This time last year, I offered my definitive prognostications for 2018 and boldly predicted Sen. Orrin Hatch would run for another term in the Senate.
The day that column ran, Hatch announced his retirement. I like to think I provided that final nudge, so you’re welcome, Utah.
The rest of my predictions, however, were the best since the old Psychic Friends Hotline shut down: I had Ben McAdams winning the 4th District in a squeaker, Democrats gaining three state House seats and a Senate seat (on the nose!), Republicans losing the U.