Mitt Romney: One Final Gaffe

November 8,2012
Website for 'President-Elect Mitt Romney' Goes Live
MSNBC
Emma Margolin

This entire Presidential election has been sprinkled with gaffes both kind-of funny and extremely insulting from the Republican candidate, Mitt Romney. Starting with the 47% label to all those recieving Government assistance to the taking out of Big Bird and PBS all together. While these have stuck to him like a bumper sticker his final gaffe, I believe, takes the gold.

The race for the win was a close one and this election has had a many of ups and downs for both candidates. President Obama, however, was delcared winner on Tuesday night. The following Wednesday, with celebration sprouting from Obama supporters and gloom hanging over Romney supporters a one, Taegan Godderd, found something that has tickled the crowd. Taegan Goddard, is named by the MSNBC article as the blogger who found the website for 'President-Elect Mitt Romney'. The site only went live for that one day as stated by the article, and there are only a few pictures taken by the blogger that shows just how ready Romney was to win.

The opening page for the website pictured a smiling Mitt Romney and a quote stating, "I'm excited about our prospects as a nation. My priority is putting people back to work in America." Another page showed an open link that would lead to his victory speech which he also had planned to give but was never able to deliver to the public. The website was created by a software company in Utah called SolutionStream. One of the company owners, Jason Thelin, spoke to the Huffinton Post about the leak saying he was not sure if he was allowed to talk about it but did say that it had been all ready to go.

Obviously no lack of confidence in Mitt Romney but it's also obvious that it was not enough to get him the win.

                                   The above is a picture of the opening page for the website.



President Obama Takes the 2012 Election

November 6,2012
Obama Wins Re-Election and Promises "Best Is Yet To Come"
ABC News
Russell Goldman

After a hard fought presidential race against Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, the nations first African American president, Barack Hussein Obama has won yet ANOTHER four years in the White House as Commander-in-Chief of the United States of America.

In a speech "studded with soaring rhetoric" President Obama congratulated Mitt Romney and reminded the voters what was left on his agenda, immigration reform, climate and job creation. The President said that he looked forward to, "sitting down with Gov. Romney to discuss how we can move this country forward." He also told supporters in Chicago, "Tonight, you voted for action and not politics as usual... You elected us to focus on your job, not ours."  Following he addressed Romney supporters saying, "I have listened to you...you have made me a better president. I will return to the White House more determined, more inspired than ever."

The ABC News article also pointed out that Obama had built a 'coalition' of voters from young people, minorities, and college educated women. They say he won by turning out a winning amount of voters through a 'carefully calibrated ground operation' to get votes in states like Ohio, Wisconsin and Iowa.

Many times in his speeches Obama reminded voters that when he came into office four years ago our economy was at its worst since the great depression. He also reminded people of the changes he has made though subtle he managed to down the amount of troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, lowered the unemployment rate and bailed out the auto-industry. His campagin also portrayed Romney as an 'out-of-touch millionaire intent on helping the rich at the expense of the middle class.' This impression stuck with people, a poll in the article pointed out that 55 to 40 percent of people believe the economic system favors the wealth and is not fair for most people.

With this re-election President Obama has many people expecting more from him, and four more years to get things done.