Presidential contest tight on the eve of the second debate

By Diego Carmona Vera

My article is about the Washington Post notice: “Presidential contest tight nationally ahead of second debate” available at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/decision2012/presidential-contest-tight-nationally-ahead-of-second-debate/2012/10/14/fe5fd9a4-1633-11e2-8792-cf5305eddf60_story.html , this notice was published on October the 15th; the notice is about the close contest between Romney and Obama for the presidential chair of the United States of America on the eve of the second presidential debate. 

 

This notice is very interesting because it analyzes the route that this contest has taken and the one that it could take; Romney as a winner of the first presidential debate did not changed the percentage of the numbers in the polls, but he won more followers in the aspect of sympathy, after the first debate the followers of Romney are more enthusiastic and the number of voters that do not know for who will be their vote has incremented.

It was believed that the topic of economy would change the voters tendencies because of the work that Obama has been doing in the topic of economy, but the numbers of the polls in the sympathy of Obama in his economy work has remained as it is explained in the article, nay, 48% of the people trust in the work of Obama for economy as 44% give their trust to Romney.

Another fact that it is important because it has led to this path is that the Obama’s campaign has contacted personally more people than the Romney’s campaign; this personal contact gives more confidence to the voters being that they feel that they are heard and that the candidate will give solutions and changes to the issues of the country.

As it is explained in the article the numbers in the polls can change after the second debate, Obama has to do an excellent job for a recovering of the loss of the first debate, Romney has to take care of his words in the next debate and to maintain that attitude that has given results and that has kept him in the contest after some people gave him up for lost. 

 

This election is different in the terms that in the last election by this time Obama had an advantage of 10 percentage points now he has only an advantage of 3 percentage points, the above fact makes this competence remain locked in a virtual dead heat; It is needed for Obama and the Democrats to win this debate or at less to be more competitive to maintain the polls and the people by his side, another big win from Romney and the Republicans could signify a complication for Obama for the next debate or even the loss of the presidential chair for Obama and the Democrats; from my point of view, the competition has reached the point in which the debate or any error can define the political destiny of the United States.