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Punditz: 34 blown election predictions

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1. Before the election, Karl Rove predicted Mitt Romney would win 279 electoral votes.
2. Rove gets two mentions because after the election, he continued to predict a Romney victory—even as everyone else concluded Romney had lost. Which he had.
3. Douglas Holtz-Eakin, John McCain's top economic adviser, thought turnout would win it for Romney.
4. House Speaker John Boehner said Romney would win Ohio.
5. Steve Forbes said the polls were wrong and that Romney would win.
6. Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell said Romney would carry Virginia.
7. Dick Morris said Romney would win 325 electoral votes.
8. Dean Chambers, inventor of the unskewed polls nonsense, said Romney would take 311 electoral votes.
9. Michael Barone predicted a Romney landslide.
10. George Will said Romney would win big.
11. John Bolton said he was "very confident" Romney would win.
12. Wayne Allen Root predicted a Romney landslide.
13. Stu Rothenberg said the race was too close to call, even though it was clear from all available data that President Obama had a significant advantage.
14. Pat Toomey said Romney would win Pennsylvania.
15. Peggy Noonan said "vibrations" told her Romney was about to win.
16. Former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge said Romney would carry Pennsylvania.
17. Charles Krauthammer said Romney would win a close victory.
18. Suffolk stopped polling in Virginia and Florida because they decided Romney had locked those states up.
19. The head of Mason-Dixon polling said Mitt Romney had nailed down Florida.
20. Fred Barnes confidently explained to everyone why Romney will win.
21. Joe Scarborough mocked Nate Silver for relying on data and said he would rather be in Mitt Romney's shoes than President Obama's.
22. Eric Cantor declared Romney would win Virginia.
23. Romney's own campaign predicted he would win 300 electoral votes.
24. Glenn Beck predicted a Romney landslide.
25. Jeb Bush said Florida would go Romney's way.
26. Ohio Gov. John Kasich not only said Romney would win Ohio, but that he'd seen internal polls showing Romney ahead.
27. David Brooks mocked analysis like Nate Silver's.
28. Dylan Byers treated Nate Silver's partisan opponents with equal credibility as Silver himself.
29. Bill Kristol predicted a Romney victory.
30. Ari Fleischer said Romney would win comfortably.
31. James Pethokoukis of American Enterprise Institute predicted a Romney win.
32. Newt Gingrich guaranteed Romney would win by at least six points.
33. Dave Weigel predicted a Romney victory.
34. Jay Cost of The Weekly Standard claimed Romney would win.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/11/07/1158236/-Punditz-34-blown-election-predictions