Eleven Writers Imagine What Happens After Election Day

Bookmaker Paddy Power is giving 1 - 10 odds that Barack Obama will deliver the goods tomorrow ’s election . But we still do n’t know what ’ll really happen on election twenty-four hours — and right afterwards . Will an Obama judicature have the funds to play about his promised change ? Will President McCain survive a full four - year term ? Could some coloured horse emerge at the last second to stage an election upset ? Five Dials magazine call for eleven writers to speculate on who will win the administration , and what the post - election future holds . Hamish HamiltonBritish magazineFive Dialsasked eleven writers to “ remember ” their experience on November 5 , 2008 , the day after Election Day . Of the eleven , three choice McCain as the fictional victor . Two imagine the president - elect as promptly pass away , but Suketu Mehta , author of autobiography Maximum City posits a world where Obama and Palin both go rogue – for each other :

He told her he want to have a private lecture , to differentiate her that her attack on him were get increasingly hysteric and unsafe . The gentleman arrested with the rifle at his last rally had suppose he had ‘ been rile up ’ by her speech . He was perish to ask her to cool off it down , just a little . So they went up alone , in the still of the night , to her suite in the Sheraton on the square . Who jazz what hap there ? Was it just loneliness , the brutal month on the trail , or just intelligent desire ? They ’re not doing any explaining , and it does n’t matter anyway . When he told his wife the next day , the first matter she said was , ‘ I ’m no Hilary . ’ The cuckolded husband , on the other hand , did n’t bat an eyelid . He was used to it . ‘ You ’ll add up back , ’ he predicted .

Lydia Millet has written politically - tinged comedy ( George Bush : Dark Prince of Love ) and notional fiction ( Oh sodding and Radiant Heart , where three Manhattan Project physicists are delight to New America to survey their work ) . She envisions Obama eking out a victory , and how the Republican tag handles the news show :

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dramatist and memoirist Said Sayrafiezadeh , whose parents were members of the Socialist Workers Party , writes a fantasy that has neither major political party candidate as victor . rather , the people elect Roger Calero , the SWP candidate :

The Church of St Paul the Apostle was spill over as common and it was other eventide before my wife and I could get inside . The carrot soup had a slightly metallic taste and the bread was stale and the stink of body odor was oppressive , but it did n’t matter . There was lots of excited talk at our table about how Calero had declared he was going to end the role of currency within three days of his inauguration . Within three weeks all factories and farm would revert to make out worker mastery . Were these just military campaign promises ? someone at the table enquire . No , mass answer smartly , Róger Calero was a different kind of political leader , he was a doer – a center packer – and his interests were workings - course of instruction interests . Everyone had a good laugh about the manner McCain and Obama had seek desperately to save their cause by claiming that they too were socialist . ‘ I ’ve always hated capitalist economy and imperialism just as much as you have , my friends , ’ someone said , mimicking McCain ’s much - derided instruction . A few of the lawyers get into a spanking debate over how chop-chop Bernanke and Paulson would be brought to trial and whether they should be imprisoned for lifespan or used to establish road and schools . And then everyone voiced their ebullience that Bush should also be tried if he could be extradited from the Cayman Islands .

But some writer suspect nothing ever changes , as with Hot Animal Love scribe Scott Bradfield , whose entire entry reads :

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