Prediction: Romney Crushes Obama In Presidential Election Blowout

http://www.forbes.com ^ | 5/22/2012 | Bill Frezza

[BO Stinkss]

Put this column in a drawer and take it out on the date below. Let me know how many of these predictions I got right.

November 7, 2012 – It may not be morning in America, but be thankful that it’s not the dawn of the living dead. With civil war breaking out in Greece, Spain in chaos as it seeks to exit the euro, California preparing to file bankruptcy following the failure of Governor Jerry Brown’s budget referendum, and Portland, Oakland, and Seattle busy clearing the rubble from the devastation of their Occupy fires, the American electorate has finally said “Enough!”

The great experiment in “progressive” democracy is over. Convincing a majority of American voters that they can live at someone else’s expense proved a bridge too far, as those same voters watched the social democracies of Europe unravel. When presented with a choice between two presidential candidates with diametrically opposed visions of the proper role of government, Americans chose to step back from the abyss.

To no one’s surprise, the campaign was ugly. As each successive poll revealed incumbent President Barack Obama slipping further behind, the Obama camp’s attacks grew ever shriller. Class, gender, race, religion, ethnicity, sexuality—not variant of identity politics was left untapped in what turned out to be a futile attempt to divide the electorate into warring camps and shift the debate to anything besides the deteriorating economy and the cataclysmic national debt.

The Supreme Court’s evisceration of Obamacare—the president’s signature “accomplishment”—set the tone for a long, hot summer. The Occupy movement’s escalating campaign of violence, which culminated in major street battles at both national conventions, did little to help Obama’s cause. Persistently high unemployment, coupled with an inflationary uptick as the Federal Reserve made a desperate attempt to launch yet another round of “quantitative...

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks BO Stinkss.

Obama will win, he can relax, says expert US forecaster
Yahoo | 5/23/12
Posted on 05/24/2012 4:04:33 PM PDT by Libloather
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2887689/posts

[buffaloguy]

That is why I used the phrase as irony.

The green shoots that I see is Obama’s campaign running against profit and for spending.

Most people realize the utter vacuity of this approach. There is no there there. Just an empty suit with a teleprompter and some foam greek columns borrowed from a local bath house.