On November 6, 2012, the next presidential election will be held in the United States of America. Back in the spring of 2011, the current US President Barack Obama announced that he intends to participate in the election race. Several Republican candidates will compete with him.
On April 4, 2011, Barack Obama, the Democratic President, officially announced his intention to run for a second term from the state of Illinois. In response, the Republican Party nominated three candidates: former Speaker of the US House of Representatives Newt Ginrich, Congressman Ron Paul and former Governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney.
In the course of the election race, which started in early 2012, Ginrich first suspended his campaign. Thanking supporters for their support, he dropped out of the game, leaving two other Republicans to compete with Obama. And soon Ron Paul followed suit. Having declared that “getting a chance for success will require spending tens of millions of dollars, which we simply don’t have,” Paul, according to political analysts, went into the shadows in order to give more chances to Barack Obama's main rival in the 2012 US presidential election - Mitt Romney …
Former Governor of Massachusetts Romney is a hereditary politician who graduated from the legendary Harvard University and has a JD degree. Mitt does not hide his religious beliefs: he belongs to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and is a Mormon. Despite the fact that among the residents of the United States there is an ambiguous attitude towards the representatives of this religion, Romney's beliefs can play to his advantage. So, recently a Republican has sharply criticized same-sex marriage, which is going to officially approve the Democrat Obama. This statement brought Mitt the support of conservatives, of whom there are many in the States, especially in the central part of the country.
America, which promotes traditional family values, is sympathetic to Romney and thanks to his strong marriage. On the campaign trail, Mitt and his wife Anne celebrated 43rd marriage widely; the couple raised five sons. At the time of the election, Romney is 65 years old: by American standards, he is in his prime and confident that he will become the President of the United States.
