As the instant reactions and morning-after columns settle in, it's becoming surprisingly clear that the President's speech — as uplifting and aggressive as it was wide-ranging and occasionally specific — may have actually satisfied our before-and-after sample of commentators across the issues.
Here, from the big economic push to other pressing issues and Obama's general attitude from the podium, is what the talking heads and editorial boards are betting on. It actually serves as a nice outline for the kind of speech the White House has promised — even if you never can trust a pundit.
Yes, it is possible for a pundit to lose his job for being very, very wrong. Dick Morris, one of the most spectacularly wrong pundits of the 2012 election, has been fired by Fox News.
Somewhere in the midst of a long thread about his future at The New York Times, baseball, Chuck Hagel, gun control, and more, Silver let out that, sure, he might have changed his tone "n terms of pushing back at the pundits."
The most noxious, wrongheaded, misleading, silly, and downright awful pieces of punditry to somehow end up in print or online this year.
With Mitt Romney (finally) conceding Florida to Barack Obama, we have the final electoral college breakdown for this year's contest, meaning we can finally award prizes to our most right (and wrong) pundits.
With Florida still out we have yet to crown a winner of our election pundit predictions contest, but we have dubbed a lot of people wrong losers in the race to be the predictive champion.
Obama won a second term! And just as with every other point in the election, the nation's pundits are already telling us what it means. Here are all their takes as they come in.
With the swing states coming in, it's time to judge our pundits based on their predictions, which we compiled this morning in our prediction scorecard.
As is tradition before election day, our nation's wise pundits have made their predictions for who will win today, how and by what margin, theoretically giving us an idea of the most likely outcome for president of the United States.
CNBC's shouty money man Jim Cramer made the wildest, most outlandish prediction for the outcome of the Tuesday's election. Just about every other pundit thinks it's either an insane, amazing troll on the punditocracy or that Jim Cramer is on some very good drugs.
Ramesh Ponnuru's Bloomberg View column arguing that a revived version of CNN's Crossfire could rescue the political debate on cable news has elicited opinions from many a pundit Tuesday, so we think there's only one way to settle it ... From Washington, it's (Atlantic Wire) Crossfire!
Veteran professional GOP primary watchers are starting to sound a wee bit bored: Mitt Romney won big in Illinois, but because they all saw it coming (it's their job to make accurate predictions, after all) nothing has changed in the presidential race.
Twitamore.com, is a fun, new Valentine's Day themed tool that analyzes data to match a Twitter user with his or her Twitter crush. The Atlantic Wire has put it to work to match-up the politicos who love to flirt and throw rocks at each other on the social network.
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