Economically, the two parties are never that different. Republicans can't be true free market cavaliers and Democrats will never edge anything closer to what is seen in the rest of the first world -- they're all "invested" in by the same outsiders (lobbyists). Foreign policy, civil and social issues, though, are a different story. Obama is likely to end the conservative death grip on the Judicial branch in the next four years, for example. That's a big deal. And in his first term he ended DADT, something that simply wouldn't happen with a conservative Presidency.
|