It's all smoke and mirrors. When you get right down to it, there is only a marginal difference between Romney and Obama in terms of policy. It's not as if either is proposing a radical shift in American foreign or domestic policies--massive taxation to eliminate poverty or changing allies or dismantling the military. IMO it does not really matter who is elected. Besides, the president can't even pass his own policies; he needs Congress, which prevents anything innovative from being introduced: as the saying goes, "none of us is as stupid alone as we are together."