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

[leonard-arlotte.livejournal.com]

Trouble is, my friend, that while you are a rational and mostly sane individual, most people who feel strongly enough about their beliefs to argue about them on the Internet are so fanatical about those beliefs that they take any argument against them as a personal attack. Then they go batshit crazy and start spouting Latin at you, attacking the style of your argument instead of the actual words you said.

I don't like arguing with religious zealots, so I don't make the effort to discuss politics. It only ends in hurt feelings.

Every time.