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May 9, 2008
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Correct at Close:89.47%      Open Events: 106
Correct Over Lifetime:85.07%Settled Events: 608

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Hillary Clinton will stay in the race no matter who the democratic nominee is (e.g. she will run as an Independent if Obama wins the nomination).
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US11/1/2008
01111.001.005/7/2008
Riots break out at the 2008 Democratic Convention
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US8/30/2008
201106.501.185/2/2008
Republican nominee Senator John McCain handily defeats Democrat nominee Senator Barack Obama in the 2008 Presidential Election.
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US11/3/2008
12108051.672.504/23/2008
Will Senator McCain choose Senator Joe Lieberman as his running mate?
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US9/4/2008
04747.001.004/21/2008
Democrats increase their number of seats in the US Senate by 3.
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US11/30/2008
101.001.004/20/2008
After one year, President Obama''s appointments will have fewer women and minorities than did President Bush''s at one year of his first term.
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US1/21/2010
10001.00100.004/13/2008
After six months, President Obama still will not have filled his Cabinet (Dept Secretaries, NSA, WH CoS).
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US6/21/2009
000.000.004/13/2008
McCain picks Lindsey Graham as his VP.
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US9/15/2008
0100100.001.004/13/2008
Obama picks Christine Todd Whitman for his VP slot.
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US9/15/2008
0110110.001.004/13/2008
Obama is elected President of the United States
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US1/1/2009
3074025.671.044/8/2008
The Democratic National Committee announces their 2008 candidate for the President of the United States of America before Fathers Day, June 15th.
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US6/16/2008
4052101.522.933/21/2008
Senator Obama selects Tom Daschle as his VP running mate.
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US8/1/2008
0108108.001.003/21/2008
Senator McCain picks Governor Pawlenty as his VP running mate.
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US9/4/2008
5409.001.133/21/2008
Senator McCain picks Governor Sanford as his VP running mate.
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US9/4/2008
000.000.003/21/2008
Senator Obama selects Bill Richardson as his VP running mate.
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US9/1/2008
51702.371.733/21/2008
Senator McCain picks Mitt Romney as his VP running mate
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US9/4/2008
511093.141.473/16/2008
The S & P 500 will be below 1000
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US3/18/2009
0440440.001.003/16/2008
Boeing will successfully challenge the KC-X contract awarded to Northrop-Grumman/Airbus.
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US12/1/2008
3058083.651.383/7/2008
A party to the Democratic partys nomination process files a law suit seeking to modifie or block the modification of the rules.
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US11/1/2009
56511.00566.003/7/2008
The 2008 Democratic Presidential ticket will be either Obama / Clinton or Clinton / Obama
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US9/1/2008
5900181.001.013/5/2008
The US Congress will either overturn the USAF tanker in its entirely or they will force the USAF to split the award between Northrop and Boeing.
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US8/31/2008
100271.274.703/5/2008
Venezuelan and/or Ecuadorian troops will engage in direct combat with Colombian forces.
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World12/31/2008
106126512.931.083/3/2008
Regardless of who wins the 2008 elections, there will be no US ratified re-negotiation of NAFTA for that president''s term in office.
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General1/20/2013
29661.0250.332/29/2008
Raul Castro overthrown in coup d''etat U.S. blamed
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World12/31/2008
25015577.231.162/19/2008
Raul Castro captured in Cuba and brought to the U.S. on outstanding drug smuggling warrants
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World10/15/2008
2088515.091.242/19/2008
Fidel Castro dies
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World6/1/2008
73522474.061.332/19/2008
NYC Mayor Michael Bloomburg becomes Obama''s running mate.
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US8/1/2008
2008505.251.242/12/2008
Srnator Clinton will cry in public, on-camera, at least once, before the 2008 elections are over. Crying prior to super-Tuesday 2008 does not count.
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US11/8/2008
207651.314.182/9/2008
Sen. Obama will hint at, or designate, a woman running mate to secure his nomination by the democratic party
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US8/15/2008
501614.221.312/9/2008
Pollution mars Bejing Olympic games
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China8/24/2008
76281.373.712/6/2008
New England Patriots will NOT go undefeated in the regular season in 2008.
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Sports11/1/2008
10701.00107.002/4/2008
Australia will receive US permission to procure the F-22 Raptor by 2014.
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US7/1/2014
120411.343.931/30/2008
The Chinese Navy will lose a warship or submarine due to a major accident by 12/31/2008
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China12/31/2008
1955603.871.351/25/2008
Israel will declare its intention to withdraw from, at least, 80% of territories it occupied in 1967 six day war.
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Middle East6/5/2008
131038453.941.341/13/2008
Bush suspends Presidential elections / Martial law declared.
