> Democrats [...] run as the slightly better Republicans. Obama [...] basically did nothing to improve the situation That doesn't seem consistent with facts on

> Democrats [...] run as the slightly better Republicans. Obama [...] basically did nothing to improve the situation That doesn't seem consistent with facts on the ground. I know what you're saying is that he wouldn't take firm policy stances, but neither did he gas protestors. The ability of the executive branch to control national discourse, find compromise and defuse division is important. And we have one party that tries that, however flawed the results might be. And another the runs the government for the parochial benefit of their own voters only, basically laughing at the rest of the citizens whose needs aren't being heard. And you can see the results. That doesn't look very similar to me.