Well, as everyone knows Senator Obama is now elected president by the people of the United States. Through our electoral college system, Democract Barack Obama won 349 electoral votes, while Republican John McCain won 147 electoral votes. There have been other resounding victories similar to this in our pastime, for example Franklin Delano Roosevelt over Alf Landon in 1936, 523 to 8 votes or Woodrow Wilson over Roosevelt and William Taft in 1912, 435-96. (Source: The Associated Press) Either way, this is not something new as we have seen in our past.
Yee-Haa (Gallop!)
In the days leading up to the election there were so called "gallop" polls that stated the current election status of each candidate for example Obama 53% to McCain's 47%. These polls are clearly just a spark to give the press and American citizens something to gossip about and go by. In my opinion we could do without these polls but the press needs something to feed off of right? My reason for this is these polls may not be accurate at all. For example when you get the call at home and they ask you who you are going to vote for, some people that aren't even going to vote may say Obama or McCain just to get the gallop polls to stop calling. On the contrary people who just don't feel like dealing with them, but still are going to vote, may just hang up. Either way, in my opinion, gallop polls are no good and just an extra way to "get the crowd going".
Early Voting
Another issue that every citizen got to vote for was being able to vote early. As early as too weeks. This issue seems to be a great alternative to those who may not be able to attend their polling place that certain day (due to vacation, business, etc). The idea of being able to vote early could potentially grab many more voters and increase the chances of people voting. Voting two weeks ahead of time could also drag things out and make the process more complicated. This means there is more time to lose voting data or more time for error to take place in that two week span. Either way, its up to the voters to decide this one so i'll leave it at that.
Biased May Be?
As for this subject I am sort of concerned that this election was racially determined. Yes Obama is a great speaker, very charismatic, and seems to have all the answers to everyones solutions. We all know he can't make everyone happy and people will disagree with some things he does but this is normal. But the fact that over two million black voters voted for the first time in this election, 95% of which voted for Obama is a little odd. (Source: CNN News) Call me crazy and may be it is just a coincidence but why did this all of the sudden happen? Did these black voters vote for Obama just to "make history" by putting a black man in the whitehouse? Do they even know his policies or what he wants to do? These questions are out there but I myself am just curious. I am not saying that blacks didn't vote for McCain, (he did get 5% of black votes), but it just seems a little racially biased and that people may be voting for the wrong reasons.
Wrap-Up
Well, I think i've laid out some things I had liked to address. Just to set things straight, I am not a racist, nor do I intend anything I said to be racist. I just hope that we have elected the right guy for the right reasons. I guess we'll see how much change we will be getting within the next 4 years at least. For now, thats it for me!
- coma on Jan 22 said:
- good web site and keep it up and you will do well.
- Jordan on Nov 5 said:
- Nobama! Yeah its a little odd that 95% of "Black" voters, voted for Nobama... i mean seriously? I bet if they had a survey to see if they even knew what his policies are going to be they would all say "hes gona pay my gas, my bills, and give me more well fare"... i pity the fools.
