Dear Editor,
In December of 2007 (before the start of the first Primary) and in the letter column of your newspaper, I predicted that Barack Obama would be the Democratic Presidential nominee and that he would go on to become President of the United States. Mr Vishnu Bisram held a different view and informed readers that Caribbean Americans were all in the sack with Mrs Clinton. Well, the race is winding down on the Democratic side and so has (rather disappointingly) Mr Bisram’s enlightened commentary. I was waiting for Mr Bisram to go ahead and do the honours and announce, with the same zeal and exuberance before the contest started, that his candidate, Mrs Hillary Clinton, now has zero chance of capturing the Democratic presidential nomination. I am also now interested in his analysis on the contest going forward.
Speaking of Mr Bisram, recently he has been criticized in the press for the methodology he employs in his Guyana polls and also for belonging to a ghost-like organization called NACTA. Many are skeptical and maybe rightfully so. However, what these cynics fail to extrapolate and provide a reasonable explanation for is the accuracy of Mr Bisram’s polls. The astounding and perplexing thing is that Mr Bisram usually gets it right. Even if NACTA is one big fairytale worthy of relaying to my kids at bedtime, and his only polling sample is a fortune teller, the man is always spot on. Quite unlike the Dick Morris (who operates a ‘credible’ polling agency) fiasco at the last general elections (remember? He had predicted an AFC victory).
Yours faithfully,
Clinton Urling
