Posted on 11/15/2015 5:33:01 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The results are in for one Illinois university's famous mock presidential election, but the clear winner may surprise some.
Western Illinois University's mock election predicted a landslide victory for Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders, with running mate Martin O'Malley, in 2016. The predicted Sanders-O'Malley ticket garnered 404 electoral votes to Jeb Bush-Marco Rubio's 114 votes. In the popular vote, Sanders earned 741 votes (49 percent) to Bush's 577 (38 percent).
The famously accurate mock election correctly predicted the outcomes of the 2008 and 2012 elections, and the university claims it's the "largest and most elaborate mock presidential simulation in the nation."
The election was conducted over 10 sessions on the Macomb campus between Oct. 20 and Nov. 2, and thousands of students at the university participated. The sessions included simulations of the Iowa Caucuses and state primaries as well as national nominating conventions and the Electoral College vote. Throughout the process, students chose the candidates' running partners before taking the final presidential vote.
Illinois was among the few states that went red in the mock election. Iowa and Missouri were the other two Midwestern states that joined Texas, Alabama, Louisiana and Arizona, among others.
Although the race focused mostly on Sanders and Bush, the mock election also showed a slight turnout for the Libertarian Party's Lex Green (10 percent) and the Green Party's Jill Stein (3 percent).
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LOL. I have a feeling their “winning streak” is about to end.
Naaw... they American voters would never elect a socialist radical into the white hut.
RE: Naaw... they American voters would never elect a socialist radical into the white hut.
I used to believe the above, but with the TWO TIME election of Obama, I’m not so sure...
Col. Sanders, huh?
One too many hits on the bong.
They are going to want to crawl back in to their safe spaces when the election actually shapes up.
The only way this election is Bernie v Jeb is if martial law is declared due to CW II after Hillary takes Trump for an evening walk in Ft Marcy park.
Looked good for John F. Kennedy, Jr. too, for a while.
So what's so funny? It sounds like everybody but Republicans want Jeb! to be the republican candidate. At this pace, the ones in Iowa might cross over to help him win the caucus there. That would be more evidence that he won't survive the primaries.
Does western civilization have the will to fight Islam?
The dualism of Islam is what paralyzes an effective strategy against Islamic terrorism & jihad. The democrats/socialists love political Islam because it exerts power and control over people. This is the NWO.
http://www.politicalislam.com/talk-in-chattanooga-tn/
Their methodology seems to be go for the left-most candidates and hope for the best. It worked when Obama was running but I don’t think it generalizes to other elections.
How pathetic!! They’re too stupid to know that Bush and Rubio both are Floridians and cannot be on the same slate.
Unless voting is just totally rigged now there is no way Jeb is on top of the Republican ticket.
Sanders is too “white”...
A piece where Hillary isn’t mentioned once. I’m just going to sit here and enjoy that for a few minutes.
WIU is insane.
Now that’s funny in a gallows humor sort of way.
Voters perceive that Hillary will be ousted and not nominated
Once again the unintelligent idiots who believe they are, are voicing thier opinions on non facts and most of all non reality
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