Judgment day is nearly upon us. Soon we (the cool people) will once and for all decide who will take the wheel of the Cadillac that is America, and hopefully not drive us any further into hell.

Just for fun though, let’s consider if things don’t go so well and indulge in some old time comic book “what if?” daydreaming.

What if, through either bad planning or forces of nature, our candidates didn’t turn out to be the leaders we thought they would? What if we had to contend with a worst case scenario?

John McCain: Once elected president, McCain throws out most of his policies that resembled Bush’s and uses some that actually work.

This of course outrages most of his Republican supporters, but the gamble pays off as he manages to a small extent repair the economy and even makes a dent in gas prices with off shore drilling.

Sadly this is off set by his death one year into his term. Yeah, we get stuck with the genius after that.

Barrack Obama: One of Obama’s tactics, using investments in alternative fuel industries to create more jobs while easing gas prices and improving the economy, hits a few snags.

It turns out to be a lot harder to wean Americans off diesel then expected, which results in some interesting choices in alt. energy. Whale oil, methane, Funion based ethanol, and angel blood are all proposed.

By the time Obama launches an investigation into finding angels most of the American public accepts that he has gone insane. He gets elected for a second term, however.

Raplh Nader: Enough voters actually vote for a third party candidate to make him president. If this happens the last of our worries is the president, folks, because the universe will have exploded.

Optimus Prime: The late Democratic add has a few simplistic yet effective policies in place when he takes office.

Foreign policy is boiled down to whether they are Autobots or Decepticons. If Decepticon, laser explosion gun fights ensue.

Alternative fuel sources come in the form of energon cubes. Namely finding and using them, somehow. If Decepticons are involved, more laser explosions.

Being an illegal immigrant, literally, Prime is unable to build an adequate immigration policy. so he accuses his opponents of being Decepticons instead.

All in all he turns out to be a pretty decent president. Too he chooses Bumble Bee as his VP.