Argumentative Essay: The 2012 Presidential Election

I chose to use the 2012 Presidential General Election, because I remember this election the most detailed. The candidates running for the democratic side were Barack Obama for president and Joe Biden for vice president. Running for the republican side were Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan. The presidential candidates for the libertarian party were Gary Johnson and his vice presidential candidate James Gary. The overall winner(s) of the 2012 Presidential election was/were President Barak Obama and Vice President Joe Biden. Throughout the midwest the votes were predominantly for Mitt Romney; subsequently, the east and west coast were all in favor of Barak. Obama had won the electoral votes for all of the swing states besides North Carolina, in which Mitt won by a 2% margin. In Kansas there were only two counties whom votes were in favor of Obama, the rest of the state was in support of Romney; however, Kansas’s electoral vote is only worth 6 points. The Electoral College gave Obama a much larger lead (61.7%) rather than the actual popular vote (51.01%) would have. Through this election I learned how important the swing states are when candidate’s campaign, and the need for their electorate vote to win the election.
The results from the 1996 election was very similar to the
However, almost all of the central, midwest and southeast states voted for Bob Dole. Missouri’s electorate votes went toward Clinton, by which he won with a 6% advantage. In Missouri the north and most of the east portion’s majority voted for Clinton, this victory gained 11 electorate votes for Bill. Looking through the Electoral College’s determination the democratic candidates won by over 40%; however, through the popular vote Clinton and Gore only won by approximately 9%. In the 1996 election it showed how enormous of a difference the votes can be, when comparing the popular vote to the electoral