In the past two weeks, this country has been turned upside down.
We have finally named our next president of the United States and depending on how people voted on an individual basis, people are either really happy right now or really pissed.
Politics will continue to dominate news feeds on Facebook and Twitter, just as much during the count down to the election.
This time even more heated. So if you don’t like hearing things you disagree, with my advice is delete all opposing friends.
I’m kidding.
We have been so consumed by this race.
Both extremes saying whatever it will take to win the most number of votes.
Congratulations, President Obama. You were just believable enough to win this election.
As Americans, we have four more years of this and how does it make you feel?
My plea is that people will take this opportunity to realize how much of a joke this election season was.
Please open your eyes and see politicians are trained and groomed to say whatever their party or platform believes to convince you, and me, and that it is the best choice for Americans.
The reality both candidates were millionaires and wanted to sit there and tell voters they see their struggle.
No thanks. The President, the governor, any of congress.
All exempt from ObamaCare, yet sitting there handing down rulings on bills that none of them will ever in their life have to use themselves.
All while making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to decide how I am supposed to survive? Again, no thanks.
The damage is done. This election was never about what is best for the American people, lets get real. This system is a joke.
This election has been a pissing contest from the beginning.
And don’t think because your candidate won that anything will actually get done the way you expect.
The House of Representatives and Senate will stop any progression.
I personally think both President Obama and Mitt Romney had some good ideas.
That’s right ideas, but in actuality they are trash.
People have been so blinded by their own ignorance this election.
I have never seen this country so divided in my lifetime.
I have never seen nor heard of anything with so much division since the country was split up according to ethnicity.
Hating someone because they have a different idea or belief than someone else.
You are either a Republican or a Democrat, when did we stop being Americans first?
And what is sad about this lumped party system is most people don’t even believe whole-heartedly in one party or the other, they vote for the lesser of two evils.
Everyone knows an independent would never get the votes anyway.
I for one am so grateful this rat race is over but I know this is just beginning.
I can hear it now, “I’m moving to Canada,” blah blah blah we get it, you are displeased with the results.
They keep preaching democracy but are we really a democracy at all?
The election was so close this year, and if you remember back to the 2000 election, Bush verse Gore the same thrill, fear, anger and excitement are all emotions Americans are feeling right now.
And the continuous battle of votes, popular verse Electoral College.
I am over the way things are done and the way we pick our presidents.
I’d prefer my vote count without hoping the electoral college representative thinks I want to vote.
Lets not forget about Hurricane Sandy and all those who were affected and displaced as a result of the terrible storm.
Our campus floods from the smallest storm, can you imagine if anything like that ripped through our town today? The Eastern Seaboard was torn to pieces.
Yes, candidates took a moment to recognize it, but it sure didn’t keep them from making sure their swing voting states were still priority one.
Neither person did.
I have come to expect nothing less from our political leaders.
Even though this election is over and we have re-elected Obama as our president, your voices as Americans are still important.
Four years isn’t much in the scheme of a lifetime so next election season we aren’t asking who is going to screw things up less or who do I hate less but who can really do a great job for this country and the people in it.