Actually Murray had 52.36% of the vote. And if you do the math you'll see that I picked her to win with 52.32%, the differential of which has michaelp (who overbid) and me tied.
@2: True enough, in terms of the percentages, but you didn't offer a percentage prediction.
You offered a raw vote total prediction. And while that prediction was impressively close to the actual result, it set you up for a two step comparison.
There was a compelling simplicity (and when one's in a turkey coma compelling simplicity is... compelling) to michaelp's prediction. Therefore, he got the post.
But you definitely get bragging rights, too. Your call was pretty damn close.
Please stop using Nyquil to sleep. It contains acetominophen (tylenol) which is very hard on the liver. It also contains a lot of alcohol, which if you drink already makes the acetominphen even more damaging. You can get the same effect by doing a shot and taking 50 mg. of diphenhydramine (generic benadryl) that combo is much less damaging and it's cheaper.
You offered a raw vote total prediction. And while that prediction was impressively close to the actual result, it set you up for a two step comparison.
There was a compelling simplicity (and when one's in a turkey coma compelling simplicity is... compelling) to michaelp's prediction. Therefore, he got the post.
But you definitely get bragging rights, too. Your call was pretty damn close.
Where did I put that fucking NyQuil...