If Kerry had won Ohio, would the world economy have crashed in 2008?

[pbrower2a]

By 2005 there was no way to prevent the economic meltdown of late 2007- early 2009. The corrupt practices were already entrenched, and nobody was going to undo them. 

Kerry would have been a one-term President. Whether the following Republican would also be a one-term President depends upon how long the meltdown lasted, and how quickly the recovery would happen.   

[pbrower2a]

"That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence built"

- Abraham Lincoln

Fake quote. Just so you know.