Posted on 10/28/2008 9:52:47 AM PDT by bmweezer
In seven days, Americans will elect Barack Obama our nation's 44th president. For the past several weeks, I kept waiting for McCain/Palin to catch-up, and kept waiting for something about Obama to rise to the level of big news to change the election's trajectory, which has been very steady in pointing to a Obama/Biden victory for at least the last six weeks. However, nothing happened and in my opinion, the die is cast and onto 2012.
I expect that next Wednesday morning, we will wake up to a Obama landslide that we haven't seen by a U.S. presidential candidate since Ronald Reagan, winning at least 350, maybe up to 375 electoral votes. At the same time, the Dems will likely gain 20-30 seats in the U.S. House and get very close to winning 60 seats in the U.S. Senate.
Presidency
Obama will win all of the 2004 blue states, and take the following Bush states from 2004: Nevada, Iowa, Ohio, Florida, Virginia, Colorado and New Mexico. In two surprises, he will take Indiana and Montana. He will just miss out on taking North Carolina and Georgia. This would give the Dem 356-186 electoral votes. Add NC and GA, and it would be 382-156. Missouri and Arkansas could also tilt if the wave is gigantic.
Senate
Currently the GOP holds 49 seats, as the Dems (helped by 2 Dem-leaning Independents) control the chamber with 51 seats.
GOP will lose its seats in New Hampshire, Oregon, Alaska, Virginia, North Carolina, Colorado, and New Mexico but will retain the seat in Minnesota.
The new count will be 58 Dems, 42 Republicans
House
Expect an expanded Democratic majority in the 240-260 seat range.
Outcome
The year 2009 will be a year of reflection in the Republican Party, full of heated arguments by its leaders as to what direction the party needs to take headed into the future. However, as dark and gloomy as things might look now to GOPers, consider this: the last time that the Dems had a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate (count was 61-39), had the House and controlled the White House was in 1977/78 when Jimmy Carter was president. In 1978, the count in the Senate was 58-42, and in 1980, Ronald Reagan was elected president and brought with him a 53-46-1 GOP Senate majority, and thanks to conservative Democrats, a working majority in the House. Meaning, time and events continue to change, one way or another. The same will be true sometime in the future.
As they say, it's always darkest before the dawn.
President Palin?
Obama troll alert.
Or the DimoRATS might be thinking about what the aich they can do with their treasonous party to ever get credibility again.............
I am getting so tired of these nay-sayers! This guy and the panelists on FOX News are writing this election off before the people have voted. I wish they would all shut up and save their commentaries for Wednesday, Nov. 5th!
Come on take this crap down. Stupid idiot hand wringers.
What????
GARBAGE!!!
I’m still going with my unprecedented and obviously zany prediction of a 269-296 EC tie. That would be chaotic in ways that cannot be described.
They are trying to make voters stay home. This game is getting old!
Nonsense, the polls are way over-counting likely Dem voters.
In 2004, the polls were predicting a Kerry win at this time in the cycle.
as I have typed over and over, Republicans have only themselves to blame. They squandered all they gained in 1994 by selling their soul to the devil and giving into the excesses of DC and wanting to fit in with the liberal and media elite.
It will be an act of God if McCain, the RINO, wins. Not that that will be much help since McCain will struggle to lift his arms above his head just to please democrats. Either way we are screwed as one will get us to hell faster than the other.
With party representatives like these, it’s no wonder the GOP needs new leadership. I say, win or lose, 2009 needs to be a year of clearing out the rubbish at all levels of GOP leadership, from the national party down to the county level. Any RINOs, any compromisers, any defeatists, need to hit the ashheap.
And, FWIW, I think McCain-Palin has a better than even chance of winning next Tuesday.
Who the heck is GO Pee Nation?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
“Ted Tally is a writer living in Las Vegas, NV and not the Academy Award winning playwright and screenwriter.”
This is posted with his article.....just another liberal hollywierd type.....
“...Nevada, Iowa, Ohio, Florida, Virginia, Colorado and New Mexico. In two surprises, he will take Indiana and Montana.”
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I don’t think so.
I wish I could see the future too, then I could pick winning lottery numbers and be a millionaire.
This guy is a total fool. I am sick of this defeatist garbage meant to depress us.
Losers act like losers.
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