“The campaign is over. The Democrats are ready to lead the country,” these are the words of Nancy Pelosi elected from California, who the Democrats call the new speaker for the House of Representatives. She is the first female speaker in the history of the House of Representatives. Let’s not forget to mention the fact that Nancy Pelosi is one of the activists who supports the Armenian committee.
So, the Democrats won in these elections. They form a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives, but not in the Senate. Currently, there are 227 Democrats and 195 Republicans in the House of Representatives. The sides are equal in the Senate: 49-49. Currently, the choice of the two state polls is uncertain. It appears that the Democrats win in both sides, but there is not much difference and now they are recounting the votes.
One thing is for sure: America faces dramatic and radical changes and nobody knows what will happen. “Change towards a new course,” this is the slogan of the Democrats. They promise to change the situation of the Iraq war-each state spends 8 billion dollars every month-decrease tuition for colleges, better yet help college education be accessible for a wide range of society, form the recommendations of the congress committee on September 11, liberate the drug market and improve conditions for pensioners.
This was the most centralized election campaign since the 1960s. The Democrats and Republicans consider each other as enemies. Before the elections, Bush had said: “If the Democrats win, then that means that the terrorists have won”. Bush is disappointed. He had promised to give a response to the outcome of the elections. In fact, this was the same thing that happened back in 1958, when after the elections, then president Eisenhower said that he has to defend the country from Liberals for the sake of conservative and traditional values. We’ll see what Bush’s response is going to be. America witnessed the dirtiest electoral campaign, when the Democrats were throwing down the reputation of the Republicans and vice versa. This was done via television, the Internet, everywhere. Almost every week there was some kind of sexual scandal; every week the presses were revealing the past and even current dirty, sexual scandals of this or that political activist, including their sexual abuses against adolescents and the use of drugs, or both at the same time. Both parties were even deciding what kind of anti-figure to represent to win. If the Republican candidate is female, then the Democrats’ candidate was a veteran; if the Republicans’ candidate was handicapped, then the Democrats’ candidate was African American.
The number of female candidates was unprecedented. They represented themselves as the alternative to male candidates and against the war. For the first time, sociologists used the clever method of getting acquainted with potential voters. So, if you’re a democrat, then you most probably drive a SAAB, you drink Sprite, read Nusik; if you’re a Republican, then you drive an AUDI, drink Dr. Pepper and read the New York Post. This was being done with the purpose of determining the number of those in favor and how intense the elections are.
Online elections didn’t go as planned in some states. There were lines in Denver since morning; the machines didn’t work in Cleveland and Tennessee. In many states, people were forced to fill out the ballot by hand and vote. The calculation of votes was late. The unprepared electoral commission members also had something to do with the failure of online voting; they were sometimes working slowly. There are 1.2 million people workin in the electoral committees; most of them are volunteers, while the average age of the rest of them is 72.
According to analysts, U.S. politics promises to be heated-up. The dialogue between the legislative and executive branches of government is going to heat things up even more because the American political system is composed based on the principle of fighting and competing. According to analysts, it’s rare to see the Democrats raise Bush’s impeachment issue, of course, if the White House doesn’t put a veto on all the laws and resolutions.
Indeed, all the Democrats expect to see a “additional work” done by the new president of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi and a way of making the roles meet. Pelosi is a liberal socialist, while one-third of the Democrats are conservative and even if there is no balanced politics among the Democrats, then their majority will simply be nominal.
Republican Senator John Mackey noticed that the elections proved that the Republicans have committed errors and they need to review their policies, especially everything that has to do with the Iraqi issue.
The dual government and the almost equivalent presence of the two parties in the Senate goes to show that American society is split into two sides. You have a majority of Democrats, but there’s no absolute majority, which means that both parties are going to be more careful from now on. The biggest battle for Washington is still ahead. The U.S. presidential elections are coming up in 2008 and politicians are already hinting about the need to make the roles of the candidates of both sides meet and make sure that the given candidate is able to unite the nation and lead the country. Until then, we can say that the American government is split into two-the Reds (Republicans) and the Blue (Democrats).
P.S. Journalists are already talking about the presidential candidates of both parties. The probable candidate from the Democrats’ side is Hillary Clinton, who won based on an absolute majority during these elections. After finding out the results, Hillary went to New York to be with her husband, former U.S. President Bill Clinton, who was crying with joy. For the time being, the only Republican presidential candidate being talked about is former mayor of New York Rudol Juliani.