Message Number: 820
From: Daniel Reeves <dreeves Æ umich.edu>
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 17:48:15 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: candidate calculator
Awesome, I added you to the voting block:
   http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/dreeves/improvetheworld/
The candidate calculator is down at the moment (because yootles.com is).

I hadn't been paying enough attention to realize that Obama is essentially 
out of the race. Here are the prediction market prices of top candidates 
(ie, the probabilities they will become president):

CLINTON(H)  43.8
GIULIANI    16.2
THOMPSON(F)  8.7
ROMNEY	     8.1
OBAMA	     7.7
GORE	     6
EDWARDS      2.8

Also, Dave, I love your other email. I've been working on a follow-up and 
my conclusions are similar.  I'll send that soon.


--- \/	 FROM Dave Morris AT 07.09.30 13:43 (Today)   \/ ---

> I got Mike Gravel too, with 96.30% match. Hmm. Didn't know anything about him

> before. I'm in favor of the improve the world voting block. I'd rather get a 
> candidate who isn't my top choice, but avoids my bottom choice, than have all

> of our votes spread out amongst the best 4 candidates, causing the 5th and 
> worst candidate to win instead. :-)
>
> But the link to the page Danny sent didn't work for me. Did that get up? I'm 
> joining this late I know.
>
> Dave Morris
> cell: 734-476-8769
> http://www-personal.umich.edu/~thecat/
>
>
> On Sep 5, 2007, at 1:20 PM, Rob Felty wrote:
>
>> the election is still quite a ways off, but there certainly is enough
>> press about it. I enjoyed this little candidate calculator. It
>> basically just compares your answers to 23 different questions to  the
>> views of the 16 or so democrat and republican candidates. Accordingly,
>> I should vote for Mike Gravel. I would be interested to hear your
>> results.
>> http://www.vajoe.com/candidate_calculator.html
>> 
>> Rob
>> 
>> 
>

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