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US12/19/2008
353873111.661.011/7/2008
Obama is nominated as the Democratic candidate for President
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US11/4/2008
326811101.343.941/6/2008
McCain will be elected president of the United States
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US11/4/2008
281022211.792.2712/29/2007
China will have a fixed-wing aircraft carrier operational by the end of 2008
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China12/31/2008
51044209.801.0012/23/2007
The United States of America and Islamic republic of Iran acheave a diplomatic brake through in 2008.
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Middle East12/31/2008
28215156.371.1912/19/2007
The city of Atlanta, Georgia will run out of drinking water in 2008
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US10/31/2008
1061562.501.0212/16/2007
Mike Huckabee will be elected President of the United States
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US10/4/2008
41823456.751.0011/27/2007
Rudolf Guilianni will be elected president of the United States,
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US11/8/2008
71019603.761.3610/24/2007
Hillary Clilnton will be elected president of the united States.
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US11/4/2008
111534394.081.3210/21/2007
Formation of a Arab Gulf Treaty Organization. Any two or more of the following Iraq, Kuwate, Barain, Qutar, UAE treaty with the United States to suport each others defence. Formal name may varie.
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Middle East1/1/2010
27272.002.009/24/2007
There will be an al qaeda-style terrorist attack within the first 18 months of the new presidents term.
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Terrorism6/30/2010
955386.661.189/16/2007
India will select either the F-16 or F/A-18 as its new combat aircraft
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World6/1/2008
212154113.551.399/13/2007
Rafale fighter will have secured no foreign purchase contract(s) prior 01-Jan-2008
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Europe1/1/2009
53201.00532.009/13/2007
Mitt Romney will be nominated as the Repeblican candidate for President
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US10/30/2008
66040717.171.168/9/2007
Rudolf Giuliani will be nominated as the Repeblican candidate for President
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US10/31/2008
163130902.891.538/4/2007
Hillary Clinton will be elected president of the United States.
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US11/10/2008
170335533.091.488/4/2007
There will be another major terrorist attack successfully carried out in the United States.
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Terrorism7/1/2008
50029586.921.177/6/2007
Iran will attack Iraq, during the same time as America is drawing down troops from Iraq.
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Middle East10/30/2008
3592327.371.046/28/2007
USAF and NASA jointly develop the first ever Fighter jet working on non-gasoline fuels.
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US12/31/2010
60952.581.636/15/2007
Iran will not use nukes on Israel.
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Middle East3/20/2009
74811.00749.005/18/2007
Iraq will become a weak Federal Republic with a strong Kurdish area, a Shi'a area under Iranian domination and a Sunni area that is in chaos.
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Middle East1/1/2011
5955621.942.065/10/2007
Iran will have a nuclear weapon that it can launch against Israel by the end of 2010
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Middle East1/31/2010
744607.221.165/9/2007
Fred Dalton Thompson will be the Republican nominee for the 2008 Presidential election.
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US9/4/2008
88541495.691.213/29/2007
Newt Gingrich will win the Republican nomination for President
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US11/1/2008
30223075.331.011/26/2007
USA or Israel will bomb Iran's Nukes
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Iraq12/31/2008
41715924.821.261/26/2007
The Democrats will vote to re-instate a military draft before the 2008 elections
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US11/5/2008
100248425.841.0411/19/2006
Cuba's offshore oil fields will prove to be a lot larger than previously thought. Putting it in the worlds top ten reserves.
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World1/1/2009
57217404.041.3311/16/2006
Iranian backed Shiites take over Iraq
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Iraq6/30/2008
211238612.311.098/26/2006
In about 2 years Chavez will begin border skirmishes with one of Venezuela's neighbours (Guyana, Colombia or Brazil) as a way of exercising his "bolivarian forces".
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World12/31/2008
186713791.742.358/1/2006
The US will threaten to take Cuba to the UN security council, and start a propaganda campaign calling for war against Cuba, before 2010.
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US12/31/2009
110137713.521.087/31/2006
In the US, the draft will be re-instated before the end of 2009
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US12/31/2009
64321851.281.027/26/2006
2008 Olympics in Beijing canceled after China invades Taiwan
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China12/30/2008
51845499.781.117/14/2006
Republican candidate wins the white House/Presidency in 2008 election.
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US1/30/2009
132515702.181.847/8/2006
Baharain King His Majesty Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa will be attacked and badly hurt in veciuos attack, forcing him to move into exille.
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Middle East8/30/2008
7187813.371.084/13/2006
Arab nations will initiate mutual discussion on the subject of the eventual formation of an Arab federal union(perhaps AU).
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Middle East12/31/2008
2257394.281.304/12/2006
By 2012, Moslem scholars will publish evidence that Jesus did not die on the cross.
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World12/31/2012
149518902.261.792/26/2006
C. RICE will be nominated as V.P. for Republican Party August 2008
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US8/1/2008
166036353.191.462/21/2006
New center/right reform populist party fields a presidential ticket for the '08 election.
