How Wrong They Were

Submitted by politicalWinters on Fri, 11/07/2008 - 9:45am.

Salon magazine has put together some of the best - and completely wrong - pundits' predictions on the 2008 election.

Looking back at some of these, it's amazing how off they were.

Here's a couple of choice ones:

Rudy Giuliani, the Washington Post -- Jan. 12, 2008

"We'll win Florida. It's an unconventional strategy, but I've never followed conventional wisdom before; it's always worked."

Hillary Clinton, ABC News -- April 3, 2008

A source with "direct knowledge" of Hillary to Bill Richardson concerning Obama: “He cannot win, Bill. He cannot win."

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