I would like to say congratulations to our new leader, President Obama. I am definitely happy to see all the hope his election has brought to the people. Although I'm sure there will be policies I disagree with during his presidency, he has my utmost respect as president, and I'm proud to live in a country where someone can come from a struggling single mother on food stamps to become arguably the most influential man in the world. As his sister Maya says in this video, Barack comes from a truly American family. Something I appreciate about him is that his life has been strongly influenced by globalization, and we lack those kinds of politicians in Washington.
I'm also glad to see that the young people had record turnout this year! From what I hear from the Rock the Vote campaign, 24 million young people turned out to vote, more young voters than we've ever had in American history.
Also, the third-party got good turnout as well. From what I've read, Nader got about 677,000 votes. I couldn't find the exact numbers on Ron Paul, but he did well in Montana. Ron Paul got 2.2% of the vote in Montana, which is quite strong considering that McCain won there by 49% versus Obama with 47.2%.
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i'm glad to read your view on this matter as you are a u. s. citizen, here in spain my perception was that it was almost impossible that any spaniard supported mccain, of course that must be different when you live and know u. s. a. from inside
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