America's real choice

Oliver Hartwich | The New Zealand Initiative | 12 November 2012

No one should ever compile a cost-benefit analysis of the United States elections. After a campaign that lasted about 18 months (and felt even longer), and having spent an estimated US$6 billion promoting both candidates, nothing has changed.

Barack Obama is still President, the Republicans still hold the House, and the political landscape is as polarised as before. More importantly, the many problems of the United States ...