Comments on: Seven Election Outcomes I’d Like to See

By: Joshua

Joshua — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 03:05:11 +0000

If #4 happens (a good possibility), #1 may be less likely to. McCain has clearly pinned his hopes on the GOP base, and will need a huge turnout by them in order to have a shot at this thing.

By: ExiledIndependent

ExiledIndependent — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 02:47:09 +0000

Paradoxically, if #1 happens, so will #7. Conservatives need a good Carter-esque presidency to rattle their cages a bit.

By: Jim S

Jim S — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:43:07 +0000

Alan,

If the Democrats are too far from 60 and the current Republican leadership stays in the Senate and House I think you’ll see filibustering or at least the threat of it and abuse of other Senate rules purely for political calculation so that the Democrats couldn’t have “credit” for doing something.

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:23:21 +0000

GWB investigated for authorizing torture.

By: Honestly

Honestly — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 22:55:34 +0000

1. A smooth election. Regardless of the winning candidate, I’d prefer some solid manner of counting votes unlike the last election, where, absentee ballots were ignored and the whole thing became a cluster fuck.

2. Some persecution of executives that have acted poorly during the financial bailout. On almost a daily basis AIG is being found in contempt of the American taxpayers bailout, which could suggest how many other abuses aren’t being discovered. Really, many of these executives deserved to be bankrupted and removed from their positions.

3. A timetable on Iraq. I don’t need it now, but I feel the public needs to know the war does have a endgame in mind.

4. A balanced budget. If both candidates want to reduce taxes, they need to reduce spending. Defense spending is important, but it’s getting to be ridiculous and out of control.

5. A move toward Nuclear power. The start-up is costly, and the waste does remain a problem, but it’s a good option for the US. Every power plant we use, gets rid of one more nuclear bomb we’re never going to use cause it’d be the end of it all.

6. For either winning candidate not to die, seriously. In either scenario it is a major blow to America.

By: Elgee

Elgee — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:30:14 +0000

What i’d like to see?

I’d like to see the Republican party be reborn as a true conservative party, and not the authoritarian, corporatist party it is now.

I’d like to see Obama win in a landslide, and totally piss off the NRA by not pushing for any new gun control legislation; making the NRA politically irrelevant.

I’d like to see the religious right banished into 3rd partyism irrelevance.

By: blackoutyears

blackoutyears — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:06:40 +0000

Outside of a couple of the regional references that’s a good list, Alan. If Obama wins, whether it comes tomorrow or not, I’d like his speech to center on the bipartisanship and cooperation that we’re going to need to successfully negotiate the next few years. I’d like him to stress that with equal conviction to both major parties.

By: pico

pico — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:59:14 +0000

An Obama landslide, a peaceful election process with little controversy or violence, and especially a huge turnout by the youth vote (which is looking unlikely at this point). Ted Stephens losing by a large margin would be nice, as would an Al Franken win (I’ve always liked him, even if our economics don’t jibe). A Murtha loss would be nice. Finally, I’d like to see the Dems get less or more than 58 seats in the senate simply because the idea of Lieberman being the most powerful member of the senate for another 2 years makes me ill–petty, I know. But so long as we’re making Christmas lists… ^_^

By: Rich Horton

Rich Horton — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:54:29 +0000

Norm Coleman to send Al Franken back to radio.

By: hatch

hatch — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:44:42 +0000

Bob Barr gets just enough votes for the Republican Party to realize they alienated fiscally conservative voters.

By: Avinash_Tyagi

Avinash_Tyagi — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:36:46 +0000

Well what i’d really like to see is Rush Limbaugh, all the reporters at Fox News and the religious right throw gasoline on themselves and light a match; and then for the republicans to pull out their NRA given guns and start shooting each other in a bloody massacre.

But since that won’t happen, I want a landslide Obama win and for huge coattails to sweep the Dems into 59 to 61 senate seats