Obama+v.s+Romney

__Names of the Candidates__

__**Mitt Romney**__ __**Barack Obama**__

__Political Parties__
 * Romney- Republican**
 * Obama**- **Democratic**


 * __Home States__**
 * Romney- Detroit, Michigan**
 * Obama- Honolulu, Hawaii**


 * __Current governmental and other position activities__**


 * Obama- Current U.S President**
 * Romney- Governor of Massachusetts**


 * __//Biography//__**

__**Obama-**__
 * Barack Obama was raised by a white mother and a black father, who were both young college students at the University of Hawaii. Barack's mother remarried an Indonesian oil manager and moved to Jakarta when Barack was six. He returned to Hawaii, where he was brought up largely by his grandparents. The family lived in a small apartment**


 * Obama attended Columbia University. He became a community organizer for a small Chicago church-based group for three years. He then attended Harvard Law School, and in 1990 became the first African-American editor of the Harvard Law Review. He turned down a prestigious judicial clerkship, choosing instead to practice civil-rights law back in Chicago, representing victims of housing and employment discrimination and working on voting-rights legislation. He also began teaching at the University of Chicago Law School, and married Michelle Robinson, a fellow attorney. Eventually he was elected to the Illinois state senate, where his district included both Hyde Park and some of the poorest ghettos on the South Side.**


 * In 2004 Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate as a Democrat, representing Illinois, and he gained national attention by giving a rousing and well-received keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention in Boston. In 2008 he ran for President, and despite having only four years of national political experience, he won. In January 2009, he was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States, and the first African-American ever elected to that position.**


 * //__Romney-__//**


 * Mitt was born in Detroit on March 12, 1947. His mother, Lenore, gave up an acting career when she met and married his father, George. Mitt's father came from humble origins and never graduated from college. He apprenticed as a lath and plaster carpenter and sold aluminum paint before beginning a career that brought him to the head of American Motors and then the governorship of Michigan.**


 * Mitt married his wife, Ann, in 1969. They first met in elementary school when he was a Cub Scout; he remembers tossing pebbles at her when she rode by on a horse. When they met again years later at a friend's house. Between them, they have five sons and eighteen grandchildren, who are the center of their lives.**

__**5 Key Issues**__


 * ​Obama-**
 * **Health Care: Obama believes that quality, affordable health insurance you can rely on is a key part of middle- class security.By putting a stop to insurance company abuses, Obama Care is giving millions of people peace of mind.**


 * **Education: By spurring states to raise classroom standards and reforming student loans, President Obama has put an affordable, high quality education within reach for millions more students and their families.**


 * **Economy: Obama is fighting to grow the economy from the middle class out, not the top down. This election presents a choice between two fundamentally different visions of how to grow our economy and create good middle class jobs.**


 * **Energy: We are less reliant on foreign oil than at any time in the last 20 years, and President Obama has a plan to further cut oil imports in half by 2020. By developing all of our resources, we can create jobs and make America more energy independent.**


 * **Environment: President Obama has made record investments in clean energy, and refuses to let polluters play by a different set of rules than everyone else. He's implementing new standards to keep our air and water clean and our children safe.**


 * Romney-**
 * === **Jobs and Economic Growth: Mitt Romney would rebuild the foundations of the American economy on the principles of free enterprise, hard work, and innovation. He would like to reduce taxes, spending, regulation, and government programs. He seeks to increase trade, energy production, human capital, and labor flexibility.** ===


 * ====** Foreign Policy: Mitt Romney would protect America and secure our country's interests and most cherished ideals. A Romney foreign policy will proceed with clarity and resolve. Our friends and allies will not have doubts about where we stand and what we will do to protect our interests and theirs. Neither will our rivals, competitors, and adversaries. Mitt Romney believes in fulfilling the promise of Lincoln's words and will defend America abroad in word and in deed. **====


 * ====** Taxes: Mitt Romney would like to reduce and stabilize federal spending, but that will require fixing the nation's tax code to focus on jobs and growth. To repair the nation's tax code, marginal rates must be brought down to stimulate entrepreneurship, job creation, and investment, while still raising the revenue needed to fund a smaller, smarter, simpler government. **====


 * ====** Health Care: Mitt Romney would like to issue and executive order that paves the way for federal government to issue Obamacare waivers to all fifty states. He will then work with Congress to repeal the full legislation as quickly as possible. Romney will pursue policies that give each state the power to craft a health care reform plan that is best for its own citizens. **====


 * ====** Education: Mitt Romney would like to pursue genuine education reform that puts the interests of parents and students ahead of special interests and provides a chance for every child. He would like to take the unprecedented step of tying federal funds directly to dramatic reforms that expand parental choice, invest in innovation, and reward teachers for their results instead of their ownership. **====

__**Philosophy of Government**__


 * __//Obama-//__**

**Barack Obama is open to new behavior or opinions and willing to discard traditional values. That put him more to the right at the Liberal stage.**

 * __//Romney-//__**

**"My job is not to worry about those people," Romney said.**
===**Romney: “I have clear eyes on this. I’m not going to wear rose-colored glasses when it comes to Russia or Mr. Putin and I’m certainly not going to say to him, ‘I’ll give you more flexibility after the election.’ After the election, he’ll get more backbone.” [|http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1012/82726.html#ixzz2B4N] **===

===**Obama: “Gov. Romney, I’m glad that you recognize that Al Qaeda is a threat because a few months ago when you asked what’s the biggest geopolitical threat facing America, you said Russia – not Al Qaeda – you said Russia. The 1980s are now calling and asking for their foreign policy back.”**===



**When it comes to our foreign policy, you seem to want to import the foreign policies of the 1980s, just like the social policies of the 1950s and the economic policies of the 1920s."**
===**"What we need to do with respect to the Middle East is strong and steady leadership, not wrong and reckless leadership that is all over the map, and unfortunately that's the kind of opinions that you've offered throughout the campaign and it is not a recipe for American strength."**===

**http://videoshare.politico.com/singletitlevideo_chromeless.php?bcpid=309045726001&bckey=AQ,AAAAAETmrZQ~,EVFEM4AKJdT-Wv9cQWadwt8FUbtX2ID_&bctid=1918411681001**

 * Romney-**
 * http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/11/01/romney_speech_rocks_roanoke**

__**Official Websites**__
 * Romney-**
 * www.mittromney.com**


 * Obama-**
 * www.barackobama.com**

Three Facts

Romney-