so obvious his metric had inherent bias
Most of them do. Folks like Rich Baris are much better and trustworthy. I just discovered him a few days ago and I enjoyed watching his broadcast the most last night.
Sometimes you flip a coin and it comes up heads 10 times in a row. The stupid man draws a false conclusion about coin flips from that data set. Lichtman is that stupid man.
The only other man of our time who was so magnificently wrong was Harold Camping who predicted the end of the world for May 21, 2011.