Bin Laden Dead- What Happens Now?

[Donald Trump’s Toupée]

This has no implications on the election. He'll get a small bump that will last for a couple months, kind of like the Gifford thing, and then he'll be back to where he is now.

OBL is irrelevant. This is an inconsequential, although symbolic, victory. In 2004, OBL was seen as relevant, and if this happened then Bush would have won by a much bigger margin. But that was a much different time.

If people don't have jobs, paying $5 for gas, still sceptical about the rammed health care bill, concerned about the defecit, etc....people won't give a damn about this. I'd rather have a job and have OBL alive irrelevantly living in a mansion in Pakistan, than having him dead and a bad economy.

It looks good on Obama's resume, but he can't run a campaign simply on "I killed OBL, so vote for me" and expect to win. At the end of the day, the electorate will vote on economic conditions.