Predictions

Joe Biden has long been known for his uncanny powers of prediction. For example:

Joe Biden, 9/3/09: “The stimulus is working, in fact it is working much better than expected!”

9/4/09: Unemployment jumps to 26 year high of 9/7%

And then there was the famous “Summer of Recovery” (that was last summer, 2010, in case you’ve forgotten):

Vice President Biden joined White House spokesman Robert Gibbs at the regular news briefing to talk about what he calls the “Summer of Recovery” fueled by the highest levels of work yet on projects funded by the Recovery Act, otherwise known as the “stimulus bill.”

“Folks, the act is working,” Biden said. And “more people are going to be put to work this summer.”

Also not to be forgotten is Biden’s rock solid prediction about how the 2010 Congressional elections would turn out:

“The day after the election, there will be a Democratic majority in the House and a Democratic majority in the Senate. If it weren’t illegal, I’d make book on it.”

Now comes the Great Predictor to assure Ohio Democrats that “2012 doesn’t feel like 2010, it feels like 2008.”

Given the Great Predictors’s track record, if I were an Ohio Democrat I don’t think I would take Biden’s feel-based assurance to the bank.