November 21, 2010 08:24 PM UTC

Why do we even bother with the Jeffco Line?

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• by: Just Saying

I followed the line through the whole election, and I thought it might mean something. But look how wrong it was.  Rosier was given 10-1 odds, but he won by almost 4%.  I could maybe understand that, we were all surprised by Hartman’s loss, but what about the Treasure’s race?  The Line shows these two almost neck and neck, but Kauffman won by over 15%.  You got the Clerk’s race right (like that was hard), but you gave Wallace the same chances as Ramirez in HD29.  Well, we all know what happened there.  And I never understood why the unopposed candidates didn’t get better odds.  This makes me wonder, if the Line has no basis in reality, is there another purpose it serves?  Like giving credibility to races the editors want to encourage, while discouraging those they don’t care for? Just saying…