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Marzupialis

(398 posts)
Sun Aug 12, 2012, 10:09 PM Aug 2012

Is Dick Morris the worst political analyst in America?

Dick Morris today says that Mitt Romney "

is currently leading in every state McCain carried plus: Indiana, New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Nevada, North Carolina and Colorado. If he carries these states, he’ll have 228 electoral votes of the 269 he needs to win."


But Romney is NOT winning in NH, Wisconsin, Nevada or CO, where Obama has the lead in the polling average; so Morris typed 4 falsehood in a paragraph. That must be some sort of record.

He also says Romney has a "strong probability" of winning FL, OH and VA.

Or maybe the fact that he writes for "rightwingnews.com" makes him believe only ignorant right-wingers read his stuff...

I learned of his "analysis" via a Tweet. I got curious and followed it.


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Is Dick Morris the worst political analyst in America? (Original Post) Marzupialis Aug 2012 OP
yes onenote Aug 2012 #1
Political analyst? sadbear Aug 2012 #2
No, That's George Will SoDesuKa Aug 2012 #3
Bill Kristol is never right either. sadbear Aug 2012 #5
He is funnier in the movie harry met Sally. Dkc05 Aug 2012 #13
A Laff a Minute SoDesuKa Aug 2012 #15
Actually, that's something of a myth RZM Aug 2012 #18
He's no political analyst, he's a paid GOP shill Brother Buzz Aug 2012 #4
Dick Morris is the freakly little monkey bird thing that hung out by Jabba's tail. nt Poll_Blind Aug 2012 #6
Douche Morris only pretends to be an analyst. He's just a right-wing hack. n/t backscatter712 Aug 2012 #7
So he has gone from ridiculous to lying. Kalidurga Aug 2012 #8
Yes, The Shrimper is pretty inept Tom Ripley Aug 2012 #9
His mind was probably on toes. russspeakeasy Aug 2012 #10
Mark halperin, Thomas Friedboy, David Gregory. ChairmanAgnostic Aug 2012 #11
he appears to be one of the unhappiest political analysts spanone Aug 2012 #12
He's up there ladym55 Aug 2012 #14
Yeah. He's just a toe sucker by profession. nt Jack Sprat Aug 2012 #16
Did he really write "269 to win"? demwing Aug 2012 #17

sadbear

(4,340 posts)
2. Political analyst?
Sun Aug 12, 2012, 10:12 PM
Aug 2012

Damn. I thought his schtick was some sort of comedy routine. Kinda like a Harvey Fierstein impression or something. It was funny as hell, too.

SoDesuKa

(3,173 posts)
3. No, That's George Will
Sun Aug 12, 2012, 10:13 PM
Aug 2012

George Will is the worst political analyst in America, but there are so many bad ones, it's hard to pick one out for recognition as the worst. I never liked Tim Russert either.

 

RZM

(8,556 posts)
18. Actually, that's something of a myth
Sun Aug 12, 2012, 11:27 PM
Aug 2012

Not sure why it's repeated so much. Kristol predicted the Iraq war fairly early, he predicted that Obama would win the Democratic nomination, and he also predicted Palin's selection as McCain's running mate. Aside from Palin, none of these were exactly long-shots, but he made the predictions nonetheless.

While his predictions about Ryan/Rubio were obviously off, he should probably get a consolation prize for Ryan being on the ticket. He was talking about Ryan as part of a national ticket when few else were. Even as late as last week, the CW was for Portman as VP, not Ryan.

He's still wrong about policy, but when it comes to predictions, he actually has a fairly decent (though far from great) track record.

Brother Buzz

(36,450 posts)
4. He's no political analyst, he's a paid GOP shill
Sun Aug 12, 2012, 10:13 PM
Aug 2012

And I bet it's not reported on his income taxes. Bet on it.

ladym55

(2,577 posts)
14. He's up there
Sun Aug 12, 2012, 10:56 PM
Aug 2012

But he has lots of competition to be the WORST. Faux Noise is filled with inept and bogus political analysis. William Kristol has pretty much been wrong with everything he has ever said.

However, Dick Morris sounds like he is going to wheeze and die before completing a single sentence. Oh, and he was the rocket scientist back in 2008 who promised us an election between Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani. He doesn't predict so well.

 

demwing

(16,916 posts)
17. Did he really write "269 to win"?
Sun Aug 12, 2012, 11:19 PM
Aug 2012

Make it a fifth falsehood, because the correct answer is "270 to win"

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