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WHITE HOUSE 2012 OBAMA AGAIN © 2012 Mauro Della Porta Raffo Tutti I Diritti Sono Riservati Mauro della Porta Raffo WHITE HOUSE 2012 OBAMA AGAIN © 2012 Mauro della Porta Raffo Tutti i diritti sono riservati. Grafica: Paolo Marchetti – www.paolomarchetti.net Stampa: Legatoria Carravetta – Varese www.maurodellaportaraffo.com Mauro della Porta Raffo WHITE HOUSE 2012 OBAMA AGAIN Dopo un esaustivo saggio introduttivo la cronaca giorno per giorno della lotta nelle primarie repubblicane e del confronto finale Obama/Romney In appendice, commenti, interventi e incursioni di Don Backy, Enrico Beruschi, Aldo Cazzullo, Mario Cervi, Giorgio Dell’Arti, Marcello Foa, Fernando Mezzetti, Vittorio Emanuele Parsi, Gianbattista Rosa, Francesco Salvi, Cesare San Mauro e il saggio breve ‘Tra Obama e Romney il vero protagonista è stato Twitter’ ad opera di Andrea Ceron, Luigi Curini, Stefano M. Iacus (Università degli Studi di Milano) e Giuseppe Porro (Università dell’Insubria) Ho letto, visto e ricordo tutto MdPR è raggiungibile via mail su [email protected] Suo ‘il sito più bello del mondo’ www.maurodellaportaraffo.com • • “Esiste una particolare Provvidenza divina nei confronti dei matti, degli ubriachi e degli Stati Uniti d’America”. Otto von Bismarck-Schoenhausen • • "Se votare facesse qualche differenza, non ce lo lascerebbero fare". Mark Twain Nota bene: secondo necessità, su particolari argomenti, includo testi di autori ai quali, sul tema trattato, riconosco acutezza d’analisi e competenza I motivi del contendere “Il tema vero della campagna per la conquista della Casa Bianca 2012 è l’aperta contrapposizione tra i ‘takers’ – quelli che ‘prendono’, non pagano le tasse e come topi si adagiano nel formaggio dei programmi assistenziali statali - e i ‘ma- kers’, quelli che ‘fanno’ e tosati dal fisco permettono ai topi di pascere. I repubblicani stanno con questi ultimi. Barack Hussein Obama e i democratici con i primi”. Paolo Granzotto Davvero difficile per un repubblicano sconfiggere e defenestrare un presidente democratico in carica che cerchi (come Obama in questo 2012) un secondo mandato o comunque, da vice subentrato mortis causa, voglia ottenere una conferma. Dal 1856 – la prima volta in cui il partito dell’asino e quello dell’elefante si sono confrontati per White House - sono riusciti nell’intento solo Benjamin Harrison nel 1888 e Ronald Reagan nel 1980. Nelle altre occasioni i democratici Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson e Bill Clinton hanno respinto l’attacco. Chiunque, al termine del percorso delle primarie e dei caucus, prevalga in casa repubblicana, sarà chiamato a compiere davvero un’impresa. IL CIMENTO DI OBAMA • TUTTI I PRECEDENTI Barack Obama è il trentesimo presidente degli Stati Uniti d’America che si presenta all’elettorato per chiedere un nuo- vo mandato (non semplicemente “un secondo mandato” perché Franklin Delano Roosevelt si ripropose, vincendo, in ben quattro occasioni, ovviamente prima del 1951 quando un emendamento costituzionale introdusse il limite di due quadrienni). Nell’impresa, lo hanno preceduto, nell’ordine George Washington (rieletto) John Adams (sconfitto) Thomas Jefferson (rieletto) James Madison (rieletto) James Monroe (rieletto) John Quincy Adams (sconfitto) Andrew Jackson (rieletto) Martin Van Buren (sconfitto) Abraham Lincoln (rieletto) Ulysses Grant (rieletto) Grover Cleveland (sconfitto nel 1884 e poi rieletto nel 1892, l’unico a riconquistare White House dopo averla per- sa e quindi quattro anni dopo) Benjamin Harrison (sconfitto) William McKinley (rieletto) Theodore Roosevelt (rieletto e primo vice presidente su- bentrato mortis causa che si presenta in proprio all’elettora- to dopo avere concluso il mandato del predecessore) William Taft (sconfitto) Woodrow Wilson (rieletto) 17 Mauro della Porta Raffo Calvin Coolidge (rieletto e che da secondo vice subentrato mortis causa che si presenta percorre il medesimo iter di Theodore Roosevelt) Herbert Hoover (sconfitto) Franklin Delano Roosevelt (come detto, rieletto in tre oc- casioni) Harry Truman (rieletto e terzo vice subentrato mortis cau- sa che si propone in prima persona come Teddy Roosevelt e Calvin Coolidge) Dwight Eisenhower (rieletto) Lyndon Johnson (rieletto e quarto vice subentrato mortis causa confermato personalmente) Richard Nixon (rieletto) Gerald Ford (sconfitto dopo essere subentrato a Nixon a seguito delle sue dimissioni) Jimmy Carter (sconfitto) Ronald Reagan (rieletto) George Herbert Bush (sconfitto) Bill Clinton (rieletto) George Walker Bush (rieletto) Riepilogando, diciannove i confermati, nove gli sconfitti, uno rieletto con l’intervallo di un quadriennio. Ove, peraltro, si guardi ai presidenti eletti in prima persona, non includendo i vice subentrati, Obama è in effetti il venti- cinquesimo a