2016:
1. Trump will not be the nominee
-- Predicted by: Almost everyone
2. Jeb Bush will be the nominee
-- Predicted by: The Washington Post, Politico Magazine, Rush Limbaugh and many, many more
3. Joe Biden will run
-- Predicted by: Bill Kristol (among others)
4. The 2016 Republican national convention will be brokered
-- Predicted by: John Kasich (among others)
5. Bernie Sanders won’t stand a chance at winning the Democratic nomination
-- Predicted by: Mark Halperin (et al)
** Had the Primaries not been 'rigged', who knows...
6. The 2016 Democratic National Convention will be contested
-- Predicted by: Bernie Sanders (among others)
7. Billionaires will buy the 2016 election
-- Predicted by: Campaign finance reform advocates (among others)
8. Hillary will win the Michigan Democratic primary in a landslide
-- Predicted by:
Every single poll
9. There will be a viable national third-party candidate
-- Predicted by: Bill Kristol (among many others)
10. 2016 will be the Meerkat/Periscope election
-- Predicted by: Dan Pfeiffer (et al)
(At the time, Meerkat was a hot new app that allowed users to broadcast live video using the camera on their smartphones.)
11. Prediction: Republicans will have to embrace comprehensive immigration reform
-- Predicted by: The Republican National Committee
12. Texas will turn blue
-- Predicted by: Wishful Democratic pundits
13. Polling is dead or dying
-- Predicted by: Jill Lepore and others
** Based on how dreadfully WRONG the polls were, this one might not be so 'false' after all.
14. Newt Gingrich will be Donald Trump’s running mate
-- Predicted by: Bill O’Reilly
15. Hillary will get indicted
-- Predicted by: Andrew Napolitano
16. Prediction: “2016 GOP MVP will be @Reince.”
-- Predicted by: Bill Kristol
** He does not get the 'MVP' - that goes to Kellyanne Conway
16 worst predictions of 2016