2012 Predictions

[Boffo]

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Barack Obama will learn how to lead, will stop trying to blame Bush and will take no vacations.

Tiger Wood will learn how to golf, convert to Catholicism and become a priest.

Elton John will be cured, become a heterosexual and impregnate every Kardashian in California to celebrate.


 
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It’s something of a professional hazard to make predictions this far out before the next election. Witness Karl Rove’s anticipation early in the Bush years of a permanent Republican majority, or James Carville’s boast in early 2009 that Democrats would dominate the political landscape for the next 40 years – a prediction off by 38 years.
But there are some telltale signs of what 2012 is going to look like, and it doesn’t take a crystal ball to understand that the short-term trends look dismal for congressional Democrats. Even if Democrats turn their political fortunes around, they’re still likely to lose seats in the Senate and will be hard-pressed to make inroads in the House, thanks to factors entirely out of their control.
The numbers tell the story in the Senate: The president’s party will be playing defense, with 23 Democratic-held seats up for grabs. By comparison, only 10 Republican Senate seats will be in play, most in solidly Republican states. It’s the most lopsided disparity for any party since 1980, when Democrats lost 12 Senate seats.
And the map where all the top races are being contested is awfully daunting for Democrats. Of the 23 seats Democrats will be defending, eight are in Republican-friendly or battleground states: Nebraska, Virginia, Missouri, Montana, West Virginia, North Dakota, Ohio, and Florida.
Other Democratic senators, like Bob Casey (Pa.), Debbie Stabenow (Mich.), and Amy Klobuchar (Minn.) also could face competitive races if the environment doesn’t improve significantly for their party.
The only two states where Democrats look to have a fighting chance of picking up Republican Senate seats are Massachusetts (Scott Brown) and Nevada (scandal-plagued John Ensign). Even a Democratic landslide in 2012 would be unlikely to yield gains, given that most GOP senators up for reelection represent safely Republican states like Utah, Mississippi, and Texas.

More @ http://www.nationaljournal.com/columns/ ... 2-20101110

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How did you ring in the New Year?

"I’m not gay or anything, but I did have a celebratory smooch with the other guy stealing copper wire out of that abandoned warehouse."

Derek Reutershan
Unemployed

[IM2]

Republicans will take responsiblity and realize this mess was made by Bush that Obama has been trying to clean up, but it will be tool late.

Eric Cantor will still be the litle prick he has always been and will get voted out of office.

The tea party will return to something people do at a home.

Obama will be re elected, and Washignton will return to democratic control

[makesenseplease]

http://news.yahoo.com/jobless-claims-rise-sharply-6-week-high-133258184.html

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http://news.yahoo.com/jobless-claims-rise-sharply-6-week-high-133258184.html

Are you suggesting we are being fed false information, sir?

Outrageous!!!

[DogBreath]

Iran will become a rubble-strewn graveyard.  Israel will use a new super-weapon against the axis-of-evil.

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Obama will golf 85 times and go on 37 vacations.

[flyboy]

MOFO with abosolutely nothing going on his life but television and online poker will continue to plague this forum with pointless spam that he thinks is funny and clever such as this thread.

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MOFO with abosolutely nothing going on his life but television and online poker will continue to plague this forum with pointless spam that he thinks is funny and clever such as this thread.

You mad, bro?

[nraforlife]

Israel will launch a nuclear attack of 4 - 7 missiles against Tehran with the intent of 100% decapitating the Iranian leadership.