: Dave in LA, who will receive Rick Atkinson's Pultizer Prize-winning An Army at Dawn
Third Place: Chris Rohlfs, who will receive Edmund Morgan's marvelous biography, Benjamin Franklin
Thanks to everyone who took part and a particular thanks to FSB Associates and Jeffery Anderson who provided the 1st and 2nd place prizes.
Posted by Orrin Judd at October 9, 2003 9:10 AMGo me!
It was fun, lets do it again in about 100 days..
Chris Rohlfs
Posted by: anon at October 9, 2003 10:41 AMThanks for sponsoring the contest . . . and for running such a great site in the first place.
Posted by: Mike Morley at October 9, 2003 1:07 PMI'm still crying in my phosphors over my so-so performance. Oh well, at least I got the recall and Cruz numbers close. Bu my squared differences got all huge and ugly with Arnold. (Without Arnold, 8.65. With Arnold, 255.14. Yuck.)
Interesting that the average did quite well. It would have placed 19th, which shows that we all did a pretty good job combined.
Posted by: Casey Abell at October 9, 2003 3:17 PMCasey:
What's interesting is that's how an information market would function--not giving you the truth but steering you away from extremes of nonsense.
Posted by: oj at October 9, 2003 4:13 PM