Presidential Election 2024 Ballot Prediction Results (Political Post)

The Democratic National Convention has concluded, and the candidate has officially been nominated. That means it time to pull the mayonnaise jar from where it has wintered since last November in the darkest depths below Funk & Wagnall’s back porch* and see how I did on my predictions.  You can see my original prediction post at: https://oddstuffing.com/archives/1128.

The results are mixed. While I was correct as to who WAS NOT going to be the candidate, I missed on who WAS going to be the candidate. 

Quick review: Back in November 2023 I predicted the physical and mental health of our current President, Joe Biden, would have declined to the point where he could no longer be a valid candidate. It’s not that his condition in 2020 was that much better, it’s just that by now it is to the point where it can’t be covered up, denied, or explained away anymore. Everyone points to his disastrous performance in the first debate with former President Donald Trump as the reason he stepped aside. I’m sticking with the notion this was planned all along and the performance was not only anticipated, but necessary to make the move. 

As to the replacement candidate, I predicted either Gavin Newsom or Hillary Clinton. Yup, I missed on this part, and I can only think of a hundred million reasons why. The money. 

The current President’s campaign war chest at the time he stepped away from campaign was more than 100 million dollars and, since the Vice President was on the reelection ticket with him, she gets to use the money. Obviously, there are some MAJOR questions about that from a legal standpoint, but with the Federal Elections Commission, a notoriously pathetic slow to react agency in the first place being part of the Executive Branch of the current government, well guess what… it’s going be ruled as “legal” sometime in the next few years, just in time for the 2024 elections. 

The choice of Vice President Kamala Harris is an absolute surprise, not only for me but for the Democrat party. This is someone who when the President announced his reelection bid, even the party loyalists were openly calling for him to replace her on the ticket because she was dragging him down in the polls.

Vice President Harris has consistently ranked as the least popular Vice President in recent history, potentially all of time. Her patented word salad answers, to her maniacal nervous cackle when she doesn’t have an answer, to the fact she hasn’t accomplished anything she has been tasked with, all add up to someone who is in no way, shape or fashion ready to lead the country. 

Let’s also recall that in her first presidential run in 2020, she was forced to drop out BEFORE the first primary because her performance couldn’t rally enough support, despite having the funding and connections from the Clinton dynasty. When the current President announced his support for her candidacy, in an all too mysterious fashion, I was skeptical if it was the real thing. But then we started to see key campaign staff from the Clintons, Obamas and Bidens start to migrate to her staff. I had to conclude it was true. 

So how is the most unpopular, least productive Vice President going to compete as a candidate? Lots and lots of help. 

The Democratic National Committee (DNC): Through all the primaries, the Democrat party ran a candidate they knew was not going to be on the 2024 ballot, as well as viciously kept any potential primary opponent off the primary ballots. When the President stepped aside and endorsed the Vice President, all the President’s delegates magically transformed to Harris delegates. We now have a Presidential candidate who was not primaried in two election cycles as the Democrat Presidential candidate. 

If you’re thinking the Democrat party can’t simply select who they want regardless of the primaries, recall Bernie Sanders lawsuit against the DNC for unfairly biasing Hillary Clinton in the 2016 race. His case was ultimately dismissed when the Federal Court ruled the DNC could select their own candidate, period. Primaries mean absolutely NOTHING and your vote in a primary is nothing but a popularity contest so the major parties can evaluate the general election support for whomever they choose. 

The media: The media have been repeating the popular myth the Vice President has “grassroots” support across the nation. The LEAST popular Vice President, potentially of all times, whom nobody wanted to stay on the current President’s ticket, suddenly has nationwide grassroots support. Social media, the tech giants as well as traditional television and print media have been effectively erasing inconvenient facts and articles from the internet, as well as substituting complimentary articles. Searches have been altered to show only the side they want you to find. 

The polls: Polling from the day the Vice President announced show her leading the former President in all the battleground states. Yet we recall in the days, weeks, months and years leading up to this, the Vice President was polling at the bottom of the list of people who could potentially replace the current President. 

The courts: The lawfare against the Republican candidate and those who have supported him continues and we can expect ramped up efforts to muddy them up even further in the coming months.  

New voters: Over the past three and a half years, this country has seen a tsunami of unlawful residents flowing into our country, to the tune of an estimated 10 to 20 million, costing our country billions and billions of dollars to provide housing, food, clothing, transportation and medical care. How many of these so-called “asylum seekers” or “migrants” will end up on the voting rolls is unknown, but their being registered as voters is well documented.

The October surprise: We should all expect at least one, likely more, September, October and even first few days of November surprises. It may come in the form of an escalation or US brokered resolution in one of the multiple wars we are financing, a “terrorist” attacks on our own soil, political lawfare accusations, charges or sentences, a new pandemic, or even the current President resigning so the Vice President will be considered the incumbent candidate. 

Voting “season”: Our country used to have a single day when people went to the polls to vote, or had to have their absentee ballots in. Votes were tabulated then and there and the results, even if contested, were announced at the end of the night. Just about every other country in the world still does that, but not us. Our highest technology driven “safest and securest elections ever” require days to weeks or longer of extra behind closed doors counting to come up with the ‘right’ number, especially in the battleground states. 

The puppet masters: Just as I’m thoroughly convinced someone else was running our government for the past three and half years, I’m convinced a different someone else would be running the country under a President Harris administration. The same forces that originally planned to replace President Biden with Vice President Harris are doing it again. Follow the money to figure out who. 

As someone who has witnessed the current Vice President in action in her home state of Kalifornistan as well as her performance in the Senate and as Vice President, I can only shake my head in disbelief. I keep thinking we as a nation can come up with better candidates for office at the local, county, state and federal level, but it just doesn’t seem to happen. 

