This morning I skimmed this column at the Boston Globe, in which a Globe pundit opined that Hillary would surely beat Donald, though, to give him credit, he acknowledged that anything was possible.
It got me to thinking. For the past year the pundits that are always wrong have been telling us that Donald Trump could not ever be nominated. There’s a partial list here, and it even includes a pundit, Nate Silver, who is almost never wrong. But the usual suspects are there, including, of course, Bill Kristol, as well as Russ Douthat.
These same pundits, and many more, are now, or will soon, be telling us that Trump simply cannot win the presidency. That terrifies me. I know about stopped clocks and all that, but what are the odds that all the clocks will be stopped at precisely the same time, so that can all be right at once?
This pundit would like to believe Hillary will beat Donald (though he thinks Bernie is the better bet, despite all the arguments the Hillary folks trot out), and a few weeks ago I felt fairly confident on that score. Now, I don’t know. I think there may be a bit of a reverse Bradley effect in the polling. It may very well be that many people don’t want to admit to a pollster that they will vote for Trump. But it’s the unanimity of the pundits that really has me scared.
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