2012 and 2014 Election predictions
Republican Mitt Romney wins the Presidency. His campaign platform was healthcare reform. Romney told the nation God spoke to him and said “this is not a political issue, but a moral imperative.” He explained to the nation how he instituted health care reform in his state when he was Governor. He explained how some mistakes were made. He learned from those mistakes. What he learned was the answer would be single payer insurance. Single Payer in fact would not only insure everybody, but would take the costly burden of health care away from business and they could become competitive again. He explained that while yes, it would be paid by taxes, in fact families would still have more money to spend, as they would no longer have that huge bill to pay each month with their health insurance company. He has conservative politicians from Great Britain, France and Canada make speeches in the U.S about how well the plans work in their countries. He explains that in fact this is not socialism, but a public service just like our police, libraries, fire departments and roads. He explains the cost of transitioning will easily be covered by pulling out of “Obama’s Vietnam”. The single payer advocates that campaigned and voted for President Obama will help Mr. Romney get in office. The fringe right that screamed about “socialized medicine” will not say a word, because they never cared about healthcare reform in the first place, they were either noisy racists, or noisy Republican team players.
Prediction 2014
Single Payer health insurance revitalizes the economy. Without the burdensome cost of health insurance for its workforce, the U.S. car industry comes roaring back. Nationwide corporations that sent jobs overseas such as customer service call centers and software programmers, bring those jobs back to the U.S. workforce. The Democrats lose majority in both the house and the senate.
More 2012 predictions
During the run up to the Republican convention, Dick Cheney also running for President (his platform is nuke all countries that have oil including Canada) in an effort to make the Mormons look bad, hangs Glen Beck using Mormon undergarments, first in effigy and then for real. Cheney blames the Mormon Mafia. Jon Stewart and the comedians from the Daily Show ferret out the truth and Romney wins the nomination and election by a landslide.
Bill O’Rielly becomes a Democrat.
Keith Olbermann becomes a Republican.
Nancy Pelosi and John Boehner check into the Betty Ford center together to address their addiction to plastic surgery.
Sarah Palin designs a video arcade game where the participants shoot at Comrade Putin and Arctic wolves as they raise their commie heads up from behind a snow bank. The University of Idaho asks Ms. Palin to return her diploma.
Rachel Maddow becomes the head of the FCC resulting in Fox no longer being able to call themselves a “news” organization.






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Obama will be re-elected, barring scandal or catastrophy. The economy will not be recovered (much more is coming in the residential and commercial RE market), but the administration will be able to convince voters that it is "recovering".
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My current analysis shows a GOP gain in the House of around 20-25 seats, a gain in the Senate of 2-3 seats, both of which would leave the Democrats in control but by reduced margins.
Presidents tend to get re-elected barring major scandals or economic meltdowns, so I expect Obama will win. The margin will depend on whether the GOP picks a viable contender or goes with a Palin. In the same election I expect minor Dem gains in the House but probably GOP gains in the Senate as the heavily Dem 2000/2006 class will be up.
As to 2014, GOP gains are likely since it's the 6 year itch. The GOP could retake both houses as the 2008 Senate class is also heavily Democratic and thus prone to Democratic losses.
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