Answers:
1. 11 2. Four 3. Have a TV show on Fox 4. Party like it's 1994 5. elifiknow
Questions:
1. By how many percentage points will Senator Obama win the election?
2. How many net Senate seats will be picked up by the Democrats?
3. What will Governor Palin do after she completes her current term?
4. What are the Republicans going to do after the mid-term elections in 2010?
5. What do you get if you cross and elephant with a rhino?
1. Ouch.
2. From your mouth to God's ear - it still leaves the Dems short of the magic 60.
3. Doubt it. Not a good platform from which to launch her 2012 campaign against HRC. My guess is she'll run again in 2010.
4. Yup, especially after Biden's predicted big international crisis and unpopular economic thingy.
5. The 2008 Republican ticket (although you misspelled "RINO").
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Hello, Elise, thank you for your comments.
1. Actually, were I not taking somewhat into account the view of a liberal friend who is sure that the Repubs are going to pull some "dirty trick" to win, I would go even higher - maybe 13-15%.
2. At one time I thought the 60 might be in reach but I know even some Dems are afraid of giving one party that much power.
3. I don't see Governor Palin running for President. Although she is an excellent campaigner (and a good sport, thought she was great on SNL) and certainly has a base, I don't think she can win a national election; of course, I thought the same about W.
4. Oh yeah, it's a classic case of be careful what you wish for - now Iraq and the economy will belong to the Dems and I'm not sure even with both Houses and the WH they can solve those problems in two years.
5. Like your answer. I'm too obtuse to figure out the "rino" part.
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I had to laugh about the Republican dirty tricks. On the blogs I read, all the talk is about ACORN and about Obama disabling the credit-card-processing security checks on his fund-raising website. Perhaps the chicanery on the two sides will balance out. I do hope, however, that whoever wins does so by a wide enough margin so that election fraud could not possibly have changed the outcome.
I have to admit that there is a part of me that almost hopes the Dems do get to 60 if Obama wins the Presidency. That would remove any chance of them insisting they would have done a better job if only those nasty Republicans weren't forever filibustering all their wonderful programs. Or, more neutrally, let's give them a chance to try their way and see if things get better.
Whether Palin can win a national election probably depends to some extent on how the Obama administration (assuming there is one) does over the next four years. If it's as disastrous as I believe it will be, she may look darn good in 2012. Also, unfiltered (if you'll pardon the expression) she sounds remarkably sensible. She is clearly conservative in her own views but the policy statements I've heard her made on everything from abortion to gay rights to sex education sound quite balanced and reasonable. If Americans see more of that side of her I think she could do quite well.
I'd say the policies the Dems are talking about pretty much guarantee they won't solve either problem and will probably generate quite a few more. At least this is one case where there's only an upside for my being proved wrong.
RINO - Republican In Name Only, i.e., McCain, paired with a real Republican. (I like McCain but he's hardly a doctrinaire Republican.)
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I'm totally with you on dirty tricks on both sides. The most damaging thing I can see to the Obama campaign is the tape of a radio interview that surfaced today which may damage him with some Independents but that was his own doing. I'm going to stick with the 11 percent, although that may be a little soft now.
No doubt there are some in the Repub party who would also like to see the Dems have complete control for the next two years. Unless soon to be President Obama really is the Second Coming, I don't see anyway he doesn't disappoint even his base.
I do think that SP is more capable than many (even in her own party) give her credit. Still, if a woman with the credentials and presence of HC can't be nominated, I don't see SP being nominated. Think it would be great if she would break away from her handlers the last week of the campaign. (And as an aside, I don't give a rat's furry grey ass how much her clothes and make-up cost.)
RINO - I must have slept on the stupid pillow all weekend because that never crossed my mind. Very clever.
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