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With a Congress divided so clearly and viciously along partisan lines, the President's veto power becomes a potent ability. The Congress of recent decades couldn't get a 2/3 majority on practically any subject, no matter how genteel, out of spite for each other. If a Republican had been in place these last four years, we would not have had healthcare reform of any kind. Congressmen sympathetic to the idea wouldn't have even attempted it, because they'd know it would all be vetoed.
When we vote for President, we are effectively voting for what TYPE of laws will get to come out of Congress, and what type of Supreme Court justices will get nominated, both of which do have quite an impact.
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