# Gut feeling: how will the American presidential election turn out? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 25, 2008, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gut-feeling-how-will-the-american-presidential-election-turn-out/469528 "2008-10-25T16:59:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2008, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gut-feeling-how-will-the-american-presidential-election-turn-out/469528/1 "2008-10-25T16:59:04Z")
Ah, the things I think of while being stood up by a tutorial student. Six part poll. Three types of questions. For questions 1 & 2, please restrict your answers to the candidate’s last name only, and for questions 3 & 4, please restrict your answers to A, B, C, D, or E. **One-word-answer questions:** 1. Which candidate do you **want** to win? 2. Which candidate do you **think** will win? **Multiple choice question:** 3. How big a margin of victory do you expect: (a) Electoral college & popular vote landslide providing an unquestionable mandate to run things the candidate’s way (b) Clear victory with less of a mandate–i.e, a clera electoral college victory but a much closer popular vote © Squeaker decided in the EC with no real mandate (d) Supreme Court decision coming after weeks of litigation and providing no true mandate (e) Something else I didn’t think of **Short answer essay questions** 4. Why do you think things will turn out as you predict? 1. If your prediction is correct, how will the public react? 2. If your answer to question 3 was (E), what how do you think the election will be decided? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gut-feeling-how-will-the-american-presidential-election-turn-out/469528)._