Massive NBC Prediction Fail! Network Wrong as Conservatives Sweep to Power

[See NewsBusters for more.] NBC's Today show, Friday, was silent on David Cameron and the British Conservative Party sweeping to a surprise victory in Thursday's election. Perhaps the network's journalists don't want to be reminded of their botched predictions. On Sunday's Meet the Press, Chuck Todd declared the race between the Conservative Cameron and Ed Miliband, the atheist, socialist Labour Party leader, as "too close to call." Already imagining a right-wing loss, Todd declared, "There's been commentary that if Cameron loses, the Republican Party ought to learn something from that."  Instead, the Conservatives defied the polls and a watchful American press waiting to draw conclusions for America's Republican Party. On Thursday, anchor Andrea Mitchell brought on "MSNBC senior political analyst" David Axelrod to make some very poor predictions. Axelrod insisted, "I think that the polls are accurate. This is a very, very close race, highly likely that this drama extends beyond tonight." (Wrong on both counts.)