That depends on whether GOP conservatives regain control of at least one house of Congress or find another way to counter John McCain's "liberal tendencies."
If McCain walks into The White House in January with a Democrat-controlled Congress, McCain might just be tempted to be McCain and start giving us some of that "change" we feared, in the form of amnesty for illegals, taxpayer bailouts for private corporations, and carbon cap-and-trade.
And any one of those three has the significant potential to hobble, if not destroy, the U.S. on-the-books economy.
It may be uncertain what McCain does, but we know for sure what Obama will do with a Dem Congress: massive tax increases, government regulation, a sure destruction of the US economy, US weakness on the world state, reduced ability to defend ourselves, socialized medicine - and that’s just for starters.