I think punditry serves no purpose.
We speak for them. We imbue them with meaning.
Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.
To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.
You don't want to treat any one person as oracular.
I've just always been a bit of a dork.