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Barack Obama and his win of the 2012 Presidential Election
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Topic Started: Nov 13 2012, 08:54 PM (24 Views)
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The Humble
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Nov 13 2012, 08:54 PM
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International/World Current Affairs 2012. Barack Obama, the leader of Democratic Party on 7 November 2012 was re-elected as the President of USA. Obama defeated the Republican Challenger, Mitt Romney in the U.S. Presidential Elections 2012 by winning over 332 votes as compared to the 206 votes of Mitt Romney of all the votes declared by the Electoral College declared. Obama was successful in getting around 74000 more votes than the competitor, Mitt Romney out of the eight million votes casted during the Presidential Elections.
The elections were conducted on 6th November 2012 and this was the 57th quadrennial presidential election for the United States.
The two, Obama and Romney won 50 percent and 48.1 percent of votes respectively. 53 members in the Senate were from Democratic Party, whereas 45 are from Republican Party. In the House of Representatives, the lead went in the way of Republican Party with 232 seats and the Democratic Party was successful in securing 191 seats. Mitt Romney tied with the President Obama at 49 percent of the Popular Votes.
After the win, Obama declared that the best is yet to come for America and he to take care of the greatest challenges faced by the country he also called for bipartisan support (bipartisanship can be defined as a political situation, where the there exists a context of two political parties, where one of the opposing party finds common grounds by making compromises).
The Republican Party has lost four Presidential elections of the six Presidential contests and the two won by them was just with narrow margins. At the same time, President Obama, by being back has proved that in the period of austerity and crisis also, an incumbent can survive.
Swing States
President Obama was successful in winning over the eight of the nine swing states including Florida, Ohio, Wisconsin, New Hampshire, Virginia, Colorado and Nevada. He only lost from the seat of North Carolina.
Issues
Apart from the sluggishness in economic growth, witnessed by the America in past few years there were five main pointers on which debates were done and the Presidential Election was fought and it included Health, Women’s Right, Tax, Environment and Same Sex Marriage. One major challenge that lies behind the President, Barack Obama to deal with is to get rid of unemployment as; America registered an unemployment rate of 7.9 percent in October 2012.
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Don't be so humble, you are not that great.
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