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US Presidential Elections are on November 6, 2012. On January 11, I posted my original predictions for 2012, including the so-called Year of Elections, namely my predictions for USA, Russia, and France.
Here’s what I said regarding US Presidential Elections:
“Republicans will pick Romney, who is perceived as the man of the middle, and therefore, appears a safe bet. And Romney will NOT beat Obama. In short, USA will remain sharply divided along partisan lines. Obama will narrowly win another 4-year term.
Meanwhile, various protests will continue and intensify. Emergence of a third party is very possible, fueled with disillusionment with the establishment and election results.”
Read my original Year 2012 Predictions
As usual, I want to remind everyone that I am a ‘political atheist’ and do not participate in any political party. My predictions and analysis are based on logic, facts, intuition, my knowledge of world cultures and geopolitical trends, long-time experience as financial consultant and investor, and Chinese Theory of Long Cycles.
More about me in ‘About.’
So far: Russia and France voted exactly as I originally predicted on 1/11/12, GOP nominated Romney, and there are clearly 3rd parties emerging in the USA. Two Third Party Presidential debates are being hosted by Larry King and aired by RT America. First debate took place several days ago between 4 alternative party candidates, incl., Green, Constitutional and Libertarian, and is available on Youtube; second debate on foreign policy will air and be posted on Youtube on 10/30. Very educational, by the way, and a great illustration of what’s going on beyond mainstream media. I urge everyone to watch! Check back in a day or two, I might most the Youtube links to both right here, or go to Youtube and do a search. If your cable carries RT America or RT, you can see it on TV.
Watch: First Third Party Presidential Debate
Upcoming US Presidential Elections: no change from the original 1/11/12 prediction! Obama wins narrowly, with less than 5%, possibly, less than 3% advantage.
It is interesting to note that, while in the USA the vote will be very close, abroad it’s not even a contest between the two candidates. Based on polls from over 20 countries, Romney gets more support only in Pakistan, which is attributed to the Pakistanis’ irritation with deadly drone strikes, not so much to their preference of a specific candidate. Most countries have Romney in single digits, with Western Europe, especially France, favoring Obama by the widest margin.
My prediction: while Obama is far from ideal, no world leader (except, perhaps Israel’s Netanyahu) wants Romney as US President, in fact he scares everyone with his bellicose posturing. Foreign perception is that his rhetoric, lack of reason and restraint (as well as lack of understanding and knowledge of international affairs) would make his presidency into Bush 2.0. By the way, this is also the perception of much of the international investment community – and international investment community is seldom wrong.
It is naive to think that American elections happen in a vacuum. In our globalized and interconnected world, it should not be underestimated how much influence other countries and global community hold over any country’s policy and elections. In fact, I noticed that global opinion (don’t confuse that with the US media propaganda) is the most accurate barometer of presidential election results in any country. For example, international community at large (excluding USA and UK) wanted Russia’s Putin to win (of course, there really was no contest anyway). In France, both the country’s and international perception were against Sarkozy, and sure enough – he lost.
Other interesting cases include Italy’s Berlusconi resignation from his post as Prime Minister (in part due to international pressure), and Hugo Chavez winning recent Venezuelan elections despite his cancer, absence from the political scene, and despite having to compete against a young, strong and very charismatic right-wing candidate. Chavez managed to generate a very broad international support – that’s the secret of his success! Assad of Syria is another prominent example of foreign influence. By the way, I received questions from my readers regarding the future of Assad, as well as the situation in the Middle East at large and I intend to cover it soon in one of the future articles.
P.S. For those who pay attention to astrology: From the astrological perspective, US Elections 2012 are taking place during the start of Mercury Retrograde, infamous among astrologers for introducing confusion, delays and misunderstandings, as well as mistakes in documents and broken machinery/electronics. A friend-astrologer of mine who read my article, just reminded me that the last time the US Elections happened during Mercury Retrograde, in 2000, the confusion resulted in the Supreme Court choosing the winner, George Bush, with controversy continuing to this day. US Presidential Elections on November 6, 2012, may be just as confusing and messy (if not more so), with possible mistakes, lost or contested results. Double check everything while voting.
11/1 Update. This is from my comment (to read more click on ‘comments’):
“To our discussion about the Hurricane Sandy factor: I believe the hurricane will ultimately help Obama, like 9/11 helped Bush. The nation tends to rally behind the President in times of disaster, and the opposing party has no choice but to mute its rhetoric, because the alternative might backfire on that party. I know, this is pretty awful that we need a disaster to feel more united, but here it is.”
Update 11/2: Hurricane Sandy will also temporarily stimulate the economy and the stock market, once more postponing the inevitable recession/depression. Much will have to be rebuilt, and the government will again turn on its virtual printing presses, happily throwing money they don’t have left and right. But the key word here is “temporarily.” No nation in the history of the world could run on debt indefinitely, without having to eventually face the gruesome reality. USA is no exception.
Read my other articles/predictions regarding the elections in Russia, France and USA.
1. Russia Votes: Crash Course in Russian Politics
2. 2012 Predictions Update: Russian Elections
3. 2012 Predictions Update: French Elections and Eurozone
4. 2012 Predictions. Year of Elections: Russia, France – USA next!
