Vote here for pres’ res’

By Sarah Trefethen

If foreign policy makes your head hurt and economic finger-pointing has you pulling out your hair, the real estate website toptenrealestatedeals.com offers another way to distinguish between former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama: their homes.

In an online showdown, the site has invited readers to choose between Romney’s 5,400 s/f, 11-acre lakefront New Hampshire estate and Obama’s historic, 6,000 s/f, six-bedroom Georgian revival in Chicago’s Hyde Park-Kenwood neighborhood. “We guarantee we will predict the results of the 2012 presidential election,” the site boasts.

Romney bought the lakefront house, which is just one of a number of residential properties he owns, in 2008 for $12 million, according to the site, while the Obamas paid $1.65 million in 2005 for the brick- and pillar-faced digs.

Read more about the houses and cast your vote here.