I think Mitt gets the GOP nod but he chooses Tim Pawlenty for the Veep spot. Allen West is an interesting choice and would give Biden a run for gaffs but I think that after a long primary of tacking hard right to try and appeal to primary voters, Romney will have to chose a more centrist VP to reaffirm the non-threatening image that he's been trying trying to run away from. West would satisfy social issues voters on the right but do you think the general election will really be fought on social issues?
I think Biden stays. Hillary is stepping down at the end of the term but I think she'd do better stepping out of the limelight for a bit and building elsewhere if she really wants to run in 2016. Wouldn't be surprised to see Holden opt out of a second term (if Obama wins) but I don't think he resigns in disgrace. Fast and Furious seems like the mostly likely candidate to bring him down and I think they've waded through the bulk of that and nothing big has stuck. I'm not happy with his recent pronouncements on the legal rational for extra-judicial killings and I'd love to see people keep fighting for FOIA access to the real documents. But if torture didn't take down an AG in the Bush admin, I just don't see how this would take down Holder as much as I might like it to. Affordable Care Act gets largely punted by the Supreme Court. They'll rule the individual mandate constitutional, probably invalidate a couple bits here and there and then say that a lot of it lacks timeliness because the main provisions don't take effect until 2014 and you can't sue without showing injury. I think Obama wins in the general election by at least 3% popular vote and 100 electoral votes and, in particular, he takes Ohio which seals the deal. Democrats hold the Senate, barely, with Angus King stepping in as an independent in Maine and caucusing with the Ds Republicans hold the House but Democrats regain some of the ground they lost in the mid-terms, picking up 20 seats. Multi-national force heads to Syria. Status quo rules on Iran. Cheers, Judah ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:348448 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
