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From my perspective (across the oceanic divider) I can't help wonder how a 72 year old man, whom (as I understand it from the media) has had several encounters with cancer and ,as the Life Expectancy in the USA is somewhere near the middle to late seventies, stats wise might not even make it till the end of this term is still in the running? Don't get me wrong as a foreigner it is hard for me to judge American politics and society, but there has to be a younger more viable option among 305,500,000 Americans?
As for Barrack Obama. Yes Obama is a liberal (so what it is a democracy, isn't it. Land of the free and so), most conservatives will say the same of Bill Clinton (who left the Oval Office with a surplus on the balance). So being a liberal does not exclude a good economic policy.
As for his legacy in a couple of months/years? Fox will hound him (like they did Clinton), depending on the Senate and Congress elections they will try to block him, there will be a large mess to clean up (economy, foreign affairs, Iraq, Afghanistan, but also what to do with Cuba when Fidel kicks the bucket) and he will have to unite a (seemingly) divided country.
I don't think it matters who wins there will be a lot of issues to deal with. Pro-life, guns, gay marriage all have the potential to create or enlarge a divide. I don't envy the candidates, nor you lot for who have to choose between now and the 4th.
For the record I did a Dutch poll on issues and turns out I am 88% Obama, not weird since I am from that liberal hell hole called the Netherlands
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