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[Joe Biden 2020]

Where do you think we'll be in the campaign season one year from now (say, April 1, 2008)?  What changes will the new president have made by April 1, 2009?  April 1, 2010?  Will the 2010 mid-terms start gearing up by April 1, 2009?  How about the 2012 Presidential race?

My guess, and everyone knows, that we will be deep into the general election season one year from now and a whole bunch of mud will already have been slung and characters will be shot and torn apart and eaten by the media lions.  I think if the new President is a Democrat, we'll be starting to come home, or close to, by April 1, 2009 and completely home by April 1, 2010.  If the new President is a Republican, we'll probably still be going full throttle in Iraq, maybe starting to come home by April 1, 2010.  I think we'll see the 2010 mid-term campaigns and the 2012 presidential race start up very early this time around.  Maybe as soon as the 2008 primaries end.

[Jeff556]

The only way anything major is going to change is if someone like Ron Paul is elected president. The Republican party is completley out of tune with the American public and the Democrats have already shown that they don't know where they stand on Iraq and even if they did they lack the courage to stand up to the president as he lurches from one folly to the next. 

The presidential election is now a sad popularity contest where only big names like Clinton and Bush get any attention from the media and the public is left with a choice of big goverment democrats or big goverment republicans. These candidates are so out of tune with real issues that they can't even write their own speeches, so they just read of the paper that the banker elites give them.

Unless the American people wake up and stop buying into this presidential puppet show, our country is on its way to a V-for-vendetta-like police state. The North American Union and National ID cards with RFID chips in them is only the begining.

 

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Because the GOP has so few unpledged delegates and so many will be selected on Mega Tuesday, by April 1 2008 the GOP will be locked into having a second ballot at its convention meaning that a dark horse or compromise candidate that didn't even suffer the agonies of the primary season could emerge the nominee.  By contrast, the Democrats greater proportion of unpledged delegates means that they will be better able to avoid a dragged out nomination battle, assuming the party leadership unites to anoint a single candidate.

By April 1, 2009, the Democratic President will have started to bring the troops home from Iraq.

By April 1, 2010, Secretary of State Clinton will have been fired after a sex scandal that serves to distract attention from the New Hampshire primary that is being held later that month.