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Obama scrapes a win, GOP moderately increases in house & probably takes senate.
If Obama does win GOP supporters trot out all the excuses thye've been banking for years - its the media and/or the vote was rigged (I see some have already started). Expect levels of lunacy that make birthers and truthers look mild & reasoned by comparison.
Given that both are in the toilet at the moment, I'm betting (albeit modestly) that President Obama wins a second term, and the House and Senate both move modestly toward the middle. In other words, more Dems and fewer GOPers.
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The Occupy Wall Street movement is the thinking man's Tea Party.
Since the economy is in the toilet, Obama will get second term?
Under what logic will this happen? All I know is that when I go to vote I have one question to answer to myself, is it better or worse then 4 years ago? From what I understand, now it is worse.
No such thing as a good tax - Churchill
To make mistakes is human. To blame someone else for your mistake, is strategic.
Too early to make a prediction. We'll have to see how the economy is faring come next June or July. If the economy is trending upward and consumer confidence is 20 pts higher than today's 39% and joblessness is moving under 8% voters will be loath to change horses. If not, the GOP stands a good chance of taking the WH and both houses of Congress.
The bookies have Obama winning with somewhat narrow odds.
The betting is that Romney will take the nomination. If it comes to pass and the economy is still languishing, the presidential debates will be key. Romney or Perry would do best in the debates. Former governors can talk the talk.
To be Truly ignorant, Man requires an Education - Plato
perry doing well in debates? he hasn't done well in front of friendly audiences against fellow republicans.
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "My ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."- Isaac Asimov
Too early to make a prediction. We'll have to see how the economy is faring come next June or July. If the economy is trending upward and consumer confidence is 20 pts higher than today's 39% and joblessness is moving under 8% voters will be loath to change horses. If not, the GOP stands a good chance of taking the WH and both houses of Congress.
The bookies have Obama winning with somewhat narrow odds.
The betting is that Romney will take the nomination. If it comes to pass and the economy is still languishing, the presidential debates will be key. Romney or Perry would do best in the debates. Former governors can talk the talk.
Perry knows he got his ass handed to him by Romney in previous debates and is talking about sitting the next few out. As far as I am concerned he can't stand the heat so you can stick a fork in him....he's done.
Removing a single turd from the cesspool doesn't make any difference.
I'm betting on Cain, though I would really like to see RP win it.
My wager is the US economy and my job, because thats the last thing I really have to bet with and right now since the economy is losing value by the minute.
Hard to lose an election to a party that can’t find a candidate. If, and when the GOPers come up with a candidate, we can reconsider.
However, there are some very small signs that things are improving, and if that continues, and if the GOPers continue to rip each other to shreds, burn through their campaign cash and divvy up the managerial talent that makes campaigns sing, they will go down in flames.
On, Palin!
On, Gingrich!
On, Bachman, Huntsman and Paul!
On Perry!
On Romney!
On Santorum and Cain!
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