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How did we do on our predictions of which presidential candidates would visit Decorah in January?

Posted: Mon, Feb 1, 2016 2:10 PM

As January began, decorahnews.com made predictions about which presidential candidates would visit Decorah before the Iowa Caucuses.  It's time now to see how are predictions turned out:

Candidates we said wouldn't visit--and didn't:
--Jeb Bush

--Chris Christie

--Jim Gilmore
--Rand Paul
--John Kasich
--Donald Trump

Candidates we said would probably visit--and did:                                   --Bernie Sanders
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Ted Cruz
--Mike Huckabee
--Marcon Rubio

--Rick Santorum

Candidates we said probably would visit or revisit--and didn't:

--Martin O'Malley
--Carly Fiorina

Candidates we said probably wouldn't revisit--and did:

--Ben Carson
--Hillary Clinton

This means we got 11 out of our 15 predictions correct--or 73 percent.