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Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
Sun Aug 30, 2015, 10:38 PM Aug 2015

Prediction on Jan 2017?

Just a slight premonition (bookmark me)

Bernie keeps on fighting the good fight in the Senate.

Hillary starts a political consulting firm.

Trump starts a new reality show "Presidential Apprentice"

Jeb goes back to whatever inane thing he was doing before.

And Joseph Biden becomes our new president with Bill Richardson as VP.


P.S. Not necessarily what I want will happen, but what I think might happen.

You?

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Nye Bevan

(25,406 posts)
2. Remember in 2004 when it was all about Dean and Clark,
Sun Aug 30, 2015, 10:47 PM
Aug 2015

and then Kerry came out of nowhere and swept to the nomination? Your scenario is definitely not out of the realm of possibility.

 

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
4. Yup...and I think about Dean and how he took a nose dive for some stupid "hoot" at a
Sun Aug 30, 2015, 10:50 PM
Aug 2015

campaign rally and compare that to the schlop Trump is doing. wonder if Howard has thought that?

 

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
5. So what's your theory? That we won't be able to decide between Bernie and Hillary? and
Sun Aug 30, 2015, 10:54 PM
Aug 2015

Biden will be the compromise?

What about the pukes? you don't think trump will take it hands down? Unless the Bush dirt-finders find out he raped someone's grandma - he's in, right?

Brother Buzz

(36,444 posts)
10. I don't have a theory, just a feeling that a bunch of weird thing are coming down the pike
Sun Aug 30, 2015, 11:27 PM
Aug 2015

plus my Magic 8 Ball is out for repairs.

underthematrix

(5,811 posts)
16. My theory
Mon Aug 31, 2015, 12:03 AM
Aug 2015

Bernie reopens his senate campaign committee for 2018 and runs as an independent (this is what his statement of candidacy forms states) and remains in the senate caucusing with Dems

HRC returns to the family GLOBAL Initiative Foundation and becomes a global leader for Let Girls Learn.

Biden runs with either Warren or Julian Castro (He's HUD sec, former Mayor and a lawyer)

Biden becomes #45

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