The likelihood that the next president will be picking two if not three SCOTUS justices is reason enough to vote for President Obama's re-election.  Mitt Romney's expressed disdain for nearly half the country is alone reason enough to vote for President Obama's re-election.  On the other hand, I suspect that there are far more than 100 very good reasons to vote for President Obama's re-election.  But 100 seems a nice round number and since this is my hundredth Newsvine article, I thought identifying at least that many reasons seems apropos.  So here we go (in no particular order of importance):

1. President Obama has demonstrated a willingness to seek solutions to our challenges through compromise, even to the point of angering his voting base.  Republicans, on the other hand, vote out legislators for having the temerity to seek negotiated solutions to policy issues.
2. President Obama has appointed a record number of female jurists to the federal bench and radically increased the gender diversity of the United States Supreme Court with no deterioration or compromise in jurisprudential excellence.
3. President Obama has offered a four trillion dollar federal debt reduction proposal that included nearly three dollars of spending cuts for every dollar of new tax revenue.  This “Grand Bargain” was rejected by the republican caucus after House Speaker John Boehner initially supported it.
4. President Obama signed legislation to establish compensation fairness for women. Because of that legislation, employers that have maintained discriminatory compensation practices have less an ability to hide behind a statute of limitations.
5. President Obama has attempted to address concerns about illegal immigration, deporting record numbers of the undocumented, particularly those who have committed crimes.
6. President Obama has curtailed efforts to deport young people who have been living here since childhood and who are contributing to American society.
7. President Obama pushed for and signed legislation that allows a brave man or woman of any sexual orientation to serve openly in our armed forces.
8. President Obama got a new START treaty signed, enabling better control of the worldwide nuclear arsenal.
9. President Obama made it illegal for an insurance company to deny me coverage because of a pre-existing condition while his opponent is supports such insurance company practices…..wait, he’s against it?.....huh?.....oh, he’s now for it?.....**sigh**
10. Because of President Obama, being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition.
11. President Obama made it illegal for an insurance company to drop my coverage if I get sick.
12. President Obama has enabled my son to stay on my insurance until he is better established in his own household.
13. President Obama eliminated the financial middleman in student loans, thereby decreasing their cost both to the taxpayer and to the student.
14. President Obama eased the burden of student loan debt by capping the monthly payment amount to a percentage of the young person’s income.
15. Osama Bin Laden is dead and President Obama gave the order.
16. President Obama continues to decapitate Al Qaeda leadership.
17. President Obama enabled the uprising that resulted in Mohammar Gaddafi’s removal without putting a single American boot on the ground.
18. President Obama has increased support for sick and wounded veterans.
19. I would rather have President Obama nominating the next three Supreme Court Justices than his opponent
20. President Obama reversed Bush Administration policies on torture and closed secret detention facilities around the world.
21. President Obama expanded Pell Grants, while his opponent would cut them.
22. President Obama created Race to the Top, encouraging states to pursue education reforms.
23. President Obama boosted fuel efficiency standards.
24. President Obama has significantly decreased American dependence on foreign energy sources.
25. President Obama passed significant consumer protections and financial reforms including credit card and mortgage disclosure requirements.
26. President Obama has improved the food safety system.
27. President Obama has cracked down on abusive and predatory practices at for-profit colleges, demanding reforms that increase the value of vocational education for both the student and the taxpayer.
28. As evidenced by the party conventions and policies he has put into place during his first term, President Obama and the democrats seem to be far more concerned about the demonstrated courage of the men and women in our armed forces and far more interested in supporting soldiers and their families.
29. Since 1961, 41 million private sector jobs have been created under democratic administrations while only 24 million such jobs have been created under republican administrations.
30. Major stock indices are approximately 1.7 times higher today than they were on the day that the President was inaugurated.  Anyone buying and holding an index based on the Dow Jones Industrial Average would be enjoying a 14.9% rate of return on their investment.
31. President Obama believes that women are better suited to make their own health care and reproductive decisions than government is to dictate them.
32. Democrats believe that the Violence Against Women Act should apply to all women while republicans believe that an undocumented immigrant should have no legal recourse to domestic violence.
33. More than half of the donations to President Obama’s campaign are $200.00 or less, while nearly half of donations to his opponent’s campaign are at the $2,500 maximum, providing a clear indication of whose interests are more likely to be served under each proposed administration.
34. President Obama demonstrates fan loyalty to sports teams while his opponent demonstrates tax loyalty to sports team owners.
35. The audience at the Democratic National Convention looked like America while the audience at the republican convention looked little different than it did in 1960.
36. President Obama came out decisively against the Iraq War and has removed American troops from the country.  His opponent supported the Viet Nam War while simultaneously avoiding service in it.
37. Throughout his career, President Obama has worked in the interests of America’s least powerful citizens, while his opponent has devoted his career to the interests of America’s MOST powerful citizens.
