Things are so bad...

That President Romney with a Republican congress and a closely divided Senate is one of the least bad scenarios, actually. At least Romney is reasonably intelligent, sane, and totally unprincipled (which is a good thing in the context of the radicalized GOP today). Heaven help us if Palin, or worse Bachmann, gets elected on Obama's failures. Fortunately, the primogeniture principle still exists in the Republican party, whereby the loser of the last nomination gets the nomination this time around, and the GOP has a prejudice against identity politics. The latter is a marked difference from the Democratic Party, where Hillary Clinton's campaign meant no white male, no matter how qualified, could compete against her.