But the maneuver highlighted disarray in Labour ranks at a time when the party is fighting to stave off a widely forecast defeat in the June vote that would end a 13-year stretch in power since Tony Blair's resounding victory in 1997.
The governor was also forecast to defeat Mr. Golisano in the primary for the Independence Party nomination, removing him from the campaign.
In France Le Pen, who – like Wilders – is also holding out the prospect of an EU membership referendum, is forecast to defeat a mainstream candidate and advance to the second round of presidential elections in May.
Additionally, they did not see any clouds on the horizon that might forecast Conservative defeat if they waited.
But a fifth consecutive defeat for Penn State is forecast for Saturday at Northwestern.
Dr. Zawahiri, an Egyptian physician, was last heard in a videotape broadcast by Al Jazeera, the Arabic-language satellite channel based in Qatar, on Sept. 9, when he forecast an American defeat in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Days before the 2006 election, Robert Draper reports in his fascinating new book, as things were looking bleaker and bleaker for House Republicans, and even the party's chairman was predicting a G.O.P. defeat, George W. Bush brushed aside such forecasts, telling one of his worried aides that they were all being pessimists.
Of course you could leave the toys at home when there's rain in the forecast, but that would defeat the purpose of having them, wouldn't it?
Democrats said that Mr. Lieberman had seemed to forecast the likelihood of a defeat in Judge Sauls's court but that the ticket would fight on.
Before the result, some local worthies, such as Terry Branstad, a former governor of Iowa, had forecast that Mr Bush would defeat Steve Forbes, his nearest rival in Mr McCain's absence, by a Gore-like two to one.
