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"1000 for 2000: Startling predictions for the new millennium from prophets ancient and modern." ... The Failed Prophet of Presidential Elections -- In the book, Hogue proudly states that since 1968 (when he was 13), he has been 100% correct about his US presidential premonitions...
"726: President Clinton will complete his final term, despite all attempts to unseat him. (1993)"
True. Safe bet. Only one president out of 43 (Nixon) has ever been unseated. And when not even Warren G. Harding was unseated, it would seem likely that Clinton, whose most devastating fault seems to be an uncontrollable libido, would stay in office. As it turned out, he did.
"727: By 2050, historians and public alike will view President Clinton as one of the three most important presidents of the 20th century (the other two being Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Richard Nixon). People in the mid-twenty-first century will view Clinton's sexual scandals with less cultural intolerance. They will focus more on his initiatives in foreign and economic policy that paved the way for a new era in international unity in the coming fifty years. (1992)"
Undetermined until 2050.
"728: Arizona Republican Senator John McCain has the best chance to defeat Democrat Al Gore in 2000. However, the Republican party will suffer defeat once again, because it may choose another George Bush and a Dole as its candidates - to be exact, George W. Bush and a woman vice-presidential candidate like Elizabeth Dole or Senator Kaye Baily Hutchinson of Texas. (1998)"
False. John McCain eventually supported republican George W. Bush, when he couldn't muster enough support for his own candidacy. The Republicans won the election. Bush chose Dick Cheney as his VP.
"729: The Republican party will be a casualty of millenial fever. The right-wing fundamentalists in that party will split it apart over religious extremist views. (1994)"
Unfalsifiable. What does "millenial fever" mean? When does this fever stop? In 2010? In a hundred - maybe a thousand years? Never? How many fundamentalists will have to leave, in order to call it a "split"?
"730: The next president will die in office, most likely in his first term. (1994)"
False, if "next" means the re-elected Clinton, who left office in excellent health.
Undetermined until 2004/2008, if it means Bush.
Let's give Hogue the benefit of the doubt and say this one is Undetermined.
"731: The next president will not be assassinated. He will succumb to health problems, perhaps heart trouble, or he will die in some air accident. (1994)"
Undetermined until 2004/2008. However, Dick Cheney has had several heart surgeries, but he is "only" Vice President. Bush will have to die before Cheney becomes President.
"732: It pains me to say it, but I believe that the president will be Al Gore. Although he may suffer an untimely death while in office, I can say that he will be remembered as a visionary leader, compared by some to President Kennedy. Like Kennedy, he will launch a national race - not the Space Race, but a race to make America ecologically responsible before it is too late. (1992)"
False. Gore was Clinton's running mate in 1994 and lost in 2000. Predicting that Gore would have launched an ecological race is obvious to anyone who knows he published "Earth in the Balance" - in 1992!
"733: President Gore will have a woman as his vice president. (1992)"
False. Gore chose Joe Lieberman as his running mate, and as far as the record shows, Lieberman is male.
"734: A woman will be president much sooner than anyone expects. She will not be elected, but will become president upon the death of the president elected in 2000. (1994)"
False. That would require George W. Bush to have a female Vice President, and as far as the record shows, Dick Cheney is male.
"735: Hillary Clinton will be a president of the United States before 2010. (1998)"
Undetermined. However, Hillary Clinton has publically stated that she will not seek the Oval Office.It seems like John Hogue will have to change his boasts. Out of the five that could be determined now, four were wrong. Four are undetermined. One is unfalsifiable. Not 100% accuracy anymore.