![]() By Carolina Aceves Staff Writer It has been four years since President Barack Obama was elected into office in 2008. Now, Obama faced another Republican candidate, former governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney. Unfortunately for Obama, his chances of winning weren't as great as they were in 2008. Mitt Romney gave President Obama a run for his money. However, Obama won a second term in office by winning crucial battleground swing states such as Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida. These states could have voted either way and Obama’s campaign strategy seems to have triumphed over the Romney camp. With the slow economy and millions of Americans out of a job, the reelections became a critical part of bettering the country. It is not surprising that each candidate made promises that would fix the broken country that former President George W. Bush left behind. The biggest question the American people faced was: whom do we trust? Obama, who people claim has done nothing in the last four years in office, or Romney, who wants to go back to very similar regulations the Bush Administration held? Barack Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School. After college, he worked as a civil rights attorney in the city of Chicago, Illinois. In 1996, he was elected to the Illinois Senate as senator from Illinois’ 13th District. In 2004, Obama ran for U.S. Senate and won against Alan Keyes with 70 percent of the vote in his favor. In 2008, after running a very close race against fellow Democrat Hillary Clinton, Obama was nominated as the democratic candidate for presidency. Later that year, he and vice-president Joe Biden won the elections against Republican John McCain and Sarah Palin, becoming the first African-American to be elected as President. Presently, Obama, along with Vice-President Biden are running for a second term in the 2012 elections. Mitt Romney attended Stanford University and Brigham Young University. Unlike Obama, Romney started out his career in the business world. He worked as a Management Consultant at Boston Consulting Company, then later at Bain & Company. In 1984, Romney left Bain & Company to co-found the spin off investment firm, Bain Capital. In 1999, he was hired as President and CEO of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games of 2002. In 2002, Romney was elected to be the Governor of Massachusetts. Mitt Romney won the Republican primary to run for President in the 2012 elections against current President Barack Obama. The elections have come and gone. It’s now up to President Obama to determine our course for the next four years of our country, but it could have easily been Mitt Romney at the helm. It might not seem like it, but every vote counts.
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