PREDICTIONS 03.26.08

A report published in 2010 will estimate that almost a half-million people in the United States could be classified as slaves, in that they are bought and sold as property, are not free to come and go as they wish, and make no wages for their labor. Most of these modern slaves will be sex workers, smuggled in to the United States from Africa and Eastern Europe, but some will be domestic or farm workers. This same report will make in clear that, at the time of its writing, there are more slaves worldwide than at any time in human history.
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The next presidential election will produce one very surprising statistic. Fifteen percent of voters who define themselves as Fundamentalist Christians -- a group that traditionally votes Republican -- will cast votes for Barack Obama. These votes will almost all come from people in their 20s, who statistically lean more to the center than their parents.