Cafe.com pundit Carl Diggler appears as a hostage on Russian state television.
Who could have predicted that Marco Rubio would win Minnesota last night, or that Bernie Sanders would win Colorado? Answer: Carl “The Dig” Diggler, fictional pundit and Washington insider at Cafe.com. Somehow, Diggler’s satirical Super Tuesday predictions were more accurate than those of Nate Silver and virtually every other actual pundit, including but not limited to Bill Kristol.1 Over at the questionably reputable International Business Times, Brendan James has a recap and interview with Diggler creators Felix Biederman and Virgil Texas, who are themselves borderline ficitonal Twitter entities. It’s a tangled web, but I am pleased that it produces more accurate predictions than, say, Bill Goddamn Kristol. On the other hand, the accuracy of these predictions was contingent on Donald Trump probably becoming the Republican nominee for president, so you have to take the good with the bad.
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