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Will John McCain appear on Letterman before the election?

Settled as Yes

Late night talk show host David Letterman ripped into presidential candidate John McCain for cancelling an appearance on his show. Will McCain appear on Dave's program before the November elections? More


Settlement details: As reported by a major mainstream news source, or as seen on the program. To settle as yes, McCain must appear live in the studio for the live-to-tape recording for broadcast.

 
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Yes
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No
63%
Activity: H$13,925
Settled as Yes on Fri 17th Oct 1:50pm PDT

Suspend date: Mon 3rd Nov 11:59pm PST Settlement date: Fri 17th Oct 1:50pm PDTPrediction cut-off: Predictions on this question after Thu 16th Oct 2pm PDT have been voided because they were made after the question could be settled

Initial likelihoods: Yes: 20%

Action history:

Created Thu 25th Sep 11:40am PDT by loren
Settlement requested Sun 12th Oct 10:15am PDT by ladylara: associateed press rpt 11:00ish Sunday morning- McCain to appear on Letterman this Thursday. As reported on Comcast.net
Suspended Sun 12th Oct 10:18am PDT by destry[Admin]: Market suspended pending review of settlement reports.
Settlement requested Fri 17th Oct 3:29am PDT by ianochaye: Appeared Last Night (Thursday 16)
Settlement requested Fri 17th Oct 5am PDT by ianochaye: He appeared last night
Settlement requested Fri 17th Oct 8:51am PDT by jjw07652: he was on last night.
Settlement requested Fri 17th Oct 10:13am PDT by rbrog77: He did...last night. It was funny.
Settled as 'Yes' Fri 17th Oct 1:50pm PDT by destry[Admin]

Suspend date: Mon 3rd Nov 11:59pm PST Settlement date: Fri 17th Oct 1:50pm PDTPrediction cut-off: Predictions on this question after Thu 16th Oct 2pm PDT have been voided because they were made after the question could be settled
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Predictions (59)

59 predictions

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mlynnc predicted Yes (H$258 at 36%)
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ianochaye predicted Yes (H$130 at 28%)
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Comments (8)

  1 frank2877
If I were McCain I'd pass on Letterman... until after I was elected :-) Then I'd appear for a quick nayna nayna nayna :-)
posted 7 weeks ago
  2 frank2877
McCain should kick Letterman in the nuts on live TV. He'd win the election in a landslide :-)
posted 5 weeks ago
  3 dieseldog
rotflol....frank you and dragonfang should run for office.
posted 5 weeks ago
  4 ianochaye
Any reason this isn't settled now?
posted 4 weeks ago
  6 dieseldog
letterman ask mccain serval times if palin would do his show. after mccain said yea i think she would, letterman hammered palin. he had a fair arguement, but if i was her i wouldn't go on knowing he was gonna hammer her. your wondering what letterman's problem was? palin saying obama hangs out with terriost's. letterman said (paraphasing) ok lets say bill ayers is one..she said "terriosts" who's the other ones? fair question and i have no problem with her being ask the question. does biden get the same scurinty?
posted 4 weeks ago
Another thing, at NObamas speech yesterday he insulted sarah palin for not being experienced enough saying "Is sarah palin the most qualified republican to run for vice president?" and the crowd met him with a roar of "NOs!". If i was there i would have gotten up and said "Is Barack Hussien Obama the most qualified democrat to be PRESIDENT?" Then would have gracefully left while being mobbed by 20,000 angry democrats.
posted 4 weeks ago
  8 ianochaye
I think the point would be that Obama subjected himself to a lengthy series of Primaries to get the nomination. In other words his position was validated by winning the primary process.
Palin was the nomination of one person - John McCain. She was not subject to scrutiny by the electors (Republican and Independent).
So - Obama can claim that his party judged him to be the best qualified by his winning their primary process whereas Palin has no such validation - and her qualification is therefore open to challenge
posted 4 weeks ago

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