The stressful
environment of Tuesday night elections, made my fellow classmates, professors,
family members and I, all huge Obama supporters, cringe at the anticipated
results. The slight chance of Obama losing came across the minds of everyone in
the room as we patiently watch the electoral votes. Obama’s miraculous win of
303 electoral votes, beating opponent Romney with a mere 203, made the crowd in
the room to jubilate the re-election of president Obama. As millions of people
watch and celebrated, the Republican Party engaged in soul-searching and blame
game.
Few days prior to the elections, the eight “swing states”: Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Ohio, New Hampshire, Nevada, Virginia and Wisconsin were up for grabs. This made both candidates, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney to step up to efforts to win the majority of the swing states.
Now that the elections are over, news
correspondents, analysts and troubled Republicans analyze why Romney lost?
In the last remaining weeks of the presidential
race, news coverage focused attention on Hurricane Sandy. This seems to favor
Obama, since he showed leadership. Obama’s natural instincts allowed him to set
aside his campaign to appease the nation. Obama’s leadership reassured Americans
about his resilience and leadership role. Supporters across the nation saw
Obama’s firm actions in unifying the nation which affected his campaign status
positively. Unfortunately, Romney’s campaign lost their momentum. This was
because the unexpected storm consumed the much of the East Coast news coverage.
As a result, it upset the dynamic of the Romney campaign as he struggled to
grab the attention of the American people. Although, Hurricane Sandy was a
minor reason as to why Romney lost, Obama and his administrative team not only appeased
the nation, they also met the expectations of every American. The hopes for
America were visible throughout the Obama campaign in which Romney heavily
lacked.
Romney’s major faults, during his
campaign, were his beliefs on abortion rights, gay-marriage rights and minority
rights. His inability to foresee the diversity of America led him to be
strongly “hated” by various communities. Romney’s belief in abortion and gay
marriage rights created controversy among these two communities. Not only did
Romney oppose the congregation of same-sex marriages but his views towards
marriage only took in account small majority of Americans. His beliefs
oppressed gay-marriages, allowing only marriages made up of relationships
between a man and a woman to be justified. In addition, Romney failed to acknowledge
“that all citizens deserve equal rights, regardless of sexual preference.”[1]
His religious and moral belief pushed voters towards the Obama campaign, were
Obama strongly believed that each individual has a right regardless of their
sexual preference. Romney underestimated the diversity in every community which
led voters to see him as bias. Meanwhile, his belief in banning abortion
disregarded many Americans who were either pro-choice or pro-life. The role of
a national leader, which Romney lacks, is to encourage freedom of choice and
expression without being bias.
Romney’s views and moral values
generally supported Republicans, a majority being Caucasian, the rich social
class and of those of Christian faith. He completely illegitimatized the roles of
being a strong American President. Romney’s campaign turnout did not legitimatize the rights and rules of all Americans. He inabled the power of voice from the American people; un-inspiring those whose voices are not heard. Obama's leadership role unified the nation by resolving issues fromminority groups, decreasing gender disparity,
and abolishing racial disputes, which Romney and his campaign significantly lacked.
Romeny's principles related to only a percentage of Americans who are made
up are of visible minority and believe in the same religion or have the same
values on marriage. The lack of dependence as a leader led Romney to be viewed
as narrow-minded person who did not take into consideration all the other
citizens residing in the country. Romney’s failure to get the votes of minority
groups- women, gays and lesbians, blacks, Latinos and Muslims was mainly due to
the Republic Party, especially the tea party wing, outmoded policies. This
should be a wakeup call to the party but instead selfishly ignored by the
Republican Party. The Romney campaign and Republican Party instead should have
promoted diversity within its rank and file or build a coalition as Obama had
successfully achieved.
As a result, Romney embarrassingly lost
amongst the young people, African Americans and Hispanics, and the gay
community. Romney’s inability to have the needs met by every American lost the
election as he was unable to foresee the diverse population.
Work Cited
CNN: Analysis: Why Romney Lost?
http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/07/politics/why-romney-lost/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
Fox News: Article Obama and Romney:
Where they stand on the issues http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/09/10/obama-and-romney-where-stand-on-issues/
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