Posted on 10/29/2004 8:34:54 AM PDT by presidio9
Surveys in the United States may be showing the race for president as too close to call but top Indian astrologers say the planets have clearly made up their mind: John Kerry will win.
Planets governing President Bush are eclipsed and in an uncomfortable position, making his tenure controversial and his re-election bid unsuccessful, the soothsayers said on Friday, four days before the vote.
On the other hand, the planets of Democratic challenger Senator John Kerry were in the ascendant, ensuring him success in competitions.
"Saturn, which is the lord of health and fortune for President Bush, has been eclipsed by the Sun, which is unfortunate and gives him a clear defeat," Lachhman Das Madan, editor of a popular astrology magazine, told Reuters.
"Kerry will win," said Madan, who is also known as "the emperor of astrologers." "It is cosmic writ that George W. Bush cannot become president of United States again."
Ajai Bhambi, a senior astrologer and author of several books on the science of predictions, agreed.
"Kerry is likely to beat Bush in the final verdict," he told the New Indian Express newspaper.
Bejan Daruwalla, another top astrologer, told Reuters he had yet to calculate who would win Tuesday's election. But Bush, even if he won, would not be allowed by his planets to complete a full term, he said.
Astrology is extremely popular in India and many top politicians, businessmen and movie stars consult astrologers before taking important decisions.
Tuesday's vote is forecast to be one of the closest in American history. A Reuters/Zogby poll showed on Thursday that Bush was leading Kerry by 48 to 46 percent but the lead was well within the poll's margin of error.
Perhaps this will finally expose Astrology as a sham. I've said for many years that it is not a "real" science, ya know!
How many Electoral Votes does Jupiter, Mars, Venus, etc each have?
It does seem like the pollsters are telling us "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain."
F%$# astronomers. Superstitious atheists, anyway.
What was the margin of Error?? Stop posting garbage from Reuters.;)
The planets are trying to steal our election!!!
Sounds like the Onion
Reuters, what biased jokes.
But my mother-in-law's gimpy knee says it will be Nader/Buchanan.
Kerry can still win without Neptune, but he ought to send his wife there just to be sure.
Interesting that an article about astrology also mentions the Zogby poll.
(insert Uranus joke here)
The Redskins need to win this Sunday.
The fact that Reuters would run this story, and put the headline, they've put is borderline insane, as if Republican astrologers wouldn't say the exact opposite.
"Bush Administration tricks planets!" - post-election headline.
Maybe we should retort by quoting and interpreting prodigies (with tongue in cheek, of course)? Any monstrous births, comets, and the like recently?
Is this still a real news agency? Or, was it ever?
Of course Kerry is going to win. Thats why the Dems shouldn't even vote, its over. :^)
If it were up to the Rats, they'd get one EV for each millimeter of distance from the Earth.
What about the new planet discovered and named by former President Clinton? He said I wanted the new planet to have a name that sounds like Venus.
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