Whack the PM Predicts Election Results

Predict Election Whack PMWhack the PM is a non-partisan and spectacularly satirical election website that lets you beat the crap out of the party leaders in an effort to predict the next Prime Minister of Canada. In this game where winning means you'll lose, candidates are hoping to come out unscathed after participants answer hot topic questions by whacking a party leader on the head.

And while Corina took a look at some more substantive or serious election websites, this one is irreverent and loads of fun. Whack the PM also happens to be 2 for 2 in election prediction: in 2004 and 2006 it knew the results before the ballots were counted.

Plus this will likely be the first - and last - time you see any of the candidates rubbing shoulders in a single hot tub.

It turned out to be great fun whacking the crap out of our "leaders." Sort of saved me the trouble of finding an arcade with Whack a Mole where I could stick on candidate faces.

Whack the PM is the product of the artistically minded James Gang, including Franke James of green driveway fame. It's also not entirely satire.

At the end of the whacking session Whack the PM will give you riding-by-riding information about which candidate has the best chance to beat your detested - whacked - candidate. That means if you beat and bloody Dion, you'll find out which candidate(s) have the best shot at beating the Libs in your riding.

You'll have to excuse me now as I go back to whacking Mr. Harper.

Harper Beaten Up

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Joshua,

Thanks for telling BlogTO readers how they can 'beat the crap' out of the party leaders at WhackthePM.ca

This is serious stuff... Next week -- the day after the election -- I'm being grilled on Whack the PM's ability to predict the biggest loser. Can we go 3 for 3? Please, get your mallets ready and vote now!

Cheers and thanks!

Franke James
Co-creator, Whack the PM
Whack some sense into the candidates!

Posted by: Franke James at October 10, 2008 11:09 AM

Hey Franke,

I don't get the system used to recommend a vote to me based on my riding. Here, the Tonks Dynasty is very securely attached in the area and even though he shows up at debates to fumble explanations about living out-of-area while looking like Count Dracula, odds are good he'll remain the MP.
The NDP is in second, and the Conservative candidate is running a sign-and-not-heard campaign of hiding until after the election and then going back to his day job.

It was suggested that in order to vote against Harper, I vote for Tonks. Why not the NDP? Considering this riding is a Lib/NDP split and either would achieve the goal of keeping the Cons from taking it, the Tonks suggestion winds up being partisan and it looks to me like maybe arbitrarily so?

Posted by: Chris Orbz at October 14, 2008 12:46 AM

Hey Chris, I think you answered your own question in your first paragraph... The program is supposed to show you the most likely person to win who would counter, in your case, Harper. As you mention, Tonks is likely to retain his seat.

Posted by: Joshua at October 14, 2008 8:11 AM

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