but will either of them actually commit to anything other than more of the same economic bandaids like bailing out the huge banks, mortgage companies, bond issuers, and bond insurers from their own folly and then call that a fix despite there being no liquidity in housing afterward.  Will either of them geto ver the idea that even more of the same is the fix on Health Insurance?

Frankly, I don't see the will to do more than fold to the center in either of them.   Potential Herbert Hoovers.