Presidential Election, April 2008

[The Reaper]

Originally Posted by Shar

But in the same vein, I'm getting really tired of the media and others throwing around this whole "conservatives can't see past voting for a black guy or a woman" thing. It's as if the media is getting ready to chalk a possible McCain win to America being too bigoted to vote for a woman or a black man. And that REALLY bothers me. I'm certainly not dumb enough to think that there aren't large portions of the country that still have issues voting outside of the 'white man' norm - but COME ON..

It is their talking point of the week, probably to try and capture the guilt ridden vote.

Don't worry, it will soon change to something else.

Just ask Randi Rhodes, spokesperson for the libs and Dems. Looks like a lot of haters on their side

TR

[CRad]

Originally Posted by Razor

Here, I'll do the research for accurate figures for you. From a post I wrote last month for a class comparing the cost of 29 days of military ops in OIF and OEF to the cost to rebuild NOLA to withstand a Cat 5 hurricane:

Thank you and I should have done my own research and better a job of it at that. I tend to "talk" on the computer the same way I would if we were face to face and often that doesn't include having facts and figures at my fingertips. 'Causes me to lose "discussions" with my husband on a regular basis.

(By the way, my mother-in-law says it's not nice to roll your eyes at people )

[nmap]

The Iowa Electronic Markets (run by the University of Iowa) runs a futures market of a sort. They use it as a research tool, and it has had some interesting successes in the past.

Right now, it seems to be predicting an Obama win of the nomination, followed by a Democratic win of the White House. The details, along with charts of the changes over time, are on the right of the linked page below.

There is no cost to look, nor is there any need to register.

LINK

My take - prepare for lots of inflation and higher taxes. Gold coins, such as those issued by the U.S. treasury, are nice. Raw land (no houses or other structures) is good too. CDs and bonds will receive yields below inflation - and that's before taxes. The stock market may go up. I note that Zimbabwe's market is up, despite inflation estimated at 100,000% per annum (that's one hundred thousand percent).

And yes, I recognize that opinions about the market are like certain other things...everyone has one.