I'm not sure it will make a real difference for whom I vote on this issue - as you note above, demographic realities are going to supersede the rhetoric from either side.  (Although others on this board assure me that all we have to do is raise our neighbor's taxes and have the Government print more money, and everything will be Hunky-Dory.)  

I *am* quite happy to have had my mortgage paid off before retirement, though.