Pants, Less Ready to Predict Than Previously Thought

By Neda Toloui-Semnani

Posted August 8, 2012 at 1:15pm

Pants public service announcement!

Last week, HOH brought you the tale of Bonobos presidential pants and the online predictor.

This week, we must inform those who hope to look to their critter pants to predict which candidate will win that the party-pants online tracking feature is still being worked out.

The ability to track sales of these party trousers might actually be as hard as political soothsaying. Who knew?

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