The winner of this contest will be announced on August 23, and then we will start the next political contest.
None of that is true, in keeping with the 2024 presidential election. I did not announce the winner on August 23. And I may or may not have a next political contest on this site.
But I am announcing the winners now, and they are a sorry bunch of political prognosticators. Here are the entries and their scores:
My predictions:
Trump, Tim Scott, Biden, Harris = 1 right
Can anyone beat my score of one? Here are the other entries:
2. Trump, Kristi Noem, Biden, Harris = 1 right
3. Trump, Elise Stefanik, Biden, Harris = 1 right
4. Nikki Haley, Francis Suarez, Biden, Harris = 0 right
Will the loser of entry 4 with zero right step forward? According to the rules of this contest, you will donate $100 to a charity of my choice. So please sent $100 to Operation Nightwatch.
Winning the first 2024madcapschemes.com political contest seemed an easy thing: Name the vice-presidential nominee paired with convicted felon Trump, and you win.
No one did.
The answers included U.S. Sen. Tim Scott from South Carolina, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, U.S. Congresswoman Elise Stefanik from New York, and Miami Mayor Francis Suarez.
That last guess was paired with Nikki Haley as the GOP presidential nominee What were you thinking? That campaign died like a Noem dog.
And JD Vance? Not a mention of the U.S. senator from Ohio who called Trump “American’s Hitler,” an idiot and reprehensible. Why would anyone pick him back in the day?
But Trump did.
It looked like all who named Trump, Biden and Harris would win, and the Haley devotee would contribute to charities (non-political) of our choices.
Until today. Joe Biden has stepped out of the race to win the presidency in 2024. It looks like the Biden guesses are all wrong.
There’s still a chance that Kamala Harris in the vice-presidential slot could be correct. That will depend on what happens at the Democratic National Convention, which runs from August 19 to 22.
The winner of this contest will be announced on August 23, and then we will start the next political contest.
This is a headline that may bring me closer to winning the first madcapschemes.com political contest of 2024, Here are the four candidates I picked:
Trump, Scott, Biden, Harris
To beat me, these entries have to do better than my picks:
Donald Trump, Kristi Noem, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris
Nikki Haley, Francis Suarez, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris
Donald Trump, Elise Stenanik, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris
If they get more right than I do, I donate to a non-political charity of their choice. If I win, they contribute to a non-political charity of my choice.
If you think your political prophecy is better than mine, then enter this charitable event. If you do better than my choices, then I contribute to a non-political charity of your choice. You lose, you contribute to a charity of my choice.
Your entries are due before 3 p.m. PST January 15, 2024, when the freeze-your-asses-off Iowa caucuses take place.
The madcapschemes winner(s) will be picked on August 22 after the Democratic Convention ends. The candidates picked then will win the contest here at madcapschemes.com. No matter what happens before Election Day (revolution, deaths, illness, I have better things to do, etc), our winner will be those candidates selected in August — no matter what happens before Election Day on Nov. 5, 2024. (We will start a new contest then.)
Anyone who beats my selections can name a charity that I will donate to. The donation amount will depend on how many entries we get. If we tie — all end up with the same selections – there will be a general call to donate to the charity you would have chosen. Amount up to you.
All “corners” welcomed here as per Maureen Dowd in The New York Times:
“… somehow social media, which was touted as an engine of connectivity, has left us disconnected and often lonely, not to mention combative. We’re all in our corners. We understand one another less than ever and have less desire to try.”
