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The outcome of the 09 USA Presidential Election will be...
Obama will get in, and there will be rioting in the steets
35%
[ 14 ]
McCain will get in, and there will be rioting in the streets
5%
[ 2 ]
McCain will get in and promptly die, putting Palin in power and make the rest of the world ROFLMAO
7%
[ 3 ]
Obama will get in, and peace and prosperity will prevail
35%
[ 14 ]
McCain will get in, and peace and prosperity will prevail
0%
[ 0 ]
McCain will get in, die and Palin will reveal herself as Beezlebub and/or Jebus
15%
[ 6 ]
Total Votes : 39
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Oli Mangled
Joined: Aug 03, 2005 Posts: 32,945
Posted: Fri 31/Oct/08 11:27pm Post subject:
Obama will win, and really he has no more or less chance of being assassinated than any other President. There might be more nutjobs trying to take him out but the SS always assume that there are, so what's the difference? It's a risk every Pres takes and just because he's black doesn't make him easier to hit...
The media love interviewing Redneck Americans but I think those morans will be outweighed by the huge upswing in black and youth voters, all of whom will vote Obama.
Joined: May 22, 2002 Posts: 3,327 Location: Christchurch
Posted: Fri 31/Oct/08 11:44pm Post subject:
mitch7 wrote:
Although the Republicans are pretty good at rigging the voting system (if you believe what happened in Florida)
Florida was the republicans using the court system to prevent a recount (in the best interest of democracy of course)
But yes, every where that had electronic voting booths had a large numbers of discrepancies (negative vote counts on some machines ect) that overwhelmingly favored the republicans.
It is looking good for Obama, likely though that the polls are over estimating him a bit, as its more often democrat voters who are unable to vote (voting conducted on a week day, so if your boss says your not allowed time off your pretty much kcufed).
The conspiracy theorist might also suggest that the bradley effect could be used to justify large scale electrol fraud.
Joined: Dec 25, 2001 Posts: 7,922 Location: Wellytron
Posted: Sat 1/Nov/08 2:10am Post subject:
Well either way, it's going to be an interesting week. We're having friends over for a bbq on election night in NZ, because we're still hopeful that we'll see winston go down.
Although the Republicans are pretty good at rigging the voting system (if you believe what happened in Florida)
Florida was the republicans using the court system to prevent a recount (in the best interest of democracy of course)
But yes, every where that had electronic voting booths had a large numbers of discrepancies (negative vote counts on some machines ect) that overwhelmingly favored the republicans.
It is looking good for Obama, likely though that the polls are over estimating him a bit, as its more often democrat voters who are unable to vote (voting conducted on a week day, so if your boss says your not allowed time off your pretty much kcufed).
The conspiracy theorist might also suggest that the bradley effect could be used to justify large scale electrol fraud.
Early voting in many American states is running at record numbers. Some are supposedly at 25% of all enrolled voters having already voted.
Florida, interestingly enough, has added an extra four hours to the polling booths being open on election day, which is expected to favour Obama.
Fraud is always going to be an issue, especially with some states allowing people to enrol AND vote on the same day without any photo ID, but Obama's lead is strong enough that he fraud is going to have to be wide spread and in several swing states to changed the expected result.
Obama to win. Then the yanks will find out that although he may be a nice guy, his protectionist "policies" won't be much good for their economy, or anyone elses.
Still, cant be much worse than the present knobjocky
Joined: Nov 10, 2006 Posts: 1,932 Location: Rocking into Mordor on me mighty steed...his name is Fluffy
Posted: Sun 2/Nov/08 9:07pm Post subject:
j2hyde wrote:
Obama to win. Then the yanks will find out that although he may be a nice guy, his protectionist "policies" won't be much good for their economy, or anyone elses.
Still, cant be much worse than the present knobjocky
The more things change, they more they stay the same.
The GOP haven't exactly been putting their money where their mouth is when it comes to FTA's, so all we'll see is them going from paying only lip-service to free trade to not even bothering.
Still, perhaps now they'll join the ranks of civilized nations and get a half decent healthcare system instead of the abortion they currently have.
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