The US presidential election is being followed by people cutting across the nations around the world. Though, earlier too it used to attract the attention of international media, the scale is quite different now. The sub prime crisis and the events that followed leading to crash of financial institutions, banks, stock markets and economies around of the world made everyone know how important United States is to the world. Every one woke up to the fact their economic health and that of their country is dependent on the well being of the world’s largest democracy. A poll conducted by Readers Digest, a leading general magazine reveals that more than eighty percent of the people polled across the world are following the elections in the United States. They feel these elections are important and would affect their lives. Economist, another leading business magazine conducted an online poll in order to find out who would be winning in-case the entire world is voting. Barack Obama is having a land slide cutting across the countries winning 8842 votes compared to 31 for Mc Cain.
Who ever they vote, American voters are going to create history this November fourth by electing either the first African-American president or the first female vice-president. Going by the opinion polls and seeing the wave of opinions Democrat Obama should win enough votes to become the forty fourth president of United States of America. Though few months back polls were not so much in favor of Obama, the global financial crisis made the Americans think about the domestic issues and focus shifted from International policies. Given the performance of the current Bush administration, this in turn became the biggest issue for Republicans and to turn the attention of the voters they started to attack Obama on the alleged connections with terrorist Bill Ayers and his race.
What are the factors that are working in favor of Obama?, the way he came up in life aka the great American dream, his age and maturity he shows compared to Mc Cain. The first factor made him the darling of the masses not only in America but also in the developing world.
Polls suggest that India is also in favor of Obama. He has given enough signals in his recent interview to Outlook that his government’s policy would be giving sufficient importance to India as a growing economy and future super power. The Indian IT and services industry is jittery about how the policy of the government that is to be formed would be? Though he had not given enough information regarding this, he announced that there won’t be any tax rebates available from the government for the companies that have outsourced part of the process to overseas. He also added that he is not going to close the walls of America to globalization and thereby reduce the competitiveness of the country. It is the responsibility of the country to be ready to face the onslaught of global competition and his government is going to work to improve the skills of the future generations to compete on a global level.
Who ever they vote, American voters are going to create history this November fourth by electing either the first African-American president or the first female vice-president. Going by the opinion polls and seeing the wave of opinions Democrat Obama should win enough votes to become the forty fourth president of United States of America. Though few months back polls were not so much in favor of Obama, the global financial crisis made the Americans think about the domestic issues and focus shifted from International policies. Given the performance of the current Bush administration, this in turn became the biggest issue for Republicans and to turn the attention of the voters they started to attack Obama on the alleged connections with terrorist Bill Ayers and his race.
What are the factors that are working in favor of Obama?, the way he came up in life aka the great American dream, his age and maturity he shows compared to Mc Cain. The first factor made him the darling of the masses not only in America but also in the developing world.
Polls suggest that India is also in favor of Obama. He has given enough signals in his recent interview to Outlook that his government’s policy would be giving sufficient importance to India as a growing economy and future super power. The Indian IT and services industry is jittery about how the policy of the government that is to be formed would be? Though he had not given enough information regarding this, he announced that there won’t be any tax rebates available from the government for the companies that have outsourced part of the process to overseas. He also added that he is not going to close the walls of America to globalization and thereby reduce the competitiveness of the country. It is the responsibility of the country to be ready to face the onslaught of global competition and his government is going to work to improve the skills of the future generations to compete on a global level.
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