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Question: The situation in Afghanistan in 2012...
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...will be bad and hurt Obama		  
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...will be bad but the media will ignore it to protect Obama		  
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...will be much improved and will fall off the radar like Iraq in 2008		  
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...won't matter because neither candidate will have a plan for it anyway		  
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...won't matter because Obama will abandon the country after July 2011		  
#6
...won't matter because the poor economy will completely dominate the election		  
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CJK
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« on: July 12, 2010, 06:49:58 PM »
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« Reply #1 on: July 12, 2010, 07:47:34 PM »
The media will protect it but it will have fallen on deaf ears of people who want change by then.
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« Reply #2 on: July 12, 2010, 08:58:16 PM »
I'm pretty sure Afghanistan won't have any electoral votes in the 2012 election. For the sake of your question I'll pretend it does. I think the social conservatives who voted for the Taliban in the 1996 Afghani elections will probably support the Republican party, although there might be some backlash against the Republicans due to the toppling of that regime. I guess we'll have to move it into the "too-close-to-call" column, although in the long run, the Age Wave will deliver it comfortably for the Democrats by about the 2024 election and all elections thereafter.
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« Reply #3 on: July 12, 2010, 09:01:39 PM »
"Afghanistan?  We're still there?  Oh, okay then.  No big deal."
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« Reply #4 on: July 12, 2010, 09:50:54 PM »
Obama will be badly hurt by Afghanistan if under his watch the U.S. occupation of the country ends and violence escalates.  However, if he keeps us on the current course the issue will be pretty minimal, as issues like the national debt will dominate the race.  2012 is going to be different than any other elections in our time because it will not be focused on issue-politics, rather the "issues" will be about the governmental philosophy of this nation and what role the government should play in the lives of the average American.   
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« Reply #5 on: July 12, 2010, 10:08:18 PM »
Option 3. It will improve like Iraq in 2007-8, and thus fall off the radar. The election will be dominated by more important issues like the economy and jobs.
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