WaPo - "Pundit accountability: The official 2012 election prediction thread"

[TomCADem]

Some of the Republican predictions are mind blowing. George Will, for example, predicts that Romney will win Minnesota.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/11/05/pundit-accountability-the-official-2012-election-prediction-thread/

There are a lot of predictions floating around out there about who will win the presidential election on Tuesday. So why not round them all up in one place?

Here are the electoral vote predictions from various modelers, political scientists and pundits from around the Internet. All predictions are as of Monday evening. And yes, this will be a fun thread to revisit the day after the election:

Nate Silver, FiveThirtyEight: Obama 303, Romney 235. ”The model estimates that Mr. Romney would need to win the national popular vote by about one percentage point to avert a tossup, or a loss, in the Electoral College,” Silver writes.

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Karl Rove: Romney 285, Obama 253. He’s got Romney winning Ohio, Iowa, Virginia, Colorado, and Florida.

[enough]

1. If this is the beginning of holding pundits accountable for everything they say,

and getting rid of them after a proven track record of mind-boggling failure, I say BRING IT ON.

[TomCADem]

2. So, How Did The Pundits Do?

Nate Silver is on the money. Dick Morris...not so much.