I think in large part Jaxk is right.
If you are the Jaxk from Askville, you know we seldom agreed on anything there…
But in my opinion, presidential elections now in the US just give us a fairly superficial view of the issues and ideology. That is, I don’t think the candidates ever really stick to their platform once elected.
I voted for Obama twice. And many of the big decisions he’s made in office are actually Republican in nature. He didn’t close Guantanamo, he supports unconstitutional NSA spying, he threatens Syria and now Russia on the Ukraine invasion, but will do nothing substantial to stop it, he has failed to pass immigration reform, gun control, raise the minimum wage nationally (all Republican views on these issues).
The leadership in this country is so gridlocked now that it seems like whoever you vote for, very little gets done any more. I read that in Obama’s first term, of the 40 legislative initiatives he pushed for, only one passed, and that was getting a temporary budget in place to keep the government from shutting down.
Congress is too polarized now for anything substantial to come out of it, regardless of which type of president we have in officed…