It is the curse of all journalists to be wrong, at least much of the time, about elections. There’s a good reason for that wrongness, in our defence: We’re paid to talk about them before they happen, and to commit our thoughts to print where they can be mercilessly pointed to as evidence of our cluelessness when it inevitably turns out that we were entirely and completely wrong about some or other aspect of the result.
What follows then is likely to be, at least in part, proved wrong to a greater or lesser degree as the counts begin to unfold from Saturday morning. Yet, with that caveat suitably declaimed, it’s time to make some predictions about the election anyway.
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