I will be posting a follow up after the US elections, including my new predictions regarding the very important for the Eurozone, German Chancellor Elections 2013, and Angela Merkel‘s chances to be re-elected.
Many have asked me to expand my predictions and talk about the future of financial markets, economic outlook for various countries and continents, as well as the future of world peace. I will try to post more of my predictions going forward. Stay tuned!
Copyright 2012, Lada Ray
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I am sure you will be proved to be correct in your US election prediciton once again Lada. It will be interesting to see if a third party enters the mix at some point in the future.
Thanks, Guy. 🙂
About a third party: can tell you right away – definitely in 2016, and/or it may be an independent running alongside the R & D twins. 😉 Right now, the system is such that too many people are left out of the voting process because their aspirations are not met by Dems & Reps.
Your choice of pictures for the candidates gave away your devotion. One looks presidential and the other looks confused. Unbiased huh?
Thank you for your opinion. To me, on this picture Obama looks serious and preoccupied, as he should, because his next term would not be easy by any measure. I am hinting at that with “my choice of pictures” actually.
If I sympathise with any one, it would be Ron Paul (with reservations), and perhaps some of the third party candidates (again, with reservations).
Also, see my response to the prev. comment about “R & D twins,” which explains what I think of Obama and Romney.
Finally, this is a forum for intelligent discussion and measured, if not enlightened, opinion. I have neither intention nor desire to get into any sort of bickering between two sides of one coin, namely Reps and Dems.
Thank you!
Lada Ray
P.S. I am deleting Romney’s picture to avoid receiving comments such as this in the future.
Interesting analysis – and I’ll stay away from comments on pictures…though I do like that one of Obama, he looks thoughful and a little worried, as well he might be: he’s facing tough challenges! Which brings me to my point: with Hurricane Sandy causing havoc, this could be a game changer in the election. If Obama mishandles the emergency, things can turn against him. If, on the contrary, he shows himself to be able to act as a President should (in everyone’s view), this could helphim immeasurably and put some (much needed) distance between him and Romney… Interesting what you say about the astrological conditions that are set for confusion!
So the confusion may well have started and who knows the outcome! I admire your bravery in attempting predictions…I’m an economist by training and I certainly have never dared a prediction yet!
Thanks, Claude. I’ve been doing predictions for many years, and usually very accurately. You can see more about that in the original 2012 predictions: https://ladaray.wordpress.com/2012/01/11/161/
I agree about the hurricane and the confusion. We’ll find out soon enough. 🙂
Left a comment on your blog, too. It’s really great!
Thanks Lada, will look it up asap – really enjoying connecting with you!
Same here! Wish we shared the same blogging platform, so it would be easier to comment and like! Your blog is really great!
Any chance you’d be moving to wordpress? 🙂 I tried blogspot and it didn’t work out for me 😦
Cheers!
Probably not: I’ve gotten used to Blogspot…I did try and had a blog on wordpress, still do but of course it’s too much work to post on both, I’m a lazy bum, LOL!
I know what you mean! Well, we’ll come and visit each other blog-to-blog. Cheers! 🙂
P.S. To our above discussion about the Hurricane Sandy factor: I believe the hurricane will ultimately help Obama, like 9/11 helped Bush. The nation tends to rally behind the pres. in times of disaster, and the opposing party has no choice but to mute its rhetoric, because the alternative might backfire on that party.
I know, this is pretty awful that we need a disaster to feel more united, but here it is.
Hi Lada, Loved the predictions and I think you will once again be proven right next week although I think it could be as little as 1% or under between the candidates. Love the astrology mix in your postings too! Already looking forward to what you have to say about Angela Merkel. Great post!
Thanks, Jason! Always great to hear from you!
We’ll see soon enough how it turns out. The field is very divided, no doubt. Talk again soon 🙂
Hi Lada, being the ever intrepid prognosticator that you are, have you ever bet on the Presidential races? Here’s a great article on How to Make Free Money Betting on the 2012 Presidential Election – by arbitraging Romney/Obama futures contracts!
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/06/how-to-make-free-money-betting-on-the-2012-presidential-election.html
Another online betting site:
http://www.oddschecker.com/specials/politics-and-election/us-presidential-election/winner
With your track record, I certainly won’t bet against you… Obama for the WIN!
Keep up the great work Dame Lada-damus.
Thanks for the links, Maddy – very interesting.Other people said the same thing, perhaps, I should give it some thought.
Yes, people do follow more so the person in Leadership at the time of disaster, history has shown that.
We have our elections here in Australia sometime next year. That should be interesting as to who the people vote in as our Country’s leader. I’m for Julia in that election and I too am a “political atheist”, I vote on policies, facts, figures, who I think would be the better leader, regardless of the Party they represent.
That aside, I think The People in the US, will vote for Obama. It’ll be a close election. Obama is the stronger leader, I think more people listen to him. He’s more “The People’s President” whereas Romney is coming across as someone who is plastic, fake, and his policies will take the US backwards by about 100 years and not forward.
The handling of the Sandy aftermath, by both, will be the the decider come election time there in the US. It’s going to be an interesting time indeed leading up to the election and afterwards. Especially if Romney does win. He’ll be hitting the ground running!
Thanks for your comment, Kaye! Good points. Interesting about Australian elections. 🙂
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