Chicagoans await election with mixed feelings (2)

"It was one thing to vote for a guy because you like the way he speaks; it's another thing to vote for a guy because you like the way he's led you. And that's what I think this election is about -- do you like the way he's led this country for the past four years, or do you think that you want someone new?" Daniels added.

But after millions of dollars in negative campaign ads, daily phone calls to get out the vote and constant media coverage, some Chicago residents said they are sick of the election, hoping it is to be over soon.

"I feel that a lot of people near the end of the election are sick and just want it to be over," Brian Hurley, a supporter of Obama's challenger, Mitt Romney, said in an interview.

He said he was not enthusiastic about the election this year due to both "overblown" news coverage and the electoral college system that he feels take away some voters' power at the ballot box.

"Because of the electoral college, my decision to vote for candidate Romney is wiped out because I vote in a state which is not only President Obama's home state, but also extremely democratic. Because our election is done via electoral college, the popular vote is almost irreverent," Hurley said.

Still, Hurley said he would cast a ballot Tuesday for Romney because he thought the former Massachusetts governor had a better understanding of the economy, though Hurley criticized both candidates for being too vague in their belief and many promises.

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