Predictions. And feel free to add your own.

[onenote]

Over the past couple of weeks, I've seen any number of predictions posted here on DU. So why shouldn't I get in on the fun. Here are a set of predictions. Feel free to comment. And add your own if you'd like:

1. Chimpy will not stay in office past the scheduled end of his term in January 2009.
2. The US will not attack Iran with nuclear weapons between now and the end of chimpy's term. Neither will Israel.
3. Chimpy will not be impeached, before he leaves office or after. And he won't be indicted or charged with any criminal acts here in the US and he will never be required to stand trial before any international tribunal. Same goes for Cheney.
4. Gas prices will not drop below $3.00 between now and election day.
5. Obama will not win all 50 states. I pray that he wins the election, but its too early to predict the outcome other than to predict that it will be relatively close (i.e. closer than 1980 and 1984 and probably closer than 1988).
6. The Democrats will make substantial gains in the House and Senate. Pelosi will remain as speaker and Reid will remain Majority Leader.
7. The stock market will not drop below 9000 between now and the end of the year. It probably won't even drop below 10,000.
8. The Washington Nationals will not win the World Series.


There you go. Have at it.

[Warpy]

1. I think the market is likely to dip below 10,000

but I find the rest of your predictions to be likely--some of them depressingly so.

[Pale Blue Dot]

31. Agreed. nt

[EstimatedProphet]

2. I'd agree with those.

[BOSSHOG]

3. Trent Lott's Senate seat will go Big (D) in November

[LynneSin]

5. Musgrove is looking sharp down there

seriously

[BOSSHOG]

9. One potential confusion factor down here for Bubba

Musgrove and Wicker look like twin brothers. I know pictures would be appropriate but I don't know how to do that. The "pundits" are suggesting that Obama may hurt Landrieu in LA but help Musgrove in MS. I have every confidence that Mary will kick Kennedy's ass.

[SpiralHawk]

14. Patriotic assist for my man, Bosshog: Wicker & Musgrove - TWINS

As classically trained Phrenologists and Barber Shop Pundits would agree: Ya gots your Good Twins, and then Ya gots your Evil Twins.

I prophesy that Good shall triumph over Evil. Maybe not this election cycle, but IN THE END (the love you take is equal to the love you make).

Wicker:


Musgrove:

[BOSSHOG]

15. Hey SpiralHawk

Thanks very much for the assist my friend. I remain technically challenged. Interesting and I hadn't noticed before; Wicker parts on the right and Musgrove on the left. Musgrove is far from my ideal candidate but he is a Barbara Streisand liberal compared to his opponent.

[Bake]

19. C'mon! Anybody can see that they part their hair on opposite sides!

:rofl:

Damn, though, they really do look a lot alike!

Bake

[onenote]

7. excellent!

[SpiralHawk]

12. Patriot's videotape scandal revealed as anti-patriotic Republicon Black Ops.

LOL.

[Bake]

18. From your fingertips to God's ears, Boss!!

How SUH-WEEEEEEEEEEEEEET would that be, for Musgrove to take Lott's seat??

If that happens, THE CHAMPAGNE'S ON ME!!

Bake

[BOSSHOG]

21. What's Champagne??

I'd prefer a nice import. Like Budweiser.

We could be some struttin sumbitch's on DU if Musgrove wins that election.

[Bake]

29. Actually, it was gonna be Bud anyway!

I have champagne taste but a beer budget! But if Musgrove takes this seat, you are correctamundo, we will be doin' some struttin'!!!!!!

Bake

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

4. I am gonna have to disagree on gas prices:

NYMEX Oil is down 4.10 today, to 120.63, Gas is at 3.00, both dropping, for August delivery. It ain't even lunchtime.

The air is leaving the energy bubble, because the air is leaving the large institutional investors, they recognize they have trashed the economy, and they need cash. Now.

On edit, regarding Obama: Something moved this week. Something changed with the MSM, when we found Andrea Mitchell, the NYT and others calling McCain a liar, essentially. Because the McCain campaign was calling the press liars on stories they had reported. In watching clips of Mitchell on TV, you could see real smoldering anger behind her eyes. Somehow, some way, something changed with this and it changed, subtly, the perceptions of the MSM.

Don't discount this. Mitchell is a tone-setter in the press. She has far more power than she deserves. But there you go.

[onenote]

6. hope you're right!

[El Pinko]

8. I agree with all your predictions except the stock market.

The market is going to go in the crapper big-time, but not as badly as our overall economy.

Sadly, if Obama wins, he will get much of the blame, even though he doesn't deserve it.

[Javaman]

10. I believe that Frank James will rise from the grave and lead us

all in a group sing-a-long that will culminate with the shrinking of the sun.

[SpiralHawk]

11. Commander AWOL will enjoy another month of taxpayer-funded vacation

at the Imperial Pig Farm Upon Crawford, thereby cementing his Guiness Book of World's Record #1 place as the most-thoroughly AWOL vacationed so-called Commander in Chief in all of eternity.

[ProfessorGAC]

13. I Must Agree, Of Course

Look at my sig line.
The Professor

[scheming daemons]

16. Wow... all of your predictions are actually probable events... way to go out on a limb

I predict the sun will come up tomorrow


:eyes:

[onenote]

17. well, around here, many of them are pretty controversial

I've seen predictions exactly opposite of everything I predicted, except for the Nationals not winning the World Series.

I'm actually surprised that someone hasn't predicted that the sun won't come up tomorrow.

[dysfunctional press]

20. john mccain will not be the republican candidate by election day.

nt

[onenote]

23. Damn, I forgot that one. My prediction: McCain will be the candidate on election day.

Thanks for reminding me!!

[SmileyRose]

25. My tin foil hat goes off every time I hear that one.

I keep waffling on whether to sign up for that one or not.

[flvegan]

22. I predict 7 of those will be flamewars on DU at some point in the future.

The Nationals one is sooooo obvious, it's not a prediction.

[onenote]

24. I felt, in the interest of DU harmony, to make one prediction everyone would agree on.

That was the only one I could think of.

[SmileyRose]

26. In 2008, I will not weigh the same as I did in high school.

Put your dimes on that.

[laststeamtrain]

27. I don't know what it will be called but...

...there will be a Social Democratic (or Democratic Socialist) political party in the US.

Once established it will very quickly become a major force in American politics.

Next year? Five years? Ten? Don't know. But it'll happen.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

28. Obama will pick another moderate as VP.

Unfortunately.

[SpiralHawk]

30. "August will be wicked pissah intense." - Ronald Reagan's Dead Republicon Astrologer*

* Courageously channeled by Ye Olde Spirale Hawk, who ingested the requisite 1/2 dozen lemon-cream doughnuts as a prophylactic measure to protect his precious bodily fluids before making eThEriC coNtAct with the vast netherworld of republicon occultism.

[DebJ]

32. A third state (other than Ohio or Florida) will have a vote counting

or voting nightmare.

[onenote]

33. Got a new one to add to my list:

Obama will not wait until after the convention has started to name his VP pick.

[Bobbie Jo]

34. I predict McHothead will have a temper tantrum on national TV...

I'm thinking around September...:mad:

[nam78_two]

35. Well

I think you are probably right about: 1,2,4,5 and 6.

You are probably right about 3 but I still hope that won't be the case. I am not so sure about 7. I have no idea what 8 is about.