My predictions for the next four years: 1. The Rockets will win a playoff series 2. The Rolling Stones will do another world tour 3. Reality television shows will continue to dominate the Nielsen ratings 4. Boy band pop groups will continue to dominate the Billboard charts 5. Donald Trump will say something stupid 6. A hurricane will hit the United States somewhere along the Gulf Coast 7. The sun will rise in the east and set in the west
The Obama's youth/minority voting block won't vote in the midterms, giving the republicans victories and a renewed hope for their older, white voting block. Rubio runs and wins in 2016, and in victory republicans realize their older, white voting block is not a winning strategy going forward.
OK, that hurts jopat is a conservative. He was shilling for Romney, correct? I am not a conservative and in fact I considered Obama the lesser of two evils in this race (because he'll only be around for 4 years whereas Romney might have been around for 8). I also knew Obama would win and said as much a couple times in the D&D. To echo the sentiments of the great Frank Chodorov in a 1956 letter to National Review: "I will punch anyone who calls me a conservative in the nose."
That's interesting, unless you're dabbling in technicalities of UE rate reporting-seeing as how it has to be 10% to stay at 10%. In actuality, with such a strongly dovish Fed (hello Evans and Rosengren!) focused on jobs, and if the President can negotiate over the fiscal cliff, this ongoing recovery, barring European meltdown, will be unstoppable. Presidents have very little to do with macroeconomic cycles, they just get the credit. The best example is Reagen. Volcker had squeezed inflation out of the system, and there was nowhere to go but up afterwards. I actually thought, if Romney were elected, that he would look like the next Reagen. Now Obama will be re-elected, at a time where the American economy is predicted in the mid 2013s to end the deleveraging process (which may be accelerated by marked increases in consumer confidence right for the holiday season). The recovery will be unstoppable at that point, and the Dems will look like geniuses. Big pickups in 2014. Obama will go down as one of the best presidents of the modern age if this is so.
Partially agreed on this, though paradoxically, if Scalia resigns and is replaced by a liberal justice, and Ginsburg resigns and is not replaced by a Scalia type, Obama will have done more for civil liberties than most presidents.
Freed from re-election concerns, I think Obama will return to his roots on civil liberties (and mar1juana). Democrats have to overcompensate for elections.
House Republicans will block the country from any real progress until 2016 when Hillary wins and they will continue to block until they win the White House. Their only agenda is to win the White House and cut taxes for the rich. The only way this changes is maybe after the 2020 census when there is a chance to redraw the districts and take away the House advantage or continued changing demographics finally tilt the house back into Dem's hands. Then the Republicans will finally evolve into a sane party and we can have progress, but not until after much damage has been done.
Another jobs bill get passed. I think unemployment rates will continue to dip and will get anywhere between 5.5 to 6% unemployment. I also think Obamacare will receive some modifications in about 4 years time that will make it better. We'll finally get out of the Afghan war and Hillary Clinton will be the next Democratic candidate to run for presidency in 2016.
Right because Democrats have all the right answers and Republicans are the enemy of all that is good and "sane".
Some Republicans are certainly the enemy of what is sane. They lambasted Nate Silver's poll analysis over and over saying how wrong he was, and coming up with imaginary reasons that seemed reasonable to them about why it was. The Republicans have tried to change aspects of American History in classes and text books. Republicans have come out against science, global warming, and evolution. In almost all of those cases they made up reasons that they convinced themselves were valid, but in the end it get their crap handed to them again and again. Democrats may not have all the answers, and not all REpublicans do that, but there is plenty of insanity regarding Republicans, and they paid for it with this election.
It's like peeing into the snow in a dark night, as always. It might make a difference, but it's hard to tell.
The world doesn't end in December and doomsday bunkers become man cave's for drunken ping-pong tournaments. Mitch McConnell, the bitter, senile turtle, voted out in 2014. More sour grapes obstuctionism. Obstructionists voted out by fed up Americans. More denial that Obama is doing a decent job as unemployment continues to drop. Reversal of Citizens United. Another Federal Reserve audit, revealing even more corruption, resulting in its abolishment. The United States treasury prints its own money and sets its own policies, resulting in less crashes, recessions, and inflation. Campaign finance, lobbyist, special interest reformed. Elected officials serve the people instead of their parties. Puerto Rico 51st state?, US flag looks awkward with additional star. MSNBC hires hot blond, ratings jump. FOX hires unbiased reporter, ratings plummet.
Same gridlock in congress followed by sequestration and default of our sovereign debt. I hope I am wrong but all signs are pointing to this right now.
