DSM predicts...
- Obama wins 380 electoral votes, picking up all the western toss-ups including Arizona, Montana and North Dakota. Popular vote margin is 9%. Senate yields eight new Democratic seats; House 31 seats. One Democratic gubernatorial pickup, in Missouri. Sadly, Mitch McConnell remains a senator.
- Media call it historic victory for racial symbolism and pragmatic centrism.
- Media spend a few enjoyable weeks autopsying the Republican party.
- Republicans spend a few enjoyable weeks attacking each other over who sank the Titanic and who needs to step aside.
- Every person who thinks the election was really about them and their demographic calls it a victory for them and their demographic. This will be especially grating coming from the baby boomer left, which call it the culmination of their Sixties dream.
- McCain congratulates the victor and pretends he ran an honorable campaign.
- Republican loyalists attack McCain for same pretense.
- Obama calls for unity, nominates highly placed Republican for cabinet: For example, Nebraska’s Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense. A smarter pick would be one of Maine’s two Republican senators, Snowe or Collins, allowing a Democratic governor to replace her with a Democratic Senator. Also makes symbolic reconciliation gesture by vowing no investigations of Bush administration law-breakers.
- Now-former McCain campaign staffers set up “The Real Obama Research Center” devoted to drafting articles of impeachment.
- GWB makes perfunctory congratulations speech, and starts to lay legislative land mines that will prevent the incoming Democratic admistration from accomplishing anything.
- Dick Cheney has a fatal heart attack while strangling reporter who asks if his endorsement of McCain threw the election to Obama.
- Dwight McGraw and his sausage posse whoop it up tomorrow night.
- Same group becomes gradually disillusioned as hangover sets in and inherent centrism of Democratic party manifests; spends much of the next four years reminding selves that this is “better than Bush.”
Posted on Monday, November 3, 2008 at 10:09AM
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Dwight “Sausage” McGraw
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He is unable to change legislation since he isn't in Congress and the Demos control both Houses and won't pass his bills.