The Midterm Election of the United States

Keita Igarashi(1F110062-1)

Today’s Outline

1 Two Major Parties in the USA

2 What is the Midterm Election like ?

3 The Midterm Election in this November

4 Obama’s next two years

1. Two Major Parties in the USA

There are Two Major Parties in the USA.

I am going to talk about these two before talking about the Midterm Election.

Democratic Party

Photo by Wikipedia

・President Obama is now belonging to this party.

・It emphasizes equality, diversity, freedom.

Republican Party

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・Opposite one of democratic party

・It emphasizes tradition, family system.

So, then… let’s summarize differences between these two in a table.

Differences between two parties

Democratic Party Republican Party

Their Policy Liberal Conservative, Traditional

Ideal Market Government should intervene Market should be free

Ideal government Style

Big Government Small government

2 What is the Midterm Election like ?

・It takes place once in two years.(half of

President’s terms of Office)

・It often takes place with other election.

・It takes place on a day after the first Monday of

November.

President The Senate The House of Representative

2008 Election(Obama won!) 1/3 reelected All reelected

2010 1/3 reelected All reelected

2012 Election(Obama won!) 1/3 reelected All reelected

2014 1/3 reelected All reelected

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3 The Midterm Election in this November

Before the Midterm Election…

・It was said that it was difficult for democratic party to win this election.

・These days Obama’s bill was rejected at the House

of Representatives by Republican Party.

Graph by Huffington Post

Approval Rate has been declining…

The result of the Midterm Election

・Obama was beaten by Republican Party.

・This is because though he said “Yes, we can !” in 2008,

he couldn’t as much as people expected.

Photo By Huffington Post

4 Obama’s next two years

As Republican party occupies over half of the Senate and the House of Representatives, Obama can’t pass his bill by himself.

He will need to cooperate with Republican Party in the rest of his terms of office.

Photo By Huffington Post

This is the End. Thanks for Listening!