Who will win the election - POLL

[mrspunkysmom]

I posted this prediction on another forum:

Pres Obama will narrowly win re-election.

43 seats in Congress will change hands, but it will either be a wash or a slight gain for the Democrats, yielding another 2 years of fools like Chairman Issa in control of the house.

As such, the hyper partisan atmosphere will continue, and absolutely nothing will change.

My longer term prediction is that in 2014, 50-75% of the electorate will simply forget that the actually important offices (those of the Congress) are up for vote again, and 25% of the population will again decide who has the reins of power, yielding another 2 years of stagnation by a group of supposed leaders mroe concerned with party than country.

I so agree. I wonder if a multi-party system would encourage more cooperation.

[david p]

I think the election will be close, but Mit Romney I think will emerge the winner. A lot of people in this country have lost faith in Obama.

[pomtzu]

A lot of people in this country have lost faith in Obama.

But isn't that the way it always is? People vote in a new president, and then expect miracles to happen almost overnight, and when they don't (of course), then they get the mindset of "kick the bum out and get Mr New President in here and he'll do the job right". Oh sure.........don't we wish it was that simple??? The only thing that's simple, is the way of thinking of these people.

[Karen]

I will be glad when the election season is over, and I get fewer calls for political robocallers, and this time around, I have even gotten junk mail - I mean ads - from both sides of the close Senate contest. I usually don't get much, as I am registered as an "unenrolled" voter, which when I first did it, meant I got virtually NO junk mail, which was great! For a short time, someone had mistakenly put me down as one party, and I got swamped, I quickly went to City Hall and switched back to "unenrolled" as in, "I'll vote how I want to vote, thanks!"

[pomtzu]

I will be glad when the election season is over, and I get fewer calls for political robocallers, and this time around, I have even gotten junk mail - I mean ads - from both sides of the close Senate contest. I usually don't get much, as I am registered as an "unenrolled" voter, which when I first did it, meant I got virtually NO junk mail, which was great! For a short time, someone had mistakenly put me down as one party, and I got swamped, I quickly went to City Hall and switched back to "unenrolled" as in, "I'll vote how I want to vote, thanks!"

I'm with ya, Karen, as I'm not registered as a Democrat or Republican either, so I get the junk mail and calls from all parties. And as far as who I vote for - I just say "the lesser of the 2 evils"!

[david p]

I, for one, can't wait for november 7th because all those political commercials will FINALLY be off my tv screen!

[Steve Arnold]

I keep the television off most of the time now, the commercials are driving me crazy. Iowa is a swing state and the polls show a tight race here, so we are bombarded. It was reported that there are 1558 political commercials on Iowa television every day. Not to mention the fact that Obama, Romney, Ryan and Biden are all practically living here - all for six electoral votes.