US Presidential elections 2012: What Nigeria needs to learn
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Posted by Felix Okoli on Tuesday November 6, 2012 at 8:56:45:
Today is November 6 and it's the day Americans would go to the polls to vote for their preferred candidate - Romney or Obama.What I like about the US elections is that when they hold, it hardly comes with violence unlike in Nigeria where elections normally brings violence most especially in illiterate regions in the north where people kill others just because their preferred candidate did not win. Nigerians need to be more civilized about their politics and choose rather to go to court when they feel cheated in an election rather than resorting to bloodshed and violence.Republican Romney is seen by many as a republican and as one who is more focused on keeping the rich rich while Obama is seen as someone who being a middle class also cares for the middle class and poor and more concerned about creating jobs.Romney had campaigned in the previous 2008 republican presidential primaries but lost to John McCain, a war hero who was favoured by Bush. However, Romney has kept on pressing forward and now became the most favoured republican candiate for this years election against incumbent Obama.Romney actually makes millions of dollars a year and can pay Obama's salary but in America, elections are not just about money, it's also about character and about people voting for you. Some people would not just vote for you even if you offer them money unlike the case in Nigeria.President Obama has almost completed his first term as US president and by law, he is entitled to another and so he emerged as the best candidate for the Democratic primary. His work for the past 4 years has helped create some jobs although some Americans are still without jobs and the recession is still biting. So his hardest job today would be to win the election again else Americans would have to live with a new president and probably a new type of government with new policies.It's going to be a tough election that is almost straight cut in the middle. Who will win, we are not sure but it's going to be an electronic voting where results will be out in little time and on a state by state basis and there would hardly be a case of rigging as is common in Nigerian elections.
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Today is November 6 and it's the day Americans would go to the polls to vote for their preferred candidate - Romney or Obama.What I like about the US elections is that when they hold, it hardly comes with violence unlike in Nigeria where elections normally brings violence most especially in illiterate regions in the north where people kill others just because their preferred candidate did not win. Nigerians need to be more civilized about their politics and choose rather to go to court when they feel cheated in an election rather than resorting to bloodshed and violence.Republican Romney is seen by many as a republican and as one who is more focused on keeping the rich rich while Obama is seen as someone who being a middle class also cares for the middle class and poor and more concerned about creating jobs.Romney had campaigned in the previous 2008 republican presidential primaries but lost to John McCain, a war hero who was favoured by Bush. However, Romney has kept on pressing forward and now became the most favoured republican candiate for this years election against incumbent Obama.Romney actually makes millions of dollars a year and can pay Obama's salary but in America, elections are not just about money, it's also about character and about people voting for you. Some people would not just vote for you even if you offer them money unlike the case in Nigeria.President Obama has almost completed his first term as US president and by law, he is entitled to another and so he emerged as the best candidate for the Democratic primary. His work for the past 4 years has helped create some jobs although some Americans are still without jobs and the recession is still biting. So his hardest job today would be to win the election again else Americans would have to live with a new president and probably a new type of government with new policies.It's going to be a tough election that is almost straight cut in the middle. Who will win, we are not sure but it's going to be an electronic voting where results will be out in little time and on a state by state basis and there would hardly be a case of rigging as is common in Nigerian elections.
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