ricandidarsi. Ebbene, nelle ventiquattro precedenti circostanze, l’inqui- lino della residenza presidenziale ha vinto quindici volte, sedici ove si voglia tener conto (ma non appare corretto) dell’avventura predetta toccata a Cleveland. I capi dello Stato USA che al termine del primo mandato si sono ritirati, nell’ordine, sono: James Polk Franklin Pierce James Buchanan 18 WHITE HOUSE 2012: OBAMA AGAIN Rutherford Hayes I presidenti morti nel corso del primo mandato sono: William Harrison Zachary Taylor James Garfield Warren Harding John Kennedy I vice subentrati e non ripresentatisi a fine mandato eserci- tato come successori dell’eletto sono: John Tyler Millard Fillmore Andrew Johnson Chester Arthur (Per il vero, Fillmore si ripropose ma quattro anni dopo e quindi non al termine della propria permanenza in carica) • • • 19 Mauro della Porta Raffo I NUMERI DELLE ELEZIONI DEL 2008 La ‘rivoluzione Obama’ ebbe inizio nel 2008, quando quasi settanta milioni di elettori elessero il primo presidente afro- americano della Casa Bianca. Dieci milioni circa di vantaggio rispetto allo sfidante repub- blicano, John McCain. Allora l’affluenza fu del sessantatre e sei per cento, decisa- mente alta per i parametri americani Centotrentuno milioni i votanti in totale. Obama prevalse in California, North Carolina, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia (Washington), Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Ham- pshire, New Jersey, New York, New Mexico, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washing- ton e Wisconsin. Gli uomini divisero il loro consenso in modo equilibrato per i due candidati. Alle urne il quarantasette per cento degli elettori maschi, di cui il quarantanove scelse Obama e il quarantotto McCain. Il cinquantatre per cento degli elettori donne decise per la via democratica, attribuendo nel cinquantasei per cento dei casi il consenso ad Obama. Sul fronte etnico, il settantaquattro per cento dei votanti fu- rono bianchi: il quarantatre a favore di Obama, il cinquan- tacinque di McCain. Il tredici per cento neri, di cui il novantacinque scelse Ba- rack Obama, mentre solo il quattro si espresse per McCain. Il nove per cento ispanici: il sessantasette pro Obama e il trentuno pro McCain. Il restante due per cento degli elettori fu infine asiatico e il sessantadue scelse Obama, il trentacinque McCain. La fascia di età vide una larga affermazione dell’attuale presidente tra i giovani: fino ai ventinove anni, ben il sessantasei per cento. Nella fascia trenta/quarantaquattro anni, ad Obama il cin- 20 WHITE HOUSE 2012: OBAMA AGAIN quantadue delle preferenze e a McCain il quarantasei. Nella fascia quarantacinque/cinquantanove, il presidente ora in carica ebbe la meglio come tra gli over sessanta con il cinquantuno per cento contro il quarantasette. Sul versante religioso si espresse il quarantadue per cento dei bianchi protestanti: il trentaquattro scelse Obama, il ses- santacinque McCain. Tra i cattolici (diciannove per cento) ebbe la meglio ancora McCain con il cinquantadue. Gli ebrei, il due per cento dell'elettorato, sostennero Obama con il settantotto per cento dei consensi, a fronte del ventu- no andato a McCain. I cristiani evangelici, ben il trentotto per cento tra gli eletto- ri, virarono verso McCain con il cinquantasette per cento dei voti, come i religiosi praticanti almeno una volta a settimana. Sul piano del reddito, le classi sotto i quindicimila dollari rappresentarono il sei per cento dell'elettorato e scelsero Obama con il settantatre, il venticinque McCain. La fascia tra i quindicimila e i ventinovemilanovecentonovan- tanove dollari (dodici per cento) si espresse analogamente, allo stesso modo la fascia trentamila quarantanovemilanove- centonovantanove dollari, che rappresentando il diciannove per cento dell'elettorato diede il cinquantacinque del suo con- senso ad Obama e il quarantatre a McCain. Anche tra i cosiddetti ricchi prevalse Obama, tranne nella fascia cinquantamila settantaquattromilanovecentonovanta- nove dollari, che si espresse con un quarantotto per cento a favore di Obama e un quarantanove a sostegno di McCain. • • • 21 Mauro della Porta Raffo I POTERI DEL PRESIDENTE (riporto qui di seguito il capitolo da me dedicato al tema in ‘Americana’, 2011) “...la Costituzione USA così recita all'articolo 2, sezione pri- ma: ‘Il presidente degli Stati Uniti sarà investito del potere esecutivo’. Queste poche, magiche parole racchiudono ed esprimono tutto l'enorme potere del capo dello Stato di quella che è ormai, senza concorrenti, la più potente nazione del mondo. Per inciso, cercando di rendere più comprensibile agli occhi del lettore il tutto, si può dire che nel presidente americano, grosso modo, coincidono e si uniscono i poteri che in molti Paesi sono divisi tra il presidente
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