The presidential election in the United States is less than two months away. The Republican Party has nominated Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts, to run against the Democratic incumbent, Barack Obama.
Initially, Romney tried to appeal to voters as a "center rightist." He subsequently changed his strategies by emphasizing his position as a conservative. Obama is campaigning as a liberal.
In the U.S., the Republicans are conservatives and the Democrats follow liberal ideologies. This basic confrontation in the American politics between conservatives and liberals can easily be seen by reading Obama's State of the Union Message or by looking at congressional deliberations.