Doug.
On the issue of election/predestination JWs have very little to do with Calvinism (vs. Armianianism, cf. my former post: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/12/134714/2400774/post.ashx#2400774).
What may sound Calvinistic to the mildly attentive onlooker is their doctrine of the 144,000 as a "chosen few". But this has nothing to do with Calvinism actually.
Calvinism posits a twofold option: salvation / perdition. Those (the individuals) who are ultimately saved are chosen from eternity.
JWism has a threefold option: salvation 1 (144,000) / salvation 2 ("other sheep") / destruction. Both salvations are offered, # 1 to some and # 2 to all others, and it is up to the "free will" of each individual to accept either offer and persevere to the end. Whoever doesn't gets into the "destroyed" category.
In the JW system, the 144,000 are only "chosen" in the sense that God offersthem(rather than others) salvation # 1 rather than salvation # 2 (not so much of an individual choice for most of them, since salvation # 1 is supposed to be the only one available for any "true Christian" between Pentecost and 1935); none of the individuals who make up the group is predestined. Only the group is, collectively (its "standard," as you say, including its literal number, until next "new light" maybe).
So on this issue JWs are really the opposite side of the spectrum from Calvinism. "Double Arminianism" (or, better, "double Pelagianism") would be more correct.