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Malstroms Article News ^ | 10-3-08 | Sean Malstrom

[SunkenCiv]

same story, different topic, same quote. ;')

I told you to keep an eye on Iowa for if Obama comes back here, a state he should have locked at this time, he is toast. Well, Obama is back in Iowa which means he is toast. If it is competitive in Iowa (it was very competitive in 2004), that means that McCain is running as well as Bush or better and has FL, CO, IN, NC, OH, NH, and VA all comfortable. McCain going to Maine suggests Obama is performing worse than Kerry

[KoRn]

Always fun to look back on posts like this after the opposite comes to be true.

What a fairy tale this was. lol

/cry

[Bob J]

Agreed.

[awelliott]

Always fun to look back on posts like this after the opposite comes to be true. What a fairy tale this was. lol

I'm not sure that "fun" would be my word of choice, but I bookmarked this for that reason. Well, I guess it's time for Sean to go back to his day job; though it was an interesting read....

[garbanzo]

Since the only two people running for President are performing actions entirely differently than the public polling, one can either say that the presidential candidates are just running around states randomly and are dumb, or it is the possibility that the public polling is not accurate.

I'm voting for dumb.

[xJones]

Luckily I changed my career gears long ago. But my old profession of political analysis is going to be absolutely destroyed. I still think McCain will win the election and do so by a larger margin than Bush did in 2004.

It was a beautiful article, and it's fortunate for him that he changed careers long ago. He was roughly 180 degrees wrong. But I can't blame him, I had faith too, that McCain/Palin would win. Wouldn't you know it, this is first election in many years that the pollsters were right. Who would have believed it? :)