...but I'm thinking of changing my vote to Romney. It does bother me that, still registered in New York, my vote wouldn't count, but I sure can't control that.

Part of me says Obama's work is done. One way or another, he's delivered far more than we could have expected. The historic Affordable Care Act, effectively addressing the recession, protecting the auto companies, a good restart in regulating the financial industry, a good new blueprint for consumer protection, brutally tough on terrorists, historic civil rights protections, and even an enlightened and fundamental piece of what will hopefully become a comprehensive immigration policy. There is absolutely no doubt he will someday be widely regarded as one of our most effective Presidents, perhaps even sooner if he is not reelected.

What I'd like to see in a second term is a strong stimulus program designed to rebuild our national infrastructure. State and local governments would be charged with selecting and implementing projects and the strongest federal involvement would be oversight in letting contracts. Special attention would be paid to assuring the equal bidding status of non-union firms and the citizen status of all workers. That would be a costly investment for a nation in debt, but I'd expect it to be offset by 'tea-party"-like cuts in spending. Not only end the Bush tax cuts, but revise the tax code to eliminate loopholes for wealthy individuals. Raise the income tax percentages starting with incomes over $500k annually. Set a schedule for raising the capital gains rate to at least 25%. Lower corporate income taxes significantly, eliminate the huge corporate tax loopholes and develop a small business tax loophole and incentive system. I'd like to see the completion of withdrawal from Afghanistan, large cuts in defense, and accelerated efforts to replace ground troops with tech weapons. Streamlining government services, incentives for federal workers to identify ways to improve services and cut costs. Really get ready for 2014 when the insurance mandate kicks in. Fix the concerns small business has about providing insurance. Set up the exchanges. Show people how to get insurance. Wage an all-out war on medicare, social security and workman's comp fraud. Reduce medicare and medicaid benefits to persons with incomes over 500k.

Some of the above has been mentioned as Obama's agenda, but I'm not sure how committed he is to it. Besides the stalled Jobs Bill, I'm waiting for him to clearly and forcefully promulgate an effective combination of strong stimulus/serious budget cuts. But then there's the concern that if all that transpires and he's reelected, he may not be able to get past the near unprecedented hatred and resistance toward him by some members of Congress and other powerful people and organizations. The curious thing is that if he were reelected the total resistance might lessen. Mitch McConnell, for one, would no longer have his full-time obsession of limiting Obama to one term.

Then there's Romney. His agenda is complicated because he will neither be able to do, nor even try to do what he claims. He is a moderate. His patronizing of conservatives is necessary to get elected, but as genuine as a three-dollar bill. I understand that. If elected, he will try to enact some budget cutting, but nothing so radical as short-sighted conservatives keep demanding. At best he will pay lip service to any effort to repeal Obamacare. His moderate nature actually might work to bring some extreme factions closer to the center. Thinking of this I realize I'm drifting closer to the idea of not voting for an incumbent.

So I'll try to keep an open mind until November.