2012 presidential election

  In this year’s election two candidates were running Mitt Romney and our current president Barack Obama. Mitt Romney is in the Republican Party well Obama is in the Democratic Party. These two candidates had very different goals and directions for their campaign. Romney believed in higher taxes for the middle class well lower taxes for the rich. He also believes in abortion being outlawed and that insurance companies no longer pay for birth control. He said he would make jobs by given big companies tax breaks so they have more money to give people jobs. Well Obama believes in universal healthcare and that all jobs should provide healthcare. He's prochoice so abortion is still legal. Obama believes the middle class is what keeps the economy going so he wants to lower taxes for the middle class and raise taxes for the rich. These two candidates have very different views to reach out to many different people but the real question is who won and why.

    The outcome was one of the closest elections ever but Mitt Romney did lose. Mitt Romney won the popular vote but not the electoral vote. He lost because he didn’t get Ohio which was a battle ground state with a lot of electoral votes and Obama did. People just didn’t have enough faith in Romney and only 20 percent of women voters voted for Romney. He also didn’t reach out to the Minorities in America making him lose those votes too.

   As we all know by now Obama won the 2012 elections. The reason he won was because he got the most electoral votes meaning the battleground states all voted for him. He also got 80 percent of women voters to vote for him. This is because he wants equal pay for women and abortions he's all for women rights. He also had a lot of votes from minorities because they felt like they could relate to Obama as opposed to Romney. Obama was more for the people and less for the benefit of himself.

    I believe that Obama will help America get out of debt and help raise unemployment. Even in the four years that he’s already been president he has made the economy better maybe not 100 percent but almost there. I am glad that Obama won because now America will continue going forward and not back. I believe America will be out of debt and healthcare will be universal by the end of this term. Obama has done so much good and it’s only going to go up from here.