US Election 2008: Who Will Win?

[Goldeneye]

This time next week (with any luck) we should know who will be the next President of the United States of America.

Who do you think will win?

All are welcome to participate. We check no papers, no citizenship required, all are welcome. This poll will be open for 1 week.

There is a poll for you choice, opposed to who you think will win, located in the Election 2008 thread HERE

[Kristatos]

Barring a last minute upset, I think an Obama victory is all but inevitable. Though of course the usual disclaimers apply about nothing being inevitable until it happens and so on.

[Mazer Rackham]

Obama seems to have a lock on it. As Kristatos said nothing is inevitable until it happens.

One thing might affect the outcome: if the polls are over compensating certain demographics or people are responding with the popular choice although they intend to vote other.
Also the premature calibration of what appears to be an assured victory could encourage voters to skip voting allowing McCain to mount a comeback.

[katied]

Obama.

[Dr. No]

Barack unless the poll are al wrong.

any way I'm tired of the election and all the d**n polls!

hey have any of you been called by a pollster?

we haven't been. one call said "800 number" but there was nobody there, I thought it might have been a pollster.

[oscartheman]

McCain for the win.He'll do it only because nobody expects it and he's been written off.That's how Mac rolls.If he were the favorite I'd say Obama.

[katied]

I'm ready for the election to be over. There are some propositions, like 8, here in California(no on gay marriage)which people on both sides feel very strongly about and it's tiring.

[Cyclone49]

It seems like Barack has it all but wrapped up, thankfully. Still you never know, US elections are unpredictable like that, non-compulsury voting means that polls and such are always harder to rely (though still a good indicator of general sentiment).

[katied]

Barack is good people. *hopefully* he'll win but as several people have said,it could be unpredictatble.

[bjmdds]

Good? I don't know about that. Pretty shady unscrupulous people in his past;however, No BUSH and......NO CLINTON in the White House, which will be the first time in 28 years!

[English Agent]

From polls run in Britain.....the winner by a long margin would be Obama!!

I think people worldwide think he would be better at dealing with worldwide issues............do u think that is true?

AB

[bjmdds]

NOOOOO way. Just wait until he has to actually do something other than complain about George Bush. This guy is a pacifist and with Biden, Pelosi, Reid, Frank, Schumer, Durbin, etc., running the show, look out!

[Dr. No]

From polls run in Britain.....the winner by a long margin would be Obama!!

I think people worldwide think he would be better at dealing with worldwide issues............do u think that is true?

AB

That normally hurts the politicians.

I don't think he'll be better at dealing with the world, actually Bush who is considerably hated wodlr wide has good relationships with France, Engalnd Germany, Czechoslovakia adn the other former sovite satellite countries

And with most of teh middle east.Africa loves the Bush admin, he has given them more money than anybody else in history. South and central america have good relationships with him too but that is extremely hit and miss..

Barack is untested and unknown, I'm puzzled because the Birt press has done more investigating of him than the US press, I think if he were Birt candidate he'd be checked better.

ABout Barack being unknown, I think that will be a probelm, I don't know if it will be as big a biden says it will.
Right now the world loves him based on his image, they don't know him any better than we do.
The Arabs think he is a secretly a good son of Islam and wil see thier point of view. The French and others think he'll be more diplomatic and will to concede on more points than the US usually has. But I should mention tha tthe french president said he was worried about Barack and Iran.

Vladimir Putin sees a chump. Iran think whatevr they want will be easier with Barack. N Korea, I think is pretty happy with Bush (and Clinton) and has no worries about a new president. China I don't think cares much either.
Iraq is a littel worried that they'll be left on their own too soon. Israel is concerned they will be on their own from here on out.

Barack has a good image and a clean slate to work from (if he is elected)and he may be able to pull alot of things together nobody else could. but he has got to be ready from day one, the world is full of bad guys not willing to wait for tomorrow what they can have today.

[bjmdds]

Hillary must be getting plastered tonight realizing her entire political dream is now dead and buried. Poor Billy boy, can you imagine how she must be treating him?

[Goldeneye]

McCain officially congratulated Obama.

It was a history making electoral season no matter who won. We may not see another a ground breaking contest like this for awhile.

[katied]

Obama won!

[Dr. No]

Congrats to barack!

I think he is a little too inexperienced and will be tested quickly. I do think he has the potential to be a good president. He needs to kick the party hacks to the curb and take advice from the best qualified people no matter who they are.

I voted for McCain becasue I knew he would lose. It was a pity vote because I knew he was geting shellacked and thought his lifetime of service deserved a decent showing for his last hurrah. Thing about McCain is the republicans hate him because he is a classic democrat (granddaddy's DNC) adn the democrats hate him becasue he is a republican.

weird but fewer people voted this time than in 2004 what the hell?

[bjmdds]

George Soros, Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, and other liberal elitists have probably been the ones financing Obama to recreate the world as they would like it to be. Total idealists, and you must govern with realism, not idealism. Who are these 'unknown' 2 million people giving internet money every month to O-bama during a recession cycle? The O-bama raised $750 million on the internet! Are you kidding me? The average guy on the street did not do this. Was it coincidence that the summer before the election the price of a barrel of oil hit $148.00 and now it is hovering around $65.00? Manipulation of the markets by Soros and his boys. It will be no coincidence when the O-bama comes to office and the stock market rises and the price of oil declines. Sheep, being led to political slaughter, by liberal elitists trying to rewrite history. 2012 cannot come fast enough.

[Dr. No]

The stock market took a dive after he was elected and I doubt will reverse itself suddenly. If it rising when he is sworn in then it will continue to, if we're still in as much trouble as I think we are then nothing will help him.

What I'd like to know is where all of this magic money is coming from?

After congress OKED the 700 billion bailout everyone is adding to it. A new stimuli package more bailouts for other industries. I'm wondering if all of this artificial adjustment to keep these businesses afloat won't back fire and leave us wore than before.

[bjmdds]

It's all BS and ALL of congress should have been fired, especially Barney the crumb Frank, who was PRAISED by dimwit Pelosi!