I am from India, but I follow US politics very closely, I have no stakes in the elections as Americans do, but like many others around the world, what got my attention was the Bush era, and the Iraq war.
In the current elections, people have claimed that there is not much difference between Obama and Romney. There have been arguments in these and other blogs on why this is not so, that focuses on specific policies.
My own take is different.
For the past 4 years, since the inauguration and even before that, Republicans have decided that truth really does not exist. Whatever they make up and force down Fox News and then through the equivalences of the mainstream media IS the truth. A victory in 2012 has been their goal since the crash of Lehman brothers, and they have cynically run propaganda for the past 4 years.
It is precisely for this reason, that I hope Obama wins. The elections should not even be this close - that it is, shows the gullibility of Fox News watchers and is also a reflection of the media's abdication of their role.
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