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Elections of the American president
Intoduction:
In the United States of America there are fifteen states.
The capital city is Washington D.C. Where there is the White House where the American
president lives. The flag of the USA is called “Stars and Stripes” because the stars
represent the fifty states of the USA and the thirteen stripes represent the first thirteen
British colonies. Their motto is “in God We Trust”.
The three requirements to be allowed to be a candidate in the American presidential
elections are to be a natural born citizen, to be a resident for fourteen years and to be
thirty-five years old or older. The people in the USA elect their president every four years.
An American president can serve two terms of office.
The presidential elections are always held the first Tuesday after the first Monday of
November. The voters do not actually elect the American president: when they punch their
ballots for President, they actually vote for a slate of electors (=the Electoral College= the
electors =the state representatives). Electors then cast the votes that decide who becomes
President of the United States (when citizens exercise their right to vote, they determine the
electoral vote for their state).
The three requirements to vote in the presidential elections are to be 18 years old or older
on the day of the vote, to be registered to vote, to be a United States citizen. The two most
powerful political parties in the USA are the democratic party and their emblem is a
donkey. The other party is the Republican Party their emblem is an elephant.
Barack obama is the candidate for the democratic Party. He was born the fourth of August
in 1961. He is 47 years old. He was born in Honolulu Hawaii. He grew up in Hawaii and for
a few years in Indonesia.
Now he lives in the state of Illinois in Kenwood, Chicago.
He was raised by his mother and later by his grandparents. He studied law in Harvard in
1991 which is the best in law school the USA before he graduated from Columbia University.
Barack is a lawyer. His slogan is “I’m asking you to believe” and “Yes We Can”. His wife,
Michelle Robinson, is a lawyer too. She is 44 years old.
They have got two children .Their name are Malia and Sasha.
His vice president is Joe Biden. He was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, the twentieth of
November in 1942.He is married with Jill Biden. He is a US senator. He is a democrat on the
foreign relations committee. He has a lot of political experience.
John McCain is the candidate for the Republican Party. He was born the twenty-ninth of
November in 1936. He is 72 years old. He was born in Coco Solo, it’s in Panama. He grew up
in New London, Connecticut and Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. In his teens he stayed in Virginia
with his parents. He lives in Arizona. His parents are John S. McCain (1911-1981) and
Roberta (Wright) McCain who was born in 1912. His father was a navy admiral. John
McCain was a student in the Academy of Annapolis.
He was navy aviator (US Navy) too but he is retired. His slogan is “Reform * Prosperity *
Peace”.
He divorced from Carol Sheep and now he is married to Cindy McCain a native Arizonan,
mother of four children who founded and ran the American Voluntary Medical Team (AVMT)
from 1988 to 1995. She is 54 years old.
He has seven children but together with Cindy they have four children: Meghan, Jack, Jimmy,
and Bridget and four grandchildren. Sarah Palin who is his chosen vice- president was born
the eleventh of February in 1964. She is governor of Alaska. She is married with Todd Palin,
a fisherman in Bristol Bay. They have five children.
And the winner
is:
There were 64 629 649 people who voted for the Democratic Party
and 56 888 006for the Republican Party.
Barack Obama was elected by 349 state electors and McCain by 163.
Obama needed to have 270 votes to be elected. In the Senate there are
57 representatives of the Democratic Party and 40 for the Republican
Party. In the House of Representatives there are 254 representatives of
the Democratic Party and 173 for the Republican Party.
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There are 50 states in the USA. The capital city of this country is
Washington. The American president lives there, in the White
House. The American flag’s name is: “Stars and Stripes”. It
represents all the American states, 50 stars which represent the 50
states and 13 stripes which represent the 13 first states. The
national motto of the USA is: “In God We Trust”. The house of
representative and the Senate are the two parts of the U.S. House
of Representatives.
To be allowed to be a candidate in the American presidential
elections, you must be a natural born citizen of the USA, have lived
for 14 years in the USA, and you must be 35 years old or older.
