The American Elections

The 2012 American elections took place in the sixth day of November. The motto of the Americans this time round was to pick a president and not a party. It was the 57^th presidential election in the United States of America. According to the polls, it was a close race between the nominee of the Democratic party, President Barrack Obama, who had Vice President Joe Biden as his running mate and Governor Mitt Romney with Congressman Paul Ryan who is from Wisconsin.

In the election campaign, there were three major presidential debates and one major vice-presidential debates. They were greatly awaited by the American citizens especially those who had not quite decided on who to vote for. The issues which were mostly debated on include national deficit, jobs and the ecomony, social policy, foreign policy and immigration.

The betting markets had President Obama as the clear winner. However the statistics showed that the race was too close to predict who would become the president of United States of America this term. The day after the final elections were held, Governor Mitt Romney at around 1:00 am had gained the states of Indiana and North Carolina which Obama had won in 2008 narrowly.

President Obama and his running mate were the overall winners of the 57^th presidential elections. The election of the President was carried out together with the Senate elections as it is written in the constitution of the United State of America. One third of the Senaters had to face re-election in the final counting of the votes. Many world leaders praised and congratulated President Obama for his victory. Pakistan commented that it was safer for their state that Mitt Romney had not won the election. In Kenya, Obama’s grandmother, Sarah Obama was the leder of the celebrations as President Obama was being sworn in for the second and final term in office.

Venezuela is one of the States that had mixed reactions. However, there was a peaceful environment during the Americal elections and also after the elections as a result of the loosing candidate accepting defeat and the elections being held in a free and fair way.