Oh yes…it helps quite a bit “Lyndzee”. It helps us verify once again how crude your hoax is constructed. Just like all the past TT hoaxers, you are not telling us about the future, but merely reading the present news and translating them into vague “predictions”. These words of yours above were posted here on SEP 17 2008. And as Kanigo2 has posted, the news about Washington Mutual and its troubles has hardly been a secret, or something no one knew about. But now that JP Morgan has taken over (not merged with) Washington Mutual, you would obviously want people to use this as some sort of validation that you are a real TTer.
The problem is you did not tell us WHICH “financial instituation” WaMu would “merge” with (be taken over by). But if you had done better scouring of the news, you may have even been able to guess which one it was… Look here: This is from the New York Times as far back as September 8th, a full NINE DAYS before your “prediction”…
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/08/business/08chief.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
“The deal allowed Mr. Killinger to keep his job, but many analysts said the bank would need another infusion. JPMorgan had previously submitted a bid that would have led to his ouster.”
There was the clue… That right there would tell someone who watches financials that JP Morgan was seeing the blood in the WaMu streets, and making their play to scoop-up the assets. Of course, now we know that JP Morgan has taken over (not merged with) Washington Mutual as a result of a deal by the FDIC. But there were plenty of indications even before Sep 8th that WaMu would not survive. Here is one from as far back as July:
http://money.cnn.com/2008/07/22/news/companies/wamu/index.htm?postversion=2008072219
“Washington Mutual loses $3.3 billion
Hurt by higher loan loss provisions, nation’s largest thrift reports worse-than-expected results.”
As further proof that you are googling and not predicting, look at one of the articles that comes up when you type into google the words “next bank to fail”:
http://www.gambling911.com/business/financial/washington-mutual-going-be-next-bank-fail-091408.html
NOTE THE DATE OF THIS ARTICLE: September 14th 2008.
So now things will really start to heat up with your story. For when (if) Obama wins the election, we would expect for you to be gone from here, never to return. But as you state above, there is a 50/50 chance you could have picked the right one, if McCain wins. Are you nervous? BWAAAHAHAHAHAH 
Yes, I am being rude… but then again, so are you sweetheart.
RMT