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November 6, 2006

Pick Tuesday's winners

Time's running out. Here's your chance to match wits with The Roanoke Times editorial board. Pick who you think is going to win Tuesday — not who you want to win, but who you think will win.

Either fill copy and fill out the form that follows after the jump, or download this Excel file, and e-mail it to us to enter. We’ll put our picks up Tuesday morning, then announce the winner here after the election. The winner will receive a $30 gift certificate.

The RT election pool 2006


Rules

  1. Choose one winner in each race. Choosing multiple candidates or no candidate will count as an incorrect guess.
  2. If the tie-breaker fails to resolve any ties, a winner will be selected at random from the tied entries.
  3. E-mail entries to christian.trejbal@roanoke.com. Entries must be received by Mon. Nov. 6 before midnight.
  4. Only one entry per person.
  5. Entries must include a real name, address and phone number. Personal information will only be used to contact the winner. The winner's name will be announced on The Roanoke Times RoundTable blog.
  6. All entries become property of The Roanoke Times and will not be returned.

Name:
City:
E-mail address:
Daytime phone:


Tie Breaker
Percentage of 'Yes' votes on the marriage amendment to two decimal places:

Note:The Roanoke Times’ endorsements are italicized.

Federal
U.S. Senate
George Allen (R)
Gail Parker (I)
Jim Webb (D)

U.S. Rep. 5th Dist.
Virgil Goode (R)
Joseph Oddo (I)
Al Weed (D)

U.S. Rep. 6th Dist.
Bob Goodlatte (R)
Andre Peery (I)
Barbara Pryor (I)

U.S. Rep. 9th Dist.
Rick Boucher (D)
Bill Carrico (R)


State
Constitutional Amendments
Q.1: Marriage amendment: (Yes / No)
Q.2: Church incorporation: (Yes / No)
Q.3: Expand local tax incentives (Yes / No)

Local
Montgomery County Commonwealth's Attorney
Brad Finch
Dennis Nagel

Comments

# 1

[November 5, 2006 11:45 PM]

sherry

I truly hope Virginians vote for change.

# 2

[November 6, 2006 5:26 AM]

marie batten

webb,goode...marriage amendment will unfortuntely pass.

# 3

[November 6, 2006 10:37 AM]

C. Trejbal

I'm amazed that our regular posters have refrained from entering the contest. Could it be that for all their seemingly informed comments they fear they cannot predict an election outcome better than the editorial board?

The prize and the bragging rights are out there. Who will seize them?

OK, so I'll be taking home all the bragging rights, but the prize is out there anyway.

# 4

[November 6, 2006 11:59 AM]

Q

Guess I'm just more interested in and concerned about the outcome than guessing at it.

I don't mean this as a criticism of your contest, but the stakes are too high for our country, for me to view this election in the same way I would a football pool.

Which on-line and/or cable network do the RT editors think will have the best (i.e. timely, accurate, user friendly, non-biased) election night reporting model? Sorry, no valuable prize, I'm just curious.

# 5

[November 6, 2006 12:18 PM]

C. Trejbal

I don't have a feel for the 'best' coverage tomorrow night, but I'll be up past midnight watching results. Odds are I'll watch CNN and flip to the other channels during lulls, checking Fox News and the broadcast networks.

More important, I'll be sitting at the computer with tabs in firefox open to the state election board site and Montgomery County's site, the latter for results in the commonwealth's attorney race. I'll also be watching results come in from some other states in which I have a personal interest such as Oregon and Ohio.

# 6

[November 6, 2006 8:16 PM]

C. Trejbal

I almost forgot. I'll also be tuning into any Indecision 2006 coverage on Comedy Central.

# 7

[November 6, 2006 10:08 PM]

RJ

Webb is a Reagan guy, a former Secretary of the Navy and decorated veteran. A military scholar and distinguished author. A real leader. Allen is resorting to criticizing Webb for fiction that he wrote that happens to be on our US Military's recommended reading list! I'm going with the substance. No more rubber stamps for Bush for me.

# 8

[November 6, 2006 10:19 PM]

Trent Brodkin

I think it's kinda interesting that Allen has outspent Webb by about 2 to 1. http://www.nytimes.com/ref/washington/2006ELECTIONGUIDE.html?currentDataSet=senANALYSIS
That's a huge difference. And that's twice as many special interests Allen is going to have to pay back. I'm sick of our politicians selling us out for big fatcat donors.

# 9

[November 7, 2006 8:11 AM]

Josh

Christian,

No, it's because some us don't know anything about Montgomery County politics.

# 10

[November 7, 2006 10:03 AM]

Sick and Tired

Make sure you get out and Vote. The silent majority will win. Allen's words of wisdom to Maccaca was a public service.

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