The recent results of the presidential election in America
prove that the country are pleased with how Obama had run the country, over the
four years he was in power. During his time in presidency, Obama pushed on
improvements in social security and safety that saw him order and oversee the capture
and killing of Osama Bin Laden. This may have been a large contributor toward
his win in the recent elections, for he was the president in charge at the time
that managed to capture the countries most wanted man. Similarly to this he
also kept many other promises - following his 2008 election win - improving the
economy by overseeing the creation of many jobs in 2010, which Bush wasn’t able
to do in the 8 years that he was in power. Obama saw a 96.7% success rate, in
winning congressional votes in his first year of power.
Furthermore, the competition was open to seven candidates however
the media were only focused on two, Mitt Romney and Barack Obama.
Obama is a democrat, a liberal man whose views are on the
community and social responsibility, in contrast to Romney a Republican. Romney
is a conservative man, whose beliefs are on individual rights.
Obama emphasised a move forward instead of backward
throughout his campaign and during the elections he promised a number of
things. Obama supported gay marriage in comparison to Romney who opposed it,
Obama also wanted to create jobs that were stationed in the U.S; by cutting
back on tax, in comparison to Romney who wanted to keep tax incentives, for
jobs that were overseas. Similarly to this is the overwhelming amount of votes
that Obama received from women, he wanted to allow women to feel part of the
community, thus putting women in charge of their own healthcare decisions,
which Romney also opposed. Romney wanted women to have less control; allowing
employers and the government the authority to limit access to birth control, to
allow insurance companies to continue charging women more than men and to
eliminate funding for planned parenthood.
Other areas that got Obama votes was in the education sector
where Romney wanted to increase fees and make spending cuts, which would result
in sending pre-school students home to learn, in contrast to Obama who
supported education, by strengthening public schools in every community.
Finally another area that also saw votes rocket for Obama
was in immigration, for Romney refused to speak on the matter of deportation -
for those who went to America as children - and would also consider deporting
11 million undocumented immigrants. Obama was against this idea and planned to
keep families together, allowing those who were undocumented in the U.S the
chance to apply for a citizenship.
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Good work Sophie, this is a well written commentary. You could, however, have directly referenced and introduced your selected links. These are good examples though and will hopefully make way for some interesting discussion in class.
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