Friday, November 10, 2006

Election 2006: Who predicted this?

CNET News.com: "In the days before the closely watched contest for control of Congress, untold numbers of bloggers were predicting Tuesday's outcome.
Some spoke out in hopes of winning a lunch bet at a co-worker's expense. Others registered their picks with the Drudge Retort--a parody of the Drudge Report--in hopes of landing an iPod Nano.
But how did these predictions jibe with reality? An informal survey of some of the more prominent political blogs--and a slew of lesser-known ones culled from Technorati searches--found one visible theme: rampant optimism among both Democratic and Republican devotees. "

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