All is not lost, Obama may have won but faces, A NATION DIVIDED

Landslide, Public Mandate, a butt kicking, not even close, a decisive victory
All of these words and phrases have been used to describe President-elect Barrack Obama’s historic victory on Tuesday, November the Fourth, 2008. And yes, while it was a historic election in American history, it was history that was almost not made. In the Electoral College, Barrack Obama won by a margin of 364 – 174 a difference of 190 electoral votes. But that margin of 190 electoral votes could have been easily erased by a spread of only 745,000 votes across seven states. Only 745,000 votes total separated Obama from McCain in Iowa, Ohio, Virginia, Florida, Nevada, Indiana, and North Carolina. Any or all of those states could have gone red instead of blue and if they did, McCain would be President-elect, not Obama, and those states could just as easily go red next election. Barrack Obama did not sweep America off its feet; he did not win in a landslide. He won, but barely.


President-elect Obama’s Presidency will be one filled with massive challenges, not only because of the financial crisis in this country (which was the democrats fault anyway) or the wars in Iraq and Afganistan, but because he is a very polarizing individual. People either love Barrack Obama, calling him the next messiah or they think he is the anti-Christ and will lead America down a path of destruction.
The reality is, 46%, nearly half, of America did not vote for Barrack Obama. Nearly 57 million Americans cast their vote for Senator John McCain. Many people do not trust Barrack Obama and do not want his radical, socialist, far-left agenda to govern America. What does this mean, it means that he DOES NOT have a public mandate to lead America as he sees fit. No, if he is to survive re-election, he will not be able to implement his liberal far-left agenda on the American people. Because of this, to keep the democrats in power in congress for more than 2 years and to help him get re-elected, Obama will be hard pressed to govern from a more conservative position. To remain in power more than one term, he will have to govern just to the left of center not from the far out left field where he stands now. The American people are more conservative than they are liberal by nature. If Barrack Obama comes out making abortion on demand, over-turning state gay-marriage bans, taking away the rights guaranteed by the second amendment, replacing capitalism with socialism, and making other of his and the democratic parties far-left notions law, in the 2010 mid-term election the American people could replace the democratic congress with republicans and then for the next 2 years President Obama will be ineffective and very vulnerable to defeat in re-election in 2012.
Obama ran on a platform of “Hope”, “Change”, and “Unity” but with half of the USA against him, fearing him, it will be very hard for him to unify the nation in any way, shape, or form. The radical change he wants to bring about in America will be met with fierce and swift resistance and lead to a more divided nation. The people, who voted for him just because he wasn’t Bush, will soon realize what horrible mistake they have made if Barrack goes off the wall with his extremely liberal agenda, and could easily change their vote come 2010 and 2012, putting the Republicans back in power.
Because of the sharpness of division in the United States today, one that has been present in America since the 2000 election, Barrack Obama faces opposition from half the country if he plans on running the country from a very liberal standpoint. Yes he does have a very democratic congress to help him pass his agenda without much trouble. However all is not lost. The Democrats have not gained the magic number of 60 yet in the senate. This means that the democratic agenda cannot go through both the house and senate unchecked. The Senate Republicans will have to fight like they have never done before, but they are the only hope for the 57,000,000 voters who did not want Barrack Obama to be their president.
Obama said in his victory speech that he would be a president for the people that didn’t vote for him as well as for those who did. The only way to do this is if he governs from the middle, reaches across party lines, and works with republicans. With one of the most liberal voting records in the senate, working with republicans is something he has rarely done before. If he does not do this, he will further polarize the United States of America and turn off the many independents who voted for him and the democratic party.
Barrack Obama faces an uphill battle in his Presidency and that can be favorable to the Republican Party . No matter how he leads, he will face a divided nation. If he leads from the left, he will alienate 57 million + Americans, if he governs from the center, he will piss off his far left party base. If Obama fails on his promises to fix the economy, end Iraq, and unify the nation and/or attempts to push his liberal policies down the American people’s throats, he will lose the power and the people can turn against Obama and the democrats removing them from power. The great thing about the American people and democracy is that we can just as easily take a person out of power just as quickly as we bring them into power.
Yes the Republican Party lost this election, but nearly half of America is for the principles that the Republican Party stands for and the Republican Party can soon be back into power, and serving the American people