(December 19, 2016 at 8:35 pm)Monster-Kat Wrote: No way he will be a two-term president, there's just no way.
The economy will determine his fate. For all of his talk in any other area, people are going to expect the businessman to know how to manage money. He'll get more blame/credit for the economy than most presidents do, even though he's just as much at its mercy as they've been.
If it's going well in 2019/20, he could have an easy ride to a second term. I think we'll have a market correction soon. If it becomes a recession and unemployment begins to rise again, the recovery may not come in time to save him. But if things are looking good starting in 2019, he'll be able to boast that it was his doing (and blame the early troubles on "the economy I inherited") and he'll get more than enough support from the electorate. I have no idea who the DNC will select to run against him, but if it's a hard-left liberal he would win in a landslide if the economy was doing well enough. He'd be heralded as the second coming of Reagan.
Sorry, was that the stuff of nightmares?
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
