Political Prediction Thread

Birdjaguar

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Our political landscape is ever changing and each day brings new surprises. This thread is for posting your predictions as you see them at the moment, and then when things change, post again and change your prediction to suit the new circumstances or reconfirm your prior prediction.

I'll start.

As of today, I predict:
Trump will win enough delegates to win/be close to the nomination.
The RNC will gerrymander a brokered convention.
The Senate will hold hearings on Obama's SCOTUS nominee.
 
The welfare state will be gradually disposed
more and more production and servises and so on is going to be privatised
the value of cooperation is going to get smeared to death
in short everything is going downhill forever
there is no light at the end of the tunnel

and of course we'll eventually die because of mismanaging the planet and toxicating it, which can be a political issue
 
1. Trump wins a delegate percentage in the high 40's with Cruz trailing fairly distantly.
2. He goes into the GOP convention just short of a true majority, but is still nominated.
3. A few Republicans claim not to be voting for him in the general election, but most just hold their noses and take it. There is no major third-party candidate.
4. Hillary's VP pick is a fairly boring, mainstream Democrat, not especially liberal or conservative by party standards.
5. Trump's VP pick will either be someone he had a significant personal connection to before the election, or one of his earliest endorsers (e.g. Christie).
6. For all the hullabaloo around the election, the election result is actually fairly boring. Hillary wins 303-235, and the map is identical to the 2012 map except that Trump wins Florida.
7. The RNC rewrites its delegate rules to be more like the Democratic ones. Superdelegates are introduced and states are required to have some amount of proportional representation - no winner-take-all anymore.
8. Third parties and independents collectively get more than 3.5% but less than 6%. It's their best result in a long time, but has no net influence on the final outcome (i.e. no Nader 2000 type of situation).
9. Garland does not get approved.
10. The Republicans lose some seats in both the House and the Senate, but not enough to lose control of either chamber.
 
Our political landscape is ever changing and each day brings new surprises. This thread is for posting your predictions as you see them at the moment, and then when things change, post again and change your prediction to suit the new circumstances or reconfirm your prior prediction.

I'll start.

As of today, I predict:
Trump will win enough delegates to win/be close to the nomination.
The RNC will gerrymander a brokered convention.
The Senate will hold hearings on Obama's SCOTUS nominee.

I cry foul!

"Win/be close to" isn't a prediction, it is the main course at a waffle house.

For may part...

Trump will arrive at the convention with a plurality but not the needed majority, so no gerrymandering will be required to get past the first ballot.

I currently have no prediction regarding what happens on subsequent ballots at the convention, but predict that there will be violence and ultimately the death of the GOP as we know it will ensue.

Bernie Sanders will release his delegates and move for a unanimous vote for Hillary Clinton at the Democratic Party Convention.

The Senate will NOT hold hearings on Merrick Garland. He will withdraw from consideration the day after Clinton wins the election.
 
Trump nominee
Clinton nominee
Landslide Clinton victory
Trump polls 58% close to the election
Trump picks "one of the good ones" for VP (Mexican-American, Muslim, etc.) The VP pick is either really nice and soft (if a woman) or a caricature of nasty manliness.
Clinton considers Sanders, Warren for VP, picks Cory Booker.
 
I cry foul!

"Win/be close to" isn't a prediction, it is the main course at a waffle house.
Cry fowl all you want Mr. Nothin'. My eggs are not all in one basket. It's an imprecise prediction at worst, but when coupled with my second one, it makes sense. :p
 
Trump will get close, and the Republicans will maneuver to nominate Cruz so that they can lose with honor. Trump will go third party and get 20% of the vote.
Clinton will be the 45th president.
The republicans will hold 51 senate seats, barely ensuring another two years of same old same old.
There will be violent unrest in the streets this cycle at some point by some group or groups. :(
 
Trump will win enough delegates to win/be close to the nomination.

Real prediction or no balls

I'll predict Lohr's predictions:

Everything will be [REDACTED]
 
Trump will win enough delegates to win/be close to the nomination.

How about you make your prediction more specific, Birdjaguar? Like, say, Trump gets 45-52% of the delegates but is denied the nomination through desperate last-minute rule changes and other shenanigans. I think that's what you're trying to say.

Landslide Clinton victory
Trump polls 58% close to the election
Are you saying that Trump gains a real lead of 58% but then blows it completely shortly before the election, or just that there's a single outlier poll claiming he gets 58%? (which of course he would Trumpet loudly while 538 scoffs at him)
 
How about you make your prediction more specific, Birdjaguar? Like, say, Trump gets 45-52% of the delegates but is denied the nomination through desperate last-minute rule changes and other shenanigans. I think that's what you're trying to say.

