When did they have the Nobel voting?

[Wetzelbill]

I saw he was nominated right away, not long after he became president, but when did they vote on it?

Because he received it for his last year of work, which is what the prize is offered for, and since the moment he took office until now has been a sea change in international relations. That should not be controversial at all, he's done quite a lot in the last year. Maybe not enough, but he almost single-handedly changed the international relations dynamic.

[jaxx]

1. You knew he'd been nominated?

Can you find a link on that because the Nobel Peace Prize site says the nominees are kept secret for 50 years....unless they are announced to be the winner.


Number of nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009

Every year, the Norwegian Nobel Committee sends out thousands of letters inviting a qualified and select number of people to submit their nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize. The names of the nominees cannot be revealed until 50 years later, but the Nobel Peace Prize committee does reveal the number of nominees each year.

205 names were submitted for the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, 33 of which are organizations. The Nobel Committees in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature and the Prize Committee for Economics each usually receives 250-300 names every year, but this is the highest number of nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize ever. The last record was in 2005 when the Committee received 199 nominations.

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/shortfacts.html

[SemiCharmedQuark]

2. I think the poster is saying that Obama was nominated in January and everyone knows this

because that is when the nominating process takes place.

[gateley]

3. Then how come we knew about Gore -- and that Sarkozy was a nominee

this time around? I think I"m misunderstanding this. :crazy:

[Princess Turandot]

5. It's possible that the nominators are not sworn to secrecy?..

Although, I would think they would be. A lot of it is conjecture, I think. Gore kind of made sense even without an info 'leak'.

[gateley]

10. I knew I was misunderstanding it -- obviously they tell the nominees - duh!

Don't know what I was thinking. :hi:

[jaxx]

11. LOL I'm misunderstanding it too.

Yeah how did they know about Sarkozy? Gore won so that was an easy one. ;-)

[Wetzelbill]

8. see the other replies to your post nt

[Posteritatis]

12. US presidents are always nominated

People made a big show of Bush being nominated or the peace prize every year he was in office. The other prizes tend to be less mediagenic, so people are less likely to leak things or shout to the skies that they're nominating so and so or whatever else.

[Princess Turandot]

4. They are somewhat secretive about this, I think..

They take nominations for several months, ending at the beginning of February. There are only certain categories of folks who can submit actual nominations, so the dopes who sent letters to them over the years 'nominating' Bush likely did not count among that group of nominators.

Then they have staff who apparently vet/gather information about the candidates whom the Committee is actually interested in. Given that there's 8 months between the nomination deadline and the announcement, my guess (only) is that they vote much closer to the announcement date then February.

[Wetzelbill]

6. that's what I thought

I thought they voted right around when they gave it out. Plus, if they say voted months ago, even among a small group that is tough to keep a secret.

[Princess Turandot]

15. The only thing I've seen which 'seems' to get an alert on the winner..

is Kirjasto.org's 'Authors' Calender. They are a Finnish company which seems to add the info about the Lit Prize winner seconds after it's announced. (I track the Peace and Lit winners for a Google Earth project of mine.

On the other hand, maybe they are just good guessers!

[Thrill]

7. They voted in October

[Wetzelbill]

9. do you have a link to that?

Not that I don't believe you, it makes sense, I just would like to read more on it myself.

[FrenchieCat]

13. It was on this past Monday......

I read.

http://nobelprize.org/nomination/peace/process.html

[Wetzelbill]

14. thanks for the link

[rug]

16. Last week at a caucus in Dubuque.