news - Presidential Election In USA

I'll report the status of the presidential election in the United States.

The race starts with the elections for deciding party's nominee. As of now, there are two major partied in America, The Republican Party and The Democratic Party. The election in 2008 started this January in Iowa. The winner of the Republican Party was Mike Hackabee, the Democratic Party Barack Obama.

As the election goes on, John McCain had won most delegates on the Republican side. On the Democratic side, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, the former first lady, had vied tightly for nomination. As of May 3rd, the result are still unclear.

This election's points of controversy are ranging from Iraqi war to its stark economic situation. Especially, economic issue is getting more important in this election and for the candidates, since economy of USA slumped due to namely subprime mortgage crisis.


This is a report on American presidential election with my linguistic limitation.