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Originally Posted by Slava
I honestly debated putting up a Romney wins prediction. If I did it would've been 287-251, with Romney winning Ohio, Florida, Nevada, Colorado, Iowa, Virgina and North Carolina.
I actually think that this is a possibility, and as a Canadian this wouldn't bother me that much. Realistically for Canada I would say that Romney winning would be way better. I know that all of the social stuff, and a lot of things like that that most Canadians don't care for the Republicans....but honestly that has nothing to do with us in a lot of respects. From a pure trade/economy standpoint we're probably better off with Romney!
As Canadians, isn't that what we should care about? I mean honestly, from that standpoint if people vote for certain social rights and norms to go one way or another is basically irrelevant to us as Canadians. We're talking about human rights abuses here; we're talking about people having a different viewpoint on a few issues of little consequence to foreigners. When we look at this from "overseas" (hey, they're not all geography majors either!), we should care more about the economic and trade impacts for us. Pretty clearly that is a huge check mark in the Romney column as opposed to Obama.
<Puts on flame ######ant suit and hunkers down for the firestorm that will likely ensue> |
Thanks for what I think is a very honest post.
I really only care about the impact of the President on the U.S. economy as it effects us.
The other stuff doesn't matter to me or effect me, it effects American's and they have to also decide what effects them the most.
Right now the economy took a front seat because frankly their economy is pretty much a sliding disaster with high unemployment and slowed down economic factors that effect us.
I don't think that the relationship between the Canadian and U.S. government is at a high point and is probably at its lowest point since the Chretien and the repeated slaps in the fact to the U.S.
I don't think that Harper is a big fan of Obama, not from a social agenda point of view, but from Obama's handling of our trade relationship.
From an economic standpoint, the government is probably praying for Obama to be a single term president.