Actually you did by stating
"it probably won't matter who wins anyway".
Your gloom and doom scenario is way off the mark - the unemployment rate is over 6% but is historically down from past decades - the stock market is down from unreasonable highs, but still way up from past decades. The downfall of freddie and fannie is deserving and trails the downfall of a housing market that had lots of people doing very stupid things. Most of those people need to pay a price for stupidity.
With the Iraq War possibly coming to an end, the billions spent will be used for other purposes; with the development of
oil reserves at home - gas prices will drop immediately by just saying that that is what will be done; most of those who deserve a financial hit have taken a hit or will in the next 6 months.
If only stupidity were painful we would not have to go through a down economy so often.
BO is a proponent of a larger government, so even if your future scenario is on the money, there is no reason to encourage that to happen by electing a Marxist.