Popular Vote

We need a National Popular Vote system in America. Firstly, because every American vote should count, not only those in the swing state. Secondly, because of this system presidential campaigns are only focused on a few interests in American society, because a small amount of people has these decisive votes. Thirdly, with election results getting closer and closer we will get more and more presidents that we didn’t choose by majority.

How can America say they are the holy democratic country if the vote of so many people of the U.S.A. doesn’t even count? Both the Mitt Romney and Barack Obama campaigns are focused on 9 swing states that will decide these elections. Why even vote if you live in one of the other 41 states? A National Popular Vote bill will make an end on the importance of only these 9 states. The president with the most votes throughout the nation will win the elections. Every American vote should count. That is the most honest way to elect a president.

In 2008 Obama campaigned in 14 states after he was nominated. This is a lot. Most of the times campaigning in about 9 swing states is enough. The current system should be there for geographical spread throughout the nation. But it causes that there will be only campaigning in a few states. If there would be a National Popular Vote system then the candidate should visit more regions in America, because every American then could make the difference.  

The election results are getting closer and closer. Obama won simple in 2008, but this time the results could be so close that the candidate without an overall majority could win. It happened 4 times that the candidate without the majority of popular votes won the elections. Last time this happened in 2000, when George Bush won the elections controversially in Florida. His democratic opponent Al Gore had the majority of votes, but still George Bush entered the White House. America cannot afford this to happen again. Then the presidential elections will lose its credibility.

The National Popular Vote is a must-have for America. It’s the most honest way to elect the president. Every American vote should count, not only the votes in the swing states. A presidential candidate in a National Popular Vote system should listen to the whole of America, because every vote could make a difference. America cannot afford that a situation like in 2000 could happen again. The cradle of democracy is losing it’s credibility. The National Popular Vote system is the best way to choose the president of the United States of America.  

The White House

The America presidential elections are a big show. Last night the first of the television debates between Romney and Obama happened. The whole world wants to know who will win the race to the White House. Is it president Barack Obama or the Republican Mitt Romney. Most Americans think that Mitt Romney won the first television debate. Obama was too nervous to defence himself properly against the attacks from Romney.

Romney is now more popular by the voters of the ‘Swing States’, the nine states who will decide these presidential elections. As a presidential candidate you have to make those people vote for you. The other 41 states already decided if they will vote Republican or Democrat. If you are a Democratic and you are living in Texas, you can stay home. Your vote won’t even count because most people in Texas vote for the Republican Party and the ‘Winner takes it all’.

The eye of the world will be on Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida. The most important swing states. If Obama or Romney will win these three states, then they will win the presidential election. And that’s where the television debates are about. Convincing the people in the swing states to vote for them. The citizens of Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania, they will decide the presidential elections of 2012.