And there are many more, collected over at The Intercept:
PREDICTION: Trump won't be the Republican nominee. http://t.co/F3Nsg8AnTD
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) August 6, 2015
Horse race campaign coverage is stupid and pointless. Punditry takes up far too much space in our media landscape. This could be a lesson the media learns: Cover the impacts of their policies and rhetoric on ordinary people, the actual records of the candidates, and the issues (all of which would require, you know, reporting)—not who you think is up or down. It won't be. More below the jump, thanks to Twitter's @blippoblappo:
Dec. 15, 2015: @nate_cohn https://t.co/5TThYcflsw pic.twitter.com/sGQWlzXLLX
— Blupman (@blippoblappo) May 4, 2016
Jul. 2, 2015: https://t.co/LkZqVjlqGg’s @awprokop https://t.co/HBGkJ0d591 pic.twitter.com/1yjQXnjTSP
— Blupman (@blippoblappo) May 4, 2016
Sept. 15, 2015: @NateSilver538 pic.twitter.com/KZgRXS0bH8
— Blupman (@blippoblappo) May 4, 2016
Jul. 13, 2015, Atlantic’s @JamesFallows: “disservice” to say Trump can win nomination https://t.co/eJCtkGIcHF pic.twitter.com/aH1gOi0lhH
— Blupman (@blippoblappo) May 4, 2016
Oct. 20, 2015: Bloomberg’s @Jbview writes this Very Serious Political Scientist Take https://t.co/wl13f8l2IY pic.twitter.com/jsTC1wW4iG
— Blupman (@blippoblappo) May 4, 2016
Oct.. 2, 2015: The Washington Post’s @Milbank (who literally promised to eat some newspaper if Trump got nominated) pic.twitter.com/zdW4568gWV— Blupman (@blippoblappo) May 4, 2016
Milbank, at least, is following through and soliciting cooking recipes involving newspapers.
UPDATE: Jessica Fu, our social media manager, just sent me this gem from the New York Times' Maggie Haberman, who professed to be "stumped" by the question of how Trump could possibly win.
