I cannot say that who gets the next presidency will matter, and I will tell you why.
A democrat president with a rep controlled house has no power, the same the other way around.
1) If it is not to declare troops to conflict (he cannot even call it war, congress has to and can override the president after 48 hrs, educate yourselves with War powers resolution 1973)
2) He can recognise another nation as a nation, Like Isreal or kosovo without congress
3) He can either accept or veto a bill that is sent to him (he doesnt even have the power to line item veto, its a all or nothing deal)
4) He can issue his own executive orders
5) He has to prepare a budget (that has to be approved by congress)
6) appoint over 6,000 people into positions in government (not congress or house)
& last but most importantly
#7) Suggest what is needed to the house and congress, If Congress should adjourn without acting on those proposals, he has the power to call it into special session. But beyond this, the president, as head of a political party and as principal executive officer of the United States government, is primarily in a position to influence public opinion and thereby to influence the course of legislation in Congress.
People have forgotten what they learned in the 6th grade. Are so busy in thier everyday fight for survival that they have fallen into the someone to blame mentality. Are so busy they have lost the marble under the shells and only see the one in the middle because it is stuck out just a little more on purpose, to catch the attention, while the ones in the back do what we blame him for.
I have never heard someone say congress is screwing them, not once.
Does the president write the bills, add all the pork barrels, and whatnot? No it is done where noone is looking, you fell for the slieght of hand.
He only has the power that we give him through our reps in the house and senate. He is the patsy.
A republican president with a dem. house and senate, will override every veto and simply be more of the same.
WAKE UP AMERICA.
We are so far into this whirlpool that we cannot stop the suction into the sewer. With the momentum we are moving there is little chance that we will even be lucky enough to be the little piece that pops back out from the flush.
It is mathmatically imposible to pay down the deficit without cutting programs, its just that simple.
Many programs are simply just paying tithes to the masses to buy more time.
Name a single program that can be cut without an uprising of the people.
Name 1 program that would not be political suicide to cut out.
And thus the circle continues on a path with but 1 outcome. It truly is that simple.
I am a simpleton, when it is broken down to its smallest terms, and it is tried to be rebuilt logically, it cannot be done. The only reason it has not collapsed already is just from the volosity of our sheer mass. Even that will be slowed down to the breaking point eventually, and we will have the glide path of a helicopter.
Our money is worth less every day, and there is no logical conclusion that an informed person can make Except, It cannot continue and have an acceptable outcome.