Who’s To Blame?
Gianna Harris
Dr. E. Brown
November 17, 2010
Blame Game 2
Many people are saying that: Obama and the democrats lost the election, because
the president did not adequately deal with the economic problems and loss of jobs. I
believe that this quote is not true. I believe that what the President Obama’s
downfall where not the reasons why people did not come out to vote. According to
the Washington Post, “He [President Obama] conceded that his relationship with the
American people "has gotten rockier and tougher" over the last two years during
difficult times following an "incredible high" at the time of his election.” However
Obama has to first fix the problems that President Bush had then he can go on to do
what he has planned to do for the American people. Many Americans do understand
that it will not take a day or even two years for him to fix what all the problems.
With that said, I believe that the democrats lost big in the mid-term elections
because the same voters for President Obama, and it were not enough promotion.
Many of the democrats running had in their minds that they could easily win
if they had the same turn-out that President Obama had. President Obama had a
great turn-out with African-American voters and young voters. During the mid-
term election many African-Americans or young people did not vote. Many
democrats were counting on both groups, although they lacked with their
promotion of the elections. E.J. Dionne Junior says, “What hurt them most was this
brute fact: Voters younger than 30 made up 18 percent of the electorate in 2008 but
only about half that on Tuesday, according to network exit polls (2010).” This quote
shows that people under 30 had an impact on the polls of November 2 nd elections.
Blame Game 3
Many Americans especially those who do not read the paper or look at the
news, did not know about the mid-term elections. I believe that candidates should
have visited more urban areas and college/university’s campuses to get people
aware of the mid-term elections. “Without question, President Obama has the right
vision and the best plan to move America forward but the Democratic National
Committee must do better in helping him get his message out to the people,
particularly Black people, to ensure that we are inspired to vote,” says the
Huffington Post. If the candidates would of did better promotion, possibly the turn-
out for more democrats would have been better. Even the President himself did not
go on tours until the week or two before the mid-term elections.
Obama and the democrats lost the election because the president did not
adequately deal with the economic problems and loss of jobs; I believe this is a false
statement. I would not blame the President, but the lack of promotion and the lack
of the same voters had to do with why the democrats did not win big in the mid-
term elections.
Blame Game 4
Work Cited
Bakewell, D. (2010, November 16). DNC Abandons Black Voters and Loses the House: Too
Little, Too Late. The Huffington Post. Retrieved November 17, 2010, from
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/danny-bakewell/dnc- abandons-black-
voters_b_784475.html
Balz, D., & Branigin, W. (2010, November 3). After midterm wins, GOP vows to block
Obama's agenda. The Washington Post. Retrieved November 17, 2010, from
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/article/2010/11/02/AR2
010110207506.html
Dionne, E. (2010, November 3). And Now for the Next Battle. The Washington Post.
Retrieved November 26, 2010, from http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-
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