{"id":889,"date":"2010-11-01T21:29:12","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T02:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=889"},"modified":"2010-11-03T15:27:54","modified_gmt":"2010-11-03T20:27:54","slug":"electoral-bingo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=889","title":{"rendered":"Electoral Bingo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watching the returns roll in can be dull at times, so I made a pair of Electoral Bingo cards to liven it up. Each contains 25 names, and I&#8217;ve tried not to include any &#8216;gimmes&#8217; and quite a few unlikely pickups. I also used the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.random.org\/sequences\/\">Sequence Generator<\/a> function at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.random.org\/\">Random.org<\/a> to put them in a random order, just to be fair. It&#8217;s just a coincidence that Barney Frank ended up right in the center of the second chart. <\/p>\n<p>The first is for Senators (S) and Governors (G):<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" border=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tr height=\"96\">\n<td width=\"96\" bgcolor=\"red\">\n<p align=\"center\">Toomey<br \/>\n      beats<br \/>\n      <b>Sestak<\/b><br \/>\n      (PA-S)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"96\">\n<p align=\"center\">Buck<br \/>\n      beats<br \/>\n      Bennett<br \/>\n      (CO-S)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"96\">\n<p align=\"center\">Dubie<br \/>\n      beats<br \/>\n      Shumlin<br \/>\n      (VT-G)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"96\" bgcolor=\"red\">\n<p align=\"center\"><b>Rubio<\/b><br \/>\n      beats<br \/>\n      <b>Crist<\/b><br \/>\n      (FL-S)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"96\">\n<p align=\"center\">McMahon<br \/>\n      beats<br \/>\n      <b>Blumenthal<\/b><br \/>\n      (CT-S)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr height=\"96\">\n<td>\n<p align=\"center\">Emmer<br \/>\n      beats<br \/>\n      <b>Dayton<\/b><br \/>\n      (MN-G)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p align=\"center\">O\u2019Donnell<br \/>\n      beats<br \/>\n      <b>Coons<\/b><br \/>\n      (DE-S)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p align=\"center\">Ehrlich<br \/>\n      beats<br \/>\n      O\u2019Malley<br \/>\n      (MD-G)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p align=\"center\">Tancredo<br \/>\n      beats \u2019em<br \/>\n      both<br \/>\n      (CO-G)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p align=\"center\">Whitman<br \/>\n      beats<br \/>\n      <b>Brown<\/b><br \/>\n      (CA-G)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr height=\"96\">\n<td>\n<p align=\"center\">Raese<br \/>\n      beats<br \/>\n      <b>Manchin<\/b><br \/>\n      (WV-S)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"red\">\n<p align=\"center\">Kasich<br \/>\n      beats<br \/>\n      Strickland<br \/>\n      (OH-G)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p align=\"center\">Foley<br \/>\n      beats<br \/>\n      Malloy<br \/>\n      (CT-G)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"red\">\n<p align=\"center\">LePage<br \/>\n      beats \u2019em<br \/>\n      both<br \/>\n      (ME-G)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p align=\"center\">Rossi<br \/>\n      beats<br \/>\n      <b>Murray<\/b><br \/>\n      (WA-S)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr height=\"96\">\n<td>\n<p align=\"center\">Miller<br \/>\n      beats \u2019em<br \/>\n      both<br \/>\n      (AK-S)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p align=\"center\">Angle<br \/>\n      beats<br \/>\n      <b>Reid<\/b><br \/>\n      (NV-S)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"red\">\n<p align=\"center\">Scott<br \/>\n      beats<br \/>\n      Sink<br \/>\n      (FL-G)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"red\">\n<p align=\"center\">Johnson<br \/>\n      beats<br \/>\n      <b>Feingold<\/b><br \/>\n      (WI-S)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p align=\"center\">Fiorina<br \/>\n      beats<br \/>\n      <b>Boxer<\/b><br \/>\n      (CA-S)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr height=\"96\">\n<td bgcolor=\"red\">\n<p align=\"center\">Kirk<br \/>\n      beats<br \/>\n      Giannoulias<br \/>\n      (IL-S)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p align=\"center\">Dudley<br \/>\n      beats<br \/>\n      Kitzhaber<br \/>\n      (OR-G)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p align=\"center\">Baker<br \/>\n      beats<br \/>\n      <b>Patrick<\/b><br \/>\n      (MA-G)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p align=\"center\">Aiona<br \/>\n      beats<br \/>\n      Abercrombie<br \/>\n      (HI-G)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p align=\"center\">Brady<br \/>\n      beats<br \/>\n      Quinn<br \/>\n      (IL-G)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>The second is for the House of Representatives:<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" border=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tr height=\"96\">\n<td width=\"96\" bgcolor=\"red\">\n<p align=\"center\"><b>West<\/b><br \/>\n      beats<br \/>\n      Kline<br \/>\n      (FL-22)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"96\">\n<p align=\"center\">Steele<br \/>\n      beats<br \/>\n      <b>Dingell<\/b><br \/>\n      (MI-15)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"96\">\n<p align=\"center\"><b>Popaditch<\/b><br \/>\n      beats<br \/>\n      Filner<br \/>\n      (CA-51)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"96\" bgcolor=\"red\">\n<p align=\"center\">Hurt<br \/>\n      beats<br \/>\n      Perriello<br \/>\n      (VA-5)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"96\">\n<p align=\"center\">Hudak<br \/>\n      beats<br \/>\n      Tierney<br \/>\n      (MA-6)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr height=\"96\">\n<td>\n<p align=\"center\">Cao<br \/>\n      survives<br \/>\n      (LA-2)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p align=\"center\">Firmian<br \/>\n      beats<br \/>\n      Connolly<br \/>\n      (VA-11)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p align=\"center\">Scontras<br \/>\n      beats<br \/>\n      Pingree<br \/>\n      (ME-1)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p align=\"center\">Phillips<br \/>\n      beats<br \/>\n      <b>Hinchey<\/b><br \/>\n      (NY-22)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"red\">\n<p align=\"center\">Webster<br \/>\n      beats<br \/>\n      <b>Grayson<\/b><br \/>\n      (FL-8)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr height=\"96\">\n<td>\n<p align=\"center\">Tran<br \/>\n      beats<br \/>\n      <b>Sanchez<\/b><br \/>\n      (CA-47)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"red\">\n<p align=\"center\">Ellmers<br \/>\n      beats<br \/>\n      Etheridge<br \/>\n      (NC-2)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p align=\"center\"><b>Beilat<\/b><br \/>\n      beats<br \/>\n      <b>Frank<\/b><br \/>\n      (MA-4)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p align=\"center\">Robinson<br \/>\n      beats<br \/>\n      DeFazio<br \/>\n      (OR-4)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p align=\"center\">Miller<br \/>\n      beats<br \/>\n      <b>Schuler<\/b><br \/>\n      (NC-11)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr height=\"96\">\n<td>\n<p align=\"center\">Djou<br \/>\n      survives<br \/>\n      (HI-1)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"red\">\n<p align=\"center\">Rigell<br \/>\n      beats<br \/>\n      Nye<br \/>\n      (VA-2)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"red\">\n<p align=\"center\">Griffith<br \/>\n      beats<br \/>\n      Boucher<br \/>\n      (VA-9)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p align=\"center\">Corrigan<br \/>\n      beats<br \/>\n      <b>Kucinich<\/b><br \/>\n      (OH-10)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p align=\"center\">Martin<br \/>\n      beats<br \/>\n      <b>Carnahan<\/b><br \/>\n      (MO-3)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr height=\"96\">\n<td>\n<p align=\"center\"><b>McClung<\/b><br \/>\n      beats<br \/>\n      <b>Grijalva<\/b><br \/>\n      (AZ-7)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p align=\"center\"><b>Sipprelle<\/b><br \/>\n      beats<br \/>\n      Holt<br \/>\n      (NJ-12)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p align=\"center\">Levesque<br \/>\n      beats<br \/>\n      Michaud<br \/>\n      (ME-2)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"red\">\n<p align=\"center\">Cravaack<br \/>\n      beats<br \/>\n      Oberstar<br \/>\n      (MN-8)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p align=\"center\">Cloud<br \/>\n      beats<br \/>\n      Dicks<br \/>\n      (WA-6)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Each is skewed by my own interests. The second in particular includes more races from states I&#8217;ve lived in. Bold face indicates someone I&#8217;m particularly eager to see win, or lose, as the case may be. Over and under for a &#8216;Bingo!&#8217;? Maybe 10:00 Eastern?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watching the returns roll in can be dull at times, so I made a pair of Electoral Bingo cards to liven it up. Each contains 25 names, and I&#8217;ve tried not to include any &#8216;gimmes&#8217; and quite a few unlikely pickups. I also used the Sequence Generator function at Random.org to put them in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=889"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":918,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions\/918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}