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A lot depends on what the supreme court does. At the moment Obama is still positive on the abyss index. He might be able to salvage things if he gets all his people to the polls and get the conservatives to form a circular firing squad.

However if the SCOTUS dumps Obamacare, especially if it dumps it completely, Obama will be in trouble. The unions took a big hit from the last ruling. If Obamacare goes down and the Arizona immigration law gets upheld Obama's people are going to go nuts. He won't be able to keep them from doing something stupid. And when they do it will unify the conservatives.

Finally there is the economy. The DJIA got hammered by 250 points yesterday, but it is still over 12,000. If it gets pushed below that then people are going to start feeling it in their 401K accounts. It changes the economy from a theoretical to a personal issue for the upper class urbanites that make up a good chunk of Obama's base. They don't care if the plebes are on food stamps, but if they start getting hit in the pocket book watch for them to bolt from Obama to Romney to get their greens fee money back.

This has to be an error. That data point does not make sense. I’d like to believe it but I don’t.

They are called sheeple for a reason.

Stock Market? Dead for the foreseeable future. We are back tot he 70’s. If it only stays flat we aren’t losing as much. Nobody is going to retire on this market. It is only a harvest of money that is losing value. If it does not fall below 10,000 again I’ll be absolutely astounded... no buyers to speak of if the fed no longer prints money to buy stocks. It will recover someday but not soon enough to save some from destitution. It will take years for things to get better.

Even if Romney is successful and if he does things that need to be done... both big ifs, it will take at least two to three years for the economy to even begin to spool up. The leviathan that is our economy and out national psyche is sliding downhill at an ever increasing speed. That slide will not be stopped quickly and it will not be turned around and pushed back up the hill easily. And don’t forget, we have at least two generations of people who are basically freedom and republic ignorant.