At long last, here are the picks of all participants. Winner gets a nice bottle of wine from me.

I note that I am the only one who shorted both front-runners, which could easily put me in first or last place.

I also note that KS is the only one who went long on more than one candidate in the same party and HH was the only one to short two candidates from the same party...either could be a good strategy, time will tell. I will post an update in a few months to show standings at that time.

As noted previously, we are using the bid side for all candidates, long or short, for simplicity. Contestants, please review your picks to make sure I recorded them correctly. Here are the starting points for all the picked candidates:

McCain 44.6 (MCC)
Romney 16.8 (ROM)
Giuliani 15.3 (GIU)

Clinton 47.0 (CTN)
Edwards 16.9 (EDW)
Obama 19.6 (BAM)

Picks:

IH--
Long: GIU, CTN
Short: MCC, BAM

TC--
L: EDW, ROM
S: CTN, BAM

SF--
L: MCC, CTN
S: ROM, BAM

JH--
L: ROM, BAM
S: MCC, CTN

HH--
L: MCC, BAM
S: CTN, EDW

KS--
L: ROM, GIU, EDW
S: CTN