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Topic: What ifs and their possible impacts on the election

This thread is dedicated to the "what if" scenarios, or feel free to create your own and speak of them:

1. What if a a terrorist attack occured shortly before the election (October 30th or so) in Washington D.C.?

2. What if large stockpiles of WMD/Osama bin Laden/many more jobs are found and/or created?

3. What if Iraq collapses into widespread chaos and civil war and massive casualties start pouring out of Iraq?  What if we evacuate?

4. What if gas prices reach near $3.00/gallon before the election?  What if jobs start to recede again?

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4. What if gas prices reach near $3.00/gallon before the election?

Not a chance.

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1. Could go either way easily. People may not want to react like Spain and show that America is easily persuaded by terrorist attacks and activities so Bush support may sky rocket. Bush support will drop which i doubt because 99% of America knows that no matter what we do we are probably going to be attacked again in the future. People may just up and decide to rally behind there leader.
2. Bush wins in a land slide.
3. Kerry wins in a landslide.
4. I dont think this will have any major effect of the election. Keryy supports raising gas prices remember =p and it would depend on where the job losses hit. Could hurt Bush or could do nothing.





I have some for you..

5. What if Bush survives an assasination attempt against him in the coming months before election?

6. What a terrorist attack is foiled?

7. What if Mike Tyson was king of the lobster people?

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Re: What ifs and their possible impacts on the election

This thread is dedicated to the "what if" scenarios, or feel free to create your own and speak of them:

1. What if a a terrorist attack occured shortly before the election (October 30th or so) in Washington D.C.?

2. What if large stockpiles of WMD/Osama bin Laden/many more jobs are found and/or created?

3. What if Iraq collapses into widespread chaos and civil war and massive casualties start pouring out of Iraq?  What if we evacuate?

4. What if gas prices reach near $3.00/gallon before the election?  What if jobs start to recede again?


1.  the impact on this would depend on bush's reaction to the situation and the circumstances surrounding it.......it could go either way, the people could , once again, rally together for a short time, OR they could take a second attack as another sign of incompetence on the presidents behalf....

2.  i wouldn't be surprised if they pulled out osama right before the election, there have been many conspiracy theories about that exact situation......as for the wmd, any we would find, would have been given to them by us in the eighties.....this being the case, my stepfather, a doctor, tells me that the shelf life of the gas weapons would have been no more than 6 months..........

as for many more (well paying) jobs being created.....putting a what-if to that during bush's term would be like me saying "what if i won a million dollars?"....not likely going to happen.

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What if Iraq collapses into widespread chaos and civil war and massive casualties start pouring out of Iraq

what if????????

and if we evacuate, it will only be if bush is trailing insurmountably around election time as a last ditch effort to gain votes, in my opinion.

4.  if gas prices reach 3 dollars, hopefull the rest of america will finally look to the many other fuel sources available that we can produce in our own country, making us completely opec independant......something i've wished would happen all along, for if it did, the later part of this question would be rendered obsolete with all the in country jobs it would supply....

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America whines about gas prices yet out of every modern country we pay the lowest gas prices. Europe is like what? 4 or 5 dollars per gallon?

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America whines about gas prices yet out of every modern country we pay the lowest gas prices. Europe is like what? 4 or 5 dollars per gallon?

Which is why gas prices don't bother me. The president also dowsn't have much control over this, so I do not blame Bush for our gas prices. However, the reason I said "not a chance" to Catbert's scenario is because the gas prices are already lowering, whihc I knew was going to happen. The Saudi's are lowering the prices so to help Bush get re-elected. I'm sure this comes of as radical left-wing bullshit, but I read all about it in Bob Woodward's book, you know, the guy who broke the Watergate scandal. So I do blame Bush for his involvement in the deception of the American people, once again.

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a. most places in europe have decent mass transit sytems of one type or another.....

b. it's not about the gas prices, it's about the fact that we are reliant on opec for the petrolium which we fuel just about everything with......our ecconomy would collapse if we got cut off, in turn, greatly effecting the ecconomies of the rest of the world.....

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The root of the problem is our reliance of oil in general. Not just foreign oil. Which is why it boggles my mind when conservatives actually fight against fuel effiniency regulations placed upon automobile manufacturers.

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4. What if gas prices reach near $3.00/gallon before the election?

Not a chance.

With the way oil prices are rising, I wouldn't dismiss it entirely as impossible even if it is very unlikely.

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I explained in an above post why that's not going to happen. Besides, prices are already lowering.

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you know, unbeknownst to the average car consumer, detroit has been producing cars that run of regular petrolium gasoline as well as an ethanol/petrolium mix....which in test burns cleaner and actually makes the cars run a little faster .........unfortunately, most people don't know this exists. only a few midwestern states have gas stations that provide this type of fuel, michigan being the state with the most stations......the best part is you can use corn to make the ethanol, which would breathe a whole new life into a struggling american farm industry......

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I explained in an above post why that's not going to happen. Besides, prices are already lowering.

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