Remember that election model with 100% success rate from the two professors at the University of Colorado, who said if the economy stays the same there will be a Romney victory? An American University professor would beg to differ:
Obama Win Predicted By Professor Whose Record is 7 for 7 | via: demnewswire:
Allan Lichtman, an American University Professor, whose election formula has successfully picked the last 7 presidential races correctly is predicting a win for President Obama this November noting “Even if I am being conservative, I don’t see how Obama can lose,” says Lichtman, the brains behind The Keys to the White House. Professor Lichtman has successfully picked ever winner beginning with Reagan’s re-election bid of 1984.
The Keys to the White House a 1996 book about a historically based 13 key prediction system for determining the next President of the United States. The keys are based on the theory that presidential election results depend on the performance of the party controlling the White House and not the campaign strategies implemented by the challenging party. Accordingly, the electorate vote based on the economy, foreign policy success, policy innovation, scandal, and the like.
In essence, the keys test the performance of the party that holds the presidency. If six or more of the 13 keys go against the party in power, then the opposing party wins.“The keys have figured into popular politics a bit,” Lichtman says. “They’ve never missed. They’ve been right seven elections in a row. A number that goes way beyond statistical significance in a record no other system even comes close to.”
Let’s not leave things up to professors and their election models. Take a few hours out of your day on Nov. 6th and vote. Investing a few hours for a four year payoff in leadership is the best return on time and energy you’ll ever get in this country.
Delightful irony that one modest professor highlights that Karl Rove and his billionaires are totally irrelevant to the election’s outcome.
True. The other election model from the Univ. of Colorado doesn’t consider that either. The enormous amount of money is a new factor.
I truly hope that the main conclusion of the election is that in order to change the election outcome with enormous amount of money, you first need a workable candidate.
My concern is that this cycle is different than any before it, in that the campaign against Obama started the day he was elected. I talk to people almost daily who dislike him, but when questioned don’t really seem to know why. Is there any precedent for that? Has there ever been a president-elect who was rendered automatically wrong no matter his position?