Now that Missouri is finally called, we have a winner -- Our own Trail Mix original regular, Chef Sheila. A former White House staffer turned culinary artist and contributor to The Back Channel, Sheila nailed the Electoral College results long before the election: 365 votes for Barack Obama.
How did she do it?
"OK, my friend, here is the method of my madness: My passion isn't strategy or the horse racing. Mine is the candidate. I get to know as much about a candidate as I can, so I can get a "feel" for how a race will shape up. As you know, I was an Obama supporter from the start (as in his 2004 speech). For the last two years I have watched the campaign's strategy building with each and every week. The last two months I began seeing a trend that cycled up and down on an average of 5 points until the last few weeks. My confidence in Obama's strategy, that people wanted honesty and transparency, and my weekly reading of Fivethirtyeight.com, gave me the confidence that Obama would win somewhere in that number group . . . Now, where's my cherry pie? Of course, what I really wanted was a 15-point spread!!!! LOL." -- Chef Sheila
Sheila hereby wins permanent bragging rights as the Nostradamus of Trail Mix for Election 2008. Congratulations! . . . and thanks to Jamie for managing our predictions list.



Truman expanding upon her famous warning that "you are the one in trouble now."

