Pyat makes a political prediction!

[pyat]

I predict John McCain will probably win the election down south, though perhaps by an inconcievably narrow margin. It strikes me that both sides draw support from very stratified classes of voters, and the numbers don't change much. (I ignore, for now, the possibility of coordinated voting fraud, though I do not think it a zany conspiracy theory. That sort of thing happens around the world, all the time.)

That said, choosing Palin as a veep will at least make the shallower sort of Republican happier about voting for McCain, because she's young(ish) and personable, and has never, ever sang "Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran" to the tune of "Barbara Ann".

Comments

[momentrabbit.livejournal.com]

And she'll make the anti-science crowd happy, too. So that's something.

[madmanofprague.livejournal.com]

Anti-paleobiology. Rocket science still gets lots of funding!

[momentrabbit.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but that's only those short-range rockets! I want the ones that go to Mars, or the Moon. They're more interested in the ones that travel halfway around the world, at most.

[madmanofprague.livejournal.com]

You can't run an SUV on moonrocks!

[relee.livejournal.com]

But you can run an SUV on the moon, with certain modifications!

[madmanofprague.livejournal.com]

Now all we need is a Moon-McMansion and a Moon-Mall to drive the SUV between!