I will be glad when the election is over with, because this country might finally get back to normal and we'll all go back to disliking one another for the important reasons: arguing over who was booted from last night's crappy reality TV show.
Anyways...
Bush gets elected: a return to the religious right. I forsee a new dawn for Christianity all across this great land, and a dive further into the depths of a nationalism that will border on racism. The current boogeyman will be changed from islamic extremists to the seemingly-perverted guy down the street. Faith will be called into government and the educational system, causing our schools to become more of a mockery than they already are and the courts to become a terrifying place. "Family Values" will be the order of the day and the FCC will begin to investigate whether it has jurisdiction over cable/sat TV and satellite radio. Censorship will soar to protect the children and more books will be torn from your local library than have ever been pulled from in the past. The airlines and national security will continue to become less safe while illusionary tactics will continue to keep the public quiet. Less terror alerts will be issued or they will be forgotten completely unless Bush wants more laws passed concerning the removal of civil liberties. The sale of cheap plastic flags will finally plateau, then begin to decline.
Iraq: regardless of who gets elected, this will continue to get worse, cost more money, and continue its spiral into the ground. With Bush, I'd say a draft is a much higher, if not a definite, possibility than with Kerry.
Cuba: Castro dies. If Bush is in office, expect extreme amounts of CIA wackiness to take place so as to push the island nation in the favor of the US.
Economy: If Bush gets elected, stocks will plummet the very next day just as they did four years ago. The promise of not raising taxes will fall through (read my lips) and it will be blamed on the cost of the war. Workers on H1B Visas will be eliminated almost entirely, causing more work to flood offshore and a surplus of used Toyota Camrys and one bedroom apartments the likes of which we have never seen before.
Four years from now: If Bush is elected in 2004, expect a fairly normal election to take place in 2008 and a Democrat to win. If Kerry is elected, I would expect a turbulent election in 2008 with plenty of division in the nation, much more arguing, etc.
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