Should’ve listened to the angel on the other shoulder…

Lesson: I should never go to Vegas. Apparently, I have no concept of quitting while I’m ahead. But, how tempting… I did so well with Ohio, Texas, and Pennsylvania.

Um… not so much with Indiana/North Carolina today. Obama takes NC, not by the 1% I predicted, but by something like a million percent (actually by 14%, give or take the 2% still out). Indiana, at midnight with 9% left to count is labeled “too close to call” with Clinton leading 51% to 49%. I’ll take some time tomorrow to think through the political consequences — at first glance, it’s tough to see how Hillary continues, but that was also said after Iowa, South Carolina, The Month of February…, so who knows. Still, even the most resilient of cats eventually spends its ninth life.

For now, I just want to mourn the ending of my predictive powers. Maybe I’ll start making ridiculous guesses - things like betting on Kucinich to take West Virginia, or McCain to take Vermont in the general by 40 points. Whatever I pick, I couldn’t do much worse than I did tonight…