- Its a prediction because I say it is. That is why I wrote it. ( will update it to be more specific)
- You just proved my point nobody would have beat Obama (read the article again) it was because the civic generation made it so.
- You are correct he didn't have the authority, but he backed it and his counter parts during his election years said they wanted it repealed. Hoover didn't so what does that say about Hoover?
- What do you consider not struggling? Compared to the billions newspapers make and the power newspapers have (though dwindling) they are struggling. Again read the article thoroughly (see the mention of Rupert). You need to slow down and not skip things.
- The numbers in the article ( those things that aren't letters ) Also see the BIG graph.
- None of the stuff you mention is specific enough to constitute a prediction. If Bloomberg had won in 2008, would you be talking about how this represented a "new movement"? What about Huckabee? Edwards?
- Hoover did not have the constitutional authority to end Prohibition; the 18th Amendment could only have been repealed by another amendment, with the consent of two-thirds of both houses of Congress and three-fourths of the states, as indeed happened in 1933 with the 21st Amendment.
- Blogs are not struggling; they are growing exponentially (http://econsultancy.com/blog/092-surge-in-blog-statistics-as...).
- What numbers? The only numbers in your comment are "3" and "2006".