Prediction Fail: 'Obama Will Not Be Next President'

A man named Leland Freeborn, a survivalist Christian "prophet," had predicted that Barack Obama would never become president. He had also predicted that Obama would lose the election, that riots would spread across the US, and that the "old, hard-line Soviet guard" would take advantage of the riots to attack the US with nuclear weapons, which would kill one third of the population. (He predicted all this would happen by December.) I understand why Freeborn made his predictions: He's an idiot whack-job. What I don't understand is why he has a cult-like following in Utah, or why the Los Angeles Times published a big story about his predictions in the December 13 issue.