Neither one is a day at the beach, that's for sure. Pence is an ultra-conservative evangelical who would probably work hard to set back much of the social progress that was made during the Obama administration. He'd be terrible on gay rights, women's rights and separation of church and state, not to mention religious tolerance.

On the other hand, he's also not as volatile or as self-centered as the current occupant of the oval office. He wouldn't be as likely to cause a constitutional crisis,  get us into a war or hurt relations with our European allies with his undisciplined mouth, and his administration likely wouldn't constantly be embroiled in stupid and unnecessary scandals.

Pick your poison.