On Tuesday night, the now two-term President Barack Obama swept every single swing state. The states were Ohio, Virginia, Michigan, Iowa, Wisconsin, Nevada, Colorado, New Hampshire, according to the NPR article posted Wednesday.
Because Obama swept these states and gained the electoral college votes, he won the presidential race.
Many of these races reported later than the rest of the states, but once these states had their full reports in, you saw the blue run from the east coast to the west coast.
However, many people wondered how Obama won every single swing state.
The NPR article states that, “In most of the battleground states, blacks and Latinos supplied the margin of victory,” and that “African-Americans showed up in astonishing numbers, matching or exceeding the record turnout in 2008.” These statements were made by John Geer, a professor at Vanderbilt University.
The article also states that Florida, Nevada, and Colorado had a huge latino population voting, and that the turnout was probably because of Obama’s support of the DREAM act. The DREAM act allows children of illegal immigrants to gain US citizenship.
The election was obviously huge news the week, not only for the United States, but the whole world. U.S. politics is watched from most countries, and the U.S. is a huge played in international affairs and has a lot of power. Therefore, whoever is leading our country is not only scrutinized by Americans, but Germans ad Australians and Syrians…
This NPR article ie definitely news. It covers a topic that doesn’t just affect one group, but the entire world. It’s current, and it covers a hot topic. Not many people foresaw Obama sweeping blue through every single one of the swing states. A few? Sure. But every single one? No, of course not! It was a huge surprise to many people.
Considering the general public saw the presidential race as neck-and-neck, Obama having one hundred more electoral college votes than Romney was also a huge surprise.
I really liked this NPR article. It was an easy article to read and portrayed the information in a way that was easy to read. The professor that they quoted several times gave great information, and I think that helped the story’s quality. The article focused more on minorities and their reactions and votes to the election more than anything- after all, their votes are a lot of the reason why Obama took the states.
To read the article, click here to go to NPR.
North Carolina was considered a swing state; it went to Romney.
Good discussion.