USA may create history by electing the first female President

USA may create history by electing the first female President

 

The democratic candidate Hillary Clinton may be the first lady President of the USA. The much publicized debate in the week before last  in Las Vegas, which was telecasted gave an impression of her success to fight for the next Presidential election.  In the debate, she had shown her brilliance and touched a wide range of issues with her volubility. Not only she had expressed her views with authority, but also shown her guts and intellect to rule the most prosperous democratic country of the world. In fact, the Americans appreciated her political acumen duly supplemented by her long experience in government.  She was the only woman on the stage in the debate who  expressed her ambitious posture of her confidence many times. From her positive vibe, it was amply clear that she is the right democratic candidate to rule the USA. Against the questions of the recent controversy related to her personal emails, she responded very well.  She also deliberated on various issues of policies at the time when she was the secretary of State in Obama’s government.  

 

The performance of her opponents was mostly lackluster, which includes the socialist senator Bernie Sanders.  Though her success in the debate in Las Vegas was colorful, she may not get a very comfortable ride in the next lined up debates.  Clinton obviously will get an edge in her further election campaigns after this debate, but the race is not yet over.  She may get competition from Vice President Joe Biden.  Further, her skyrocketed popularity as shown in the poll numbers earlier has softened in recent weeks.  This is mainly because of the controversy related to the mails leaked out in the media.

As per the  poll news by Reuters, the percentage of her popularity from the democratic supporters decreases from 57% to 41%.  The news agency poll, which was taken in between 4^th to 9^th October, 15, indicated this fall out. During the same period,  the support of Sanders and Biden went up to 28% and 20% respectively. Needless to say that Hillary Clinton has to face  a stiff competition. Very recently, Hillary decided to come out against one of the central foreign policy achievements of Obama government that is the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP). Clinton’s views and her stance on TPP  is opposed by various Democratic constituencies, namely organized labor and environmental lobby groups. As per them, she is taking completely a U-turn, because in the year 2012 when she the  secretary of State in Obama’s government described this same TPP as the “gold standard in trade agreements to open, free, transparent, free trade.”

                                                                                                            

Sander has vehemently attacked her views on many of her foreign policies describing the same as gibberish.  Despite Sander’s accusation of Hillary’s policies, his chance to win the nomination for the Presidentship is low.  Assessing the facts and poll numbers taken by IPsos / Reuters, it seems that Hillary is the front runner in the nomination.  But she is being hounded on the key issues that may jeopardize her opportunity to win the general election in the 2016 against Republicans.  Whatever may be, if she wins, it is better for Modi and as a whole we Indians may be benefited for her friendly demeanor with us.  The bonhomie between the two countries will be continued for  for mutual benefits. The USA, of course, will create history to be ruled by a female President for the first time.