Barack Obama Re-Elected

     On Nov. 6, President Barack Obama won the new election for presidency and will be returning to the White House to serve his second term, Jan. 21, 2013. Out of the rounded 74,000 overall votes, the ending percentages were Barack ending at 50 percent while Mitt only at 49percent.

“Obama was victorious in eight out of the nine critical swing states, losing only North Carolina,” according to the Associated Press. The critical swing states included Florida, Ohio, Iowa, New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Virginia, Colorado, and Nevada.

With the president being reelected, questions regarding a second inauguration have surfaced. There will, in fact, be a second inauguration where the president and vice president Joe Biden will be sworn in.  The inauguration will be very similar to the one that took place in January of 2009, with thousands of people gathering to witness the powerful swearing in and historical speeches being told.

The last inauguration of the first black president of America, Obama, was the largest event ever held in Washington D.C, housing up to 1.8 million people.     In the president’s victory speech, from the full transcript text on The Christian Post, he stated, “America, I believe we can build on the progress we’ve made and continue to fight for new jobs and new opportunity and new security for the middle class. I believe we can keep the promise of our founders, the idea that if you’re willing to work hard, it doesn’t matter who you are or where you come from or what you look like or where you love. It doesn’t matter whether you’re black or white or Hispanic or Asian or Native American or young or old or rich or poor, able, disabled, gay or straight, you can make it here in America if you’re willing to try.  I believe we can seize this future together because we are not as divided as our politics suggests. We’re not as cynical as the pundits believe. We are greater than the sum of our individual ambitions, and we remain more than a collection of red states and blue states. We are and forever will be the United States of America.”