On Tuesday, November 4th, 2008, we the people proved the naysayers and doomsayers wrong.
Predicting the future will always be a booming business. Veteran pollsters and pundits and consultants and analysts who got things wrong in 2004 came back again for this Presidential election cycle, lecturing us about how things would turn out.
But the 2008 campaign created a new low watermark for inaccurate forecasting. The sheer volume of incorrect, unfounded, distorted, imaginary, or just plain bizarre crystal-ballery staggers the mind.
For example: The following is a short list of just a few of those -- on both the Right and Left -- who scornfully or mournfully declared that that Barack Obama "can't win," ... or some close variation thereon... At the end of the diary, please add your own thoughts and examples. (And of course, recs/tips are always appreciated.)
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