{"id":23470,"date":"2016-11-11T16:32:38","date_gmt":"2016-11-12T00:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=23470"},"modified":"2016-11-11T16:32:38","modified_gmt":"2016-11-12T00:32:38","slug":"presidential-winner-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/presidential-winner-predictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Predicting a President &#8211; Who Won?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/uri.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pictured is famed spoon-bender, Uri Geller. In September 2016 he correctly predicted Donald Trump would win the election for President of the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>I have been interested in psychic claims\u00a0ever since I met Peter Hurkos years ago. I and another reporter were assigned\u00a0to write\u00a0a story focused on\u00a0his prediction failures. Though we didn&#8217;t tell Hurkos our intent\u00a0when we met him in his Studio City home, he threw\u00a0us off our game by giving readings. I took notes and years later read them, discovering Hurkos with 100% accuracy\u00a0\u00a0predicted events yet to come.\u00a0How did this year&#8217;s predicters fair\u00a0in their public statements about who would win the election? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/government\/presidential-election.html\">Read more&#8230;<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><strong>WINNERS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Prof. Allan Lichtman correctly said Donald Trump would win.\u00a0He claims a 30 year record of correctly calling winning presidents based on an historical study using 13 questions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>LOSERS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Moody&#8217;s\u00a0Analytics\u00a0says it has never missed on a presidential election prediction.\u00a0On\u00a0September 30\u00a0Moody&#8217;s said:\u00a0Democratic nominee gathers\u00a0326 electoral votes, while the Republican lags well behind, with 212. (reported by CNN &amp; Reuters)<\/li>\n<li>Petrene Soames,\u00a0psychic and paranormal expert: &#8220;The outcome to this year&#8217;s U.S. presidential election is already predestined and Hillary Clinton will win.&#8221; (press release)<\/li>\n<li>Celebrity psychic Jesse Bravo:\u00a0&#8220;It&#8217;s gonna turn out exactly the way I thought, which is that Hillary&#8217;s gonna win by a major, major number.\u00a0It&#8217;s not even going to be a competition.&#8221; (media interview)<\/li>\n<li>Sandra Alvim: &#8220;The stars are going to align for Clinton to be Lady Luck this November. &#8221; (media interview)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictured is famed spoon-bender, Uri Geller. In September 2016 he correctly predicted Donald Trump would win the election for President of the U.S. I have been interested in psychic claims\u00a0ever since I met Peter Hurkos years ago. I and another reporter were assigned\u00a0to write\u00a0a story focused on\u00a0his prediction failures. Though we didn&#8217;t tell Hurkos our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23470"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}