By predicting that Mr Martin will make "an excellent prime minister", he may have reserved a top cabinet job for himself.In this section The sucking sound from the East Sugar and spice Punish or pardon?
It is our game, the American game, to borrow words ascribed to Walt Whitman, though perhaps Whitman overstated his case by predicting that baseball will "tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set".
Update: I've just learned that I'm among the victims of still another McCain lie: that Obama injected race into the campaign by predicting that Republicans would try to scare people by reminding them that he "doesn't look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills".
For example, in the 2011 "personal genome project" assessment of phenotype prediction, the top performing submission appears to have primarily obtained performance by predicting that rare phenotypes would not occur ("due to predicting absence of rare characteristics").
He began by predicting that his party would win the election with a tiny, weak majority.
Lloyds TSB cheered investors by predicting that its 2006 profits were likely to be in line with analysts' expectations.
In the 1980's, he stirred a furor by predicting that South Africa would someday have a black president.
Mr Truman added the punch-line by predicting that the number of Communists or subversives would be "very few".
Wan narrowed the range considerably by predicting that the peak would definitely come between 2030 and 2040.
And on the night of the Wisconsin primary he surprised many by predicting that McGovern would get the nomination.
Cameron has responded to claims that the NHS faces a £2bn shortfall by predicting that it will achieve saving.
