i responded late last night to a friend's request for predictions:
the true predictor's art is in the electoral votes. so here's the money prediction: kerry by 321 to 217 electoral votes. (go ahead. ask me which states...)
for total vote numbers, banished by the miracle of the e. college to a pure-democracy footnote:
kerry 51.9% of 118,500,000 votes, or 61,501,500 votes.
badnarik + nadar plus any other extraneous yahoos: 1.1%, or 1,303,500
bush 48%, or 56,880,000 votes.
bush declared the winner by the joint chiefs....
al gore takes to the appalachians to lead a guerilla uprising....
gore voted the anti-christ in a rapture america poll....
kerry, from his headquarters in grenoble, demands a rapture recount....
the recount comes back hillary clinton...
judith butler, from her argentine exile, writes "cris(t)cross," an instant bestseller in limpid prose celebrating the first female antichrist....
shortly after bush declares unconcern for gore--"gettin uglier by the day in his smokey mountain cave"--fox news, now run on all american tv stations, plays a video of gore dressed in white robes, walking the mountains with a cane. gore looks directly into the camera and tells america, "good night gracie."....
"gracie" cells spring up all across america. within six months, the movement forces a recall of president bush. hillary and judith butler sweep into office, uncannily taking precisely 51.9% of 118,500,00 votes cast, exactly matching kerry's totals of 18 months earlier. this result is universally regarded as a miracle or a sign of the almighty. interpreting divine will, clinton and butler, the "two gracies", preside over an unhostile merger of the jewish, christian and moslem faiths run as a joint enterprise out of the temple mount in jerusalem, in which all levels are now symbolically linked by a high-speed elevator. peace descends on a unified middle east now known simply as eden. francis fukuyama writes, "the end of herstory."