Things To Do

Hello, all! As announced, we are taking a short break to recharge our batteries. We'll be back on Monday.

That said, there are definitely some Electoral-Vote.com things that you can do to occupy a bit of your time, if you wish. To start, we revealed the answers to the first entry in "12 Days of Christmas... Games," but the other 11 are still live, and we are pleased when people participate:

• Twelve Days of Christmas... Games, Part II: Christmas Movie Trivia
• Twelve Days of Christmas... Games, Part III: Pictograms
• Twelve Days of Christmas... Games, Part IV: Three Little Words
• Twelve Days of Christmas... Games, Part V: Shakespeare Sings His Hits
• Twelve Days of Christmas... Games, Part VI: Putting the T and the V in... Hanukkah?
• Twelve Days of Christmas... Games, Part VII: We Are the World
• Twelve Days of Christmas... Games, Part VIII: These Menorahs Are Lit
• Twelve Days of Christmas... Games, Part IX: Amazon-ukkah
• Twelve Days of Christmas... Games, Part X: Putting the 'S' in N-O-E-L
• Twelve Days of Christmas... Games, Part XI: Scrabble on Steroids
• Twelve Days of Christmas... Games, Part XII: Only Connect

Moving along, we've also asked for some reader feedback on a few things:

• If you have thoughts as to what a "win" would look like for the Democrats, when the upcoming fight over the budget is finally settled, then please send a message to comments@electoral-vote.com, ideally with the subject line "Blue Win."
  
  
• If you have thoughts as to what a "win" would look like for the Republicans, when the upcoming fight over the budget is finally settled, then please send a message to comments@electoral-vote.com, ideally with the subject line "Red Win."
  
  
• And we are still looking for readers' 2026 predictions in any/all of the following areas: (1) Donald Trump/the Executive Branch, (2) Congress, (3) the Supreme Court/the Judiciary, (4) the Republican Party, (5) the Democratic Party, (6) the economy, (7) foreign affairs, (8) Electoral-Vote.com and (9) wildcard. If you've got 'em, submit 'em here. Please remember, we don't do predictions of specific people dying, and since we will review at the end of the year, any prediction has to be something that will be proven true or false by December 31, 2026.

And finally, we have a few things we have not previously announced:

• If you have an item we did this year that you thought was off the mark for whatever reason, or a general criticism, etc., send an e-mail to comments@electoral-vote.com, ideally with the subject line "Bad Job."
  
  
• If you have an item we did this year that was particularly strong, or a general positive critique, etc., send an e-mail to comments@electoral-vote.com, ideally with the subject line "Good Job."
  
  
• We promised to put together a survey of reader hobbies, and here it is. We did our best to do justice to the breadth of reader hobbies, while also trying to keep the survey manageable for respondents. We organized the potential responses into nine categories: (1) sports; (2) the outdoors and/or exercise; (3) indoors; (4) arts, crafts and other creative acts; (5) performance-based; (6) collecting; (7) scientific, technical or mechanical; (8) learning and (9) public service.

Obviously, most of this is setting the stage for our first month of content once we're back at it.

Thanks for your participation, and Happy New Year from (V), (Z), (L), (A), the staff dachshunds, the staff mathematician (who ALWAYS has a Happy New Year, if you know what we mean), and the other folks who help make the site work! See you on the other side.

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