America Wants a Change for President

On Election Day, November 4, 2008, Barack Obama became the President-elect of the United States of America. He annihilated his competition in Senator John McCain and his vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. According to the Chicagotribune.com, the final electoral count total was 349 electoral votes in favor of President-elect Obama to Senator McCain's 147 electoral votes. In essence, it was virtually a landslide victory for Obama. With President-elect Obama's running mate, Vice President-elect Joe Biden, they will look to address the most conspicuous issues related to the United States in 2009. One of the major issues is the war. There are still soldiers fighting a war in overseas countries like Afghanistan and Iraq.

Nevertheless, the most prominent issue to Obama and Joe Biden in the election was the economy. According to yahoo.com, the deficit in America appears to be fast approaching the one trillion dollar mark this year, and Americans can only hope that President-elect Obama can assuage those problems. Obama's promise to give the middle class a tax cut is a topic that he was stressing during his campaign. Will he really be able to give people who make under $200,000 individually and $250,000 for families a tax break? The United States is praying that President-elect Obama was the correct decision, and they seemed tired of the past eight years of disjointed politics from current President George W. Bush. Either way anyone views this election, there is one thing that has remained constant. The American people wanted a change and they certainly will receive a change.