Nick+&+Nick

=Presidential Election = = =

**Mitt Romney (Republican)**


**Background** He was born Willard Mitt Romney in 1947, at a Detroit, Michigan hospital. He went to a private school since the seventh grade. Both his parents, George and Lenore Romney, were involved in politics. He graduated from Cranbrook High School in 1965. In 1969 he married Ann Davies and now currently has 5 children and is 65 years of age. He has a bachelor's degree in English and a Master's degree in business. In 1984 he co-founded a business called Bain Capital and served as CEO, but stepped down to take a career in politics in1994, he ran for governor and lost. He then took back his position as CEO at Bain Capital. Then in 2002, he was the CEO of the organizing committee for the 2002 Winter Olympic Games. Also in 2002 he was elected governor of the state of Massachusetts, his term as governor has just ended in 2007. In 2008 his political career took off again when he went to be the Republican representative for president, but lost the nomination to John McCain. He, once again took back his CEO position at Bain Capital, and his political career went cold once again. In 2012 Mitt beat Ron Paul for the Republican nomination for president, we'll see if he, or current president, President Barrack Obama, will win the election this month.

Current Government
Mitt Romney is currently not in government, but he is a former Governor of Massachusetts.

**Mitt's Views **
Mitt will have an assessment of our military to decide what level of power is needed to secure our gains and to train Afgan soldiers to protect themselves from Taliban.. Mitt will keep the faith with the men and women who defend us and will ensure that our military capabilities are matched to the interests we need to protect. Mitt will pursue an education reform that puts the interests of parents and students ahead of special interests and provides a chance for every child Mitt will make America energy efficient and will do this in a responsible way. Mitt will issue an executive order that paves the way for the federal government to issue Obamacare waivers to all fifty states
 * Afghanistan
 * National Defense
 * Education
 * Energy
 * Healthcare

Placement on the Political Spectrum
Conservative

Base of Support
White/Caucasian voters Republican voters Christian Voters

Source of Opposition
African American voters Democratic voters

Interesting Facts

 * Current net income is $202 million
 * Mitt has been married since 1969
 * Attended Harvard University

Mitt Romney's Speech
[]

Romney's Official Website
[]

Recent Articles
[] [] []

Current Polling
[]

Chances to Win
[]

Romney Commercial
[|Mitt Romney Commercial]

Barack Obama (Democrat)
**Background**

Barack Hussein Obama II was born August 4 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii. His mother Ann is from Kansas and his father is from Kenya. They met in 1960 and 1 year later Barack was born. His parents later divorced in 1964, and his father went back to Kenya, where he remarried. After that Barack only saw his father once in 1971, when he came to visit him in Hawaii. He died in 1982 in a car accident. Obama attended schools in Tibet, on behave of his stepfather. Obama moved back to Hawaii to live with his grandparents in 1971.in 1979, after high school he moved to Los Angles and went to Occidental College. in 1981 he went back to Indonesia to visit his mother and his sister, Maya. He then transferred to Columbia University, in New York and studied Political Science. In 1983 he graduated from Bachelor or Arts. In 1988 he started going to Harvard Law School and graduated, with a //Juris Doctor// degree, it's a doctorate degree in law, also know as a J.D. degree, in 1991. After graduating he went to Chicago where he started teaching at the University of Chicago Law School and was a Lecturer from 1992-1996 and a Senior Lecturer from 1996-2004, he taught constitutional law. In 1992 he met and was engaged to Michelle, they went back to Kenya to visit family. He was also a civil rights attorney at a law firm in Chicago. in 1996 he was elected on Illinois State Senate, he was re-elected in '98 and '02 on Illinois State Senate. In 2003 he announced that he was running for US Senate. He was elected and stayed in this position from 2005 to 2008, when he ran for presidency. in the 2008 election he beat republican, John McCain. Now in 2012 he is up against republican Mitt Romney.

Barack's Views
Will withdrawal U.S. troops from Afghanistan and will withdrawal every troop by 2014. Obama wants Homeland Security money targeted more towards high-risk areas such as nuclear facilities, chemical plants, and posts. We have to out educate the world and that starts with a strong school system. “We can’t have an energy strategy for the last century that traps us in the past. We need an energy strategy for the future – an all-of-the-above strategy for the 21st century that develops every source of American-made energy.” - President Barack Obama Obama wants to end insurance company abuses. He wants to strengthen medicare and make women in control of their healthcare.
 * Afghanistan
 * National Defense
 * Education
 * Energy
 * Healthcare

Placement on the Political Spectrum
Liberal

Base of Support
African American voters Democrat voters

Source of Opposition
White/Caucasian voters Republican voters Christian Voters

Interesting Facts

 * Barack Obama is named after his father
 * The three men he admired the most were Mahatma Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Attended Harvard

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Obama's Speech
[]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Obama's Official Website
[]

Recent Articles
[] [] []

Current Polling
[]

Chances to Win
[]

Obama Commercial
[|Barrack Obama Commercial]