Obama and Romney wait and watch

Barack Obama and Mitt Romney capped an aggressive, deeply negative and vastly expensive campaign today to wait the decision of voters in an election that left Americans the choice of starkly different visions for the country’s future.

At stake at the end of Election Day were overwhelmingly different approaches for healing the ailing US economy, polar opposite views on social issues from abortion rights for women to how to deal with immigration and the conduct of American foreign and military policy across the globe.