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Seeing all these right-wing idiots proven wrong is almost as satisfying as winning the election:
1. Dick Morris: This is going to be a landslide. The former Clinton adviser predicted a dominant Romney win, calling it the biggest surprise in recent American political history. Claiming that polls were oversampling Democrats, Morris wondered if it will rekindle the whole question on why the media played this race as a nailbiter.
2. Roger Kimball: Obama is toast. The publisher of prominent right-wing book imprint Encounter Books and a frequent contributor to conservative outlets, Kimball boldly predicted that Romney is going to win, big time. It was easy, he could tell you in three syllables and a few numbers Ben-gha-zi. Though the Benghazi story played big in right-wing media before the election, a vanishingly small number of voters reported foreign policy being the top priority in the election let alone the Embassy issue, which the Romney campaign had completely dropped in the stretch.
3. Karl Rove: At least 279 electoral votes. It comes down to numbers. And in the final days of this presidential race, from polling data to early voting, they favor Mitt Romney, Rove wrote in a WSJ op-ed ignoring the fact that most polls showed growing momentum for the president. He predicted that Romney will win 51 percent of the popular vote and at least 279 electoral votes.
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http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/11/07/1140401/the-ten-worst-predictions-of-the-2012-election/
qanda
(10,422 posts)BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)Most of the people listed in that article are unknown to 98% of the public. But Rather and Will are well known and their incompetence needs to be highlighted.
Anybody who is off that badly should never be allowed on any media. They should be washing cars or dishes or something that is a lot less harmful than their current position.
DanTex
(20,709 posts)DCBob
(24,689 posts)George Will made an appearance this past weekend on ABC News' This Week With George Stephanopoulos, predicting that Romney would unseat Obama with a 321-217 Electoral College vote. Im projecting Minnesota to go for Romney, Will said at the time. Its the only state thats voted Democratic in nine consecutive elections, but this year, theres the marriage amendment on the ballot that will bring out the evangelicals, and I think it could make the difference. On Election Night, Obama won Minnesota.
Michael Barone predicted a similar 315-223 vote count, swaying Romney's way.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/karl-rove-george-will-pundits-387264