After a gruelling long primary for both major parties, the Republican and Democratic Parties, Hillary Clinton emerged as the favorite-to-win the 2016 election, and several magazines stating before Election Day that Clinton had already won. On November 8th, Newsweek released “125,000 copies” of magazines with the title of “Madam President: Hillary Clinton’s historic journey to the White House” (Greenslade). During the Democratic Primaries, Hillary Clinton’s campaign had already decided on Tim Kaine to be her Vice-President, and decided whom to pick for her Cabinet. Additionally, Hillary Clinton was endorsed by The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and a dozen of other newspapers, and endorsed by hundreds of politicians, celebrities, businessmen, and activists, thus, a great sum of people had confidence that she would win the 2016 Presidential Election (Berke, Harrington). The day before Election Day, pollsters from various organizations, such as New York Times, FiveThirtyEight, and the Huffington Post, predicted Hillary Clinton would win the Presidency of the United States by overwhelming margins, such as 85%, 71%, and 98% respectively. (Katz).
When the results of voting on Election Day were released, Republican Nominee Donald J. Trump won the presidency with 290 electoral votes and 61,201,031 popular votes, compared to Clinton’s 232 electoral votes and 62,523,126 popular votes. Although Donald Trump lost the popular vote, he had won where it
Barack Obama has impacted America in many ways since he was elected the 44th president on November 4th, 2008. The first African American president of the United States has taken the world by storm and done many great things for this country. Barack Obama has accomplished many things in his personal life, and also as the president of the United States. Obama has affected the world financially, economically, and rebuilt our image as a nation.
The popular vote does not count in the same way as the electoral vote does. Even though Hillary Clinton won the popular vote with her 65,844,954 votes to Trump’s 62,979,879, Trump won the election.6 However, this is not only the first time the candidate with the least amount of votes wins the election, for example when George W. Bush beat Al Gore on Electoral College, but lost on popular vote. This idea is not popular among everyone, one of them is Kevin Bleyer, “No one likes the Electoral College, except those who were elected because of it.” 7 Exactly of this reason, many Americans reacted with anger when President Trump was elected on Electoral College, but Clinton won the popular vote. This is a problem with modern elections in the US and has brought up problems after the outcome of the
To secure the win the candidate must pass 270 of the electoral votes and even though seemed to be ahead of the race having more popular votes Trump passed 270 electoral votes just hours after the polls closed. Donald won 279 of the electoral votes while Hillary only won 228. Regardless of whether Trump had more or less of the popular votes it all comes down to the electoral votes. Although Trump has made many racist comments and angered many Hispanics he surprisingly won a lot of their votes which helped his victory with the electorate vote; As for African American voter the electorate vote went down slightly.(7 reasons) Compared to Obama Hillary just didn't do as well as he did when it comes to electoral votes and the popular vote. Trump on the other hand won the states of Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Ohio, all which voted for Obama both elections. Trump was not only lucky by winning over states who were expected to be won by Hillary but got a lot of help when Hillary's email incident sparked outrage in many
It is ambiguous as to how President Barrack Obama shapes our politics in terms of our political regime, but it can be determined through the present outcomes of his leadership today. In The Politics Presidents Make, by Stephen Skowronek, describes that there is a life-cycle of inaugurated presidents through the history of the United States. A political regime is defined as a full cycle of presidents that induce change in our politics until it is repeated again. Through this, it is possible to determine where President Obama would stand in our political time. Skowronek also mentions four leadership categories in which past presidents are placed in: politics of reconstruction, politics of disjunction, politics of
The US Presidential Election of 2000 featured George W. Bush and Al Gore. It will go down in history as one of the most closest elections¡¦ in US history. It also goes down as one of the most controversial. The final decision was based on just a few hundred votes in Florida. The controversy began when the media prematurely declared the winner twice based solely on exit polls. They finally conceded that the Florida count was just too close to predict. It would take a month before the election was ultimately certified after numerous court challenges and vote recounts. Republican candidate George W. Bush was declared the winner of the Florida¡¦s 25 electoral votes. This was a victory by a razor thin margin of popular