This is OUR fault folks. We allow the political parties to pick our representatives for us and we wind up with people who do nothing but give the public lip service while they do the bidding of those who put them in place. 

This election is going to be difficult for a lot of people as the lies and smears are going to try to convince you to make an emotional decision. All I can say is vote for the future you want for your country and godspeed. 

Bob

*Okay, it’s really Odd Stuffing’s back deck, but it’s still a valid ceremonial place to let these kinds of things properly age. 

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Presidential Election 2024 Ballot Predictions (Political Post)

It’s that time again! The 2024 elections are just one year away so it is time to make the predictions for the Democrat’s Presidential candidate. So just as before, I’ve placed my first and second choices in an envelope, sealed in a mayonnaise jar under Funk & Wagnall’s back porch to be opened following the Democratic National Convention in August 2024. 

Despite the current storyline, it will be a drama filled path to the name at the top of the ballot. My analysis of the potentials is below. 

Before we discuss who it will be, let’s discuss who it will NOT be. It will not be the current President, Joe Biden. Sadly, our President’s physical and mental health are deteriorating by the day. Despite the propping up and excuses for his blunders, it’s questionable if he’ll even make it to the end of his current term to say nothing of a second term. Combine this with this involvement in his family’s under-the-table overseas business ventures and he’s just not going to be on the ballot. 

I stand by my previous opinion that he was never intended to be the Democrat’s nominee, only a lightning rod to attract scrutiny away from the real candidate. But when the real candidate, Kamala Harris, crashed and burned before even the first primary, the party had nobody else in a position to win. His choice of Harris as a running mate was so he could step aside and allow her to become President after two years, giving her the last two years of his term and two terms of her own.

Coincidently, it will also NOT be Vice President Harris. As if her being forced to drop out before the first primary in the last election wasn’t foretelling enough, her performance as Vice President has been worse. From her patented word salad answers to her maniacal nervous cackle when she doesn’t have an answer, to the fact she hasn’t accomplished anything she has been tasked with, she is the most unpopular vice president in recent history, potentially all of history. Her biggest success right now is being the President’s impeachment insurance policy. Even though she looks good on paper, the first woman/person of color Vice President, NOBODY wants her as president, even the Democrats. 

At some point between now and the Democratic National Convention, although I’m betting it will be at the convention itself, the President will step aside and open the door to a new candidate. He will likely cite heath or the desire to spend his retirement time with family. I’m saying it will be after the caucuses and primaries which normally select the candidate. After all the normal vetting who will be the next nominee is FAR too critical of a decision to be left to the voting peasants. As history has showed us, the Democrat party can pick whomever they choose, regardless of ‘voter’ preference. 

Actual Candidates

As of now, there are two declared Democrats running.  

Marianne Williamson, an author, and speaker with no political experience except for unsuccessful runs for the House of Representatives in 2014, President in 2020 and again now for President in 2024. 

Dean Phillips, a second term Representative from Minnesota with very little name recognition outside his own state & district. 

Neither have the connections, experience, or name recognition to put them ahead of anyone. Presumably they are running to justify printing primary ballots and show how strong the President’s numbers are. 

Potential Candidates

Hillary Clinton, yes, the blast from the past, the original election denier will be back! It’s no mistake she is on the speaker circuit again and the Clinton Global Initiative is back and accepting big dollar donations around the world. These donations aren’t for whatever supposed charity work they are peddling now, it’s for access. And access to an ex-President and ex-Presidential candidate doesn’t do diddly. Hillary was denied that big chair and still wants it, bad. She wants to go down in history as the first female President of the United States. All the more reason the current Vice President isn’t going to get the party nod.

California Governor Gavin Newsom, who has said he will not run against the current president, will now be free to publicly announce his candidacy. It’s not like anyone doesn’t know he’s already running. His proposal for the so-called “right to safety” 28th Amendment has given him an excuse to campaign around the country. And travel he has, in the US and internationally to raise his visibility, prop up his international credentials and distance himself for the failure that is California and his own hypocrisy. SOMEHOW, he convinced actual presidential candidate Republican Ron DeSantis to debate him in a contest which; win, lose or draw, he will come out ahead. Newsom has the money, all the right family, business and political connections and can string together a sentence without sounding foolish, even though he’s usually lying through his teeth. 

Michelle Obama, someone with zero political experience of her own, she would be running on hubby’s popularity and being a woman/person of color. If successful, she would usher in the fourth Barack Obama presidential term. She would also achieve the first ever FLOTUS to POTUS conversion, something Hillary wanted. Hey, would you want to be the one that tells Hillary that Michelle Obama is the first FLOTUS to POTUS? Ooooo.. Not me. 

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer is also rumored to also be in the mix. Whitmer highly controversial COVID-19 policies put COVID patients back into nursing homes and has weaponized the state’s DOJ to persecute Republican lawyers and electors while ignoring the rampant voter fraud occurring in her state.   

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker is also potentially in the mix despite his past racist comments, tax fraud controversies and his elimination of cash bail in Illinois. But then, this is what billionaires do. 

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. & Tulsi Gabbard would have been on this list, but both have left the Democrat party. Kennedy is now running as an Independent. Gabbard who has teased she is going to run hasn’t said how. Knowing the infinitesimal chances of success as an independent, she’ll likely run back to the Democrat party as the ‘moderate’ option, even after saying the party was “under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers who are driven by cowardly wokeness.”

So why do I waste my time speculating on such things? Because if you don’t pay attention to what is going on with the opposition party, all you’ll get is the propaganda being spewed out by the media. These candidates are diametrically opposed to the rights and liberties I hold dear, and we need to keep a close eye on what they are doing. 

Place your bets and grab the popcorn. It’s going to be quite the show! The mayonnaise jar will be cracked open on August 26, 2024. 

Bob

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