Every 4 years, people vote to elect their president. You can be the
American president only twice. This year, the American elections will
be held on Tuesday November, the 4th. But the American people vote
for a slate of electors who actually vote to elect the president. To
vote, you must to be 18 years old or older, an American citizen and
registered to vote. The two most powerful political parties in the
USA are the Republican Party and the Democratic Party. The symbol
for the Republicans is an elephant and the symbol for the Democrats
is a donkey.
Barack Obama is the candidate for the Democratic Party. He
was born on August the 4th in 1961 so he is 47 years old. He was
born in Honolulu, in Hawaii. Then, he grew up in Hawaii and for a
few years in Indonesia. He studied 2 years at the Occidental
College of California and at the University of Columbia in New
York. He is a lawyer. His slogan is “Yes, We Can”. His wife’s
name is Michelle Obama and she is a jurist and a lawyer. They
have got 2 children: Sasha and Malia. Obama’s vice president is
Joseph Biden; he is the president of the commission of the
Foreign Affairs.
John McCain is the Republican candidate. He was born in
August the 29th in 1936, so he is 72 years old. He was born in
Coco-solo, in the canal zone of Panama; and he grew up in New
London. Now he lives in Phoenix, Arizona. He fought in the
Vietnam War where he was a naval aviator. Now he is a
politician. His slogan is: “Reform, Prosperity and Peace”
His first wife was Carol Shepp, he got married in 1965, but he
divorced her and now, his wife is Cindy McCain, he got married
in 1980. He has got 4 children. Their names are Douglas,
Andrew, Sidney, Meghane; and his grandchildren are John
Sidney IV, James and Bridget. He chose Sara Palin to be his
vice president, who is a Republican and the governor of Alaska.
And the winner is:
The 4th November, almost 65 millions people voted for Obama and 57 millions
people voted for McCain.
The Democratic Party has the majority of representatives in the Senate: 57
senators for the Democratic party, and 40 senators for the Republican Party.
The Democratic Party has the majority of representatives in the House of
Representatives too: 364 for the Democratic party and 174 for the Republican
party.
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The U.S.A.
The USA is divided into 50 States and its capital city is Washington DC where lives the
American president in the White House. The American flag’s name is “Stars and Stripes”.
And the stars of the flag represent the 50 states and the thirteen stripes represent the thirteen
first colonies. The national motto of the USA is “E Pluribus Unum” which means “Out of
many one” and “In God, we trust”. The Congress of the USA is divided into two parts: the
House of Representatives and the Senate.
I] The American presidential elections
If you are a natural born citizen of the USA, a resident for 14 years and if you are 35 years
old; you can be a candidate in the American presidential elections. Those elections are held
every 4 years. And the president can serve two terms of office.
The presidential elections are always held the first Tuesday of November. And this year it will
be on November the fourth 2008. The voters do not actually elect the American president :
when they punch their ballots for President, they actually vote for a slate of electors(=the
electoral college= the electors= the states representatives). Electors then cast the votes that
decide who becomes President of the United States (when citizens exercise their right to vote,
they determine the electoral vote for their state).
If you want to vote in the presidential elections you must be 18 years old or older; you must
be a US citizen and you mustn’t be a convicted felon.
Today the two most powerful political parties in the USA are:
- The Democratic Party. Their emblem is a donkey.
- The Republican Party. Their emblem is an elephant.
II] The candidates in the 2008presidential elections
The candidate for the Democratic Party is Barack Obama. He is 47 years old and he was born
on August the fourth, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii in the USA. Then he grew up in Jakarta and
Hawaii.
He lives in Kenwood in Chicago which is in Illinois with his wife Michelle Obama who is 44
years old and who is a lawyer.
He also has two children who are Malia Ann and Natasha (“Sasha”).
Barack Obama’s parents are Barack Obama Sr. and Stanley Ann Dunham but they got
divorced when he was two years old.
When Barack was young he went to the University of Hawaii.
He is a politician and a lawyer. And the slogan in his campaign is “Yes, we can” and “I’m
asking you to believe”.
His vice president is Joseph Robinette Biden who was born in Pennsylvania in the USA on
November 20th 1942. He is 65 years old and he is a senator and a politician.
He has four children who are Joseph, Robert Hunter, Naomi Christina and Ashley Blazer. His
wife is Jill Tracy Jacobs but his first wife died in an accident.
