Originally Posted by
Steely Glint
My prediction is that Barack wins Ohio, New Hampshire and Wisconsin but Mittens wins the rest of the battle ground states, resulting both candidates getting 269 electoral votes.
This is immediately followed by an increasingly bitter series of recounts, legal challenges, protests, accusations by both sides of electoral fraud and voter suppression which drags on well into 2013, which ultimately lead to violence and finally outright civil war. The Second America Civil War lasts from late 2013 to early 2017.
The early years of the war are characterized by horrific atrocities carried out by both sides, the increasingly bitter social divisions between Americans, exasperated by the sheer number of guns in America, had been bubbling under the surface now express frenzy of violence and bloodshed. By 2015, though, battle lines, territory and formal militaries had been established by both sides and the war continues in a somewhat more restrained fashion until its conclusion.
A series of attempted interventions by China, Europe and Russia around mid 2014 to seize America's nuclear weapons before they fall into to the hands of the more apocalyptically minded militias result in a blood bath and limited success.
The Republican side has the best of it at first, the red states being in general more heavily armed but eventually the industrial might and population of the north and California begins to tell and a treaty is signed in February 2017 with terms generally favorable to what is now the New England Coalition/California alliance. The United states of America is official dissolved, in it's place the Confederacy, the Republic of California and New England Coalition. The Confederacy uses this opportunity to annex Mexico, before eventually deciding that they don't want it. The peace between New England and the Confederacy remains fragile, however, and the border heavily militarized.
In the wider world, China has moved with enthusiasm to fill the power vacuum left by America and now holds uncontested dominion over Asia. The EU is now a full blown Federation, and it and China are now involved in a frantic arms race and are giving every sign of being at the beginning a new Cold War.
So use your vote people!
