My own (obviously non-exhaustive) list of possible future popes rated from 0 (horrible) to 10 (great) from a few years ago. Not sure if any of these names have passed on since then. And I suppose if I did it again today the number would most likely change slightly and other names would be on the list.
0: Pietro Parolin, Christoph Schonborn
1: Gianfranco Ravasi
2: Sean Patrick O’Malley, Luis Tagle, Peter Turkson, Matteo Maria Zuppi
3: Wilfrid Fox Napier
4: Dominik Jaroslav Duka
5: Peter Erdo, Marc Ouellet
6: Mauro Piacenza
7: Gehard Ludwig Muller
8: Angelo Bagnasco
9: Willem Jacobus Eijk, Albert Malcolm Ranjith, Angelo Scola
10: Raymond Burke
Until they get votes, they just go with the polls. So pretty worthless until they votes start coming in. I remember watching the needle in 2016 moving from way over on Clinton’s side to way over on Trump’s after a few hours.
The NYT starts out with polls and the adjusts as real results come in. Not very accurate early until real votes come in.
So far this year and back in 2016 they all starting swinging towards Trump once they got real votes.
I got a couple of emails from them this week (put one of them below). One was about an event for today and the other one for Monday. I don’t have a smart meter. This is my home not a commercial place if that makes a difference.
Southern California Edison has scheduled a Critical Peak Pricing event for
Monday, 7/15/2019 from 4:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Please reduce your electric consumption during this peak period.
For more information, customers may contact their S C E Account Manager or
call 800-990-7788. Event information is also available at
www.sce.com/drp/events.
Please do not reply to this email; this is not a monitored email address.