Unfortunately, there's more truth in that statement than I'd like.

To me, the decision is as follows...

Obama - definitely not my first choice. Could have done a LOT better with the economy but he seems to have stopped most of the bleeding. He's made more progress on most economic fronts than Reagan did with the mess he inherited from Carter. Remember that Reagan said it would take more than 4 years to recover from the mess - and he was right. Note that I said "stopped the bleeding" - this is a VERY anemic recovery and I can't help but to feel that the lack of string on TARP has something to do with it. Admittedly, I'm not sure what the President can do about one fundamental flaw in our system right now - the fact that companies are ONLY looking out for their shareholders - and then only for the next quarter with ver few exceptions (like Apple - sitting on $90B and refusing to do dividends or stock buybacks because that doesn't meet their long-term strategic goals).

Republicans - With the exception of Ron Paul, they all seem to want to return to the policies that got us into this mess un the first place. They want to de-regulate without any specifics - just demagoguery about jobs being strangled. So far, a vote for almost any of them seems like a vote for George W. Bush.

I'm normally an optimist but it's hard to keep that going under these circumstances.