One problem – if you are wrong too often, you are no longer a pundit. Doesn’t hold up.

Well, Dick Morris has been wrong about 80 gazillion times. For a laugh, go look at his last 4-5 articles in 2008. They are insane. Predicting Mccain landslide. And this is when Obama was 7-8 points ahead in all national polls including rasmussen.

Fox News still paid him gobs of money to offer his opinions all throughout the election. And even after Obama won on Tuesday, he has been invited back. We’ll see if they wisen up…

Dick Morris (for example) came on the next day and said he was wrong, wrong, wrong. He knew he would have to, so your conspiracy theory makes no sense.

Mimzey on November 9, 2012 at 11:35 AM

Can you write a comment without the word “meme”? Once?

agirlacamera on November 9, 2012 at 11:52 AM

One problem – if you are wrong too often, you are no longer a pundit. Doesn’t hold up.

lester on November 9, 2012 at 11:37 AM

THIS. Best comment I have seen so far on the disconnect between the polls and the conservative pundits.

michaelthomas on November 9, 2012 at 11:05 AM

diditagain on November 9, 2012 at 11:00 AM

LtGenRob on November 9, 2012 at 10:45 AM

Follow the money.

Pundits and bloggers have a vested interest in showing a close election. They are paid by how many viewers and readers they have.

Pollsters and statisticians on the other hand have a vested interest in being accurate. They are commissioned and paid based on their historic performance.

Jay Cost is back to writing articles, so is Dean Chambers (after reaping good bit of ad revenue from unskewedpolls.com). Even Dick Morris is all over the talk shows. Same featured bloggers are back on Hotair frontpage. There’s a reason for that, they did what they were expected to do: bend the truth to keep you around. As long as they do that, regardless of which direction the elections go they get to keep their job.

On the other side, Nate’s book just rocketed up to the second bestselling book on Amazon. PPP can expect a good number of new customers. Had they called it wrong, none of this would have happened.

Don’t assume a direct correlation between voter turnout and voter enthusiasm.

michaelthomas on November 9, 2012 at 11:21 AM

I agree, but the disconnect seems odd. Lower turnout overall. Obama gets 10 million fewer votes than ’08 and he wins with the meme being “See!..its a new world order now..get with the plan, you’re either with us or against us”.