Gooey Goodness: The Melting Pot of an American Presidential Election.
Gooey Goodness: The Melting Pot of an American Presidential Election.
The 58th quadrennial United States presidential election will be held on Tuesday November 8th, 2016. Since the incumbent president, Barack Obama, is ineligible to be elected because of term limits imposed in the Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, we will elect a new president. The winning presidential candidate will become the 45th President of the United States, taking office on January 20, 2017.
So lets take a look at the top presidential candidates for the democrat and the republican parties. One thing is for sure; this is no longer the good-ole-boys club full of aging white men. Rather, the 45th President of the United States will be a fair representation of the melting pot ideation known as America. The chart below gives us glimpse of what we can expect:
Candidate
Gender
Heritage
Born/Father/Mother
Religious belief
Delegates won
Vs. needed
Female
Male
Male
Male
Male
The platform each candidate chooses is deeply rooted in their political backgrounds and their personal beliefs.
We at plugged-in want you to be an informed reader so we have a link to show you where your favorite candidate is at any time in the election race: 2016 U.S. Presidential Election.
For the first time in history we have a true “melting pot” of candidates. Homogenization of American values is alive and appears to be thriving. The candidates include:
· A female.
· Two with Cuban ties.
· A billionaire businessman.
· An Agnostic
So the obvious question to be asked, “is this a fair representation of the American people?” We think it may be. Not because we have such diversity, differences or divergence. Rather, because it is what the American people have moved forward as candidates. Arguably there are a number of top candidates that have formal legal or political education. In fact most of the recent Presidents have been lawyers, but that doesn’t mean that they are no less qualified.
The one grievance we can move forward with legitimacy is that today you need to spend a lot of money to become President of the United States. Barack Obama spent more than $730 million getting into the White House in 2008. That is more than twice as much George W. Bush spent four year earlier. It is also 260 times more than what Abraham Lincoln spent in his first election (adjusted for todays dollars). At least this means that we can expect the economy to get a boost every quadrennial.
Submitted by team Plugged-In.
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