2012 Election

I believe that the second victory of Obama proves to people that may see America as a bad place that it is not all about the rich getting richer with a disregard to the poor. Though many people are quick to slate Obama for not doing much over the past 4 years, it is evident that he has done enough to win the majority of American's over a second time.

However, the result can also show us that despite all of Obama's and Romney's campaigning, despite a few rises and falls in electoral votes and a couple of states switching overall from Democrat to Republican, there hasn't really been any shift in the political opinions of each U.S. state since the last presidential election in 2008. This shows us that whilst many American's may think that Obama hasn't achieved much, that he still isn't a bad president. I could be completely wrong when I say this but after looking at the last three presidential election result maps, it seems that the last time a landslide win from states (despite only a victory by 35 electoral votes) was the 2004 election in which George W. Bush beat John Kerry. The lack of success from George Bush and all the controversy that arose during this period of time could be what made many states change from Republican to Democrat in the 2008 election, and now in 2012 people may still be too afraid to make the transition back to the Republicans even if they do agree with Romney, purely because of what happened last time they were in power.

Back to the 2012 result, it tells us that America are very much influenced by celebrities and other people in the public eye. Obama had thousands of people, compiled of comedians, actors, musicians, business people, former governors, even porn stars and more influential people of the U.S. (minus the porn stars) formally endorsing or just showing support for him and his policies. On the other hand, Romney had a list of these supporters that was disturbingly shorter than Obama's. Of course this is down to the fact Obama has already been president, but due to the likes of people in these lists it seems to mainly be down to personal choice. A lot of Romney's endorsers tend to be older, i.e. Clint Eastwood and Arnold Schwarzenegger, whereas Obama's tend to be younger, i.e. Anna Kendrick and Jesse Eisenberg. This shows how many people safely stick to what they know as well as the fact that America believes that Obama is doing a good job.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Barack_Obama_presidential_campaign_endorsements,_2012#Actors_and_actresses

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