Barack Obama has won the race and is now the president- elect, with running mate Joe Biden who is vice presidential- elect.
I am not quite satisfied with the results of this years presidential election. I believe that John McCain had better ideas for our country on health care, the economy, taxes and the environment. The things that Barack Obama said he would do as president are not all logical. His tax plan will not work with the things that he plans to do with the country, he has a lot of ideas but he will most certainly have to raise taxes to fulfill all of these plans that he has. I think that it was John McCain's time to be president of the United States of America.
After seeing what went on in the election last night I still believe that we should get rid of the electoral college. It should go because if you voted for John McCain in this election in Massachusetts you may feel like your vote didn't count. If you get rid of the electoral college and make the popular vote count,then everyone will feel like their vote counted and made a difference in the U.S. government. We should have the popular vote count more than the electoral vote, let the people decide who they want their president to be.
On my prediction on Monday compared to the real results of last night's (November 4th) election I had gotten four of the states wrong. I predicted that John McCain would win New Hampshire, Indiana, Colorado and Virginia, but it turned out that Barack Obama had won all of those states. I thought for sure that McCain would win Indiana, as of 9:30 last night he had been winning that state, but in the end he had lost it. I'm not sure how though because when I checked John McCain had one almost all areas of Indiana, but Obama must have come from behind! Oh my! I was sort of close in my predictions of which presidential candidate would win each state.
My Gallup Poll research did not really influence my prediction, but it did a little bit. I did Gallup Polls on Age and Gender among Whites. I saw that on both of these Gallup Polls John McCain started pretty close if not beating Barack Obama. As time went on though Barack Obama was beating John McCain on both of these polls. It showed me that Obama had a better chance of winning, so it influenced me a little bit to give Senator Obama more states to win. Since it was only those two Gallup Polls though I gave McCain some more states than he actually won, I was wrong in that department though. My Gallup Poll research influenced me a little bit on how to predict who won what state.
Elizabeth :)
