The most accurate election pundits, ranked by record
Ranked by MissedTakes Score— how much better than a naive guess, not how often right. The naive guess for an election is that the party holding the seat keeps it, so someone who only ever calls the incumbent lands near zero however high their accuracy climbs. This is a pundit's election record alone; their NFL record, if they have one, is a separate number on their page. The methodology explains the arithmetic.
Ranked
| # | Pundit | Score | Accuracy | Graded | Articles | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clay Travis | +74.2 | 98.3 | 27 | 12 | limited |
| 2 | Erick-Woods Erickson | +68.7 | 95.5 | 28 | 10 | limited |
Building a record
Fewer than ten graded articles: shown, labeled provisional, not ranked. Most evidence first, so this list cannot become a second ranking.
- Isaac Saul9 articles · 18 graded · 80 accuracy
- Buck Sexton9 articles · 12 graded · 100 accuracy
- Ben Shapiro8 articles · 30 graded · 87 accuracy
- Steve Deace8 articles · 29 graded · 95 accuracy
- David Pakman7 articles · 16 graded · 79 accuracy
- Saagar Enjeti6 articles · 15 graded · 76 accuracy
- Carl Cannon6 articles · 13 graded · 97 accuracy
- Tim Miller6 articles · 12 graded · 40 accuracy
- Krystal Ball5 articles · 16 graded · 36 accuracy
- Megyn Kelly5 articles · 11 graded · 100 accuracy
- David Nir5 articles · 9 graded · 100 accuracy
- Josh Holmes5 articles · 5 graded · 100 accuracy
- Lakshya Jain4 articles · 58 graded · 50 accuracy
- Justin Robert Young4 articles · 8 graded · 69 accuracy
- Nate Silver4 articles · 5 graded · 63 accuracy
- Tom Bevan4 articles · 4 graded · 100 accuracy
- Ryan Grim3 articles · 7 graded · 69 accuracy
- Steve Bannon3 articles · 6 graded · 100 accuracy
- Mike Murphy3 articles · 4 graded · 0 accuracy
- Sean Spicer2 articles · 15 graded · 81 accuracy
- Jacob Rubashkin2 articles · 12 graded · 80 accuracy
- Sam Wang2 articles · 12 graded · 54 accuracy
- Nathan Gonzales2 articles · 10 graded · 97 accuracy
- Spencer Kimball2 articles · 10 graded · 81 accuracy
- Daniel Horowitz2 articles · 8 graded · 84 accuracy
- Robby Soave2 articles · 8 graded · 77 accuracy
- Brent Buchanan2 articles · 7 graded · 92 accuracy
- Newt Gingrich2 articles · 7 graded · 85 accuracy
- Kirk Bado2 articles · 7 graded · 72 accuracy
- Cenk Uygur2 articles · 4 graded · 100 accuracy
- Henry Olsen2 articles · 4 graded · 98 accuracy
- Logan Phillips2 articles · 4 graded · 38 accuracy
- Bob Vander Plaats2 articles · 3 graded · 87 accuracy
- Sarah McCammon2 articles · 2 graded · 100 accuracy
- Hugh Hewitt2 articles · 2 graded · 100 accuracy
- Bill Kristol2 articles · 2 graded · 0 accuracy
- Simon Rosenberg2 articles · 2 graded · 0 accuracy
- Seth Keshel1 article · 15 graded · 95 accuracy
- Bill Scher1 article · 13 graded · 52 accuracy
- Jeff Singer1 article · 9 graded · 94 accuracy
- Domenico Montanaro1 article · 4 graded · 89 accuracy
- Michael Cohen1 article · 4 graded · 75 accuracy
- Scott Rasmussen1 article · 3 graded · 100 accuracy
- David Frum1 article · 3 graded · 86 accuracy
- Harrison Lavelle1 article · 3 graded · 100 accuracy
- Emily Jashinsky1 article · 3 graded · 33 accuracy
- Gabe Fleisher1 article · 3 graded · 25 accuracy
- Andrew Heaton1 article · 3 graded · 25 accuracy
- Rising (The Hill)1 article · 3 graded · 0 accuracy
- Doug Schoen1 article · 2 graded · 100 accuracy
- Steve Deace Show1 article · 2 graded · 100 accuracy
- David Beard1 article · 2 graded · 100 accuracy
- Matthew Yglesias1 article · 2 graded · 100 accuracy
- David Axelrod1 article · 2 graded · 100 accuracy
- Sean Trende1 article · 2 graded · 100 accuracy
- Bret Stephens1 article · 2 graded · 50 accuracy
- Jon Favreau1 article · 2 graded · 100 accuracy
- Max McCall1 article · 2 graded · 50 accuracy
- Douglas Wilson1 article · 1 graded · 100 accuracy
- Rachel Bitterkofer1 article · 1 graded · 100 accuracy
- AB Stoddard1 article · 1 graded · 100 accuracy
- Dan Turrentine1 article · 1 graded · 100 accuracy
- Ryan Girdusky1 article · 1 graded · 100 accuracy
- David French1 article · 1 graded · 100 accuracy
- Ghad Saad1 article · 1 graded · 100 accuracy
- Wosny Lambre1 article · 1 graded · 100 accuracy
- Mark Sutton1 article · 1 graded · 100 accuracy
- Stephen L. Miller1 article · 1 graded · 100 accuracy
- Francesca Fiorentini1 article · 1 graded · 100 accuracy
- Bill O'Reilly1 article · 1 graded · 100 accuracy
- Stu Burguiere1 article · 1 graded · 100 accuracy
- Selena Zito1 article · 1 graded · 100 accuracy
- Carol Markowitz1 article · 1 graded · 100 accuracy
- Michael Knowles1 article · 1 graded · 100 accuracy
- Mehdi Hasan1 article · 1 graded · 100 accuracy
- Elizabeth Stauffer1 article · 1 graded · 100 accuracy
- Michael Duncan1 article · 1 graded · 100 accuracy
- Steve Kornacki1 article · 1 graded · 100 accuracy
- Mark Halperin1 article · 1 graded · 100 accuracy
- Amber Duke1 article · 1 graded · 45 accuracy
- Phil Wegman1 article · 1 graded · 100 accuracy
- Lanny Davis1 article · 1 graded · 0 accuracy
- John Ashbrook1 article · 1 graded · 100 accuracy
- James Carville1 article · 1 graded · 0 accuracy
- David Shuster1 article · 1 graded · 0 accuracy
- Jon Lovett1 article · 1 graded · 0 accuracy
- John Heilemann1 article · 1 graded · 0 accuracy
- Mariel Garza1 article · 1 graded · 100 accuracy
- Nomiki Konst1 article · 1 graded · 0 accuracy
- Tom LoBianco1 article · 1 graded · 0 accuracy
- Liz Cheney1 article · 1 graded · 0 accuracy
- Dave Weigel1 article · 1 graded · 100 accuracy
- Mark McKinnon1 article · 1 graded · 0 accuracy
- Tommy Vietor1 article · 1 graded · 0 accuracy