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There's no guarantee that Obama will win 2012.
The polls are too close right now. Obama has a slight lead, but conservatives will be much more likely to turn out than liberals and progressives.
And the Republicans are positioned to strip votes from their opponents in the key battleground states!
So, assuming Obama does prevail (big assumption), will we see a Paul Ryan-Rand Paul ticket in 2016?
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)The Corporate State won't support an antiwar, pro-(mostly financial) "civil liberties," anti-bailout loose cannon,
and
The left would never support such a racist, generally wacked-out misbegotten son of a Tea Partier and Ayn Rand.
MariaM83
(233 posts)and I wasn't asking if Ryan-Paul would actually win.
I was just suggesting that that might be a likely ticket running against the Dems.
CK_John
(10,005 posts)to get us out of 60% percent unemployment depression, drought stricken, and flooded coastal cities.
Things probably won't be this bad but it is closer than Ryan having a second chance.
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)They get their marching orders from Rush, Beck, Hannity & the like, and the latter are directly serving the interests of the Big Money people who actually run things. Those are the people who are happy with Romney's pro-war, pro-military, anti-regulatory, anti-tax, anti-environmental positions. For them, the other issues--abortion, guns, fundamentalist religion, racism, etc. are merely tools they use to hypnotize the Baggers into stupidly going along with whatever facilitates the ongoing ripoff by the .001%. They use all those "conservative issues" as valves by which they control, regulate & aim the hate, rage & fear of the Baggers.
MariaM83
(233 posts)with all the better choices for their side?
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)Jeez, the Grinch, Sanitarium, Raisin Cain
Mitt is the trustworthy one--they know he'll do what they buy him to do.
rustydog
(9,186 posts)The polls really do not matter. Obama will have the electoral college votes. 2nd term coming your way.
99Forever
(14,524 posts)Believing this steaming pile:
"The polls are too close right now."
Close elections sell ad space and time. Known blowouts don't.
Do the math.
MariaM83
(233 posts)99Forever
(14,524 posts)blogslut
(38,019 posts)I love election season.
dionysus
(26,467 posts)JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)If he wins you can expect an even more extremist choice next time.
MariaM83
(233 posts)somebody like Huckabee might have been almost informidable
LAGC
(5,330 posts)The only ones who would turn out and vote for him are the Christo-Fascist theocrats of the ultra-conservative right.
Independents would flee in droves, it would be a Democratic landslide like never seen before, it would make 1996 Clinton-Dole look like amateur night.
HUCKABEE!
Chorophyll
(5,179 posts)abolugi
(417 posts)you little ray of sunshine you...
dionysus
(26,467 posts)Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)Republicans out
MariaM83
(233 posts)Rachel Maddow was discussing this on msnbc tonight.
It don't matter what the polls say if they steal the votes.
(from this article
http://jacksonville.com/news/florida/2012-08-27/story/democratic-registration-all-dries-new-florida-laws )
gkhouston
(21,642 posts)Chorophyll
(5,179 posts)No to everything you just said.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)Party.
If they think it will be close look to see the GOTV organization of the Rep Party in Florida, Ohio, N Carolina, Nevada to fold up and go home.
They will want an electoral college landslide so that the party will turn to Jeb.