Thursday, November 8, 2012

Folks not to seek advice from in your football pools or fantasy hockey drafts

The US Election results have been divined for another four years and with the re-election of President Barack Obama there's more than a few pundits and prognosticators doing some fancy back tracking, walking back their less than sage vision of the electoral count.

The vision of chaos was most complete on Fox News, where Karl Rove began to battle with not only the anchors on the election desk, but with the networks own boiler room of electoral prognosticators.

It all made for great theatre as Rove demanded that Fox return Ohio to Mitt Romney, however,  as events played out Mr. Rove would leave the studios empty handed and off to remedial math class we imagine..


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While the Republicans turn on their own for answers to their electoral defeat (watch your back Chris Christie) the political websites, magazines and other magical portals of politics have weighed in on how their own political class, the pundit class, with a few exceptions got it so wrong.

The Roll call of the failing is as follows, Nate Silver you're dismissed, you had a good night.

Politico
The Atlantic Wire
US News
Slate
Huffington Post
Daily Kos
Tech Crunch
The Daily Caller
Washington Post
National Memo
Crooks and Liars
The Daily Beast

Even Jimmy Fallon's puppy got it wrong.. showing that the entire process has gone to the dogs...

Mediate has compiled a list of the Top 10 of the Wrong, a photographic essay if you will, or a mug shot lineup of the most likely of suspects to get it wrong.

These are the folks not to sit beside when you're making your NFL pool picks this weekend and/or if we ever get hockey back on track and have a fantasy draft in your local pub...


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