Posted by
Political Prescience on Friday, August 08, 2008 4:14:31 PM
Yes. It is
inevetible, he will lose; he won’t even carry California. (My electoral map
shows McCain winning 364-174; I reserve the right to make adjustments up until
a week before the election.)
Further predictions:
The media that boosted him will begin a self-examination
that will lead most to say that they vetted him properly and it is America that should be blamed for Obama’s loss. Headlines will proclaim: “America: More
Racist than We Thought.” Few in
the media will admit that they were overly excited and too invested in his
candidacy.
The European press will once again make pedantic and
ill-informed pronouncements about the backward American electorate.
Hillary will begin her campaign for 2012. The inevitable candidate will be more
inevitable than ever and she will promise to make sure that John McCain does
not “get away” with whatever it is she believes that GW Bush perpetrated.
Cries of a rigged election will come from the usual
quarters; particularly among those that make a living by pointing out imagined
racism in America. Obama’s loss
will generate more conspiracy theories than the Kennedy assassination.
Oprah will have sit down with Barack in which she will cry
and urge him to run again in 2012; Obama may get teary too.
Many will blame overt and buried racism for his loss and
there will be calls for the US to look inward and far too many people will not
examine the weakness of a candidate that should never have ascended to the
heights that he did.
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