Assigned Blog Post #1
I chose to research the topic: Why did Obama win the 2012 election? I found that Mitt Romney lost the youth vote by a huge margin. Barak Obama won the majority of the votes from youth voters. President Barak Obama got 60% of young voters’ votes, and Mitt Romney only got 36%. I believe this is what hurt Mitt Romney the most. Barak Obama received 332 Electoral votes, while Mitt Romney received 206 (270 needed to win).
In this election President promised to create a prison-to-work incentive program, to include humanitarian international missions in long-term budgeting, increase participation in cancer-related clinical trials, accelerate the development of new medicines, vaccines, and production capabilities, toughen enforcement for Internet exploitation of children (this might be why we have computers), provide incentives to draw employers into areas hardest-hit by Hurricane Katrina, encourage videotaping of interrogations in capital cases, help low-income areas get phone and Internet service, encourage community service through online outreach and social networking, prioritize security investments in refineries, pipelines and power grids, eliminate all oil and gas tax loopholes, Require publicly traded financial partnerships to pay the corporate income tax, make permanent the Research & Development tax credit, Expand the earned income tax credit, close loopholes in the corporate tax deductibility of CEO pay. As you can see he made many promises. To read more about these promises click here. They might not all apply to you, but they did to some people. That is what won President Obama votes. It will be interesting to see if he keeps these promises. One of the most talked about things is Obama Care. To read more about that click here. There are positives and negatives about this plan. The link I provided goes over many of the details of Obama Care.
I think that Mitt Romney would have won if he would have been smarter about his strategies. If he would have targeted being appealing to younger people, I believe he would have won. Obama was also more liked by the Latinos and other races. He only needed a few more votes in the swing states to have been able to get the much needed electoral votes. People that voted for Obama will be very upset if he doesn’t keep the promises he promised. I think it would have been a tough decision to vote. There are positives and negatives about both candidates.
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Comments
Well done! In your conclusion, you mention the importance of Obama winning the minority vote. That probably should have been mentioned earlier in your blog.