America's Presidential Election is less than a week away, and while a number of sources are predicting a commanding victory for Senator Barack Obama, this page is not going to make any kind of projection until all the votes are stolen. We've seen this movie before - CNN projected Al Gore winning Florida in 2000, and exit polls showed John Kerry winning most of the swing states four years ago. If there's anybody capable of swiping victory from the jaws of defeat, it's a GOP aided and abetted by partisan election administrators.
The clock has run out for muckraking - Jeremiah Wright didn't stick to Barack Obama, and neither has Bill Ayers. The goofy populism of Sarah Palin and John McCain's invocations of 'Joe the Plumber' have held the Republican base, which now faces an avalanche of new Democratic voters. If there's going to be an October surprise that turns things around for McCain, it has to be of Osama Bin Laden proportions, but its highly unlikely given that Al-Qaida 'endorsed' McCain and won't do anything to promote four more years of the Bush Doctrine.
At this point in time, this page sees two scenarios, so feel free to choose your own adventure:
1. Obama wins walking away: The current polls show Obama leading in just about every state still in play, and given that he skews towards younger, urban voters who may be less likely to respond to telephone opinion polls, the lead may be bigger than we think, and absorbs any GOP jiggery-pokery at the polls or the so-called 'Bradley Effect'. Jubilation in the streets of Chicago and New York (ABC has already booked Times Square for the occasion). Wednesday's USA Today runs the headline 'YES HE DID'. Global financial markets give off a sigh of relief. Bill O'Reilly has a stroke. Sarah Palin gets offered a reality TV series. Militia groups start recruiting disaffected Republicans.
2. Too close to call: Obama voters mysteriously don't get their text message alerts. GOP attorneys blockade the polls in Florida and Ohio. Voter ID database crashes in other battleground states, disenfranchising more new voters because of 'perfect match' ID requirements in the so-called Help America Vote Act. Diebold voting machines work "perfectly". Obama appeals for calm after Poll Riots in Philadelphia. ABC shuts down its Time Square election night broadcast after shots are fired. Polls shut down in California as Governor Schwarzenegger declares a State of Emergency. Fox News projects a McCain victory, but the President-Elect won't address the nation until 'things settle'. It's Watts, 1968, Kent State, Stonewall, Rodney King, and the Seattle WTO riots all happening at once. Global financial markets collapse as China freezes credit to the U.S....
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