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Psychics make predictions on the 2012 US election

Questioninggeller

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Must be a slow news day to give three local psychics a write up. Two say Obama will win, one says Romney. However, they all agree on one thing: Their predictions can change tomorrow.

The psychics say: 2 of 3 predict Obama victory
Colorado Springs Gazette
October 09, 2012
By MATT STEINER


Psychic Gushikawa shuffled her Tarot cards, sprayed her head and shoulders with frankincense and myrrh to clear her energy, and contemplated the upcoming presidential election.
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“We’re having a rebirth of our nation,” Gushikawa said, interpreting the cards and describing 2013 as one of economic and international renewal for the United States. “It will take four months time to turn it around, but we’re ready to rise again.”
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What I’m seeing is that we will have (Barack) Obama as the president,” she said.

Some of the psychic readers at the Colorado Springs City Auditorium Monday didn’t want to be as bold as Gushikawa and two others who offered predictions on the Nov. 6 election. A few simply said “no,” another labeled the practice as “hokey,” and a 50-some-year-old gentleman said he had only met one person in his life who could truly predict the future.

Two of the three who enthusiastically took part in the exercise said the cards, stars and other energies point to the re-election of President Obama.

“According to my charts Obama will win,” said Mary R. Jayn, an astrologer from Lakewood.
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The only reader who predicted Mitt Romney as the victor in November was Sue Frank of Golden, who not only reads Tarot cards, but also does palm readings and handwriting analysis.

Frank has done readings about the election every day, she said as she shuffled her deck of Tarot cards and began to deal them out. She said results had been leaning in the president’s favor after the Democratic National Convention in early September. But since last week’s debate, “The more positive cards that I see come out for Romney,” she said.
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Frank and others said results from the politically focussed readings could change tomorrow. That is why she does them every day.
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Full: Colorado Springs Gazette


As of today InTrade gives Obama similiar odds:
Barack Obama to be re-elected President in 2012

62.7% CHANCE

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You know what would impress me - them giving the exact number of electoral college votes for each candidate
 
I love the one who says that she does readings every day and that from around the time of the conventions all the cards seemed to favor Obama, but that recently the cards for Romney have been stronger.

You mean like that magical oracle, "the news"?
 
This is complete woo nonsense that has no place in a civilized discussion. Psychics can't predict who will win the election. No one knows which candidate will win the election until P'Lod decides the winner.
 
I throw that paper. It may interest you to know the Gazette officially endorsed Romney last week.

I wonder if this woman knows or cares that frankincense and myrrh are grave spices, to mask the odor of decay.
 
Predicting the electoral vote is no big deal. You can go to electoral-vote.com and get a pretty good sense of what's going to happen. Now if someone could predict the electoral vote of the 2032 election today -including the names of the candidates- that would be impressive.
 
You know what would impress me - them giving the exact number of electoral college votes for each candidate

And even that wouldn't impress me. There are a lot of psychics. We could have hundreds of different electoral college predictions. It would not surprise me if one were correct.

And as we get closer to election day, the electoral college maps based on polling data are more and more likely to be accurate, so these wouldn't be random predictions. They should all be clustered around the likely outcome.
 

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