Article originally appeared on www.westernjournal.com.
The man they call “Polling Nostradamus” has had a particularly ugly month of November. In fact, he’s had a wretched 2024. But then, he probably should have predicted that, if he were so good.
In case you’ve missed it: Allan Lichtman, a professor at American University, had spent years as a minor electoral celebrity due to his method of predicting presidential elections that got him called the “Nostradamus” of U.S. politics. This incredibly rudimentary system, which he credits with allowing him to predict nine of the previous 10 presidential races before 2024 — and which the media played along with — involves 13 “keys” to the presidency.
All of these “keys,” while subjective, are straight yes-or-no binary things; no weight is given to one over the other. If you have seven of them, according to Lichtman, you win the presidency. That simple, basically:
NEW: Allan Lichtman, who claims to have predicted every election since …
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