2012 Presidential Election Results Full of Surprises

Tanner Elliott
The Paw Print

“Four-more years,” was the message that was sent all across the United States on Tuesday, Nov. 6.

Barrack Hussein-Obama was re-elected as President of the United State this previous week, becoming the 14^th President to serve more than one term. At 11:20 p.m., networks across the country begin saying that President Obama was indeed the winner. Even though the ballots would not finish up for quiet awhile, it was certain that the President would serve another term.

Initially, it was thought that the election would be a tight narrow race even in the electoral votes; however, the President won by 126 Electoral College votes. President Obama also won the popular vote by 3,351,920 votes.

One thing that will resemble the first term of his presidency is the make up congress, the Senate is under Democrat control and the House of Representatives is under Republican control.

One of the most surprising results of the election was that President Obama won almost all of the swing-states (Virginia, Colorado, Ohio, Iowa, New Hampshire, Wisconsin, and Florida). Another plus that went for the Obama-side on Election Day was the large backing of Latino voters for the Democratic Party. 75 percent of the Latino’s that voted on Election Day cast their ballot for Obama.

The 25 percent of Latino votes that Romney was able to pull in were substantially lower than Bush’s forty percent; however, John McCain was only able to bring in 31 percent of Latino votes.

A week before the election was to take place, the second costliest hurricane in United-States history hit the Atlantic Coast. Hurricane Sandy could have won the election for Obama.

The hurricane broke the momentum that Romney was holding sense the first debate. A substantial amount of attention was placed on President Obama after New Jersey’s Governor Chris Christie publicly praised the President when he came to New Jersey to see the damage Hurricane Sandy had left on the state. However, according to Christie he was the first Governor in the United States to endorse Romney.

Many changes will soon take place within President Obama’s cabinet. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner are supposedly stepping down. Jack Lew, the President’s Chief of Staff and former head of the Office and Management of Budget, is expected to be next in line for the Treasury position.