America Is Voting

Well I guess that is a minor incident in your place if there was indeed some election related violence in your place. From where I am I guess we are a bit immature with it since election related violence will always happen in here. I think if you would compare yours to ours, we still have a long way to become as mature voters as you are there in your country. I am looking that someday in the future we could have a much peaceful election like the ones that is happening in your country.

America is a great democracy. We have our flaws, conflicts and problems but when it is all said and done, we are a great country. However, we could do better. And yes, every four years we come together to elect or re-elect. And no matter who wins or loses, it is a peaceful transition. There is no violence. We are truly blessed and lucky.

Are you talking about violence at an American poll? I have not heard of any violence at any poll and I have been watching TV all evening.

I seriously doubt that is going to happen anytime soon even after president Obama is given a new mandate by the people today. As you may recall, GOP leadership is in no mood to work together with President Obama except wanted to create conflict and make him a one term president only right after Obama went into Office in his first term, the same mentality still prevail until now. GOP want legislation benefit their financial sponsors and Republican party's coffer, while the president want the interests of commoner and nation taken care first before wealthy donors. There is always conflicts between both sides, expecting an era of cooperation and compromise to usher in easily from congress after this re-election victory for Obama is not quite realistic, you should expect to see sustainable political bickering continue to exist within congress that place the interests of their political party above the nation and its people, but i am sure Obama will know the way to navigate better this time around, i am optimistic of the future down the road.

I hope that our President and our congress will work together this time instead of working against one another. We need an era of cooperation, not conflict. Someone had to win and someone had to lose. Life goes on.

I think that Obama is going to take it. At this moment, he and Romney are equal in the electoral vote. They each have 163. In Texas, Ted Cruz won the U.S. Senate race. He is a Tea Party candidate. I am not happy with that. I like both Obama and Romney. I am an independent moderate. I think that I can live with either.

Immigration was a hot issue in this country and will remain so. The Latino community went heavily for Obama. The Republicans do not seem to get it. The stock market was way down when I last looked. I do not know if this has anything to do with Obama getting re-elected.

I find elections very exciting. I am always hopeful for a better four years. Are you happy with the re-election of Obama? The stock market appears to be very unhappy.

It seems that we did have a fairly honest and clean election. There were some problems but there always are. Obama got re-elected. Does he have humility and a heart? He seems like a nice enough person. He has charisma. I like him but I also liked Romney. I am happy with Obama and I probably would have also been happy with Romney. We will see what the next four years will bring. I expect and am hoping that Hillary Clinton might run four years from now. If so, and if she wins, she would be our first woman President.

I am hearing that the lines are very long all over the Unites States. I do not understand why. I live in Austin and we also had local races and lots of amendments to vote on. We had a very long ballot in Travis County. Some of the amendments were confusing and wordy. Until this election, I never had to wait very long. Sometimes I did not have to wait at all.

What is wonderful and amazing about our country is that we do this every four years. Someone always loses and someone always wins. Some are ecstatic and others in despair. But we do this peacefully and we go on. And we get to do this all over in another four years. And that is what democracy is all about.