D-Day- Obama VS Romney. WHO DO YOU PREFER TO WIN?

Voters in the United States will on Tuesday (today) decide who would rule the most powerful country in the world for the next four years.

Incumbent President Barack Obama, a Democrat, and his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, made a dash to a series of crucial swing states on Monday, delivering their final arguments to voters on the last day of an extraordinarily close race for the White House.

In the build up to the election, both candidates had attended hundreds of rallies, town hall events and fundraisers. They also squared-off in three nationally televised debates which were memorable but did not turn out to be decisive.

In the race, the two contenders and their party allies raised a combined $2bn and analysts posit that the 2012 election campaign is the most expensive in US history.

Obama, the 44th US President is the first black man to rule the country. After a close race in the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries against Hillary Clinton, he won his party’s nomination.

In the 2008 presidential election, he defeated Republican nominee, John McCain, and was inaugurated as president on January 20, 2009.

But polls show that Obama who is seeking a second term and the Republican candidate, Romney remain locked in a virtual dead heat.

Meanwhile, Romney will become the first Mormon president of the US if he wins the election.

In the 2008 presidential election it was estimated that about 130 million people voted. Close to thirty million Americans have already cast their ballot through early voting across 34 states.

Obama, Romney, Vice-President Joe Biden and Republican vice-presidential hopeful Paul Ryan were scattered across the country Monday, cramming in 11th-hour visits to battleground states.

WHO DO YOU PREFERS?