Home prices down 15-18%
Foreclosures reach record highs by Q2

Home prices down 15-18%
Foreclosures reach record highs by Q2

Economy tanks, housing market continues to slide and Obama wins the Presidency by a landslide. I am a Republican living in Iowa and watched the recent caucuses very closely. Young voters came out in masses to vote for him, and many Republicans I know – especially moderate ones – changed their registrations and voted for Obama. He’s gone from tied w/Hillary to up 10% in one day in New Hampshire, and just wait for South Carolina where 50% of the democratic electorate is black.

The headlines between now and the South Carolina primaries will be the massive shift in the polls of the black vote that will swing to Obama from Hillary there. Prior endorsements aside, if you are black – leader or not – you don’t want to be on the wrong side of history. On the GOP side, who’s going to stop him? At a time when the electorate is fed up with the status quo, fed up with Bush, fed up with Congress, losing their jobs and houses etc. – Obama rides in with youth, vigor, intelligence, charisma and no real specifics other than ‘hope’, ‘change’ and and the ‘dawning of a new tomorrow’.

The specifics will come once he takes office in the form of higher taxes, national healthcare and a radical liberal agenda to placate his base. He has never been in charge of anything in his life other than law review and his own campaign staff, so watching him run the largest, most powerful country on earth and negotiating eye to eye with the likes of Vladimir Putin should be interesting. ‘Hope’, ‘change’ – it is so intoxicating. He sounds just like Martin Luter King (ref his Iowa victory speech), is likable, and the last thing we need is another evangelical elected (ref Iowa coffee house chatter I overheard nearly every day).

And so begins a tsunami shift in political power that will be touted as a new era in politics – a day when the Gen Xers and Millineals grabbed power from the boomers and WWII generation (I can see the headlines already), and also a day when a quarter century of Republican coalitions built around social conservatives, economic conservatives and defense hawks offically collapsed.

As you may have guessed, I’m guessing this will not be a very good year:) To quote a more liberal relative of mine, “You can have all the experience in the world, and still not know how to run the White House.” Faulty logic – but one that I believe will deliver the Presidency to Obama.

Economy tanks, housing market continues to slide and Obama wins the Presidency by a landslide. I am a Republican living in Iowa and watched the recent caucuses very closely. Young voters came out in masses to vote for him, and many Republicans I know – especially moderate ones – changed their registrations and voted for Obama. He’s gone from tied w/Hillary to up 10% in one day in New Hampshire, and just wait for South Carolina where 50% of the democratic electorate is black.

The headlines between now and the South Carolina primaries will be the massive shift in the polls of the black vote that will swing to Obama from Hillary there. Prior endorsements aside, if you are black – leader or not – you don’t want to be on the wrong side of history. On the GOP side, who’s going to stop him? At a time when the electorate is fed up with the status quo, fed up with Bush, fed up with Congress, losing their jobs and houses etc. – Obama rides in with youth, vigor, intelligence, charisma and no real specifics other than ‘hope’, ‘change’ and and the ‘dawning of a new tomorrow’.

The specifics will come once he takes office in the form of higher taxes, national healthcare and a radical liberal agenda to placate his base. He has never been in charge of anything in his life other than law review and his own campaign staff, so watching him run the largest, most powerful country on earth and negotiating eye to eye with the likes of Vladimir Putin should be interesting. ‘Hope’, ‘change’ – it is so intoxicating. He sounds just like Martin Luter King (ref his Iowa victory speech), is likable, and the last thing we need is another evangelical elected (ref Iowa coffee house chatter I overheard nearly every day).

And so begins a tsunami shift in political power that will be touted as a new era in politics – a day when the Gen Xers and Millineals grabbed power from the boomers and WWII generation (I can see the headlines already), and also a day when a quarter century of Republican coalitions built around social conservatives, economic conservatives and defense hawks offically collapsed.

As you may have guessed, I’m guessing this will not be a very good year:) To quote a more liberal relative of mine, “You can have all the experience in the world, and still not know how to run the White House.” Faulty logic – but one that I believe will deliver the Presidency to Obama.

Economy tanks, housing market continues to slide and Obama wins the Presidency by a landslide. I am a Republican living in Iowa and watched the recent caucuses very closely. Young voters came out in masses to vote for him, and many Republicans I know – especially moderate ones – changed their registrations and voted for Obama. He’s gone from tied w/Hillary to up 10% in one day in New Hampshire, and just wait for South Carolina where 50% of the democratic electorate is black.

The headlines between now and the South Carolina primaries will be the massive shift in the polls of the black vote that will swing to Obama from Hillary there. Prior endorsements aside, if you are black – leader or not – you don’t want to be on the wrong side of history. On the GOP side, who’s going to stop him? At a time when the electorate is fed up with the status quo, fed up with Bush, fed up with Congress, losing their jobs and houses etc. – Obama rides in with youth, vigor, intelligence, charisma and no real specifics other than ‘hope’, ‘change’ and and the ‘dawning of a new tomorrow’.

The specifics will come once he takes office in the form of higher taxes, national healthcare and a radical liberal agenda to placate his base. He has never been in charge of anything in his life other than law review and his own campaign staff, so watching him run the largest, most powerful country on earth and negotiating eye to eye with the likes of Vladimir Putin should be interesting. ‘Hope’, ‘change’ – it is so intoxicating. He sounds just like Martin Luter King (ref his Iowa victory speech), is likable, and the last thing we need is another evangelical elected (ref Iowa coffee house chatter I overheard nearly every day).

And so begins a tsunami shift in political power that will be touted as a new era in politics – a day when the Gen Xers and Millineals grabbed power from the boomers and WWII generation (I can see the headlines already), and also a day when a quarter century of Republican coalitions built around social conservatives, economic conservatives and defense hawks offically collapsed.

As you may have guessed, I’m guessing this will not be a very good year:) To quote a more liberal relative of mine, “You can have all the experience in the world, and still not know how to run the White House.” Faulty logic – but one that I believe will deliver the Presidency to Obama.

Great piece Juice!

I am a Gen Xr and I am an Independent. I was going to vote for Giuliani when it looked almost certain that Hillary was going to be the Democratic nominee. But, you can’t compete with “Obama rides in with youth, vigor, intelligence, charisma and no real specifics other than ‘hope’, ‘change’ and and the ‘dawning of a new tomorrow’.” I believe Giuliani is a take charge and get things done kind of guy, but Obama has peaked my interest with what you wrote. It will be a tough decision when it comes down to November, if your prediction is correct.

Great piece Juice!

I am a Gen Xr and I am an Independent. I was going to vote for Giuliani when it looked almost certain that Hillary was going to be the Democratic nominee. But, you can’t compete with “Obama rides in with youth, vigor, intelligence, charisma and no real specifics other than ‘hope’, ‘change’ and and the ‘dawning of a new tomorrow’.” I believe Giuliani is a take charge and get things done kind of guy, but Obama has peaked my interest with what you wrote. It will be a tough decision when it comes down to November, if your prediction is correct.