Oh, it's quite potent. He has Pluto aligned with his IC/MC, natally (declinations are much more powerful than longitude aspects).
I agree that declinations are extremely potent, both in the radix charts and the various methods of forecasting. The interesting thing is that
both Obama and Romney had the transiting declination of Pluto-Node activating the declination of their natal MCs' and this declination is also the Node of the POTUS chart. All these declinations are close to 19S00. (see attached graphs).
I find the POTUS chart the most appropriate to study elections as it is the chart of when the first President of the USA took his Oath of Office. All the Presidents I have studied have had close connections to this chart and the progressed and/or directed charts have close connections for the time they took Presidency.
In addition Obama had the transiting declination of Jupiter moving over the natal declination of his Venus and the transiting declination of the Moon moving over the natal declination of his North Node and Ceres - hence the female vote.
Romney had the transiting declination of Saturn activating his natal declination of Mars-Vertex and the transiting declination of Jupiter activating his Node. Perhaps the Saturn declination transit brought some problems with it, but the Jupiter declination transit should have brought more benefits.
The POTUS chart itself had some telling declination transits:
* transiting Moon activating Ascendant and Venus - again suggesting the strong female vote.
* Transiting Sun activating Part of Fortune - maybe suggesting benefits to a Solar person and Obama is a Leo
* Transiting Jupiter activating Jupiter-antiVertex
* Transiting Mercury-Mars activating Pluto suggesting the very activate canvassing of votes right into the day.
Alice