Tempest

You mean as opposed to a Republican?? Republicans that rack up the deficit and debt more than Democrats "usually" do? Republicans that write laws that remove regulations leading to things like the current financial disaster, Enron and so many others? Republicans who's backdoor policy is that deficits don't matter and that we can fuck things up and leave it to democrats to fix so we can then point out how bad things are under them and then win the next election (and yes, that's exactly what at least some republican strategists have said.. Why do you think the current congress doesn't want to get anything done)?

Over the last 31 years, there has been a Republican President for 20 of those years... The deficit and debt has skyrocketed. GDP, despite what they all would like people to believe, averages out around 3%-3.5% regardless of who's in office and how many taxes they cut or raise... Seriously.. If cutting taxes that the republicans use to get votes actually worked, there should be fantastic GDP numbers, huge job growth, a growing middle class etc etc etc when they have their way.. They cut so many taxes under Bush but where was that fantastic growth? The booming economy? Jobs for everyone? A growing middle class? Sadly, what the republicans promote doesn't give the results they say it will.

Consider that under Clinton, the deficit/debt shrank. They had balanced budgets. They had a "surplus" when Bush won.. Taxes were higher. The economy was doing great. So yeah... History has shown that Republicans are definitely the way to go.

Having said that, none of them are all that great and both sides could fuck things up but overall Democrats have a slight edge as far as I'm concerned given the history. And yeah, Obama ain't no Clinton that's for sure.