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Originally posted by widebody911
Anyone up for a pool on when they're going to start playing white smoke/black smoke? I give him to the end of next week. Better yet, how about a pool on his sucessor? I only personally know a single cardinal (Roger Mahoney) so I'm ill equipped to lay out the odds.
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I don't know any of the potential candidates but I'm sure the list of frontrunners was kept updated and I'd guess the key questions the popemakers asked themselves when picking their current candidates was a short reign or a long one, a conservative or radical, a theologian or a diplomat. My guess, because of the time JPll has been pope, would be a conservative caretaker who is on in years for a short reign with no change.