Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying

Months before General David Petraeus resigned as Director of the CIA, an anonymous reader wrote a letter to the New York Times’ Ethicist column complaining about an affair his wife, presumably Paula Broadwell, was having with a “government executive”. In response to the letter, Chuck Klosterman of The Ethicist wrote:
The fact that you’re willing to [...]

I had predicted an electoral landslide for President Obama with a 332-206 win. I had also predicted a popular vote margin for Obama of 51.5% to 48.5% head to head.
How did I do?
With Florida now in Obama’s column, he won with 332-206. So, I hit the electoral result exactly right.
Though some votes are still being counted, the popular [...]

From NBC News First Read:

From the moment Mitt Romney stepped off stage Tuesday night, having just delivered a brief concession speech he wrote only that evening, the massive infrastructure surrounding his campaign quickly began to disassemble itself.
Aides taking cabs home late that night got rude awakenings when they found the credit cards linked to the campaign no longer [...]

7pm: Polls close in Virginia
7:02pm: Virginia too close to call. Not surprising.
7:10pm: Exit polls: Democrats outpacing Republicans and independents in Virginia.
7:10pm: Romney is toast if Virginia goes blue
7:30pm: Polls close in the big enchilada, Ohio. Too close to call. Again, not surprising at poll closing.
7:38pm: FYI. Usually rural counties come in first in Virginia. So [...]

The Romney campaign has decided to make a last minute push into Pennsylvania and the political scribes are now spinning the story that Pennsylvania, long considered to be leaning Obama, may suddenly be in play since the polls have tightened. This has a number of Democrats nervous. I’m not buying it.
This is what I wrote [...]

It has been a long long time since I’ve written a blog post. However, it’s time to make election predictions. So here goes mine.
I predict that this Tuesday President Barack Obama will be re-elected for a second term. I predict a national popular vote margin of 51.5% to 48.5% for Barack Obama. I predict an [...]