38. Under President Obama’s administration, foreign policy is led by diplomacy and coordinated multi-nation efforts while his opponent’s party remains reflexively militaristic and unilateral.
39. President Obama supports a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants – particularly those who were brought here as children and have been contributing to American society.  His opponent has said that he would veto the DREAM Act and has stated his belief that undocumented immigrants should “self-deport”.
40. The possibility that – because he won’t have to run for office again EVER – President Obama publicly tells the knuckledragging troglodyte wing-nut crowd to kiss his narrow, basketball playin’, hip-hop listenin’, black woman lovin’, Hawakenyonesian butt.
41. Though I don’t agree with every one of them, President Obama has demonstrated the character to make some tough, “bet your presidency” decisions throughout his first term, including those with which many in his base disagree.  His opponent can’t even bring himself to rebuke birtherism within his coalition.
42. President Obama has more foreign policy experience than his opponent.
43. President Obama has called for a constitutional amendment that overturns the Citizens United ruling that has opened the floodgates of special interests money seeking to purchase an even bigger share of government.  The President’s opponent, on the other hand, has defended the Citizens United ruling.
44. President Obama has disappointed me in some areas, but the prospect of his opponent in the Oval Office frightens me in all areas.
45. President Obama played a major leadership role in the G-20 nations’ response to the global economic crisis.
46. President Obama passed legislation making it a federal crime to attack someone based on race, gender or sexual orientation.  As a young man, President Obama’s opponent led an attack on a classmate who apparently did not sufficiently adhere to male gender norms.
47. President Obama has proposed efforts to further stimulate the economy, improve education and rebuild our infrastructure, all of which have been blocked by the republican congressional caucus.
48. President Obama led a bailout of the US auto industry that saved over one million jobs and positioned the largest US auto manufacturer – General Motors – to return to global industry leadership.  The President’s opponent wrote an article “Let Detroit Go Bankrupt”.
49. The economy was hemorrhaging up to 800,000 jobs per month at the time President Obama was inaugurated.  The Stimulus – roundly rejected by the republican caucus – stopped the bleeding and resulted in 4.5 million private sector jobs
50. Private equity professionals are job creators by happenstance, not by design.
51. The congressional republican caucus ran for and won control of the House of Representatives under the mantra of jobs, jobs, jobs.  Since then, they have produced nothing, nothing, nothing that actually results in more jobs.
52. In spite of the taxes paid by President Obama’s supporters of all income levels, the President’s opponent continues to depict us as “dependent on government” and “entitled to healthcare, to food and to housing”
53. The republican congressional caucus has done everything in its power to sabotage this presidency, even to the point of sabotaging the American economy, blocking any and all attempts at progress through an unprincipled and reflexive opposition to President Obama’s proposals – including proposals that republicans once endorsed.  Republicans should not be rewarded for shirking their responsibilities through such recklessly self-interested and damaging behavior in the name of politics.
54. The entire economic agenda of the President’s opponent is so unpopular, so malignant and so impractical that he knows no thinking, moderately aware citizen would vote for him if he were to provide the details of that agenda.  So his basic argument is “trust me, I’m a rich businessman”.
55. The President’s opponent wants to make the President’s time in office a central issue of the campaign, but asks us to ignore HIS own performance in office, the performance of the President’s predecessor and the policies of that predecessor that he fully intends to emulate.
56. With all of his lie telling, obfuscating, flip-flopping, etch-a-sketch shaking, equivocating and racial pandering, the President’s opponent has proven to the whole nation that he has all the political substance of Play-Doh.
57. Hatred, ignorance, misogyny, bigotry and avarice must lose.
58. Make those people trying to buy a piece of the White House conclude that their money is far better spent on another yacht.
59. 17 of the 24 foreign policy advisors working with the President’s opponent are from the Bush Administration.
60. The President’s opponent lacks the character to accept responsibility for politically damaging activities that occurred at Bain Capital even as he seeks to bask in its successes.
61. The President’s opponent wants to run a country in which he does not keep his money.
62. Even as they implement policies to suppress the votes of blacks, Latinos and the elderly, republicans seek repeal of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
63. The prospect of seeing Rush Limbaugh’s head explode should be too delicious for most thinking Americans to pass up.
64. I will enjoy watching the rabid part of the republican coalition apoplectically blame their defeat on establishment republicans and vice versa.
65. Maybe the republican party will finally get a clue and decide that Southern Strategy-style political messages attract the lowest common denominator of the American political psyche while turning off larger numbers of moderates.
66. Since the beginning of the President Obama’s term, his republicans have celebrated America’s failures and scowled at its successes.
67. Republicans’ irresponsible brinkmanship on the debt ceiling unnecessarily spooked worldwide capital markets and damaged America’s credit rating.
