2016 US Presidential Election (Populist America)

Democratic Party

 * Hillary Clinton, 48th Vice President of the United States

Republican Party

 * Mitt Romney, Former Governor of Massachusetts

Tea Party

 * Liz Cheney Senator from Wyoming
 * JD Hayworth Former Representative from Airzona

Deficit
The non-partisan Office of Management and Budget released in June of 2016 that the US Federal Deficit would be reduced to 15 billion USD. Vice President Clinton promised that she would continue to support the spending policy of PayGo if elected, and would raise taxes on people making over 1 million USD a year by 2% to eliminate the Deficit within a year. Former Governor Romney and Elizabeth Cheney both took the position of cutting taxes for the rich and cutting spending to quell the deficit, though Ms. Cheney argued for cutting PayGo all together.

Pakistan
Five years into the Coalition occupation of Pakistan, Vice President Clinton began to argue that the US begin a staged withdraw from the region so that the majority of US troops would be out of Pakistan by the summer of 2019. Why this was perfectly in line with the treaty of Kabul, signed in 2011 and ratified by the US Congress in 2012 with the condition that the Congress would approve funds for the continued occupation of Pakistan only until 2020; Governor Romney and Ms. Cheney both argued that the US should continue to stay in Pakistan until stable governments could be established in the new central asian nations.

Healthcare
Since the Passage of the Affordable Care Act of 2010, and the later passage of Medicare Part E in 2012, the cost of Healthcare in the United States had gone down significantly and over 95% of the Population now had health insurance of one kind or another. Both Vice President Clinton and former Governor Romney proposed expanding it ever further to continue to drive down costs. Clinton pledged to expand Medicare to people under 18 and over 55, and extending Medicare Part E to everyone it previously didn't allow to buy-in. Governor Romney, a supporter of Medicare, did support expanding Medicare to infants, but was opposed to expanding it beyond that. Ms. Cheney argued against any expansion of Medicare and wanted to abolish Medicare Part E.

Obama's Popularity
President Obama by this point was being hailed as "The Great Uniter," for his eight years of relentless to try and bring the country together on many issues that had divided the nation by basic partisanship for decades. While many liberals today continue to criticize President Obama for compromising too much to conservative members of both his party and the opposition, many political scholars argue that the emphasis on compromise, civility, and an open dialogue was essential to the American political system.