Prediction - US elections

I have developed a method whereby I check in via my body to get some feedback on items for my patients. Over the years I have learned that a feeling of expansion correlates with a positive response and a feeling of contraction correlates with a negative response. I originally got this idea from the work of University of Chicago psychologist Eugene Gendlin, the developer of Focusing. When I was studying at the University of Chicago in the mid-1970's I took a brief course with him and learned about getting feedback in this way. I subsequently took more courses and refined the method on my own during over 17 years of patient contacts in my medical practice.

The day of the New Hampshire primary the polls showed Barack Obama ahead of Hillary Clinton by anywhere from 10-13 points. The Clinton camp was already sending signs of spinning the impending defeat. A few days before I had asked my body sense who would win. The answer was consistent: Hillary. I couldn't make sense of this. How could such a large advantage in the polls be wrong? It was impossible for Clinton to win. Yet every time I checked I got the identical answer; Hillary would win New Hampshire.

The night of the NH primary I kept checking the question. The response was consistently the same; Hillary wins NH. In the end she won by a few points.

I had long learned that this body sensing seemed to trump my logical conclusions. So I used the same process to skip forward.

Here is what emerged over and over again over the last few weeks and up until the time of this writing:

Michael Bloomberg will enter the race as an independent at the end of February.

Obama will win the Democratic nomination.

McCain will win the Republican nomination.

McCain will be elected president.

After two years he will no longer be president.

I hesitated to post this since I don't want to interject politics into this blog but I thought that it would be interesting to see how these predictions stack up based on what happens in the future. Hence, this post.