Friday Fun: Predictions Thread
My Fellow Urbanagorians:
Post your predictions here, please don’t feel constrained to ‘08.
I’ll get us started:
National:
The Democratic Nominee will be John Edwards.
The Republican Nominee will be Mitt Romney.
Spouses will be more important in the Democratic primary than ever before – lots of jokes about Pres. Clinton in the White House with nothing to do. Mrs. Edwards will be the most inspiring candidates wife in history.
Though they will not be directly on the GOP payroll, in the 2008 election, in certain key states Democratic voters will be duped into thinking they can vote online by clever, but phoney county clerk websites. Q: “Did you vote” A: “Yeah, I already voted online this morning”
The Court will flirt with the notion of tampering with Roe v. Wade.
State:
Con-con – will toy with removing Constitutional protections for pensions, this will be met w/ overwhelming resistance.
Blagojevich will try again to sell the lotto.
Blagojevich’s legal woes will become a bigger and bigger story – the possibility of Quinn taking over will become real.
Local:
UIUC Chancellor Richard Herman will either make a move limiting speech on campus (while touting his free speech lovin’ credentials) or he will try to reduce the size, scope, and jurisdiction of student affairs, or he will get fired up about shooting down Unofficial again. The man needs something to demonize.
With the Chief retired, the University divesting from Darfur, the liberals on campus will be bored. They will finally get fired up about something relevant — the lack of minority representation in our faculty. Our Provost will handle the situation with grace and class.
Professor Ira Carmen will put on some of his greatest teaching performances yet leading up to the 2008 election (and they are performances).
The Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs will name Dean Farber to the Director of the Office of Student Conflict Resolution (OSCR), and will subsequently be embarrassed for doing so.
Champaign will make an effort to amend its smoking ban for certain bars, the effort will fail.
Comment by tet on 15 June 2007 at 12:50 pm:
Hmmm.
Hillary is Democratic Nominee, Fred Thompson Republican in 2008.
Hillary wins by landslide in Electoral College as Reagan Democrats vote Democratic once more.
Bush and Congress will, during 2007/2008, set new records in polling for the lowest approval ratings in American history. I expect them to both be below 20% by election day.
20% chance of the US starting a war with Iran by airstrikes on terrorist bases across border from Iraq. Hamas’s victory in Gaza is the beginning of a decade-long “Civil War” within Islam between the Persian Shi’ites and the more moderate Arab Sunnis that will put the whole region up in flames (fanned, of course, by the Saudi heretics.)
Fueled by immigration problems, the Republican Party as it is now will cease to exist. Replacing it, either de facto or de jure will be a new nativist/constutionalist/libertarian party that will cut the Northeastern Business wing of the party out and replace it with a populist wing. Evangelicals will show their strength by sitting out the 2008 election, believing (rightfully) that Thompson is just another George Bush clone, rather than a rebirth of Ronald Reagan.
Roe versus Wade’s continued existence is dependent on whether or not Bush successfully nominates a new replacement Supreme Court judge. Expect Democrats in the Senate to block or delay any appointments in hope of a victory in the 2008 election.
State: Money’ll be tight, but we’ve still got as large an economy as Mexico. We’ll work something out. Both Blagojevich and Daley will escape from any scandal as long as they stay in office.
Local: Champaign has rescinded the smoking ban for bars, last I heard. It will be rendered moot by the state ban at the beginning of the year.
The UofI will become better at obtaining its money from non-state sources. It will begin adjusting to the realities of the 21st Century. Unfortunately, a college education will continue to cost too much money.
Tom
Comment by Karen Pierce on 15 June 2007 at 8:20 pm:
Democrats: Hillary Clinton
Republicans: Rudy Guilani
Rudy will win–the Christian Right won’t vote for him, but socially liberal and fiscally conservative people like me will.
Dick Durbin wins in a landslide.
Melissa Bean may or may not win.
American troops will leave Iraq and the Middle East will go up in flames–not because we left but because it cannot be stopped.
Illinois will just keep meandering along.
Smokers will start drinking at home where they can smoke and bars will start serving vegetarian food to attract yuppies to make up for the lost smokers.
Chicago will lose the foi gras ban (if they haven’t already) and transfats will remain legal.
Comment by Hanno on 17 June 2007 at 7:44 pm:
Rocks will fall, all will die!
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