68. There is an all too visible minority of racists within the republican party and an incremental number of republicans who tolerate and sometimes protect and pander to the bigots in their coalition.
69. President Obama’s opponent refuses to release multiple years of complete income tax returns In spite of the precedent established by his father in 1968 and continued by most presidential candidates since then.
70. President Obama’s opponent enthusiastically favors the Second Amendment, but has demonstrated contempt for the 14^th.
71. Grover Norquist is supporting President Obama’s opponent because he wants someone in office who will do what he is told to do.
72. The President’s opponent believes that moving business assets from one set of ownership hands to another is as important as actually creating and building business assets and thus should enjoy the same tax advantages. I disagree.
73. The President’s opponent touts his prowess as a businessman as we continue to dig out of an economic mess created by businesspeople.  The worst performing presidential administration in modern American history was chock full of businesspeople and the President’s opponent wants to double-down on what they did.
74. Wall Street is a major source of financial support for the President’s opponent, with investment banking firms in the top six of all contributors.
75. The President’s opponent seems to believe that Russia is America’s number one geopolitical rival, a perspective that contributed to America missing or ignoring warning signs in the lead up to the terrorist attacks on 9/11.
76. As the President’s opponent seems to lack the emotional intelligence to avoid insulting an ally, I am not confident in his ability to operate constructively on a global stage with either allies or adversaries.
77. The President’s opponent would deny for the rest of America the health care finance reform measures that he himself put into place while governor of Massachusetts.
78. The President’s opponent does not believe that carbon emissions are harmful as pollutants to the degree that they should be regulated and does not believe the assertions of scientists that such emissions are contributors to climate change.
79. The President’s opponent is against the DREAM Act that would provide a path to citizenship to young undocumented persons who have lived in the United States virtually all of their lives and who are contributing participants in American society.
80. With his encouragement of “Birtherism” and his continuing lies about the President’s welfare reform activities, The President’s opponent has embraced the well-used Southern Strategy tactic of appealing to the stupidity, the ignorance and the bigotry of an apparently still significant segment of the voting electorate.
81. I believe that “voter ID” and other laws implemented by republican legislatures are a modern version of the poll tax and other Jim Crow-era shenanigans that kept black people from being able to vote.  The President’s opponent argues that they are necessary to “keep people from voting multiple times”, ignoring the fact that the incidence of such illegal activity ranges from miniscule to non-existent.
82. As governor, the President’s opponent presided over a state economy that ranked 47^th in job creation
83. The President’s opponent was in favor of a woman’s right to choose before he wasn’t.
84. The President’s opponent was in favor of cap & trade before he wasn’t.
85. The President’s opponent was in favor of the individual mandate before he wasn’t.
86. The President’s opponent was in favor of civil rights for all Americans before he wasn’t.
87. The President’s opponent proposes tax, regulatory and other economic policies that have already failed miserably to the detriment of America and the world.
88. The President’s opponent does not want to provide us any details of important policy proposals until after he is elected.
89. The President’s opponent is horribly out of touch with the challenges and priorities of America’s poor, low income and middle class families.  President Obama demonstrates significantly more empathy and understanding of the challenges facing American families than his opponent.
90. Saying that one likes to fire people could be a gaffe.  But after “corporations are people too”, “bet you $10,000”, “I’m not concerned about the poor” and “no one has asked to see our birth certificates”, connecting the dots reveals a clear picture – the President’s opponent is a first class jerk.
91. The President’s opponent has told me that, in the unlikely event he is elected, he won’t be as much my president as he is anyone else’s president.
92. The President’s opponent believes that my vote for President Obama makes me someone who is dependent upon government, who sees myself as a victim, who doesn’t take responsibility for my own life and who believes myself entitled to food, health care and housing.  Why should I even consider voting for someone who thinks so poorly of me on such a personal level?  We haven’t even met.
93. To the President’s opponent, $374,000 in speaker’s fees is “not very much”.
94. The President’s opponent has lied about welfare reform, “you didn’t build that”, military voting in Ohio, Medicare, health care reform and a myriad other issues.  In fact, the President’s opponent lies with unprecedented frequency and consistency.
95. The President’s opponent would eliminate estate taxes and his running mate would eliminate taxes on capital gains and dividends.  I disagree.
96. The President’s opponent and running mate have offered and embraced proposals that would result in the taxes of middle class people rising in order to pay for tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires.
97. While the President has eliminated outdated weapons systems and implemented defense department procurement reforms, his opponent wants to increase defense spending to a level significantly beyond that which the military has actually requested.
98. The republican caucus indicated that it would reject any deficit reduction proposals that include any new revenues whatsoever, even if the ratio of spending cuts to new revenue were 10 to 1.
99. The republican caucus continues to demonstrate unwavering fealty to the extremes of its voting base.

Reason 100:

Hell yes, I’m better off since President Obama took office and America is better off too.