President Barack Obama won the election. It was not that easy for President Barack Obama to won a second victory, he was neck and neck in the polls as election season came down to the wire. In 2008, Obama made history when he became the first US president with African culture, tried to hold onto the Oval office during one of the most bitterly partisan and strong economic time in the country. President Barack Obama rode a wave of broad support from moderates, women and minorities to win re-election by defeating Republican challenger Mitt Romney in Democratic strongholds and key battleground states. It was an election in which Latinos and their interests and concerns hot more concentration than ever, in the media and by stable and broad politicians alike.
At Obama’s victory party in Chicago, the happy supporters cheered and danced then Obama thanked all the people for ensuring the nation, a nation that will continue to move forward while warning the battle for change they seek. Obama said that, in this election the American people reminded them that while their road has been hard, while their journey has been long, they have picked theirseleves up, they have fought their way back and they know in their hearts that for the United States of America the best is yet to come.
A former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney Obama’s GOP challenger warned that it would push policies that would favor the rich at the expense of the middle-class and low-income Americans. Barack Obama warned Latinos that a Romney presidency would be hostile to immigrants and Latinos. He broadcast that he would postpone exile for undocumented incomer brought to the United States as minors and who met a strict set of basis in June. There were 1 million immigrants are believed to be affected by the initiative, which Romney stated that he would discontinue if he incline president.
The president surpassed the decisive 270-vote threshold in the Electoral College with victory in Ohio. According to the CNN call based on unofficial returns, a later projected victory in another swing state Virginia gave him 303 electoral votes to 206 for Romney.
With Latinos, Romney ran into problems when he took a particularly hard line on immigration during the GOP primaries. In an effort to appeal to the party’s conservative base, Romney voiced support for the Arizon anti-illegal immigration law, SB 1070, parts of which were upheld by the US Supreme Court as well as self deportation in essence making life so difficult for undocumented immigrants that they would leave of their own accord.
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http://edition.cnn.com/2012/11/06/politics/election-2012/index.html
http://www.businessinsider.com/barack-obama-has-won-the-election-2012-11
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/obama-won-re-election-because-he-represents-the-america-that-is/article5032245/