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US9/15/2008
1445444.781.262/14/2006
Former governer of the Commonwealth of Virginia, Mark Warner clinches the Democratic presidential nomination.
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US9/5/2008
145151011.411.102/14/2006
Hillary Clinton will be the Democratic Party's presidential nominee.
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US9/5/2008
384012221.324.142/11/2006
Governor Bill Richardson will be nominated for President by the Democratic party
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US11/12/2008
1012913.901.082/4/2006
Sino-Japanese Asian Defense Sphere Incident
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China12/31/2010
7001001.148.001/23/2006
Dow Jones average will close below 6000`
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US12/31/2008
110115311.481.101/18/2006
The head of Pakistan, Musharref will be assassinated by Islamic Fundamentalists.
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China12/31/2010
6397352.151.871/16/2006
Iran will launch a nuclear attack against Israel
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Middle East12/31/2008
131210217.051.061/16/2006
The Iranian government dominates Iraq since it will be a nuclear power and Iranian agents or sympathizers are elected to public office and institute pro -Iranian policies.
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China12/30/2008
32015655.891.201/2/2006
Senator Charles Timothy "Chuck" Hagel will be the 2008 Republican presidential candidate
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US9/30/2008
0939939.001.0012/30/2005
Initiated in South America: An alliance modeled on the EU, opposed to capitalist free market policies and adversarial to the US.
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General12/31/2009
5105051.992.0112/26/2005
The City of Detroit, Michigan will file for bankruptcy.
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US7/31/2008
57513123.281.4412/8/2005
Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee will be the Republican presidental nominee for the 2008 presidential election.
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US11/4/2008
31152550.191.0211/20/2005
The person elected President of the US in 2008 will be a resident of a state of the former Confederacy.
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US1/1/2009
5297652.451.6910/4/2005
The person elected President of the US in 2008 will be or will have been a US Senator.
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US1/1/2009
5552251.413.4710/4/2005
The person elected President of the US in 2008 will be or will have been governor of a state.
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US1/1/2009
25621009.201.1210/4/2005
Tom Delay is convicted of consipracy to violate Texas state campaign finance laws
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US12/30/2008
56525775.561.229/28/2005
A nuclear weapon (A-bomb or H-bomb) will be used in anger somwhere in the world before midnight Dec. 31 2009. Dirty bombs don't count.
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World12/31/2009
39013084.351.308/25/2005
The next US President will launch an investigation of the 43rd presidents handling of the war in Iraq within 1 year of being sworn in.
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US1/20/2010
48112163.531.408/1/2005
Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney will be the 2008 Republican presidential nominee.
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US9/1/2008
18511557.241.167/27/2005
usa will intercept a stray nuclear missle and bush will become a national hero despite his declining support as president.because of him we will soon be able to defend ourselves from a nuclear strike.
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Terrorism12/31/2010
5087418.481.067/7/2005
Senator George Allen will be the 2008 Republican presidential candidate.
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US9/2/2008
4586720.271.057/2/2005
Radical Islamists bent on exporting revolution attempt overthrow of government of major Arab country or countries.
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Middle East12/15/2008
8815871.672.507/2/2005
Hillary Clinton in 2008 primaries to be Dem Presidential candidate but loses out to another Dem candidate
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US11/30/2008
132114002.061.947/1/2005
Democrats will convince Senator Joe Lieberman they need him to be the Democratic presidential standard bearer for the 2008 presidential race.
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US8/29/2008
150366825.451.044/1/2005
China puts US economy in spin by demanding payment in Euros abandoning the US dollar
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China6/1/2008
90142295.691.213/21/2005
Terrorists will kill more than 20,000 American civilians by April 2013.
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Terrorism4/1/2013
102613842.351.742/15/2005
George W. Bush succeeded by his vice-president.
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US1/20/2009
92041065.461.2211/19/2004
Dick Cheney does not finish 2nd term.
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US1/1/2009
102730113.931.3411/18/2004
The Constitution of the United States is amended to permit naturalized citizens to be President.
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US11/1/2008
65643677.661.1511/4/2004
Japan will gain a permanent seat on the UN Security Council, although it won't necessarily have veto power.
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General1/1/2009
78512932.651.6111/3/2004
North Korea will invade South Korea in order to focus the peoples attention on something other than their current problems such as hunger and as a last ditch effort for KIM to hold on to power
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China4/30/2010
46215504.351.3010/29/2004
Strategic Military Alliance between USA and India. Other participants such as Japan and Australia may be part of agreement
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US11/2/2008
172133962.971.5110/6/2004
X-Prize victory will spawn a variety of competitors and competitions, resulting in commercial dominance of the spacelaunch field within 20 years.
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Sci/Tech1/1/2014
6011301.225.6210/6/2004
Civil unrest will cause the pullout of US forces from Qatar by 2008
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Middle East12/31/2008
100029263.931.349/19/2004