Good analysis Steven. I hope you are right. Ed
On Sep 23, 2008, at 7:55 PM, OrionWorks wrote:
Since we are speculating on presidential outcomes I thought this might be a good opportunity to share the opinions of a blatantly unscientific and unverified source - particularly insofar as this source's take on the election. Please take the following "predictions" with a grain of salt. ;-) The election will not be close. The democrats including presidential & VP candidates Obama & Biden will win by an unprecedented landslide this November. The reason the polls have appeared so close is that the pollsters are favoring the polling of undecided voters, which greatly skews the actual numbers. A new Republican presidential administration only has somewhere around a 10% chance of winning the presidential office this November. However, (and this is the really frightening point, from my POV) if the Republicans do manage to pull it off and win the presidential office, the age of the candidate, combined with pressures of acting as president, combined with PTSD (a diagnosis which BTW was never officially diagnosed because it would have ended McCain's political career decades ago), combined with a past history of a virulent form of cancer which is still in his body, will likely conspire and finish McCain off within a year after assuming the office. On top of that McCain isn't all that enthusiastic about being president. He accepted the role because his party asked him to, and being the good soldier that he is he wishes to serve his country. Meanwhile, Palin has picked up on most of these cues. It's why she accepted the VP position. She knows that it's likely that within a year of assuming the VP, she would then be president - without actually having to work at it. Shrewd. And now back to regularly scheduled programming. Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/OrionWorks
