Obama’s Hard Earned Victory

By Ryan Stephens

The election season draws to a close. The hustle and bustle of campaign ads, relentless harassment of voters, and constant promise making all led up to Election Day. Finally, America and its electoral college get to decide who will be our next commander in chief, our next leader, and our next president.

Barack Obama, the incumbent, and Mitt Romney, a former governor, both face off against each other but these men face off on rather equal terms. For the last few weeks, they have been on even ground when it comes to the public vote, but Romney needs a great deal more of electoral votes. Obama leads with nearly one hundred more votes over Romney. Times look dark for the Romney campaign but do they even deserve the presidency? The answer to this question is an unequivocal no because of what the GOP party stands for, foreign policy, and the numbers stack heavily up against Romney.

Romney never stood by the GOP party so strongly. In addition, his social beliefs aligned closer with the Democrats and even more liberal parties. Even the healthcare bill passed in Massachusetts (the former state Romney governed over) had some key similarities to the so-called “Obamacare” healthcare reform. However, to gain the support of GOP voters, he must conform to some of their ideas. His social beliefs slowly inch towards the far right, with strong support rested on more conservative economic policies. Romney, if elected, would have been a terrible choice because of the uncertainty revolving around his policies. They may align more with the right or they may align more with the Democrats but due to the vagueness of his platform, we will never know.

However, knowledge of his foreign policy was available and had an uncanny resemblance to Obama’s foreign policy. The United States’ relations with other countries would not change if Romney’s campaign went through. His policy took a neutral stance towards most countries except for Iran. Obama’s vague foreign policy did not take an aggressive stance on Iran but it does support Israel, who may pull the United States into a war with Iran. The United States does not need to be really aggressive with Iran because we do not need to be dragged into a costly war with the Middle East. Our conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq could be described as mostly unnecessary. Another war with the entirety of the Middle East could harm our economy.

Romney’s chances of winning led to his failure. Romney only possessed a few major states, such as Texas. Even with Ohio, a swing state, Romney’s chances were incredibly slim. The trends in this election point towards victories in future elections will be hard to achieve for Republicans. Texas, a major state for Republicans, has started to become more Democratic. The amount of Democratic electoral votes in Texas nears fifty percent which makes the prospect of Republicans possessing the electoral votes of Texas very uncertain.

Obama deserved this victory because Romney lacked strong support, had a flawed foreign policy, and simply did not have the means to pull a clear victory. Of course, those against Obama will continue to go against him but he clearly earned these next four years.

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