Will Hillary Clinton Be the Next President? Two Market Experts Call the Election

[Godhumor]

Trying to predict the markets is incredibly difficult, if not impossible, but each year two investment heavyweights give it their best with highly anticipated annual predictions lists: Blackstone's Byron Wien and TheStreet's Doug Kass.
On the presidential election, Wien and Kass come to the same conclusion but from different paths. Both think Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton will prevail in this year's presidential election.

Wien says Clinton will battle it out against Republican candidate Ted Cruz.

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Kass believes that the presidency will be a contest between Clinton and Donald Trump (with Cruz as his running mate) and a very tight race (with Clinton beating Trump 293 electoral votes to 245 votes).

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http://www.thestreet.com/story/13414522/1/will-hillary-clinton-be-the-next-president-two-market-experts-call-the-election.html

Make it so.

[Blue_Adept]

1. I so want Cruz on the ticket

I want his brand of nutterism up there. Not the usual mogul and wealthy elite like trump and Romney. Their wealth is something that appeals to people who think they can have it to, so they live vicariously through them and vote for them.

If we get the fully on Christian Taliban-ism of Cruz up there, it'll be a wonder to behold. He won't be able to restrain himself as the second coming and it'll put one big ass nail in the coffin of his types for a generation.

And if we as a country vote him in? We get all that we deserve.

[comradebillyboy]

3. The republicans compalin that their candidates have not been real conservatives.

A Cruz candidacy would end that argument. A Goldwater like defeat would be the icing on the cake. I think Cruz has a pretty good shot at the nomination too. The big question is who would be the bigger disaster for the Rs, Trump or Cruz?

[whatthehey]

4. The trouble there is understimating the appeal of fundamentalist Xianity

There is a reason the gay-bashing misogynistic prosperity gospel loons have packed stadium sized churches while the kumbaya ooh God's such a nice chap and loves everyone like fluffy bunnies milquetoasts manage to round up enough parishioners to fill the two back pews if they are lucky.

Exclusionary triumphalist bigotry is an easier sell to the people inclined to blindly follow ingroup orthodoxy and do what they are told without skepticism, which is a sine qua non for religiosity in an age as scientifically rich as ours, than is equality and the brotherhood of humanity.

[BlueMTexpat]

2. B-b-b-ut I just read on DU

that Hillary's "campaign is sinking" ..."

Thanks for the post, Godhumor!

[Bernin4U]

5. No Bias There

No question Bernie is still the underdog, but what interest would "market experts" have in calling it for Bernie?

You don't think they exert any influence? You don't think they'll say, "It's going to be Hillary" up to the point that it's really obvious that it's not?