My Predictions

I know this is what you’ve all been waiting for.  My predictions for what will happen in the election next week.

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First a caveat; a warning.  Sometimes I get it wrong.  A few examples.  I thought Romney would beat Obama.  I predicted prior to the start of the baseball season that the Reds would be in the World Series.  I predicted that John McCain and Hillary Clinton would face off in the 2008 Presidential election before either one of them (or anyone else) had even announced their candidacies.  (Well, I at least got half that prediction right.)

And I’ll admit, sometimes my predictions are influenced by a dash of wishful thinking.  The heart sometimes prevails over the head.  That being said, here are my predictions for next week.  Drum roll please.

Harry Reid is soon to be, the FORMER Majority Leader of the United States Senate.  He will be replaced by Mitch McConnell who will defeat the lady who just can’t seem to admit that she voted for Barack Obama in the last election, Allison Lundergan Grimes.  (It sure will be nice not having to watch anymore all those T.V. attack ads, from both sides, even though so many of us live in Ohio and can’t even vote in that race.)

Mitch McConnell, John Cornyn, John Barrasso

Obviously for Harry Reid to lose his job, it means that Republicans will have won enough seats to take over the Senate.  I predict Republicans win six to ten Senate seats.  We may however not know the final number, or even whether Republicans have won enough to pick up the Senate, next week.  That’s because there could be run-off elections in several states, Louisiana and Georgia for example, if no candidate gets 50% of the vote.

A true tragedy would be if Republicans only pick up five Senate seats, in which case there’s a tie at 50-50.  Vice President Joe Biden (God forbid) would break all tie votes, so Barack Obama and the leftists would still be in control.  It could happen, but hopefully not.

Getting even further into the weeds, under the 50-50 scenario, there’s a remote chance that a Democratic Senator could defect to the Republican side (a Joe Manchon of West Virginia for example) in return for a highly sought committee chairmanship, or because they could single-handedly prevent the Democrat Senate from continuing to drive our country over a cliff.  Possible, but not likely.

And as for the House, it stays in Republican hands.  And Republicans have a net gain of six to twelve seats.

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Of course, even if I’m right, Barack Obama will still be President for two more years.  So he can still veto whatever Republicans pass in the House and the Senate.  We certainly won’t have veto-proof margins in either house of Congress.

Here’s the big difference between the current situation, and Republicans controlling both houses.  We have passed hundreds of bills in the House which the American people overwhelmingly favor, and which not only nearly all Republicans in the House have voted for, but dozens of Democrats have voted for as well.  But they go nowhere because not only will Harry Reid not allow the Senate to vote on these bills, he won’t even let them be debated.

So Barack Obama hasn’t had to take any heat for vetoing anything.  He’s only vetoed two bills so far in his Presidency, and those two bills were in the first two years of his Presidency when the Democrats controlled both houses.  Bill Clinton had vetoed 36 bills by this time in his Presidency.

The point is, Barack Obama will be held accountable for vetoing and obstructing things which the majority of the American people favor.  So he may actually work with Congress and get some things done for the good of the country.

Or he may continue to be a left-wing ideologue.  Only time will tell.

Anyway, those are my predictions.  We’ll know soon enough how much of it I got right, or wrong.  (And it’s Bengals in the Super Bowl, and Reds in the Series next year!  Hey, I’m a homer.)

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