Karl Rove during an interview with NPR in October 2006:
SIEGEL: But you’ve seen the DeWine race and the Santorum race – I don’t want to have you call races.
Mr. ROVE: Yeah, I’m looking at all these, Robert, and adding them up, and I add up to a Republican Senate and Republican House. You may end up with a different math, but you’re entitled to your math, I’m entitled to the math.
Final outcome? Democrats took control of the House and Senate.
Karl Rove on Fox News during Election Night 2012:
Final outcome? President Obama won Ohio, and the presidency, as other news organizations made the same call.
Naturally, Jon Stewart had a field day with this.
Update: The Sunlight Foundation crunched the numbers and found that American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS – Karl Rove’s two super PACs – spent a combined $175 million in this election and not a single one of their supported candidates won.
Icepicks and Nukes 