A Powerball President?

 A Powerball President?

It may  not be a strange coincidence, 

but this year's Humongous Powerball  Drawing

Is coming during an already torrid  

(and in  many respects, horrid)

pre-– presidential campaign

that's already straining  the brain.

According to an Associate Professor of Biostatistics at Rutgers, New Jersey 

who would not be expected to promote political heresy,

an American is 25 times more likely to become the next President than to win the next Powerball.

So, why not  make whoever wins the Powerball  the next President,

As well of course,  the new  White House resident?

For , as  has already become more than abundantly clear

this year,

that this could very well be  a great idea!

Whether or not his or her hairdo, oratory  and/or IQ is less than stunning,

that choice is likely to be  as qualified as some of the candidates now  running

Therefore,  why not-- every four years or so --suspend all elections

along with all those  strenuous but  necessary monetary collections.

Whether or not this is what he or she deserves,,

it would save a lot of wear and tear on everyone else's nerves---

not to mention all  those   artificial attitudes 

and  political platitudes.

And there'd also be    less economic drain

since the winner's jackpot can  fund a campaign.

HzL

1/11/16

PS: Though we'd still have to be  wary  of what the Supreme Court might  do

If the winning ticket should get bent or disfigured

into something  like a hanging chad---

because they'd probably  choose  a different girl or lad.

In the 2000 United States presidential election, many Florida votes used Votomatic style punched card ballots where incompletely punched holes resulted in partially punched chads: either a "hanging chad", where one or more corners were still attached, or a "fat chad" or "pregnantchad", where all corners were still ...
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Jeffrey Miecznikowski, an associate professor of biostatistics at the University of Buffalo said in an interview with Reuters that this meant an American was roughly 25 times more likely to become the country's next president that win a Powerball haul.

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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 05:39:36 -0500

No winner for the $900M Powerball jackpot, Wednesday draw worth $1.3B

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No ticket holder had the winning numbers for the record $900 million U.S. Powerball jackpot drawn on Saturday night, which means Wednesday's draw will balloon to an estimated $1.3 billion.

According to the official Powerball site, the $1.3 billion jackpot would be worth $806 million if a single winner chose to take the windfall as a cash lump sum rather than over time as annuity payments. Saturday's draw would have been worth $558 million in cash.

It will be the first U.S. lottery jackpot to reach $1 billion, Reuters reported. 

Saturday night's winning numbers were: 32, 16, 19, 57 and 34. The Powerball number was 13, with a multiplier of 3.

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The prospect of a $900 million win had drawn long queues for tickets across the country. But the odds of matching all the numbers is 1 in 292.2 million.

Jeffrey Miecznikowski, an associate professor of biostatistics at the University of Buffalo said in an interview with Reuters that this meant an American was roughly 25 times more likely to become the country's next president that win a Powerball haul.

Or to put it another way, the odds are equivalent to flipping a coin 28 times and getting heads every time, he said.

"It doesn't sound so bad ... but you would be at it for an eternity," Miecznikowski said.