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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTime for George Will to retire
On George Stephanopoulos show, each predicted the electoral votes and popular votes results.
Not only did Will predicted Romney win, he gave him 321 electoral votes! I am not sure, but I think he included Minnesota among them.
The rest: Donna Brazile, Cokie Roberts, Matthew Dowd and Ronald Brownstein all predicted Obama win, at different margins.
limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)Kingofalldems
(38,475 posts)reACTIONary
(5,771 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,440 posts)More: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/29/AR2008102903199.ht
msrizzo
(796 posts)sadbear
(4,340 posts)That's a improvement.
DefenseLawyer
(11,101 posts)each given equal validity. Even when 99.9% of people agree on something, true journalism requires finding someone to espouse the .1% position and give him equal billing. Doesn't matter wat the subject and the election is no different. Someone MUST take the opposite view to show us there are two sides to every story and "prove" to us that they are all true journalists. It's sad really.
question everything
(47,534 posts)He, and Peggy Noonan, would at least explain how they reached their conclusion. Not like Limp.. and Hannity who are just crazy.
Both he and Noonan expressed their reservation for the selection of Palin.
Perhaps he realized that in order to keep his job, not to be upstaged by - gasp - Liz Cheney, he has to be more partisan.
RoadRunner
(4,495 posts)George Will is almost wrong on his predictions, going all the way back to his editorial where he said nuclear plant accidents are impossible in the US, the DAY before Three Mile Island. He's a smart guy but has a horrible batting average on predicting the future.
standish42
(2 posts)George Will is certainly not the only one who should retire: I'd like to see Tom Brokaw, Jim Lehrer and Dan Rather throw in the towel. They have nothing new to add to the conversation but their 1960's mentality. This is a different world and their faux non partisan comments e.g. "both parties do it" is irritating and out of place at best. Rachel Maddow has Dan Rather a lot and I wish she didn't. He sits there with that all knowing look and speaks 1960's talk. Jim Lehrer is just irrelevant and too old to carry on as we all saw at the first debate and Tom Brokaw is a wolf in sheep's clothing. Whatever Brokaw says, if you listen carefully, is tilted to the right. Please, please, please, let those three and George "irrelevant" Will just go in silence!
question everything
(47,534 posts)including Minnesota??
PatrickS
(294 posts)George is being ridiculed by people leaving comments
"Everyone notice that George Wuss was MIA from This Week today?
Ran his mouth about Romney landslides, but not man enough to own being dead wrong on ABC."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-will-republicans-must-start-over-again/2012/11/09/d7c81db0-29e8-11e2-bab2-eda299503684_story.html
question everything
(47,534 posts)Could not wait to hear him on This Week but he conveniently was missing.