Observation

If you read Mooseburger’s list of our bloggers’ VP picks from a while back, you’ll remember that none of us picked correctly for our own party, and only two of us picked correctly for the opposite party. Here they are again:

Aqueous: My original pick was Kathleen Sebelius (D) but I changed it to Hillary Clinton. I had no Republican pick.
Connscript: Tim Kaine (D); Mitt Romney (R).
Mooseburger: Joe Biden (D); Tim Pawlenty (R).
Ol’ Jack Burton: Joe Biden (D); Mitt Romney (R).
Seven: Jack Reed (D); Tim Pawlenty (R).

This is obviously something quite short of a scientifically rigorous psychology experiment, but let me go ahead and throw together some unfounded conclusions nonetheless.

Are we so emotionally invested in our own party that our pick was actually an expression of a desire rather than a clearly thought-out analysis? Or was it just me?

In the case of Mooseburger and Ol’ Jack Burton, were they able to think more clearly about the pick of the opposite party because they had no emotion invested(besides, perhaps, pure blind disgust)?

Obviously, it’s a pretty thin amount of information from which to draw any conclusions beyond the supremely anecdotal. But ho-boy, were most of us wrong.