Who do you expect to be President on January 21st, 2013?

[Lief 🗽]

Barry.

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

Barry.

Goldwater, Jr.?

Not likely, but a good choice nonethless.

[You kip if you want to...]

I am really going to go out on a limb and say

President - Governor Mitch Daniels of Indiana
Vice President - Governor Jan Brewer of Arizona

The first time since 1912 that a ticket of two Governors was elected.

No one would pick an unelected Governor as their VP.

[You kip if you want to...]

A Republican that we aren't naming right now.

A stealth candidate presented as a "moderate" because he has no legislative record or an obscure one? Someone now an attorney general or secretary-of-state of a small state state senator?

That just gives the Democrats Republicans a great campaign slogan about the stealth candidate:

You know President Obama Senator McCain -- but do you really know (name name) Barack Obama? 

If people are comfortable with Obama Bushand the GOP in 2012 2008, then they will re-elect him elect John McCain.

To be fair, it's not the most perfect strategy...

[Zarn]

Not only that, but I don't even think Obama is all that comfortable with himself as president... let alone anyone else.

[Lincoln Republican]

I am really going to go out on a limb and say

President - Governor Mitch Daniels of Indiana
Vice President - Governor Jan Brewer of Arizona

The first time since 1912 that a ticket of two Governors was elected.

No one would pick an unelected Governor as their VP.

I am assuming that Jan Brewer wins her own term in 2010.  She is running as the GOP candidate for the 2010 election.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

I am really going to go out on a limb and say

President - Governor Mitch Daniels of Indiana
Vice President - Governor Jan Brewer of Arizona

The first time since 1912 that a ticket of two Governors was elected.

No one would pick an unelected Governor as their VP.

I am assuming that Jan Brewer wins her own term in 2010.  She is running as the GOP candidate for the 2010 election.

She's in difficult position right now.

[You kip if you want to...]

I am really going to go out on a limb and say

President - Governor Mitch Daniels of Indiana
Vice President - Governor Jan Brewer of Arizona

The first time since 1912 that a ticket of two Governors was elected.

No one would pick an unelected Governor as their VP.

I am assuming that Jan Brewer wins her own term in 2010.  She is running as the GOP candidate for the 2010 election.

She's in difficult position right now.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

I do agree McDonnell does have a very impressive resume.

He'd have been Governor for less than 2 years when he runs for President.  Hardly impressive.

[You kip if you want to...]

I do agree McDonnell does have a very impressive resume.

He'd have been Governor for less than 2 years when he runs for President.  Hardly impressive.

...Didn't stop Barack Obama.

[Lunar]

I do agree McDonnell does have a very impressive resume.

He'd have been Governor for less than 2 years when he runs for President.  Hardly impressive.

...Didn't stop Barack Obama.

Obama had an extra year.  Don't tell me that extra year wasn't important.  If Obama had assumed office at the beginning of 2006 instead of 2005, he wouldn't have been able to run for president.

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

I do agree McDonnell does have a very impressive resume.

He'd have been Governor for less than 2 years when he runs for President.  Hardly impressive.

...Didn't stop Barack Obama.

Obama had an extra year.  Don't tell me that extra year wasn't important.  If Obama had assumed office at the beginning of 2006 instead of 2005, he wouldn't have been able to run for president.

Obama was campaigning for president since before he even got into the Senate...

[Lunar]

...which is why that extra year is even more important.  It would have been far harder for him to succeed if he had been elected in a November 2005 election.

[Beet]

I think there's about a 55 percent change that Obama wins again.

But a lot depends on who the Republicans nominate and, to a greater degree than in the past, how the campaigns are run. My guesstimate is that the modern media revolution is not done in its influence on political outcomes, and we'll see further deepening and broadening of that in 2012... Social networking and technology continues to open up fertile new ground to campaign managers to innovate and control their strategies far beyond what the 20th century managers and strategists were able to do.

[Oakvale]

Barack Obama. I think it's pretty likely he'd have won re-election by a considerable margin, too.

[hawkeye59]

Barack Obama.

[Devilman88]

A Republican that we aren't naming right now.

A stealth candidate presented as a "moderate" because he has no legislative record or an obscure one? Someone now an attorney general or secretary-of-state of a small state state senator?

That just gives the Democrats Republicans a great campaign slogan about the stealth candidate:

You know President Obama Senator McCain -- but do you really know (name name) Barack Obama? 

If people are comfortable with Obama Bushand the GOP in 2012 2008, then they will re-elect him elect John McCain.

To be fair, it's not the most perfect strategy...

I'm glad you said it so I didn't have to.

[You kip if you want to...]

A Republican that we aren't naming right now.

A stealth candidate presented as a "moderate" because he has no legislative record or an obscure one? Someone now an attorney general or secretary-of-state of a small state state senator?

That just gives the Democrats Republicans a great campaign slogan about the stealth candidate:

You know President Obama Senator McCain -- but do you really know (name name) Barack Obama? 

If people are comfortable with Obama Bushand the GOP in 2012 2008, then they will re-elect him elect John McCain.

To be fair, it's not the most perfect strategy...

I'm glad you said it so I didn't have to.

Yeah, I think even i'd desert Obama if he started using Sarah Palin-esque "ZOMG!!1 BiLL AYYRres1!" sorta tactics.

[Democratic Hawk]

If the economy has rebounded nicely, there are no unpopular foreign wars and no major scandals, directly implicating the president, I fully expect Barack Obama to be President on 21st January, 2013

Failing that, it will be some Republican

[Middle-aged Europe]

Robert Byrd. He'll be designated survivor on Inauguration Day.

Seriously though... Obama or Romney.

[ScottM]

Whoever wins the Republican nomination.

[milhouse24]

john ellis bush

[nhmagic]

I am really going to go out on a limb and say

President - Governor Mitch Daniels of Indiana
Vice President - Governor Jan Brewer of Arizona

The first time since 1912 that a ticket of two Governors was elected.

No one would pick an unelected Governor as their VP.

I am assuming that Jan Brewer wins her own term in 2010.  She is running as the GOP candidate for the 2010 election.

She's in difficult position right now.

Seconded, there's no way in hell that she's making it past the primary.

[Anthony]

Hopefully, if unemployment continues to fall, and if the economy begins to create jobs, it will be Barack Obama.

john ellis bush

You're joking, right? Not on January 20th, 2013. Maybe on January 20th, 2017, but that's a BIG maybe.

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

Someone who is not Barack Obama. Thankfully.