Presidential+wiki+2012+(Miranda+&+Theo)


 * Presidential candidates
 * Barack Obama and Mitt Romney


 * Political parties
 * Barack Obama; Democratic
 * Mitt Romney; Republican
 * Where they stand on the issues
 * Abortion
 * Obama; Supports the right for women to get abortions.
 * Romney; Deny's access to abortion, except in the case of rape, incest, or the risk of the woman's life.
 * Education
 * Obama; Rewarded states with billions of dollars that pursued in the 'Race to the top' grant competition. Freed states of the 'No child left behind law'
 * Romney; Thinks that the no child left behind law is brilliant, and that the federal government should have less control over the educational system. Federal student aid encourages tuition to go up.
 * Economy
 * Obama; Brought the unemployment rate down a lot. Businesses added jobs while the public job sector lost jobs.
 * Romney; Lower taxes, less rules by higher authority, more trade deals and a more balanced budget. Replace jobless benefits with unemployment savings accounts.
 * War
 * Obama; Ended the war in Iraq, increased the amount of troops in Afghanistan; wants to have this all ended by 2014. Plans to cut funding to the Army and Marine Corps.
 * Romney; Endorsing 2014 to end the U.S. combat in Afghanistan, subject to the conditions at the time. This would increase the strength of the armed forces, including the number of troops and warships, adding almost of $100 billion to the Pentagon budget in 2016.
 * Terrorism
 * Obama; Approved the raid that found and killed Osama Bin Laden, set a policy that the U.S. would no longer use harsh interrogation techniques, a practice that ended later in George W. Bush's presidency.
 * Romney; No constitutional rights for foreign terrorist suspects. Is said that he does not consider water boarding to be torture, so it is not ruled out for interrogation.
 * Political spectrum
 * Obama; Liberal
 * Romney; Conservative
 * Quotes from recent debates etc.
 * Obama;“You mentioned the navy, for example, and that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well, governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets, because the nature of our military's changed. We have these things called aircraft carriers, where planes land on them. We have these ships that go underwater, nuclear submarines.” –Barack Obama
 * Romney; “Mr. President, you’re entitled to your own airplane, your own house, but not your own facts,”- Mitt Romney
 * Interesting facts about the candidates
 * Obama
 * Dreams from My Father, Obama's first book, won a Grammy for Best Spoken Word Album in 2006
 *  He worked in a Baskin-Robbins ice cream shop as a teenager and now can't stand ice cream
 * He owns a set of red boxing gloves autographed by Muhammad Ali
 * Romney;
 * In 2010 Romney had gotten into a physical and verbal argument with LMFAO rapper Sky Blu on a plane returning from the Winter Olympics, Canadian authorities boarded the flight and removed the rapper from the plane.
 * In 1984, serving as the bishop of a Mormon church in the Boston area, Romney's church had mysteriously burned down, many think it was the result of arson.
 * From 2003 to 2007, Mitt Romney took no salary, as well as Lt. Governor Kerry Healey.
 * Brief Biographies
 * Obama; Born on August 4th, 1961, in Honolulu Hawaii; Barack Obama is the 44th president of the United States. He was a civil rights lawyer and teacher before pursuing a political career. He was elected in the Illinois state senate in 1996, serving from 1997 to 2004. Later, he was elected into U.S. presidency in 2008.
 * Romney; Born as Willard Mitt Romney on March 12, 1947 in Detroit Michigan. He is the son of former Michigan Governor, George Romney. Running for Governor in 1994 he got beat out by Ted Kennedy. Afterwards, he took over Salt Lake Organizing Committee and helmed a successful 2002, and then proceeded to run for Governor again, then succeeding in 2003. Later in 2008 he made a run for the election, but lost against John McCain. In 2011, he announced his bid for the 2012 election, and by May 2012 he had become the Republican party's presumptive nominee.


 * Political Poll election map


 * Links to articles
 * http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/leslie-marshall/2012/10/31/hurricane-sandy-seals-the-election-for-obama
 * http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/robert-schlesinger/2012/10/31/why-obama-will-beat-romney-state-polls-and-the-electoral-college
 * http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2012/10/30/romney-quoted-by-the-media-50-percent-more-than-obama-this-election