2018 Political Predictions?

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2018 Political Predictions?

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"Spoiler alert: Everyone was wrong—again."

How did your own political predictions fare?

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story ... .0-styling

1. Amazon will place HQ2 in Boston.
Made by: Wells Fargo A.I.
2. “Our economic news is only going to get brighter in 2018.”
Made by: Laura Ingraham, Fox News
3. More black Americans will be “on the Trump Train” at the end of 2018.
Made by: Diamond & Silk
4. Dianne Feinstein will be vulnerable to a challenge from her left.
Made by: Sean McElwee and Jon Green
5. Trump will end the year with a 25 percent approval rating.
Made by: Frida Ghitis, CNN
6. Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski will kill Brett Kavanaugh’s court nomination.
Made by: Ben Shapiro
7. “The great political surprise of 2018 will be the size of the Republican victory.”
Made by: Newt Gingrich, Fox News
8. A “RED WAVE!” would crash over the 2018 elections.
Made by: Donald Trump
9. Republicans lose the House and Senate, leading to the impeachment of … President Paul Ryan.
Made by: Scott Dworkin
10. Trump will “ramp up construction” of the wall and reauthorize DACA.
Made by: Siraj Hashmi, Washington Examiner
11. “Trump will not pardon anyone, unless it’s a family member.”
Made by: Steve Deace
12. The New York Times would be proven wrong in reporting that Trump tried to fire Mueller.
Made by: Sean Hannity
13. Mueller’s investigation will end by September.
Made by: Rudy Giuliani
14. The Mueller investigation will “be put to rest” and “no significant charges will be leveled against anyone.”
Made by: Glenn Beck
15. Mueller will end his probe before the midterm elections and declare Trump “innocent.”
Made by: Bill Mitchell
16. “Trump will be denied another Supreme Court nomination.”
Made by: Andrew Klausner, Forbes
17. John Kelly will root out and “publicly humiliate” the author of the anonymous New York Times op-ed within days of its release.
Made by: Sebastian Gorka
18. Impeachment proceedings will begin against Trump.
Made by: Edward Luce, Financial Times
19. Joe Crowley will be the next speaker of the House.
Made by: Matt Fuller
20. In 2018, Trump will resign as president, Netanyahu will resign as Israel’s prime minister and Trump will not move the U.S. Embassy in Israel.
Made by: David Rothkopf

Its predictable that such predictions failed on both sides of the aisle....anyone have any predictions that rang true?
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Re: 2018 Political Predictions?

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Conservatives would blame the Democrat taking of the House for an inevitable dip in the economy:
Prediction: viewtopic.php?p=1133937#p1133937
Support: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=50544

The consequences of Trump's presidency will have effects for US trade that can't be fixed by replacing him:
Prediction: viewtopic.php?p=1133958#p1133958
Support: viewtopic.php?p=1161632#p1161632
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