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# This Really Dependable 'Psychic' Scottish Goat Predicted Who Will Win the Election

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by 

[Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/)


## Ashley Hoffman


Nov 7, 2016 9:48 PM UTC

by 

[Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/)


## Ashley Hoffman


Nov 7, 2016 9:48 PM UTC

As sophisticated pollsters forecast the outcome of the 2016 election, meanwhile a [“psychic” goat](http://time.com/4527860/trump-machine-fortune-teller/) has wordlessly weighed in with its own prediction.

“Boots,” a thoughtful three-year-old Golden Guernsey hailing from Jedburgh Scotland recently made this very low-key prediction of the ultimate people’s choice by biting the sign marked [“Clinton”](http://time.com/4560963/global-vote-hillary-clinton-president-good-country/) for the win, according to [Scotland newspaper _The Scotsman_](http://www.scotsman.com/news/video-psychic-scottish-goat-predicts-next-us-president-1-4280162).

The goat, who was resplendent in a tartan scarf, wasn’t enthused about the future commander in chief, a classic goat move, although the crowd was. The Democratic nominee reportedly only [holds a narrow lead](http://time.com/4560399/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-final-day-polls/?xid=homepage) as of election eve.

Earlier this year, “Boots” correctly predicted that the U.K. would vote to leave the European Union during another routine politically charged performance, [the _Scottish Sun_ previously reported](http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/news/7198692/Boots-the-psychic-goat-predicts-gruff-times-for-England-at-Euro-2016.html).

This crucial update arrives just days after a “mystical” monkey in China, “Geda”, planted a kiss on a flat cardboard Trump to make its prediction, according to the [Agence France-Presse](https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-election-gift-chinese-propaganda-050449861.html). In other words, only time will tell who the true prophet is.

Oddly, neither nominee has used either fortune-teller in a diss track about his or her opponent.

This has been a moment in time with the sharpest political analysts of our time. Read on for [TIME’s comprehensive election coverage](http://time.com/tag/2016-election/) and watch Boots in action below.


\[[SWNSTV](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvCVlaLDPmA)/[AFP](https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-election-gift-chinese-propaganda-050449861.html)\]

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