Predict How Many Posts Will Be On the (invevitable) US Election Results Thread as of 12 noon EST on Nov 3

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Go. Whoever is closest gets bragging rights until 2008.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 30 October 2004 20:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yeah,

1693

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 30 October 2004 20:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Takin meta to a whole notha level!

― oops (Oops), Saturday, 30 October 2004 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

r u feelin' it?

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 30 October 2004 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

1427

― Remy (x Jeremy), Saturday, 30 October 2004 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

ITZ GETTN HAHT N HEAH

― oops (Oops), Saturday, 30 October 2004 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

1776

― caitlin (caitlin), Saturday, 30 October 2004 20:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Depends on the margin now, doesn't it?

I'm gonna say 348 and low ball it. Only b/c I expect a shitload of related and spin-off threads.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Saturday, 30 October 2004 20:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I was expecting one thread, a la the debate threads.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 30 October 2004 21:03 (twenty-one years ago)

bush v. kerry v. jay-z v. nas

― m. (mitchlnw), Saturday, 30 October 2004 21:17 (twenty-one years ago)

v. dmb

― Sympatico (shmuel), Saturday, 30 October 2004 21:34 (twenty-one years ago)

3500

― From a Land of Grass Without Mirrors (AaronHz), Saturday, 30 October 2004 21:51 (twenty-one years ago)

― cinniblount (James Blount), Saturday, 30 October 2004 22:00 (twenty-one years ago)

price is right rules right?

― cinniblount (James Blount), Saturday, 30 October 2004 22:01 (twenty-one years ago)

No no, electoral college system, I believe.

― Bumfluff, Saturday, 30 October 2004 22:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I tried to see what ILX discussion on the 2000 election was like. ILM had been in existence for three months, and although there was no ILE, I thought there'd be a passing reference to the U.S. election on ILM in the month of November. Nope. The first thread to address presidential politics in any way was http://ilx.p3r.net/thread.php?msgid=1014831, from Dec. 17, 2000, and it contains this prescient post:

The next four years, you won't see confrontation because of a US Senate divided 50/50 so he can't pass much laws.

What you'll see is four years of overseas blunders (he's only ever been overseas twice - both times to Mexico).....and maybe someone might release a novelty single in America about a blunder.

-- Phil Paterson (phi...), December 17th, 2000 7:00 PM. (link)

Not only does Phil nail the "overseas blunders," but OMG DOES THIS PREDICT "GEORGE W. PUSSY" FOUR YEARS BEFORE ITS TIME?

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 30 October 2004 22:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry, I thought that would turn into a hyperlink. It's Dubya and Pop.

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 30 October 2004 22:43 (twenty-one years ago)

400+ by the end of the night, 600+ by the next day.

― Sir Kingfish Beavis D'Azzmonch (Kingfish), Sunday, 31 October 2004 01:51 (twenty-one years ago)

1600 posts by, say, Thursday 12:01 am, eastern standard time in the US.

― jim wentworth (wench), Sunday, 31 October 2004 02:07 (twenty-one years ago)

nah, it won't break 1000. by that point, most threads tend to spin off into others, or "Part II" ones...

― Sir Kingfish Beavis D'Azzmonch (Kingfish), Sunday, 31 October 2004 02:09 (twenty-one years ago)

omg my browser crashes when i try to load the thread gheklpl i start new thread now

― LE CHUCK!™ (ex machina), Sunday, 31 October 2004 02:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, of course spin-offs & Part IIs are a certainty. I just thunk the # appropriate, somehow.

― jim wentworth (wench), Sunday, 31 October 2004 02:30 (twenty-one years ago)

for all threads combined, yeah 1600 easily

― Sir Kingfish Beavis D'Azzmonch (Kingfish), Sunday, 31 October 2004 02:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Part II's should count. Spin-offs should not (I doubt there'd be a spin-off before noon the day after the election anyway, Part II's are probably to be expected, though).

The debate threads were ~600-700 in one night, the election will surely surpass that with plenty of room to spare.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 31 October 2004 02:50 (twenty-one years ago)

867

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 31 October 2004 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)

This is totally open to being nobbled.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 21:40 (twenty-one years ago)

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