If they offer tax breaks to entice US firms home, could that be a problem for us. The Obama administration were toying with that idea i think.

Quite simple. Our corporation tax.

America influences a lot of other countries (such as Ireland) so on a equality (in matters such as race/sexual orientation/gender identity etc…) basis – a democratic president means good things for Ireland and a republican is probably going to be a bad thing

Will it affect Ireland? It affects the entire world surely. Is it not the President who directs their foreign policies…policies which affect us all in some way?
For example, war with Iran could well be the next big conflict if things go the way they are going…it won’t happen without the US involved. Such a war could involve many countries in the region and impact us all in many ways.

No one country is isolated we’re all affected. It’s simple geopolitics

social issues may be affected as well as business investment

Yes but the French one is even more important yet we have very little coverage of it in the media

It will influence all foreign politics

Yeah, but it should be better with four more years of Obama, as opposed to the other embarrassments running for the position, which as an American, I apologize for. We’re not all lunatics.

Of course it does. America sneezes and we catch a cold, it’s that simple. Hopefully they won’t elect the nincompoops from the ultra right which would take them back to the medieval age.

I think that the Democrats are more friendlier to Ireland than the Republicans. We have only to look at the Records of Former republican Presidents two of which were involved in Iraq war etc. A regards does it matter who is in in the Oval office That is the Question. Lets take you back to when George Bush was President he did not give much time to Taoiseach on St. Patrick’s Day. Obama has given a full day over to Ireland on this day. It also depends on the world situation during a presidents term in office. At the Moment I think that Iran and Isreal are at the top of the Agenda. Of Course Syria is also there

I hope Mitt Romney doesn’t get chosen as Republican candidate. He has changed his views just to get nominated. If I could vote in America I would vote Barack Obama(of the Moneygall Obama’s!)

The tax issue is a plausible one but I don’t think the extent of their liberal/not so liberal views should affect us, our political parties are unrecognisable when compared to theirs. Many democrats in the States are significantly more conservative than Labour voters here for example,so it is primarily in terms of our finances that the election might affect us