1.   Other pundits pointed to other reasons for the miscalculations.

2.   Pundits point to polls showing Powell besting GOP Senate leader Bob Dole for the nomination and clobbering Bill Clinton in the general election.

3.   Pundits pointed the finger at factors from the heat to the high cost of bottled water, to the lack of sanitation.

4.   Wall Street pundits point to an emperor with no clothes and a parade of docile subjects in their own community who never dared to state the obvious.