I see. So if a bunch of sportswriters "forecast" the Steelers by 7 and they win by only 4 - the Steelers didn't play as well as they should have.
Do you remember in the '90s under good ole Bubba, when the Republican Congress proposed an increase in funding for education, and the Democrats proposed a larger increase? (I don't remember the exact numbers...) When the larger increase was shot down in favor of the more modest increase, the Democrats protested and spewed accusations all over the media that the Republicans were proposing to CUT funding.
That's the mindset of the left. If you're not liberal, then you're reactionary and backwards-thinking.