Voters in the United States will on
Tuesday (today) decide who would rule the most powerful country in the
world for the next four years.
Incumbent President Barack Obama, a
Democrat, and his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, made a dash to a
series of crucial swing states on Monday, delivering their final
arguments to voters on the last day of an extraordinarily close race for
the White House.
In the build up to the election, both
candidates had attended hundreds of rallies, town hall events and
fundraisers. They also squared-off in three nationally televised debates
which were memorable but did not turn out to be decisive.
In the race, the two contenders and
their party allies raised a combined $2bn and analysts posit that the
2012 election campaign is the most expensive in US history.
Obama, the 44th US President is the
first black man to rule the country. After a close race in the 2008
Democratic Party presidential primaries against Hillary Clinton, he won
his party’s nomination.
In the 2008 presidential election, he
defeated Republican nominee, John McCain, and was inaugurated as
president on January 20, 2009.
But polls show that Obama who is seeking
a second term and the Republican candidate, Romney remain locked in a
virtual dead heat.
Meanwhile, Romney will become the first Mormon president of the US if he wins the election.
In the 2008 presidential election it was
estimated that about 130 million people voted. Close to thirty million
Americans have already cast their ballot through early voting across 34
states.
Obama, Romney, Vice-President Joe Biden
and Republican vice-presidential hopeful Paul Ryan were scattered across
the country Monday, cramming in 11th-hour visits to battleground
states.
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