Tracking Pundit Predictions, Correcting Wikipedia, and More
On the Media
WNYC Studios
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🗓️ 9 March 2012
⏱️ 50 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From WNYC in New York, this is On the media. |
| 0:12.2 | I'm Bob Garfield. |
| 0:13.2 | And I'm Brooke Gladstone. |
| 0:14.8 | Super Tuesday was so last week. |
| 0:18.1 | And like all the other traditional benchmarks of 2012's presidential season, Super Tuesday, |
| 0:24.1 | like Iowa, like New Hampshire, was meh. Call it meh Tuesday, partly because fewer than half |
| 0:31.5 | the states participated, as did in 2008, but mostly because despite the breathless expostulations of pundits, it resolved nothing. |
| 0:40.8 | And so if you look at that and you say, okay, what's Romney's problem? |
| 0:44.1 | Well, he's not connecting. He's not even connecting to the people he should be connected. |
| 0:48.8 | Now, this is a guess clearly labeled, but if Republicans get to their convention with no nominee, I predict they'll |
| 0:56.4 | pick someone other than those in the current field. |
| 0:58.7 | That is the battleground state of Ohio. |
| 1:00.9 | He will be able to secure his claim to the nomination only if he beats Rick Santorum in |
| 1:05.4 | that big state. |
| 1:06.4 | That last prediction was simply wrong. |
| 1:08.6 | The previous one was meaningless, and the first one sounded like |
| 1:11.7 | a little cry of pain modified to fit your screen. Typically, political pundits are able to get |
| 1:17.9 | away with making predictions that are spectacularly wrong because there's no real downside to it. |
| 1:24.9 | Make an extraordinary claim, and you'll get a ton of attention. If a few years later |
| 1:29.7 | it turns out you were wrong, well, it's not as if somebody's going to go back and check your work, |
| 1:35.3 | that is, until now. Sanjay Air is one of the minds behind Pundit Tracker, a new site that will keep |
| 1:42.7 | track of the predictions that pundits make and score whether or not they actually turn out to be, you know, true. |
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