U.S Elections

It has been the U.S election, one of the most relevant elections in the world. For that reason, all the media was focused on America the first week of November.
Nevertheless, Sandy Hurricane was in some front pages during few days. It was one of the ever worst storms that America ever had, but it did not downplay the elections.
Barack Obama, Democratic nominee, and Mitt Romney, representative of the Republican 

Party were the two main challengers of this election held on November 6^th. It was extremely hard to find any other parties in the election, it is called oligopoly; where small parties find impossible to get any representation.

In the election, Americans voted for the House of Representatives, Senate and the President of the United States. It was one of the tightest elections of the history. Weeks 
before was hard to prognosticate the winner.

Obama became again President getting more than 300 electoral votes, although they hold the Senate for a few votes and the House of Representatives is dominated by Republicans. It means that it will be tough to make any decision due to the fact that both parties have to agree.

Stats had said that the keypoint was Ohio, whoever had won this state they would have won the election and it happened. However, none thought about the significance of the Hispanic votes. Three of four Hispanic votes were for Obama, the greatest percentage since 1996. Those votes gave Obama an advantage of 50 points ahead of Romney. It is even more relevant were 17% of the population is Hispanic.

Immigration and health care were two great issues in this election, the ultraconservative position that Republicans were, made them two lose many votes in the Hispanic population. In the other hand, Obama targeted his votes in a coalition of women, Hispanic, Afro-Americans and the youngest sector. It was shocking when Romney figured out that this coalition, that Obama was targeting for, won the typical American vote.( White aged and rural electorate)

Immigration´s reform and homosexual marriage were on Obama´s agenda. Mitt Romney and his conservative programme were really inflexible about those issues. However Republicans might want to change their agenda before the next election. It seems that U.S is turning into a fresh country where the immigration, in less than 25 years, will exceed 50% of the total population.
 

Would these stats modify future political decisions ?

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