2016 Presidential Election Prediction

Marshall Mesa. Boulder, Colorado, 2016 (What the hell path are we on, anyway!?)

OK, I am going to scoot out on a dry, dead, diseased, and cracked branch here and make some predictions about where that path above might be leading us–knowing full well that some catastrophic world foolishness could toss me miles away from my current observational perch.

Here they are:

#1: Hillary Clinton wins the Presidency in an electoral landslide and by at least 10 points in the popular vote.

#2: Donald Trump wins somewhere between three and ten states.

#3: The Dems regain a majority in the Senate.

#4: The Dems also make gains in the House, but the Republicans retain a solid majority there.

#5: Merrick Garland is confirmed as a Supreme Court justice sometime between November 9, 2016 and January 20, 2017.

I’ll add a P.S. in the November-January time frame once all the manure dust settles.

[November 9, 2016 POSTSCRIPT: Well, I certainly have no career in political prognostication. I was wrong on all counts. See my blog posts of November 8, 2016 and November 9, 2016.]