if John McCain would have won...

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Nope. I felt like whoever won the last election was setting up the losing party for a big 2012, because both candidate sucked something awful.
 
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VOLatile said:
Nothing different. Or we might be at war with Iran or North Korea right now.
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how would that have happened? With Pelosi and Reid running Congress, a President McCain wouldn't have been able to activate the Boy Scouts for any sort of kinetic military activities.

We'd be better off because neither the health care bill nor the stimulus bill that were rammed through Congress would have been signed.
 
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Agree with MG - the difference would be no Obamacare and a different stimulus. Boeing would be green lighted in SC and the EPA wouldn't be shutting down coal and generally menacing business.

These things alone should be sufficient to encourage more business investment.
 
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volinbham said:
Agree with MG - the difference would be no Obamacare and a different stimulus. Boeing would be green lighted in SC and the EPA wouldn't be shutting down coal and generally menacing business.

These things alone should be sufficient to encourage more business investment.
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tough call - I think POTUS now that I've seen how badly they can screw crap up (see last 2). A full on stalemate would be better for business than the current dude
 
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No way our debt would be as astronomical as it is. McCain wanted to control govt spending, Obama wanted to "spend money to get out of debt".

I think we'd be a lot better of economically, but still not great.
 
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Billy Costigan said:
do you think we would be better off today?
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Probably exactly where we are at, minus Obamacare. Possibly more social liberty in the form of less medical marijuana enforcement (Bush had 200 raids in 8 years. Obama has 100 in 2.5 years after promising not to enforce federal law on medical marijuana).
 
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Jestes311 said:
No way our debt would be as astronomical as it is. McCain claimed he wanted to control govt spending, Obama wanted to "spend money to get out of debt".

I think we'd be a lot better of economically, but still not great.
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If McCain had been elected rather than Obama, the health care bill would not have been passed. Whether some form of stimulus had been or no is not that important as, even if it hadn't been passed, we'd be in the same boat we are in now.

Apparently, Michelle Bachmann is out there claiming she can restore $2 a gallon gas and she can turn the economy around with tax breaks in one quarter. So I guess I'm voting for her.
 
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trevols81 said:
We would have. But the president has as much to do covert ops as he does with gas prices.
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You shouldn't be so sure. Obama stepped up our presence in Pakistan ten-fold. We've already killed more Al-Quaeda people there during the last two years than the previous administration did in 7 years. The POTUS certainly has more to do with covert ops than gas prices in that he has the ability to steer stategy to certain regions.

There is no way to know if things would be different under McCain as far as anything else goes though. Whoever was elected POTUS was going to behind the eight ball on the economy from the start
 
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I don't think there is any doubt we'd have stepped up our efforts in Afghanistan as much or more under McCain. That was probably the only thing he was consistent on.

Even if he didn't get UBL - I don't see how it would impact the economic situation which I thought was the main part of the discussion in this thread.
 
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volinbham said:
I don't think there is any doubt we'd have stepped up our efforts in Afghanistan as much or more under McCain. That was probably the only thing he was consistent on.

Even if he didn't get UBL - I don't see how it would impact the economic situation which I thought was the main part of the discussion in this thread.
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I was responding to another post. It's possible the economy may have gotten worse if McCain had done something many ill-informed conservatives wanted to do: slash income taxes on the wealthiest individuals, which would not have created jobs in this climate
 
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