Bracketology update: Newt oozes into the lead
source: http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2011/12/20/bracketology-update-newt-oozes-into-the-lead/
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So how did we do in predicting the field? If you exclude the entertainers like Rush Limbaugh that we included in that first bracket in an attempt to be funny, pretty good. We predicted twelve entrants. Of those twelve, ten took some sort of shot. Of the seven we deliberately left off the list, four stayed out and three came in: Huntsman, Paul, and Bolton. So of 19 potential candidates, we called 14 correctly, or 73%. We should also get some bonus points for also predicting that some off the radar candidates would emerge and those would include a Texan and a governor.
Our only big misses were Ron Paul and Rick Perry. To be fair, we thought the “Texan” would be someone from the Bush camp, like Jeb or Mitch Daniels (an honorary Texan.) To those of us not intimately familiar with Texas, Perry seems just like W. But I am told by my Texas friends they are very different. Eskimos have twenty words for snow. Texans must have twenty different types of asshole.
Our only big misses were Ron Paul and Rick Perry. To be fair, we thought the “Texan” would be someone from the Bush camp, like Jeb or Mitch Daniels (an honorary Texan.) To those of us not intimately familiar with Texas, Perry seems just like W. But I am told by my Texas friends they are very different. Eskimos have twenty words for snow. Texans must have twenty different types of asshole.
