Comments on: Europeans Eager For New U.S. President

A New Poll From the Pew Research Center Shows That The Majority Of Europeans Believe A New President Will Be Better Than Bush

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Many historians see little chance for McCain

By DAVID PAUL KUHN

One week into the general election, the polls show a dead heat. But many presidential scholars doubt that John McCain stands much of a chance, if any.

Historians belonging to both parties offered a litany of historical comparisons that give little hope to the Republican. Several saw Barack Obama%u2019s prospects as the most promising for a Democrat since Roosevelt trounced Hoover in 1932.

%u201CThis should be an overwhelming Democratic victory,%u201D said Allan Lichtman, an American University presidential historian who ran in a Maryland Democratic senatorial primary in 2006. Lichtman, whose forecasting model has correctly predicted the last six presidential popular vote winners, predicts that this year, %u201CRepublicans face what have always been insurmountable historical odds.%u201D His system gives McCain a score on par with Jimmy Carter%u2019s in 1980.

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%u201CMcCain shouldn%u2019t win it,%u201D said presidential historian Joan Hoff, a professor at Montana State University and former president of the Center for the Study of the Presidency. She compared McCain%u2019s prospects to those of Hubert Humphrey, whose 1968 loss to Richard Nixon resulted in large part from the unpopularity of sitting Democratic president Lyndon Johnson.

%u201CIt is one of the worst political environments for the party in power since World War II,%u201D added Alan Abramowitz, a professor of public opinion and the presidency at Emory University. His forecasting model %u2014 which factors in gross domestic product, whether a party has completed two terms in the White House and net presidential approval rating %u2014 gives McCain about the same odds as Adlai Stevenson in 1952 and Carter in 1980 %u2014 both of whom were handily defeated in elections that returned the presidency to the previously out-of-power party. %u201CIt would be a pretty stunning upset if McCain won,%u201D Abramowitz said.

[hungryman9]

http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2008/06/13/aol-straw-poll-june-13-20/

[rafterman1]

===What is funny, is these same 67 percenters think that the world will once again be a fairytale place of peace and tranquility, just what the radicals are counting on!===
Posted by notblue

No, but having a competent leader, whether it is Obama or McCain, will make things easier. And what the radicals are counting on is for us to keep spilling our blood and our treasury in a pointless war.

[rafterman1]

===It''''s not the hated Bush that have caused the world''''s problems but here at leftwing central memories a cherry picked.===
Posted by notblue

Here are the problems Bush caused, encouraged and/or mishandled:

WMD lies, legalized torture, secret prisons, warrantless wiretaps, more White House corruption then at any time in U.S. history, record gas prices, record oil profits, tens of thousands of dead and maimed Americans and Iraqis, the outting of a covert CIA agent for political revenge, substandard treatment at Walter Reed, the Katrina debacle, three trillion dollars added to the national debt and competent attorneys being replaced by Bush cronies in our justice system.

[lochlan-2009]

We really need to throw an international party on Jan.20, 2009. People around the world should be given the day off work to celebrate.

[rafterman1]

===If I were from another country based on all the anti-Bush coverage the 67% percenters would have no choice but to believe===
posted by notblue

Did you ever think that the anti-Bush coverage is because Bush is an incompetent moron? Naw, didn''t think so. Don''t believe your own lyin'' eyes.

[notblue]

Not surprising given the rhetoric from the Democrats and the constant bashing from the liberal blogs, and media. If I were from another country based on all the anti-Bush coverage the 67% percenters would have no choice but to believe.

What is funny, is these same 67 percenters think that the world will once again be a fairytale place of peace and tranquility, just what the radicals are counting on! It''s not the hated Bush that have caused the world''s problems but here at leftwing central memories a cherry picked.

[darnedsocks]

WE CAN''T WIN IN IRAQ UNLESS THE IRAQIS ABANDON ISLAM AND TAKE UP CHRISTIANITY. ISLAMIC DOCTRINE IS THE DIRECT OPPOSITE OF DEMOCRATIC VALUES: IT''S A CLASH OF CULTURES AND A CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS. ISLAM IS FROM A BARBARIC STATE OF MIND.

[ddaryl1]

hey Europe... guess what.. the majority of us Americans are looking forward to a new president, and big time defeat to republicans in general for supporting this ****** bag.

If anything I am still pissed off at ALL OF THE AMERICANS WHO ACTUALLY VOTED FOR BUSH. Seriously how incredibly stupid could a person be to even consider voting for Bush the 1st time let alone a 2nd time.

So yes anyone who voted for Bush, you''re a ******* and the reason this country is in the position it is in. So make sure you place the blame where it belongs.. dumbasses