Election Day
I expect that Obama will win handily, bringing in over 300 electoral votes and probably winning the popular vote by 3-4%.
This isn’t the result I would prefer, but it is one I can live with. I admire Obama’s personal story, I am certainly pleased that someone with his background can achieve as much as he as. I also am quite impressed with his rhetoric and the themes he has harnessed during his campaign. Those are all very positive things, and I applaud what he as done.
I am less pleased with the substance behind the rhetoric. My read on Obama is that he will promote a fairly weak foreign policy, be hesitant to make difficult decisions and will embrace a fairly far left economic vision that I believe will result in poor outcomes. Aided by a substantial democratic majority in both the house and the senate, there will be little to stop him from enacting that vision.
At the same time though, I realize that a lot of people still believe in these sort of policies (although probably less then will vote for Obama) and in general the country is ready for a different party in charge. They probably deserve a chance to test these ideas out (again) and I expect that the negative effects I foresee will be less then if it was impossible for different views to succeed from time to time. At the end of the day, I believe in our consitution and our nation a whole lot more then I believe in any political party, or even any conservative or libertarian ideology.
That isn’t to say I won’t be pleased to see a McCain upset today, and I hope that if that happens people on the other side, understandably disappointed, will embrace him as their president, even as they may disagree with his ideas.



Well said. I’m not nearly so concerned with Obama as president as I am that the American people are leaning toward socialism and world government. Public education as envisioned by John Dewey seems to be working.