I have a prediction for that...if he comes in with 50%+ of the delegates the level of shenanigans required to get past the first ballot would be beyond countenance by even the craziest stop Trump true believer. There is no way that happens.

From the last primaries to the convention is like six weeks. If he has 1237 plus the media will be referring to him as "the nominee" for that entire time. No one turns that tide.
 
Yeah, I very seriously doubt that even the RNC will take it away from him if he gets a true majority. I can think of at least one way it could be done - unbinding some of the delegates before the convention - but it would seem like such a fraud that Trump running as an independent would probably place second. I think that's what Birdjaguar is suggesting though.
 
My guesses, not strictly limited to the US:

Trump wins the nomination; establishment GOP disgusted but reluctantly accepts the hijacking of their party as the alternative to a Dem victory. Sanders has a good showing but still loses the nomination to Clinton. He eventually gives all his delegates and his endorsement to Clinton.

Trump wins significantly; he only gets stronger from controversy and scandal, while Clinton gets weaker. The next four years are awful; racists are emboldened, relations with countries around the world deteriorate, and the US goes to war with Iran.

In Europe, there is another major terrorist attack. Right-wing parties gain power in many countries. The UK leaves the EU, FN wins a lot of power in France in 2017, and the AfD get more seats in Germany. Overall, Europe is drifting significantly to the right. The war in Ukraine ends gradually as a frozen conflict; the rebel republics are de facto independent, war-torn, and run by warlords, while Ukraine remains embittered, impoverished, and dysfunctional. In the 2020's, President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan dies without a clear successor, having prevented the appearance of any. Kazakhstan has a disputed election; Kazakh nationalists make ethnic Russians nervous, and before long Russia moves in forces and annexes most of northern Kazakhstan. Other countries grumble at the illegality of it but do nothing. Putin is still president.

In the Middle East, the Islamic State smolders on, nobody able to fill the vacuum in the west of Iraq. Assad forms agreements to share power with FSA officials, then murders or imprisons them as soon as his position is secure again.
 
Trump will be assassinated sometime before the Republican convention. :sniper:
[He has pissed off too many very rich, very powerful, very ruthless people.]

Whomever is arrested and convicted of the assassination, will not be the true killer.
 
Our political landscape is ever changing and each day brings new surprises. This thread is for posting your predictions as you see them at the moment, and then when things change, post again and change your prediction to suit the new circumstances or reconfirm your prior prediction.

I'll start.

As of today, I predict:
Trump will win enough delegates to win/be close to the nomination.
The RNC will gerrymander a brokered convention.
The Senate will hold hearings on Obama's SCOTUS nominee.
In order to do my part in making America great again, the will of the minority prevails.

As of 9:45 Pm today, I predict:
Trump will not win enough delegates to win the nomination.
The RNC will gerrymander have a brokered convention.
The Senate will hold hearings on Obama's SCOTUS nominee.
 
Garland gets confirmed in time to be sitting on the Court when its next term opens on the First Monday of October.
 
Are you saying that Trump gains a real lead of 58% but then blows it completely shortly before the election, or just that there's a single outlier poll claiming he gets 58%? (which of course he would Trumpet loudly while 538 scoffs at him)
He goes nova. Reaches Trumpian system-death. People decide they don't want him president. People are loving half the ridiculous stuff he says and then votes Hillary without a pause. I will be one of them. Other people will actually sober up, and the Trump Party will feel like a Trump Hungover. You think It's Gonna be Great Forever and then 8 hours later you hate everything and want to die and need momma Clinton to fix your stuff.


"Stuff" in this post in leui of, you know.
 
He goes nova. Reaches Trumpian system-death. People decide they don't want him president. People are loving half the ridiculous stuff he says and then votes Hillary without a pause. I will be one of them. Other people will actually sober up, and the Trump Party will feel like a Trump Hungover. You think It's Gonna be Great Forever and then 8 hours later you hate everything and want to die and need momma Clinton to fix your stuff.


"Stuff" in this post in leui of, you know.

Maybe it will be different with the general population than with the Republicans alone, but that's exactly what everyone has been predicting about Trump for the GOP nomination, and there's no sign of it yet - his polls have been more or less correct. If what you're saying about everyone drinking the Trump-aide is true, there's a very real risk that everyone will party hard right through Election Day, and then the hangover comes later when Momma Clinton can't help. That doesn't necessarily mean it's a bad prediction, but the timing has to be just right.

I'm with you on loving the ridiculous [stuff] while not wanting to vote for him, though. :D
 
Worth noting that I bet Antilogic Jeb Bush vs. The Field. I owe him whiskey. Probably (come on brokered convention!)
 
Something so outrageously memorable is pulled at the GOP convention that for decades being a victim of convention delegate manipulation shenanigans will be known as "getting Yobbed."

Search string "john yob" highly recommended.
 
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