Obama is currently at 349 electoral votes with North Carolina (15 votes) and Missouri (11) still to be allocated. So he'll wind up with either 349, 360, 364 or 375.
If he winds up with 349, I win…and so do about eight people who guessed the same thing I did but since they were just copying me, no credit.
If he winds up with 360…well, that was one of those numbers that struck me as possible but which no one guessed. The closest was Mark Jarek with 359.
If he winds up with 364, which is looking likely…we had about fifty of those. The first one received was Richard Bensam and I'll also mention the next ten: Michael Kilgore, Kris Mandt, Cory Strode, Corey de Danann, Tony Thomas, Roger Green, Bill O'Brien, Michael Hagan, Bob Claster and Anand Kandaswamy.
And if Obama gets 375…well, the first one in with that number was Michael Hagan but he changed his guess to 364 and as per our rules, his last guess counts. So the next person to guess 375 was Chuck Sigars, whose guess was received about two minutes before I got one from Charles Christopherson that also guessed 375. Ten others guessed 375, not counting one other who guessed that then changed to a lower number.
For what it's worth, over a hundred of you guessed 311 and almost as many guessed 338. Leaving aside joke guesses like 3 and 538, the lowest number guessed was 150 and the highest was 487.
Forty-eight people (out of about 1300 guesses) had Obama below 270. Ten or so wrote that they were hopeful he wouldn't win. Six said they wanted him to win but expected massive vote stealing and fraud. The rest were without comment.
I'll be back to crown our winner when we know for sure.