What the Bleep Do We Know?

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Results now in from New Hampshire indicate that we don’t actually know anything. We, and by “we” I mean pundits and analyzers, will examine and explain if the polls were wrong because of statistically flawed models, or if people lied to pollsters, or if maybe people in New Hampshire just like messing with our minds and the oxymoron of conventional wisdom. However, the bottom line is that the pundits got it wrong—way wrong.

Hillary’s obit was written. McCain’s epitaph was already carved in the headstone. Will anyone pay a price for our collective errors? Of course not. There is no accountability. Like fortune-tellers on the cover of the Enquirer, we only boast of our hits and bury our misses.

I for one will not explain it all away. I’ll own up to getting it wrong. I’ll pay the price, and give myself a time out. I promise to write nothing between right now 10:30 PM Tuesday and 8 AM tomorrow.

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This page contains a single entry by Jonathan Dobrer published on January 8, 2008 10:32 PM.

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