The Presidency in the US is really not so important that anyone in that position can cause really major catastrophic disasters.
I think there are quite a lot of people in the world (not necessarily in the US) who would disagree with that assessment. But otherwise I get the impression that the only reason Republicans haven't caused a "catastrophic disaster" yet is because they are usually followed by a Democratic president who gets to clean up the mess. And in that respect Obama still has a lot of work to do.
As a European living in the US I just don't understand why Obama still isn't miles ahead of Romney. The Republicans (or at least the ones who make the most noise) are so obviously anti-poor-people, anti-women, anti-any-religion-except-christianity, anti-science and I probably forgot a few there; so why would anyone still want to vote for them (except the 1%)?
They must have a really good marketing team (and a lot of money)...
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