Most forecasts, though, suggest that the Conservatives will still fall just short of the number of seats that they need to keep David Cameron in Downing Street.
The new forecast, though, carries an important caveat; the agency said that to meet the projection, the nation's refineries would have to operate at close to capacity.
With more rain in the forecast, though, there was the possibility that the drivers would not get on the track again until tomorrow morning — or even later.
I wondered about that forecast, though, when I attended a rally for McCain and Palin in Fairfax on the morning after the Obama event in Lebanon.
We were nearly spot-on with our growth forecast, though are now revising down our expectation for the remainder of the decade to a 7% average annual pace as the economy matures.
One hopes there's a grain of truth in that forecast, though, after a cinematic year sufficiently starved for mainstream women's stories to see David Fincher's sleek, stainless, mostly unnourishing Gone Girl (Fox, 18) hailed in some quarters as a bastion of multiplex feminism.
The processes generating the biased forecasts, though, are less variable than the process generating the unbiased forecast.
CBS also revised its third-quarter guidance Friday to range between 42 and 44 cents per share, but that was above Wall Street's 41 cent forecast, though well below the year-ago level of 51 cents.
The work hasn't quite lived up to forecasts, though.
"Forecasts are forecasts though, and I think it should be treated with some level of scepticism".
Consumer spending rose 0.5 percent in January, more than analysts had forecast, though incomes rose just 0.1 percent.
