I decided to post this poll to get everybody's opinion regarding what they believe will happen on election night in a week. I see 3 ways it could play out: 1. One candidate is clearly elected and the other candidate gracefully concedes defeat. 2. One candidate is clearly elected and the other candidate does not concede defeat and challenges results in various states potentially drawing out the election. 3. A basic repeat of 2000, the election is too close and the announcement of the winning candidate is drawn out over the next several weeks as legal and state/federal battles loom. 4. An electoral college tie, the election will be decided by members of Congress. Which option do you believe will happen?
Romney will be more than happy to go back to being a corporate raider and his offshore accounts. Ann? She'll be a bit more disappointed. She really wanted to live in the White house.
After Obama loses, he and his family will squeeze in 5 or 6 vacations before Romney's inaguration in January 2013. This drastically reduced vacation schedule will be Barry's parting gift toward helping reduce the deficit.
I think Obama will win the electoral college and Mitt wins the popular vote. The GOP will go ape ****.
I think it will be a close election with recounts in at least one state so option 2. I still think the most likely is Obama wins narrowly in the electoral college but a there might be a split in the popular vote.
where is the option for Ron Paul supporters start a REVOLUTION and over throw the govt and make RP president?
After looking at all the posts in D&D section, I know what will happen. Romney will win all 50 states. He'll win 100% of the popular vote, and then some Obama supporters, even though they voted for Romney will complain. Obama supporters complain about everything. See how they complained about the polls not being accurate. Look at how they complain about what a punk the other candidate is being. Look at how these Obama supporters whine, b**** and moan about how someone called their candidate a bull$h***er. Look at how Obama supporters whine and complain about Ryan laughing and smirking even though their candidate was being blatantly dishonest in what he was saying. This is exactly what will happen.
We'll have 4 years of the GOP calling his presidency illegitimate, while the same people who complained about the electoral college in 2000 defend it. Also, 4 more years of obstruction w/ a GOP Congress.
Sarcasm noted. However, there is a problem with your post, FB, in my opinion. An absurd number of members here will actually believe that you're serious. Me? I picked what's behind Curtain #1. The popular vote is as tight as a... well, never mind how tight it will be, but the President will have a clear enough advantage in the Electoral College that Romney will concede. Unless he's worse than Tricky Dick Nixon, who had good reasons to at least question the results in 1960, but chose to put country before personal ambition. Why? To prevent the United States from plunging into the utter chaos questioning the results would have produced. I've always admired him for that decision, despite Dick later showing what I see as evidence of severe paranoia. Al Gore, despite having far more reason to fight the 2000 results, did the same thing, going against the wishes of the vast majrity of his supporters in and out of the Democratic Party. Does Romney possess the character to put country before his ambition? No, IMO, unless that electoral college advantage for the President is clear to the meanest understanding. My belief is that the electoral advantage will be great enough to stay his hand. He'll want to position himself for 2016. Of course, I'm assuming at least a modicum of character within the man. That's the optimistic side of me dragging itself up out of the depth of worry I have about 2000 redux, should the result be as close as I think it will be. Heck, maybe I voted wrong.
For the record, the issue in 2000 was only tangentially related to the EC. It was more about a series of ridiculous findings by the SC to justify a Bush win even though the Constitution has a solution for disputed elections that did not involve the SC at all.
