Have a read of John Brummett’s comment on the 2008 Presidential race and the pundits predicting the outcomes. In a nutshell, no one knows who the hell is going to end up as the candidate for either party. It is all up in the air this year. Brummett explains why no one knows.
This uncertainty in the punditocracy occurs because the American climate in 2008 represents politics not as usual, but politics as most unusual.