Open Thread

by craig on Nov 5, 2007 7:42 AM EST in News and Rumors

That's right, we are back to Open Thread. But that will not stand for long.

We are going to have a re-vote and to steal from Dan and MLB -- This Time it Counts!

Hey, it's a long offseason and we have a lot of time to kill. In this poll the unity candidate is included so unless the impossibility theorem comes into play, we should have a winner. As always the poll is in the comments, so vote away so we can finally, hopefully, determine the name of our offseason Open Thread.

Your participation is greatly appreciated,

Have a great Monday! If that is possible.

Poll

What to name the offseason Open Thread?

Chum Bucket

14 votes

The Fish Market

9 votes

Chum Bucket the Fish Market

10 votes

33 votes | Poll has closed

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breaks out his Tim Russert whiteboard

You see, what we've got here is your classic third-party spoiler in Chum Bucket the Fish Market. In polls leading up to this deciding election, we've seen The Fish Market as a solid, if unconvincing, front-runner. Initial polls saw The Fish Market garner 45% of a 10 candidate vote; then, in a head-to-head vote, The Fish Market took a close 53-46 lead over Chum Bucket.

But with the entry of the Unity08 candidate, just as we saw with Perot in 92, there was enough fracturing of The Fish Market's big tent to draw away the more moderate voters. And as a result, if you look at the precincts already reporting at this hour, for the first time, it's Chum Bucket with the plurality, its 37% a scant six points over each of the other candidates.

We'll know more as the votes come in, but already it's looking like this election, already mimicking some of the greats in history, has yet another allusion up its sleeve: this one's going down to the wire, and it's coming down... once again... to Florida.

by dan 2.0 on Nov 5, 2007 8:03 PM EST reply actions