Siapa Yang Akan Menjadi Presiden Baru AS?

Siapa Yang Akan Menjadi Presiden Baru AS? - dr jawaban.com
TUESDAY, 04 NOVEMBER 2008

Jumlah warga Amerika Serikat yang benar-benar akan memilih diperkirakan minimal 135 juta orang dari 153,1 juta orang yang sudah mendaftar. Ini adalah jumlah tertinggi dalam Pemilu Presiden AS sejak tahun 1920 ketika wanita AS mulai boleh memilih.

Upaya gencar kubu Partai Demokrat menyemangati warga untuk memilih merupakan faktor utama di balik naiknya minat warga untuk memilih.

Pada hari-hari terakhir kampanye, di Florida, John McCain memohon kepada warga untuk memilihnya. "Gedung Putih bukan tempat bagi orang sebagai latihan, tetapi tempat bagi orang yang berpengalaman," kata McCain, menirukan ucapan Hillary Clinton saat berhadapan dengan Obama dalam pemilu pendahuluan. Ini adalah sindiran kepada Obama, yang dipersepsikan kurang berpengalaman.

Obama-McCainSementara itu, di Cincinati, Ohio, Obama mengatakan, "Jangan lengah. Kita akan mengubah sejarah. Warga penat dengan orang yang sama, yang tak punya ideologi yang pas untuk mengatasi masalah. Saya juga bisa menggugah sejumlah besar pendukung Republik, yang juga haus akan perubahan."

Dalam perkembangan terbaru, pamor Sarah Palin, yang sempat melejitkan kubu Republik, makin pudar. Berdasarkan jajak pendapat New York Times/CBS News poll, pekan lalu, 59 persen mengatakan Palin tak siap dengan pekerjaan. Warga juga yakin Obama lebih dipercaya sebagai pihak yang akan memilih orang-orang berkualitas untuk membantunya.

Perhatian media juga lebih terfokus pada kampanye Obama, yang dua kali lebih besar dari McCain. Kubu McCain tetap mengatakan permainan belum berakhir dan dia akan memenangi pemilu. David Plouffe, jubir kampanye Obama, lewat e-mail kepada Kompas juga mengatakan tidak menyangka Demokrat unggul di Georgia dan North Dakota, daerah tradisional Republik.

Obama-McCainKubu Obama pun sempat dibuat panik jika teringat sejarah Tom Bradley, seorang Afrika-Amerika yang menjadi kandidat gubernur California tahun 1982. Bradley kalah tipis dalam pertarungan meraih kursi gubernur California meskipun dia selalu unggul dalam berbagai jajak pendapat. Kekalahan Bradley sangat mengejutkan dan sejumlah pengamat menyimpulkan bahwa banyak pemilih kulit putih berbohong soal niat mereka.

Ada beberapa orang yang mengatakan "Saya bisa memilih seorang kulit hitam" di depan publik. Tetapi, saat masuk ke bilik suara, dia berubah pikiran. Muncul pertanyaan, ke mana suara pemilih mengambang itu sesungguhnya? Tidak ada yang tahu sampai hasil final pemilu 4 November itu diketahui khalayak.

Hasil dari Pemilu AS pada tanggal 4 November hari ini akan diketahui pada lusa hari mendatang. Mari kita doakan saja sebagai sesama warga dunia kiranya presiden AS yang terpilih nanti adalah yang terbaik tidak hanya bagi bangsanya tetapi juga seluruh bangsa.

Sumber : kompas.com/Tmy

Rabu, 5 November 2008 | 11:05 WIB

WASHINGTON,RABU-Calon presiden partai Demokrat Barack Obama mencetak sejarah dengan menjadi presiden kulit hitam pertama AS. Menurut hasil sementara yang dilansir CNN, Obama meraih 297 electoral vote sedangkan McCine memperoleh 139.

Electoral college terdiri atas 538 orang dari 50 negara bagian yang komposisinya sesuai jumlah perwakilan negara bagian di Kongres AS (435 anggota DPR AS/House of Representatives dan 100 anggota Senat).

