Historian Allan Lichtman may be the media’s favorite election prognosticator. Prior to November, he had correctly predicted nine of the last ten presidential elections correctly, only missing George W. Bush’s narrow 2000 win. Therefore, when he predicted a Kamala Harris victory, media giants, like Google, made sure to promote him. However, he got it wrong, and when The Daily Show’s Grace Kuhlenschmidt confronted him about it on Comedy Central’s Thursday show, he blamed “misogyny, racism, [and] xenophobia.”
Trying to imitate those who reacted to Lichtman’s incorrect prediction with indignation rather than an understanding that nobody’s perfect and sometimes you’re just wrong, Kuhlenschmidt asked, “What are some of your excuses?”
Lichtman replied, “I definitely think I was thrown off by pushing Biden out. We’ve never seen a…
