The proverbial rejected stone!
The US election campaign train and the ultimate Trump Triumph got the whole world shocked. Everyone from the political analysts, media houses and even some republican party members had signed out 'the president' elect and predicted a dawn clear win for the Democrat candidate Hilary Clinton.
The campaign trail left Trump wounded, insulted and painted in all bad taste. CNN as an international media house had even appeared to lean towards a Clinton win. This became the greatest Clinton's undoing since it blinded her and made her undermine her competitor and even created an illusion that the game was done even before it begun.
The social media created an image captioned "When you can't even believe your own wife can vote for you" Essentially, it was Trump against the world. Little did anyone know that in the US the natives were tired with an orchestrated monarchy to a level where even when they believed that Trump was not the best choice as compared to Hilary; they just could not vote another Clinton to the white house.
This makes the US indeed the greatest country in setting the world's political agenda.
On the win, the triumphant Trump comes out to quickly congratulate his 'able' competitor Clinton. The POTUS-Elect goes ahead and reassures the Americans of his intention to be the president of all and further says that the great victory can only be great if a great job is done. 'I will not disappoint you' He told his overly excited voters.
The election of the strongest economy and the greatest politically advanced country took place yesterday and within 24 hours, the world already know who the winner is. It was necessary for the biggest economy to quickly go through the process and get out of it before the international money market feels the shock. Its called the most powerful country indeed.
The Kenyan Situation
Fast backwards to the 2013 presidential election. In this election there were two major contestants in the hotly contested presidential election of all times in the country. As in the US, Kenya conducted her very first Presidential debate at a time when one of the presidential candidate and his running mate were alleged criminals of the international crime and were to start attending their court summons in the Hague. A factor that the international world also warned Kenyans of the fact that choices have consequences.
These circumstances made the matters even difficult for the Kenyan situation. It became a tool that one of the parties Coalition for Reform and Development (CORD) led by the Rt. Hon. Raila Amolo Odinga used against Jubilee Coalition led by the current president H.E. Hon. Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta. On the contrary, the later utilised the Hague issue to his advantage.
The general view of the political climate gave an indication of a tight race with Raila being fronted as the ultimate winner. Just like Clinton, Raila enjoyed the state utilities being the incumbent Prime Minister and a core government principal. Uhuru was serving as his deputy while Ruto had been discharged of his duties as a cabinet minister.
All factors indicated a Raila win although careful analysts saw a possibility of the unlikely Uhuru Kenyatta. The result just like in the US was tight and close and the winner was the unlikely candidate.
Quick look through:
- The Obama support disadvantage to Clinton
- Being a 'Clinton' undid the fact that she was a woman and a likely better candidate
- The media created a false illusion that somewhat affected the energy of the Clinton's campaign
- The US election came at the best time for Kenya when the country is restructuring the electoral body and the politicians re-engineering their parties.
- The Uhuru, Raila and their campaign teams have freely received lessons to help their candidates initiate the best campaign to win the next years presidential election
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