All across the United States yesterday voters went to the polls with a majority of Americans voting to re-elect Barack Obama to a second term as President of the United States. Although I wasn’t allowed to cast a vote, if I had been it would definitely have been to re-elect President Barack Obama – no doubt about it.
The popular vote was close, as usual with Obama 50% to Romney’s 48%, but the President convincingly won the Electoral College vote by a wide margin 303-203 and is ahead in Florida which should net him an additional 29 for a total of 332. Obama swept 8 of the 9 all-important battleground states including huge wins in Ohio, Virginia and it looks like Florida too.
The Electoral College count was pretty impressive for Obama
The other big winners last night were the group of new Democratic Senators elected which were enough to retain the Senate Majority for the Democrats; and, of course, Obamacare. Having been declared constitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court and now getting the support of a majority of voters in an election Gov. Romney called a “referendum on Obamacare”, the repeal idea is stone dead.
There was only about an hour’s confusion last night and that occurred after all the networks, even Fox, declared President Obama the winner in Ohio putting him over the magic 270. But, the Romney campaign wasn’t convinced as it was still close and waited another hour or so to get firm confirmation that Ohio was indeed going to Obama. It did, convincingly, and Romney conceded shortly after.
Governor MItt Romney gave a very gracious and sincere concession speech just after midnight eastern time in which he congratulated President Obama on his victory and wished him well.
I thought it was probably one of the best speeches I’ve ever heard Governor Romney deliver. His audience seemed despondent and in total disbelief at what had just occurred. That really surprised me as most of the polls (which were dead on by the way) showed Obama winning the swing states.
The only real ‘sour-note’ of the night was voiced by none other than Bozo the Trump. Moments after the president’s victory was projected by all the networks, Bozo took to Twitter to voice his outrage, demanding a ‘revolution.’ So much for civility!
Hopefully, sane Republicans will finally repudiate this fool and his pals Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity who do nothing but foment and spread their white-hot hatred for the President every day on the radio.
Many American readers and in particular, Donna (Travels in Therapy) wonder on occasion why a Canadian would even care about U.S. politics. That’s a fair question given that most Americans have absolutely zero interest in Canadian politics.
But, there is a huge difference given that we, as Canadians, are such close neighbours to the greatest superpower the world has ever known. It has an effect.
A former Canadian Prime Minister, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, perhaps put it best when he said:
“living next to the U.S. is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly or temperate the beast, one is affected by every twitch and grunt."
The reason I bring this up is because Donna asked: “I am sincerely interested as to why you display such a concern for the Democratic Party of the USA?”. The answer to that is pretty simple – I happen to much prefer the Democratic Party of the USA to the Republicans!
I suppose Donna really means I should not comment on American politics. Well, this is the Internet, blogland, so if a blog is available for comments world wide then anyone has the freedom to make them – even me. One can always enable comment moderation and delete the ones they don’t like.
Besides, American bloggers are always asking questions and commenting on Canadian laws like our Universal Health Care system and our gun laws. I think that’s a great thing and really encourage it as it promotes understanding of our close but different cultures. Surely, we’re not going to evolve into Canadian RV bloggers and American RV Bloggers, are we?
With that thought it mind, a short time ago I pledged to not write in my blog about politics, religion or healthcare. The U.S. Presidential Election was not only an exceptional event but, in my opinion, an historical one also with the first African American President to be re-elected. So, I’m claiming an historical exception to my own rule. But, first I have to write a thousand lines on the blogger blackboard as follows:
| I will not blog about politics, religion or healthcare |
Have a great Wednesday, and thanks again for visiting!
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