I know, you are probably just as sick of politics these days as I am, but I’m trying something new this year. With the help of my Facebook friends I’m trying to predict the results of the election. Since I have lived in two of the so-called battleground states, I feel that my friend distribution in these states gives an interesting insight into the election.

Since I announced what I am trying to do nearly two weeks ago, I have seen over one friend per day cast their Facebook vote for one candidate or the other. Votes are cast by “liking” either the Facebook page of Barack Obama or the one for Mitt Romney. Though the number of votes has increased nearly 15%, I was still hoping for even more votes being cast. Of my 669 Facebook friends only 141 have endorsed a candidate, just over 20%. If you are afraid that your Facebook feed will be taken over by the candidate of your choice, you can easily remove all of their posts from your timeline, so there is no reason not to.

Currently Barack Obama leads the popular vote 71 to 70. However things get quite a bit more decisive when you look at electoral college votes, as a few of my friends have suggested. Taking those into account Obama is up big with 241 votes versus Romney’s 60 with 237 still undecided. With that said, my Facebook poll still says it is anyone’s game. What are you waiting for? Cast your vote today!