Last week’s contest was won by Dan. It was the Bonnet Carré Spillway, just west of New Orleans.
Here’s this week’s contest, just a random location somewhere in the world. Good luck!
Last week’s contest was won by Dan. It was the Bonnet Carré Spillway, just west of New Orleans.
Here’s this week’s contest, just a random location somewhere in the world. Good luck!
| Obama | Romney |
| 98.9% probability | 1.1% probability |
| 311 electoral votes | 227 electoral votes |
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The Monte Carlo analysis gives Inslee wins 751,986 times, and McKenna wins 243,119 times, suggesting that, in an election held now, Inslee would win with a 75.6% probability and McKenna would win with a 24.4% probability:
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You weren't an Elector, nor was I. However, I was a whole lot closer to matriculating at the Electoral College than any of our readers -- had Maria Ehsan, the Elector chosen at the 7th Congressional District's Democratic caucus back in May, been unable to attend the Electoral College meeting in Olympia, yours truly (the Alternate Elector from WA-07) would have taken her place as one of Washington's 12 Electors.
So I was right there in the State Reception Room in Olympia's Legislative Building at noon on December 17, peering over the shoulders of the Electors as they cast their votes.... [Read more... ]
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Somewhere in Germany or North Switzerland
I keep coming back to Zurich, but I think it’s more resort-ish than that.
Laüferplatz, Bern, Switzerland.
it helped when I gave up the idea that the water was a lake.
Wes – Good Job!!
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Good win!
For a nice visual texture, check out the dense, near-identical rows just to the west of the pictured site, HERE.
ohmy god lookit how horrible density is! those are six story buildings lacking parking spaces! No wonder the Europeans hate this crap and no one from america ever goes there. everyone kno2ws density sucks.
The medieval city, a unesco world heritage site, and a prestige neighborhood. Parking? Who needs a car when you’re that close to everything, including mass transit? The pedestrian-friendly arcades are part of 15th-century urban planning (protecting not only from rain but from dumped chamberpots?)
I just found out that some of my ancestors arrived in the U.S. in the mid-1700’s from Germany and settled in Bern, N. Carolina. Bern was founded by a Swiss immigrant from Bern, and for quite a while Bern was the capital of N. Carolina.
Apparantly Bern, N.C. had a visit from Blackbeard (the pirate), but not much happened there during the Revolutionary War. It was, however, the site of a Civil War campaign under the command of Burnside early in the war – he gained control of the town and the mouth of the river rather early in the war, and it was one of those coastal inroads held by Union troop throughout the remainder of the war.
Bern, N.C. remains a very small city today – about 20,000 to 30,000 inhabitants.