Tuesday, November 2, 2010

U.S. election and the future of Obama

As a matter of convention election for house of representative takes place on every two year on first Tuesday after November 1, so this year all the seats of house of representative 435 are going for poll today, as of now democrats have 255 members in house of representative that is more like our lok sabha and 59 out of 100 in senate more like rajya sabha of ours.37 seats of senate is going for poll, until now democrats had majority in both the houses leading to practical shaping of Obama's policies, in a way the best case scenario for Obama administration to pass the bill without much resistance. but alas, henceforth by all the prediction this golden period is almost over. this prediction is based on two grounds, first it has been a matter of fact barring certain exceptions that in last few year generally, incumbent government has lost mid term elections mainly because president is not contesting so incumbent party members feel less enthusiastic and two year is enough time to judge the performance of govt.

secondly, in a recent survey  by the economists it was found that more people of america disapprove the policy responses of major crisis ranging from Afghanistan, health care to financial crisis by Obama administration  than those who approve.
the high promises that were made by president Obama at the time of presidential election were less than met and if he sites the political reason behind not taking those tough decisions than political atmosphere is going to be even more tougher if he looses the majority in house of representative.
if people judge leaders on the basis of their deliverables than future of Obama in next presidential election seems to be very bleak.
I may give a fitting quote here that goes like' apart from difference in skill and everything else, the real difference between great leader and mediocre one that the follower have very high expectation from great one and very low from the mediocre one, so if both perform average than mediocre will be held high while great one will be ridiculed'. now the irony is that people think Obama is a great leader.

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