What year is this anyway?

Is it just me, or does it seem like history is repeating itself. Think back to the 70's. Energy crisis, skyrocketing gas prices, gold and other commodities soaring in value, dollar falling, stock market stuck in a rut for years. On the political front, an unpopular war winding down(Vietnam/Iraq), with a very unpopular conservative Republican president (Nixon/Bush), replaced by a longtime Congressional insider and moderate (Ford/McCain) who defeated a charismatic conservative (Reagan/Romney) for the nomination. The democratic nominee, a political novice and unknown left winger (Carter/Obama). So, this looks like an Obama victory is in the cards, followed by 4 years of disastrous economic and foreign policy blunders before Mitt Romney sweeps to victory and Republicans rule for the next 12 years.
Now, just to make things weirder, we also have parallels to 79-80, with a bitter battle between 2 democrats (Carter/Kennedy - Clinton/Obama) going all the way to the convention. If McCain picks Romney as VP, it will be the inverse of the Reagan/Bush ticket. So maybe we have a McCain landslide, and after one term the torch is passed to Romney who serves the next 2 terms, again inverting the Reagan/Bush presidencies. It all depends on what year this is, 1975 or 1979.