Washington DC, daerah ibu kota, yang tidak memiliki perwakilan di Kongres AS, diberi 3 electoral votes, jumlah minimal yang dimiliki negara bagian terkecil. Untuk menjadi presiden AS, para kandidat harus mengumpulkan setidaknya 270 electoral vote.

Naga-naganya sih (kayaknya sih) koko Obama bakal menang nih, menurut laporan dah dkt ke 270 ECnya, wish the best aja dah

It's official!

"Change has come to America." - Barrack Obama.

Pidato euy

Remarks of President-Elect Barack Obama-as prepared for delivery Election Night
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
Chicago , Illinois




If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place

where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our

founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our

democracy, tonight is your answer.



It's the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation

has never seen; by people who waited three hours and four hours, many

for the very first time in their lives, because they believed that this

time must be different; that their voice could be that difference.



It's the answer spoken by young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and

Republican, black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American, gay,

straight, disabled and not disabled - Americans who sent a message to

the world that we have never been a collection of Red States and Blue
States: we are, and always will be, the United States of America .



It's the answer that led those who have been told for so long by so many to

be cynical, and fearful, and doubtful of what we can achieve to put

their hands on the arc of history and bend it once more toward the hope

of a better day.


It's been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this day, in this election, at this defining

moment, change has come to America .


I just received a very gracious call from Senator McCain.

He fought long and hard in this campaign, and he's fought even longer

and harder for the country he loves. He has endured sacrifices for

America that most of us cannot begin to imagine, and we are better off

for the service rendered by this brave and selfless leader. I

congratulate him and Governor Palin for all they have achieved, and I

look forward to working with them to renew this nation's promise in the

months ahead.


I want to thank my partner in this journey, a man

who campaigned from his heart and spoke for the men and women he grew

up with on the streets of Scranton and rode with on that train home to

Delaware , the Vice President-elect of the United States , Joe Biden.


I would not be standing here tonight without the unyielding support of my

best friend for the last sixteen years, the rock of our family and the

love of my life, our nation's next First Lady, Michelle Obama. Sasha
and Malia, I love you both so much, and you have earned the new puppy
that's coming with us to the White House.

And while she's no longer with us, I know my grandmother is watching,

along with the family that made me who I am. I miss them tonight, and

know that my debt to them is beyond measure.


To my campaign manager David Plouffe, my chief strategist David
Axelrod, and the best campaign team ever assembled in the history of
politics - you made this happen, and I am forever grateful for what
you've sacrificed to get it done.


But above all, I will never forget who this victory truly belongs to - it belongs to you.
I was never the likeliest candidate for this office. We didn't start with

much money or many endorsements. Our campaign was not hatched in the

halls of Washington - it began in the backyards of Des Moines and the
living rooms of Concord and the front porches of Charleston .


It was built by working men and women who dug into what little savings

they had to give five dollars and ten dollars and twenty dollars to

this cause. It grew strength from the young people who rejected the

myth of their generation's apathy; who left their homes and their

families for jobs that offered little pay and less sleep; from the

not-so-young people who braved the bitter cold and scorching heat to

knock on the doors of perfect strangers; from the millions of Americans

who volunteered, and organized, and proved that more than two centuries

later, a government of the people, by the people and for the people has

not perished from this Earth. This is your victory.


I know you didn't do this just to win an election and I know you didn't do it

for me. You did it because you understand the enormity of the task

that lies ahead. For even as we celebrate tonight, we know the

challenges that tomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetime -

two wars, a planet in peril,

the worst financial crisis in a century. Even as we stand here

tonight, we know there are brave Americans waking up in the deserts of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan

to risk their lives for us. There are mothers and fathers who will lie

awake after their children fall asleep and wonder how they'll make the

mortgage, or pay their doctor's bills, or save enough for college.

There is new energy to harness and new jobs to be created; new schools

to build and threats to meet and alliances to repair.


The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in

one year or even one term, but America - I have never been more hopeful

than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you - we as a

people will get there.


