Mitt Romney’s Bracket Finished in the 99.9th Percentile
There is one thing Mitt Romney and his March Madness bracket have in common: they’re both in the 1 percent.
By now, that “1 percent’’ joke has become more played out than the jokes about President Barack Obama’s bracket being “conservative,’’ but this really is astounding.
Hours before the NCAA men’s national basketball championship game, a source with the former Massachusetts governor and presidential candidate leaked Romney’s bracket, which is pictured above, to the Huffington Post.
Romney picked all the Final Four games and their outcomes correctly, as well as six of the eight Elite Eight participants. Out of more than 11.5 million ESPN.com entries, his bracket was in the 99.8th percentile before the title game.
Romney correctly chose Duke to beat Wisconsin in the finals, bumping his bracket into the 99.9th percentile for the whole tournament.
Meanwhile, President Obama, though winning the arguably more important contest between the two, trails far behind in the 40th percentile. Additionally, while Obama has famously been an avid basketball fan and player, three years ago Romney didn’t even fill out a bracket. This year, just one was enough.
Correction: An initial version of this report said Romney was in the 99.98th percentile.
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