In most of the presidential election, the candidate that wins the popular vote will win the electoral votes but as you seen in the election that doesn’t always happen. The electoral college creates a possibility for the loser of the popular vote to win the electoral vote. The candidate who receives the majority of the electoral votes which is two hundred seventy wins the election. Also, if the candidates get a tie on the electoral votes the election will be thrown in the hands of the House Of Representatives. This has happened five times out of the fifty-seven presidential elections. In 1824, the sixth president John Quincy Adams won the election against Jackson without winning the electoral or popular vote. In 1876, the nineteenth president Rutherford B. Hayes won the election even though he lost the popular vote by 250,000 against Samuel J. Tilden. In 1888, the twenty third president Benjamin Harrison won the presidency with two hundred thirty-three to one hundred sixty-eight electoral votes and he lost the popular vote ninety thousand against Grover Cleveland. In 2000, the forty third president George W. Bush won the presidency with two hundred seventy-one electoral votes while he lost the popular vote by five hundred forty thousand against Al Gore. Now president Donald Trump has become the president with two hundred ninety electoral votes while losing the
Throughout our country's history, we’ve come a long way from the first president to our current president. Obama was the best president we've had in the past 10 years, because he changed many things that needed to be changed and he always looked at world as a whole. If I were to agree on who is the best president i would say Barack Obama.
It was shown that over half of the votes were not even taken or used in the entirety of the election. Meaning that many votes weren't even considered to be counted for the people who waited hours in line to have their opinion heard, did not get a single say in their future president.
Even though Donald Trump had almost 15 percent more electors than her, Clinton beat Trump in the popular vote by around 2.5 million voters.
Leaders are often credited with the success of the country under their administration, as well as blamed for failures during their time in power. To say that the successes and failures of the Obama administration are solely a reflection of him and his decisions alone would make little sense. There are several different factors that could hinder him from making decisions, or aid him in making decisions and getting policies passed. The environment as well as his opponent in 2012, Mitt Romney, are two factors that have impacted outcomes for the President in the past. A leader will struggle more in a hostile environment, and if the opposition is strong, failure is also a distinct possiblity. His
In the Democratic primaries Hillary Clinton can expect to receive little competition as it is much less oversaturated then the Republican race with her only opposition being Bernie Saunders. In the presidential race Hillary Clinton is clearly the best known candidate as American voters have already been familiarized with her from her time serving as First Lady to President Bill Clinton during his time in office, as well as her time serving as the United States Secretary of state. This is not her first time being a candidate in the primaries as she ran in the 2008 presidential
Barack obama if famous for many things i'll explain some of the reason why. Barack Obama was the president for 8 years from 2009 to 2017. He’s famous for being one of the longest presidents running. In my opinion he was the most intelligent president we've ever had. Did you know that he has a nickname Barry? I picked Barack obama because he has been one of the best presidents of the United States of America. I also picked him because I wanted to know more about Barry.
Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on August 4th, 1961. He went to Harvard Law School. After his graduation, continued his legal work as a civil rights lawyer and a professor teaching constitutional law at the University of Chicago. He was elected to the Illinois State Senate in 1996. He served there for three terms (1996-2004). Later on, he started his campaign in 2007 for the presidential election in 2008. He won the presidential election against John McCain, his Republican opponent and started serving in the office in January 20, 2009. He became the 44th President of The United States of America. He is more well-known for being the first African-American who ever served in The White House.
Barack Obama is either living in his own little fantasy world or trying to lull Americans to sleep by reading from his liberal-progressive, “Big Book of Fairy Tales.”
Although it is often said that the President of the United States holds the most powerful office in the world, this does not mean that he is able to decide very much for himself. The American Constitution, which was adapted in 1789, clearly states the Separation of Powers. Thus, the president makes up only one third of the government, namely the executive branch. He is also controlled by a complex system of checks and balances, which makes sure that he (or any of the other branches, for that matter) does not become too powerful. We will now have a look at the different problems which may be facing a recently elected president, and then discuss to what extent his powers are important.