The last presidential elections in the United States of America were important, taking into account the economic panorama of the last years, the "wars" in Afghanistan and Irak, the situation in Libya, Iran, internal affairs as the medicare law purposed by Obama, the unemployement, the immigrants situation, and the relations with some countries as China.
Those was, in my way of view as a foreign, the most important facts carried during the last presidential campaign.
Starting this year (2012), republicans planned all their primaries/caucus state-by-state to vote and elect the candidate who should competed with the current and re-elected presidente Barack Obama.
In the first weeks, republicans had 4 strong candidates: Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney and Ron Paul. At the end, Santorum that was the strong rival of Mitt Romney decided to resign and finally Romney won the primaries. Is important to mention that Romney, former governor of Massachusetts, won in important states and he received important support.
In august, Romney was elected as the republican candidate to the elections. Then Obama was elected by his Democratic party.
October, one month before elections was, probably the most important month. Debates, polls and surveys.
Both candidates had good things. According to some media, Romney won the 1st debate, and Obama the 2nd and 3rd. But, they really "won"?
One week before elections and hurricane arrived to New York with bad consequences.
The Washington Post video
Obama won with important support of "swing states". But now is time to look forward and start looking if 4 years enough to do all the things mentioned and off course more and more. There's a great challenge!
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