Two things...

[ajva]

...that could possibly happen in the medium-to-long term, if it's confirmed that Dubya's been re-elected:

1) Hilary Clinton elected as first female president of the US in 2008.

or possibly

2) Continued Republican governments see US deficits increase to such an extent that they eventually undermine the economic basis for US's status as a world superpower, and American influence abroad wanes (this one to take 20 to 40 years).

Discuss...

Comments

[languid.livejournal.com]

1) Hillary Clinton will never get elected as she's hated as much by the right as her husband was and as much as Bush is by the left. The next Democrat to be elected will have to appeal to the moderate conservatives as well as the left (John Edwards, perhaps). Otherwise, the Republicans will nominate fundamentalist after fundamentalist to beat 'the liberal/communist scourge' who will let al-Qaeda drop a nuclear bomb on New York! (A mixture of sarcasm and exasperation, there).

2) Yes. And it will serve them right. The timing could be interesting, considering China will be the second biggest power in the world by then.