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How Prescient Was The Obama Campaign?

By The Daily Dish
Jun 10 2008, 3:05 AM ET

An interesting look at that lost spreadsheet back in February, predicting results in the primaries and caucuses to come. Impressive foresight on the whole:

They nailed the delegate count exactly in five states, and were within one delegate in five more. They predicted their delegate count to within five delegates in 23 of the 27 primaries.

No wonder the Clintons didn't see them coming.



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