From the Reuters Woo-woo Wire

[featherynscale]

Oct 29, 11:05 AM (ET)

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Surveys in the United States may be showing the race for president as too close to call but top Indian astrologers say the planets have clearly made up their mind: John Kerry will win.
Planets governing President Bush are eclipsed and in an uncomfortable position, making his tenure controversial and his re-election bid unsuccessful, the soothsayers said on Friday, four days before the vote. On the other hand, the planets of Democratic challenger Senator John Kerry were in the ascendant, ensuring him success in competitions.

"Saturn, which is the lord of health and fortune for President Bush, has been eclipsed by the Sun, which is unfortunate and gives him a clear defeat," Lachhman Das Madan, editor of a popular astrology magazine,
told Reuters.

"Kerry will win," said Madan, who is also known as "the emperor of astrologers." "It is cosmic writ that George W. Bush cannot become president of United States again."

Ajai Bhambi, a senior astrologer and author of several books on the science
of predictions, agreed. "Kerry is likely to beat Bush in the final verdict," he told the New
Indian Express newspaper.

Bejan Daruwalla, another top astrologer, told Reuters he had yet to calculate who would win Tuesday's election. But Bush, even if he won, would not be allowed by his planets to complete a full term, he said.
Astrology is extremely popular in India and many top politicians, businessmen and movie stars consult astrologers before taking important decisions.

Tuesday's vote is forecast to be one of the closest in American history. A Reuters/Zogby poll showed on Thursday that Bush was leading Kerry by 48 to 46 percent but the lead was well within the poll's margin of error.

Comments

[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

Having a hard time getting past the names "Bhambi" and "Daruwalla."

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

And I was going to change my name to Bambi Daruwalla, too.
You wound me.

[druidevo.livejournal.com]

Also the Redskins lost yesterday. Everytime they lose they're last home game before the persidential election the incumbent loses. And the reverse is also true, but correlation is not causeation.

And besides The Red Sox won, how many more omens do you need.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I thought that was a sign of approaching apocalypse.

Or maybe that's if the Cubs win. I forget.

[capriciouslass.livejournal.com]

Actually, the Red Sox winning would be a positve for Bush, according to the paper on Saturday.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Dammit. The omens are unclear. Somebody get me a chicken (http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/living/10050545.htm?1c).

But the Redskins won!

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

So far, I think we're two up, one down, on Sports Omens for Kerry.

[lysana.livejournal.com]

Not quite. The last two Red Sox wins in election years paralleled victories that went to the Democrat.

[capriciouslass.livejournal.com]

I just remembered that the paper said it would be strange if Kerry didn't cheer for the Red Sox, so I thought that they should lose for him to win.
I've slept since I read the article, so some details have been lost.

[malvito.livejournal.com]

Go Planets!! Go Planets!! Goooooooooooooo Planets!!