There will be setbacks and false starts. There are many who won't agree with every decision or policy I

make as President, and we know that government can't solve every

problem. But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we

face. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree. And above

all, I will ask you join in the work of remaking this nation the only

way it's been done in America for two-hundred and twenty-one years -

block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand.


What began twenty-one months ago in the depths of winter must not end on

this autumn night. This victory alone is not the change we seek - it is

only the chance for us to make that change. And that cannot happen if

we go back to the way things were. It cannot happen without you.


So let us summon a new spirit of patriotism; of service and responsibility

where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look after

not only ourselves, but each other. Let us remember that if this

financial crisis taught us anything, it's that we cannot have a

thriving Wall Street while Main Street suffers - in this country, we rise or fall as one nation; as one people.


Let us resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and

pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long.

Let us remember that it was a man from this state who first carried the

banner of the Republican Party to the White House

- a party founded on the values of self-reliance, individual liberty,

and national unity. Those are values we all share, and while the Democratic Party

has won a great victory tonight, we do so with a measure of humility

and determination to heal the divides that have held back our

progress. As Lincoln said to a nation far more divided than ours, "We

are not enemies, but friends...though passion may have strained it must

not break our bonds of affection." And to those Americans whose support

I have yet to earn - I may not have won your vote, but I hear your

voices, I need your help, and I will be your President too.


And to all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from parliaments

and palaces to those who are huddled around radios in the forgotten

corners of our world - our stories are singular, but our destiny is

shared, and a new dawn of American leadership is at hand. To those who

would tear this world down - we will defeat you. To those who seek

peace and security - we support you. And to all those who have

wondered if America 's beacon still burns as bright - tonight we proved

once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from our the

might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring

power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity, and unyielding

hope.


For that is the true genius of America - that America can change. Our union can be perfected. And what we

have already achieved gives us hope for what we can and must achieve

tomorrow.


This election had many firsts and many stories

that will be told for generations. But one that's on my mind tonight

is about a woman who cast her ballot in Atlanta . She's a lot like the

millions of others who stood in line to make their voice heard in this

election except for one thing - Ann Nixon Cooper is 106 years old.



She was born just a generation past slavery; a time when there were no cars

on the road or planes in the sky; when someone like her couldn't vote

for two reasons - because she was a woman and because of the color of

her skin.


And tonight, I think about all that she's seen

throughout her century in America - the heartache and the hope; the

struggle and the progress; the times we were told that we can't, and

the people who pressed on with that American creed: Yes we can.


At a time when women's voices were silenced and their hopes dismissed, she

lived to see them stand up and speak out and reach for the ballot. Yes

we can.


When there was despair in the dust bowl and depression across the land,
she saw a nation conquer fear itself with a New Deal, new jobs and a
new sense of common purpose. Yes we can.



When the bombs fell on our harbor and tyranny threatened the world, she was

there to witness a generation rise to greatness and a democracy was

saved. Yes we can.


She was there for the buses in Montgomery , the hoses in Birmingham , a bridge in Selma , and a preacher

from Atlanta who told a people that "We Shall Overcome." Yes we can.


A man touched down on the moon, a wall came down in Berlin , a world was

connected by our own science and imagination. And this year, in this

election, she touched her finger to a screen, and cast her vote,

because after 106 years in America , through the best of times and the

darkest of hours, she knows how America can change. Yes we can.


America , we have come so far. We have seen so much. But there is so much more

to do. So tonight, let us ask ourselves - if our children should live

to see the next century; if my daughters should be so lucky to live as

long as Ann Nixon Cooper, what change will they see? What progress

will we have made?


This is our chance to answer that call.

This is our moment. This is our time - to put our people back to work

and open doors of opportunity for our kids; to restore prosperity and

promote the cause of peace; to reclaim the American Dream

and reaffirm that fundamental truth - that out of many, we are one;

that while we breathe, we hope, and where we are met with cynicism, and

doubt, and those who tell us that we can't, we will respond with that

timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people:


Yes We Can. Thank you, God bless you, and may God Bless the United States of America .