Does not suprise me. As I have been saying, the seeds of a new civil war are being planted as we speak and it will tear America apart.
I feel like I'm seeing John Titor's prediction come true if Obama is elected. John Titor is a supposed time traveller from 2036 who came back to 1975 and 2000 where he talked to people about future history. Basically he said there will be a civil war, between ideologies and generally between rural/suburban and urban America where the urban side rules and curtails liberties. It starts, goes on and Red China and Russia who feel threatened, launch atomic attacks on our cities for which the rural/subarban forces actually feel greatful. After that, the U.S. is less centralized with some changes and the country is basically conservative/religious/libertarian.
My own belief is that I think the people behind the story and site are generally conservative/religious/libertarian (they have elements of all three, it is hard to place it) and made a story to warn of what could happen if we make the wrong choices. I don't dismiss time travel though, I just want to see more proof, until there is more proof, I'll maintain that it is a "what-if" story. Even Titor himself said that things can change to where his future doesn't happen in our timeline or it could just get shovel back a few years at worst. He figured the civil war would start in 2005, well we are a few years after that.
I think if McCain is elected, we will either push this much further down the road or even stop it, depending what we do in the future, but if Obama gets elected and starts to act like Mugabe, well, you might see a version of Titor's story happen.
John Titor's Story and Site
I don’t subscribe to the idea of time travel. However, I do think that the “Former” Soviet Union and China, and their Communist/Islamic allies, would exploit any disorder in the US resulting from any civil war here.