One thing that web surfers discover, when they first land at Predictify, is that there are opportunities to get engaged with the news in ways that traditional media simply cannot provide.
Take one of today's top news stories playing on our site, which asks how many Republicans Barack Obama will appoint to his cabinet, should he win the Presidency next Tuesday. Users from all over the web have been flocking to questions like these lately.
While the mainstream media remain focused on the "horse race," i.e., who is going to win the election, many Americans (as well as people overseas) are much more interested in considering the consequences of an Obama victory, which many now assume is inevitable.
Will he choose to govern from a place of partisan advantage? This is one option for Obama, as Democrats seem poised, if you believe the polls, to score big gains in the House and the Senate.
But perhaps the most fascinating aspect of this particular candidate is that he seems utterly disinterested in playing hardball partisan politics of the style we've become (so sadly) familiar with in Washington, D.C. This may be pure speculation on my part, but my gut sense of this man is that he wouldn't be pleased if Democrats won a Super Majority in the Senate, i.e., 60 seats.
Why? Because the only advantage accorded his party by a Super Majority would be stick it to the GOP the way Dem's feel they've been treated during many years of Republican dominance. They would finally have the power to stifle the GOP's right to filibuster when they feel so strongly about an issue that they choose to keep talking about it 24/7, hoping the majority party pulls back from over-riding their concerns.
The hardcore liberals hoping for this scenario actually are nervous, because they realize that Obama, who, while willing to attack the failed policies of the Bush Administration, is not running an ideological campaign for the White House. He does not attack conversatives; rather he honors all belief systems.
The truth is he is running as an agent of change -- a person who understands how sick we all are, regardless of our political persuasion -- of the pointless bickering between the right and the left when what we need at this point in our history is a unified approach to deal with global issues that we as a species, not just Americans, have never before realized to matter as much as science now documents they do.
Luckily, Predictify's user base understands this, on some collectively conscious level, as do millions of people searching the web for answers to questions like the one this blog is devoted to.
Most news sites are devoted to today and yesterday. Not Predictify: We are focused on tomorrow. To quote Fleetwood Mac, "Don't Stop Thinkin' About Tomorrow!"
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