The nation's largest public policy women's organization thinks voters need to keep in mind that the man who wins Tuesday's election will be able to shape the Supreme Court for decades to come.
While the economy is likely the primary concern of voters in the 2012 campaign, Concerned Women for America (CWA) makes note of another long-term issue that cannot be ignored: the Supreme Court.
President Obama has already been able to appoint two left-leaning justices -- Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan -- during his first term. And Dr. Janice Crouse, senior fellow CWA's Beverly LaHaye Institute, points out that four justices are over age 70.
"Several of those justices who are over 70 have bad health, and so it's only realistic to say that this is an area that America has to be very, very concerned about," Crouse reasons, "because right now, the court is fairly evenly split."
But this concern stretches beyond the Supreme Court.
"It's also the district judges and many local judges who have lifetime appointments," the CWA spokesperson adds. "These appointments are very critical to the interpretation of the Constitution and to people's everyday lives in the coming years."
Crouse does not think there is any way to overestimate the importance of Tuesday's election, in light of the clear distinction between the two presidential candidates.