It's official. Barack Obama is now the president-elect! On Friday, Joe Biden (VP @ President of the Senate) confimed that he and his presidential running mate officially, won the White House, 332-206. By the way, with a 51% to 47% popular vote advantage, Obama became the first president since Dwight Eisenhower to garner more than 51% of the vote in two elections.
Saturday, January 5, 2013
POTUS Obama II: It's official
It's official. Barack Obama is now the president-elect! On Friday, Joe Biden (VP @ President of the Senate) confimed that he and his presidential running mate officially, won the White House, 332-206. By the way, with a 51% to 47% popular vote advantage, Obama became the first president since Dwight Eisenhower to garner more than 51% of the vote in two elections.
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I found it funny that Romney's 47 percent remark actually turned against him when he only got 47.2 percent of the national vote.
Good catch, Rohan. One might call it Political Karma or simply that life has an ironic sense of humor.
The hidden camera video clip posted by the website Mother Jones, which showed Romney, then GOP presidential hopeful, telling donors at a closed door meeting that 47 per cent of American voters will vote for his opponent Obama, "no matter what" because they are people "who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it... And they will vote for this president no matter what... These are people who pay no income tax."
Romney added: "My job is not to worry about those people. I’ll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives."
Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/340572#ixzz2HEzNZ1ho
Was this the "game changer" of the 2012 campaign?
I'm not sure it is fair to call that the "game changer" of the election, though it certainly had a significant impact. As we all know I was extremely offended by that comment and perhaps wish it would have had a larger impact on the election than it did. I too found the percentages ironic
Its interesting to know that Obama is the first to get over 51% recently. Not all that unbelievable though because of the close election the past times. And I do not think that it was alright that the website Mother Jones posted a video of a "closed door meeting". I think it is called closed door for a reason. While yes presidential candidates do give over much of their privacy when running for elections, they should still be treated with some respect and when things are meant to be kept private they should be.
It may have been a "closed door" meeting, but that is exactly the place where someone can hear a candidate's true feelings on a subject. Since that wasn't a televised speech, he spoke what he felt, and what he felt was that he didn't need to care about almost half of America. Yes, he needs to be in election mode, but he can't forget that there is a job to be done. A simple public apology doesn't change what he believes and that would have carried over to the White House and potentially harmed his presidency had he won.
I see both sides of what Madeline and Dale are saying. It does suck for Romney that he was filmed, but at the same time I feel glad that we were given some insight as to the potentially next President.
I think that for this election in general (more specifically to Romney), it is proof to candidates in the future that they need to watch what they say in public at all times because they never know when someone is filming it and it could totally come back to bite them in the butts later.
I think this election brought light to much more than "oops" moments behind what candidates assume are closed doors. Those kinds of things happen all the time and are blown up by the media to hinder a candidate and played down to help them. The fact is as elections have progressed, more and more impact has been allowed to media sources. This has led to record numbers in campaign finance spent on new types of social media for candidates to get their messages out, as well as advertisements shown wherever and whenever money can buy them. From my soap box, I am happy with the election result but disgusted with the money and previously unimaginable amount of campaigning that went into the election itself.
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