What do you think the outcome of this election will be?

[Sunstone]

Obama has already ordered the campaign and caviar for the winning celebration. This is a bit presumptuous don't you think?

Not at all. It shows Obama plans ahead, rather than relies on last moment, erratic decision-making like his opponent does.

 

[Watchmen]

I predict voters' misgivings about voting for a senile, charmless and even more militant version of Bush with will just about match their misgivings about voting for a non-white candidate. For every democratic voter that can't bring herself to vote for a black man there must be a republican voter who can't bring herself to vote for another hundred years in Iraq and the very real prospect of a President Palin.

Indeed.

This morning on NPR I heard the Obama is leading among white independents (like me). A category that Kerry, Gore, and Clinton all lost.

 

[errry]

it looks more and more like a position not selfsustaining from the grass roots level : a chalenge a lunitic would want.

 

[Sunstone]

I'm predicting Obama by an electoral landslide -- by which I mean over 300 electoral votes.

 

[The Voice of Reason]

I'm predicting Obama by an electoral landslide -- by which I mean over 300 electoral votes.

I like the way you think.

 

[Sunstone]

I like the way you think.

The feeling's mutual. Are you making any predictions this year?

 

[UnTheist]

I'm expecting the worst, but hoping for the best, bla bla bla...

 

[Autodidact]

Bush would take the credit for the situation Obama inherits Just as when you change pitcher in a ball game, the current score is the same as before, no more no less. Now the new pitcher can win the game or lose the game, but if he loses, it is only half his fault (although he will get the blame).

Obama has already ordered the campaign and caviar for the winning celebration. This is a bit presumptuous don't you think?

O.K., that wasn't responsive to my question. Bush inherited a record budget surplus, and managed to turn it into a record deficit in a few years. So, who's responsible for Bush's deficit, himself, or the preceding President, who handed him a surplus?

 

[Autodidact]

Obama has already ordered the campaign and caviar for the winning celebration. This is a bit presumptuous don't you think?

cite? All I hear Obama saying is, "Don't get overconfident, keep working." That's what they tell me when I go to Obama headquarters to do my volunteer work.

 

[stacey bo bacey]

Hey, how about everyone writes me in and *I* win?! Just write Stacey Bo Bacey where is says "Write In"

Thank you and I look forward to servicing you. (That's what she said!)

 

[The Voice of Reason]

Hey, how about everyone writes me in and *I* win?! Just write Stacey Bo Bacey where is says "Write In"

Thank you and I look forward to servicing you. (That's what she said!)

Now THAT's change we can live with!!

 

[Heneni]

I predict voters' misgivings about voting for a senile, charmless and even more militant version of Bush with will just about match their misgivings about voting for a non-white candidate. For every democratic voter that can't bring herself to vote for a black man there must be a republican voter who can't bring herself to vote for another hundred years in Iraq and the very real prospect of a President Palin.

Well done! I think you understand the predicament quite well!

 

[gnomon]

The candidate who wins steps into an office that faces perhaps one of the worst situations for a President in seven decades.

A collapsing financial market, an economy on the brink of a recession or possible depression, war still going in Iraq with Afghanistan getting worse and declining relations with Iran and Pakistan, a Russian resurge in international politics, North Korea possibly being without Kim Jung-Il (which might be worse) as well as having to work with a Congress that has lost most of its trust with the people and a judiciary that is quite frankly out of step.

Which makes you wonder exactly how crazy you have to be to want to be President.

 

[Heneni]

The candidate who wins steps into an office that faces perhaps one of the worst situations for a President in seven decades.

A collapsing financial market, an economy on the brink of a recession or possible depression, war still going in Iraq with Afghanistan getting worse and declining relations with Iran and Pakistan, a Russian resurge in international politics, North Korea possibly being without Kim Jung-Il (which might be worse) as well as having to work with a Congress that has lost most of its trust with the people and a judiciary that is quite frankly out of step.

Which makes you wonder exactly how crazy you have to be to want to be President.

Seem like for america...there is no where but up. Things are looking brighter all ready. Though id say that rock bottom might be about two years from now...

 

[gnomon]

Seem like for america...there is no where but up. Things are looking brighter all ready. Though id say that rock bottom might be about two years from now...

I think that will definitely be true about the economy. Current talks about Russia might be a bit overblown as well. There has been discussion about the relations between Russia and Ukraine but I don't how much of that might be media outlets trying to create news. North Korea definitely poses an uncertain future in regards to Kim Jung-Il and his health.

I think much will depend on the cabinet either candidate will build as well. The number of conservatives like Brooks and Buckley removing support from McCain, much of it due to picking Palin, I think will definitely aid in Obama's winning the position but I would just hate to see Obama blamed for economic issues that are quite frankly not the role of the POTUS to manage.

 

[Alceste]

The candidate who wins steps into an office that faces perhaps one of the worst situations for a President in seven decades.

A collapsing financial market, an economy on the brink of a recession or possible depression, war still going in Iraq with Afghanistan getting worse and declining relations with Iran and Pakistan, a Russian resurge in international politics, North Korea possibly being without Kim Jung-Il (which might be worse) as well as having to work with a Congress that has lost most of its trust with the people and a judiciary that is quite frankly out of step.

Which makes you wonder exactly how crazy you have to be to want to be President.

You forgot global warming, oil price instability and their inevitable companion, famine.

I don't think you have to be nuts to want to be in charge at a time like this - in fact, it's nuts to leave it to the retards who brought us to this in the first place. I would do it in a second if I thought I had a snowball's chance in hell of ever winning that kind of popularity contest.

 

[The Voice of Reason]

You forgot global warming, oil price instability and their inevitable companion, famine.

I don't think you have to be nuts to want to be in charge at a time like this - in fact, it's nuts to leave it to the retards who brought us to this in the first place. I would do it in a second if I thought I had a snowball's chance in hell of ever winning that kind of popularity contest.

You just insulted the mentally challenged around the world. Not by using the term "retard", but by comparing them to this group of dysfunctional, greedy, self serving buttholes.

 

[dawny0826]

Election Outcome = We're all screwed.

Amen to that.

 

[Alceste]

You just insulted the mentally challenged around the world. Not by using the term "retard", but by comparing them to this group of dysfunctional, greedy, self serving buttholes.

Whoops - I thought that now that the word "retard" is off the table for people with Downs Syndrome it was up for reassignment. I want to start using it for people who celebrate ignorance as a virtue. You have to admit, it's a pretty good word for something. I hate to see it go to waste.

 

[Heneni]

I think that will definitely be true about the economy. Current talks about Russia might be a bit overblown as well. There has been discussion about the relations between Russia and Ukraine but I don't how much of that might be media outlets trying to create news. North Korea definitely poses an uncertain future in regards to Kim Jung-Il and his health.

I think much will depend on the cabinet either candidate will build as well. The number of conservatives like Brooks and Buckley removing support from McCain, much of it due to picking Palin, I think will definitely aid in Obama's winning the position but I would just hate to see Obama blamed for economic issues that are quite frankly not the role of the POTUS to manage.

True. One thing is for sure, whoever gets this presidency will have to be darn good at it. Do you think that either obama or mcain is any good? True sometimes a persons abilities only come to the fore when they have settled into a position, and then like bush unfortunately the settling in ends up lazing about on the couch.

Personally i dont think that america can afford mcain. I think obama will win.

heneni