In the early morning of 6:am Americans woke up in different cities like New York to cast to their vote for next 44th US President, although the media shows Barak Obama ahead of John McCain. Americans and the rest of the world observers are watching very closely the out come of this presidential race. As most of us can remember the election in 2000, it was clear to most Americans that Al-Gore was ahead of George Bush but after five long weeks of waiting the turn out of the election was different than most people expected. Some believed that Mr. Gore had won. But it appeared later that Mr. Bush is the winner, which was a ticket to the White House for the Republicans after eight years.
At first Al-Gore didn’t concede defeat, but after five weeks of controversy finally he accepted defeat. Shortly after the election in 2000 Former President Bill Clinton said that American people have spoken. “It is too bad it’s going to take a little while to determine what it was they had to say,” said, Bill Clinton.
According to an article published in the British newspaper The Guardian on 12th of December 2000, the writer argues the election in 2000 has violated the cores of democracy. It reads: “The final result, which came five weeks later, put the Texas governor, George Bush, in the White House. But the intervening period had been far from smooth: allegations of vote-rigging, ballot stealing and regular recourse to the law courts seemed to threaten the very basis of American democracy.”
Around the world people are watching very closely the out the come of 2008 US presidential election race, because it is one of the most important elections in the history of United States of America, not only because Barak Obama is first black presidential candidate, and it seems that he is wining the race. One of the most important elements of this election is that American is facing financial crisis, which is in the centre of the race. Further more the so called “war on terror” in Iraq and Afghanistan is also on the agenda. Whoever is the next 44th president of the US would have a very hard task ahead of him.
