Make a prediction that will not look stupid four years from now.

[sentinel]

     I doubt she would. No sitting President has ever been successfully primaried, though some have come close. Maybe if Obama's first term proves to be a disaster she'll go for it, but otherwise I expect she would wait until 2016. She's probably hoping that Biden runs with Obama again in 2012 since that would leave the Democratic field wide open for 2016.

Millard Fillmore.

He wasn't primaried.

There weren't "primaries" like we have now, but he still did not manage to get renominated by the Democratic Party.

[segwaystyle2012]

Obama winning in 2012.

[pbrower2a]

Both current Senators in Nevada will either retire to avoid defeat or have been defeated.

[DS0816]

I will make a prediction for next Tuesday...Coakley wins the senate election.

If the late Edward Kennedy's Massachusetts Senate seat is won [Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010] by the Republican candidate, Scott Brown, over Kennedy's Democratic would-be successor, Martha Coakley … it will be the race that serves as a harbinger of what will turn out to be a 2010 midterm-wave election.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

     AZ probably. Considering that the nominee will probably be someone rather far to the right of McCain, I could see Obama picking up MO, MT & ND as well. Even AK if Palin is nowhere on the ticket.

Montana rather trend to be anti-incumbent and is not really good place for Democrats like Obama. He had a chance in 2008. I don't see ND flipped, unless GOP picks someone horribly unelectable.

Alaska? Possibly, as before Palin selection it was momentary a tie or even Obama lead. Without McCain, I can see AZ going to Democrats as well.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Wasn't Teddy Roosevelt successfully beaten out of the primaries?
Anyway, I honestly don't think she'll wait till 2016, if she doesn't run in 2012, she's going to make a dive for the governor's mansion at the first opportunity she gets, knowing she is damaged goods if she just gives up.

1. He was ex-President already
2. He was not primaried, he was beaten at convention. Primaries have a deciding role since 1968.

I don't forsee any major challenge to Obama.

2012 is somewhat a replay of 1912, as Romney wins the GOP nomination over Palin. In spite of this, Palin is propelled to launch an independent campaign, and the divisions lead to a massive Obama victory.

Romney is so overrated and his chance to be Republican standard bearer passed in 2008.

President Franklin Pierce. Lost the Democratic nomination in 1856.

Again, he was not primaried, there were no primaries back then.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

In 2011 due to a freak boating accident Barack Obama has to be cryogenically frozen in a super-secret lab underneath an active volcano. Scientific researchers then discover that Barack's body was almost entirely made out of corn syrup. These researchers worked around the clock tried to prevent him (or rather the syrup he was made out of) from solidifying. This partially failed leading to a discovery of a new element out of the remnants of Obama's DNA, a sugary-like foodstuff which was known when consumed to reduce people to tears or diabetes depending on the person's constitution.

Zombie Biden (he also died in the boating accident) defeats a televangelist who moonlights as a porn star who won the republican nomination promising that when caught and found out for his indiscrections he would impeach himself before dramatically suicide on the floor on congress by allowing a hooker to strangle him using an American flag. But Biden's "no brains" platform, words he constantly mumbled during the campaign, were a winner to the American people who finally it was time to put an intellectual in the white house.

[pbrower2a]

Obama wins in 2012 -- every state that he won by at least 9% in 2008.

[Psychic Octopus]

Palin isn't the nominee.

[Хahar 🤔]

     I doubt she would. No sitting President has ever been successfully primaried, though some have come close. Maybe if Obama's first term proves to be a disaster she'll go for it, but otherwise I expect she would wait until 2016. She's probably hoping that Biden runs with Obama again in 2012 since that would leave the Democratic field wide open for 2016.

Millard Fillmore.

He wasn't primaried.

There weren't "primaries" like we have now, but he still did not manage to get renominated by the Democratic Party.

The circumstances were very different.

[The Mikado]

Epic bump so people can make fun of my and everyone else's terrible predictions from a nearly two years ago (though I was right about Canada, at least). 

[Mr. Morden]

Epic bump so people can make fun of my and everyone else's terrible predictions from a nearly two years ago (though I was right about Canada, at least). 

You said a minority Conservative government.  But it's a majority government.

Also, J.J. was right about the GOP winning 30+ seats in 2010.

[King]

DWTL won this thread.

[Yelnoc]

We will have to have one of these after the 2012 election.

[Dereich]

Dear God, some of these 2010 predictions are painfully hilarious.

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Republicans will make major gains (30+ seats) in 2010 and gain seats in 2012.  

Doubtful.  Possible if Obama and co. really f**k up.

Obama has the mad skills there.

[Joe Biden is your president. Deal with it.]

In 2011

The GOP will not make up their minds on who to choose it will be a more dramatic replay of the "Obama/Clinton drama.

By the time they choose someone it will be a little late with obama having a huge lead ahead.





In 2012...

Obama will win reelection by a bigger margin than 2008

The democrats will take back the house and increase the seats in the senate.

[LastVoter]

Prediction:

Obama will govern as a right of center panderer

Best prediction in this thread.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

I think, at least, My prediction for the Republicans seems increasingly accurate.

[SUSAN CRUSHBONE]

I'll guess that four years from now, Obama is finishing his second term and both parties are having long, drawn-out primaries (with neither Biden nor Clinton running).

Also, at least 4 of Govs. Walker, Kasich, Snyder, Corbett, and Scott will all have lost either recalls or reelection.

[Simfan34]

Brian Schweitzer will be of no consequence to the 2016 race.

[sentinel]

The American flag will look exactly the same as it does now.

[FloridaRepublican]

In 2011

The GOP will not make up their minds on who to choose it will be a more dramatic replay of the "Obama/Clinton drama.

By the time they choose someone it will be a little late with obama having a huge lead ahead.





In 2012...

Obama will win reelection by a bigger margin than 2008

The democrats will take back the house and increase the seats in the senate.

But seriously though...

[Lincoln Republican]

Henry Kissinger endorses Herman Cain for President.

Oh, sorry, you said that will not look stupid didn't you.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

The American flag will look exactly the same as it does now.

While unlikely, Puerto Rican statehood within four years is not out of the question, especially if deficit cutting causes the Federal government to cut back on the benefits that it send to Puerto Rico as a Commonwealth.  A good deal of the support for the status quo in Puerto Rico is due to the perception that Statehood would hurt the island economically.  If that perception is removed, I think a Statehood referendum would pass, and both the Democrats and the Republicans are on record as supporting Puerto Rican Statehood if they ask for it.