The candidate for the Republican Party is John McCain. He is 72 years old and he was born
on August 29th 1936 in Coco Solo Naval Air Station in the Panama Canal Zone. Then he grew
up in the Pacific and in the USA.
He lives in Phoenix, Arizona, USA with his wife Cindy McCain who is 54 years old and who
ran the American Voluntary Medical Team (AVMT) from 1988 to 1995 ( a charity).
He has seven children who are Douglas, Andrew, Sidney, Meghan, John Sidney IV “Jack”,
James “Jimmy” and Bridget. And he has four grandchildren.
His parents are John S. McCain and Roberta McCain.
John was a Naval Aviator and is now a politician and the slogan in his campaign is “Reform,
Prosperity, and Peace”.
His vice president is Sarah Palin. She was born in Idaho in the USA on February 11th 1964
and she is 44 years old.
She is sportscasters, a homemaker and a politician. She has five children who are Track,
Bristol, Willow, Piper and Trig. And her spouse is Todd Palin.
Vs
Who will win??
And the winner is…
Barack Obama
The new president of the USA is Barack Obama. During the election there were
between 130M to 140M American electors who voted to elect the president.
63M electors voted for Obama and 53M voted for McCain.
Map of the electoral college who vote for Obama or McCain:
Number of representatives for each party in the House of Representatives :
In the Senate, 57 democratic senators have been elected and 40 republican senators have been
elected.
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In the USA there are 50 states. The capital city is Washington DC and the
American president lives in the White House. The name of the flag is “Stars and Stripes”. It
represents the 13 original colonies and the 50 states. The national motto is “In god We Trust”.
The House of Representatives and the Senate are the two parts of the Congress.
To be allowed to be candidate in the American presidential elections, voters must be 35
years old or older, be a resident in America for 14 years and a natural born citizen of the USA.
People in the USA vote to elect their president every four years.
The American president can serve two terms of office. The elections are always held on the
first Tuesday of November; this year; it is on the 4 of November. Voters don’t actually elect
the president of the USA because they elect state electors who in turn will vote for the
president.
The three requirements to vote in the presidential elections are to be:
- 18 years old or older
- Registered to vote
- A US citizen
In the USA, the two most powerful political parties are the Democratic Party (their emblem is
the donkey) and the Republican Party (their emblem is the elephant).
The first candidate is Barack Obama (Democratic Party). He
was born on the 4 of August, 1961 in Hawaii and he grew up in California, Kansas, Texas,
Washington and Hawaii. He lives in Chicago. His father’s name is Barack Obama Senior (he
was from a small village in Kenya) and his mother’s name is Ann Duhnam. Obama studied
for two years in California and in Columbia. He is a lawyer. His slogan is “I am asking you to
believe”. His wife’s name is Michelle Obama Robinson who is a lawyer too. She is 44 years
old. They have two daughters : Natasha (2002) and Malia Ann (1999). Joe Biden is his vicepresident. He was born on 20 of November in 1942 so he is 66 years old. He was born in
Scranton. His father’s name is Joseph Biden and his mother’s name is Catherine Eugenia. He
has two brothers and two sisters.
The second candidate is John McCain (Republican Party). He
was born on the 29 of August, 1936 in Coco Solo in Panamá and he grew up in the military
base of Coco Solo and New London, Connecticut, Pearl Harbor and Hawaii. He lives in
Phoenix in Arizona. His father is John S. “Jack” McCain and his mother is Roberta Wright
McCain. John was a pilot and today he is a senator. His slogan is “reform + prosperity +
peace”. His wife is Cindy McCain and she is 54 years old. They have seven children and four
grandchildren. His vice-president is Sarah Palin. She was born on the 11 of February, 1964 so
she is 44 years old. She was born in Sandpoint in Idaho. Her father is Charles Heath and her
mother is Sarah Sally Heath.
The candidate who was elected is Barack Obama. Obama won 52.5% of the votes (64,629,649)
and John McCain 46.2% (56,888,006). The Democratic Party has a majority of
representatives (364) in the senate. There are 100 senators and 42 are republicans and 57 are
democrats. Obama will become the new president on 20 of January.
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