November 2008
Predictions about the likely outcome of the US election. And once Obama looks like he's won, predictions about the likely direction of the Obama administration.
"The fact is that all of the dire predictions each side has made about the other can only partially come true because the genius of our system is that nothing stupid can happen very quickly." Fred Weinberg, Whoever wins gets Herblock's Clean Shave (Penny Press Las Vegas, Vol 6 No 6, 30 October 2008)
"Obama may turn out to be less red in the practice of his presidency than his words and aspirations would imply." Robert Peston, Obama shackled by Debt (BBC News, 5 November 2008)
"The Democrats will owe their widened mandate to the success of some
centrist and conservative Democrats elected in formerly red states and
districts, and Obama and his Congressional partners will have to bring
them along, too. The challenge, of course, is not letting those
people drive the agenda, strangle the opportunities for change, and
alienate the energized base that elected Obama, and created this
momentum for a really different politics. We can't let the Village take
over again." Joan Walsh, Election Day Blogging (Salon, 4 November 2008)
"The political Establishment of both parties is ideologically loyal to conservative corporatism. Indeed, that is the power of money -- the power of the hostile takeover, if you will. And that means the uprising that this election season has stoked will need to become all the more intense starting tomorrow if we are to make sure a (hopefully) President-elect Obama doesn't spend the first days after the election constructing another conservative Presidency -- only this time, building it with bricks and mortar marked 'progressive'." David Sirota, Election Day Blogging (Salon, 4 November 2008)
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