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Above is a 2012 electoral map predicted by Michael Berry and Ken Bickers. Who are they? They are Professors at the University of Colorado and they have a reason to be taken seriously. They have designed a state-to-state voter equation that has successfully predicted every presidential election since 1980.
Their latest electoral vote prediction:
Romney 320, Obama 218
(Here is how the model works)
This outcome seems perfectly logical to me but I am certainly not going to hold my breath. This is what I find interesting---Berry and Bickers have picked the past seven elections, a couple of which have been curve balls, and they have earned an elite degree of respect for the formula they use, but...Barack Hussein Obama and Chicago politics are a variable they have never had to define and spread across the board of fifty states. Barack Hussein Obama is an "X" factor and these two professors cannot possibly know what values to assign to him because America has not had a man like this in the Oval Office since they began predicting presidential elections with Jimmy Carter in 1980. We have come full circle.
That being said, if we wake up on November 7 to a second Barack Hussein Obama term, a second term won by the skin of his teeth, it will be evident that he has found a loophole to 32 years of indisputable mathematical evidence that Michael Berry and Ken Bickers of the University of Colorado have used to successfully call elections. But, it would be no surprise.
2,080 miles from Lafayette, LA to Washington D.C. and back + 192.9
Here is what happened one year ago on Day360.
