GOP Primary Predictor: Play Along at Home

You have to visit the page, it is a great interactive.

Our interactive app lets you decide how the remaining contests will play out.

—By Nick Baumann, Ben Breedlove, and Tasneem Raja

| Thu Jan. 5, 2012 9:20 AM PST

Think you're smarter than a CNN pundit? Prove it: Predict the result of the next GOP primary! Or game out the entire contest until the bitter end. With this interactive tool, you can fill in what you think the results of the next 5, 10, or even 40 primaries will be, see which candidate comes out on top, and share your predictions. What happens to Mitt Romney's lead if Ron Paul or Rick Santorum does well in Nevada or Colorado? Where might Newt still grab a few delegates? You can game it out. Want to know how quickly Romney can capture a majority of the delegates? You can do that, too. To get started, just click on a state and assign delegates (because remember, it's delegates, not percentages, that ultimately determine the nominee) to each candidate.

Sources: GreenPapers.com, Frontloading HQ, Associated Press
Front page image: Brian Gielczyk/Shutterstock; Gage Skidmore/Flickr