Obama at white house: History revealed itself again

 Acknowledging the deep divisiveness that has polarized much of the nation, Obama vowed to work with GOP leaders on major looming issues, including the deficit, tax code and reinvigorating the economy.
Obama won at least 25 states, capturing 303 electoral votes, but held just a slim lead in the popular vote. Romney, who won 24, said in his concession speech that it was time to end bipartisan bickering.
"This is a time of great challenge for America, and I pray the president will be successful in guiding our nation,'' Romney said.
"The nation is at a critical point. At a time like this, we can't risk partisan bickering," said Romney, who urged Democrats and Republicans to work together on key issues, such as reviving the economy and growing jobs.
Democrats held their narrow majority in the Senate on Tuesday, grabbing Republican seats in Massachusetts and Indiana and turning aside GOP challenges in Missouri, Virginia, Pennsylvania and Ohio.

Republicans were well on the way to retaining control of the House of Representatives, ensuring that Congress will be divided at the start of Obama's second term.
One of the smallest of the battleground states, New Hampshire, went for Obama. So did Nevada, a state that went for Obama in 2008. Obama made 10 trips to the state, beset with the nation's highest unemployment rate and one of the nation's highest home foreclosure rates. Another toss-up state, Colorado, also went for Obama. The president won Pennsylvania, a state Romney looked to late in the campaign for a potential upset.
Exit polls of voters leaving their voting places suggested a razor-close outcome in a deeply divided nation, with the incumbent holding a small advantage, 51%-47%. That finding was from a survey of more than 25,565 voters nationally.
All told, Obama won at least 25 states, while Romney won at least 22 states, including much of the South, Plains and Mountain West. On the West Coast, Obama won California and Washington.
Obama won two of Romney's home states — Massachusetts, where the Republican won one election as governor, and Michigan, where Romney was born. Romney also has a home in New Hampshire, where he lost.
Obama's strength was in the Northeast and parts of the Mid-Atlantic region, including New York. He won his home state of Illinois as well as Vice President Biden's Delaware.
Exit polls of voters in key states showed the economy was the top issue on voters' minds, and on that and other key issues the nation remains sharply divided. It was clear that Obama would not do as well as he did in 2008, when he won with a 7.3% margin of the popular vote.
The exit polls suggested Romney won among men by double digits. Obama won among women, who were a focus of much of the campaign, but by a smaller margin than four years ago.

PUBLIC CARS FOR PUBLIC

By FRANK KIMARO

Government has continued to call upon workers who have changed the public vehicles plate numbers and replace them with their own, that they must change their registration before the grace period is over on 15^th of this month.

The Deputy Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Works, Dr John Ndunguru made the remarks during the press conference prepared to alert again those who have register public cars with their private plate number to change the registration at Ministry offices yesterday.

Dr Ndunguru said that the ultimatum time remaining for those who have monopolizing state vehicles is so limited and they should start to change the registration willingly before strong measures facing them.

“We will start a special operation after 12 days and we will impound vehicles and take measures to those who have refused to re-register their public cars as it was intended by the government,” he said.

He further explained that there will be no any blame because they were given a three weeks period since it was announced by the Minister of Works, Dr John Magufuli.

“On 19^th October this year Minister met with press where he asked all those who use Public Cars without recognized order and law from the government they should start registering themselves in order where he gave three weeks period,” he quoted the Minister of Works.

Dr Ndunguru tried to explain on rule which give his ministry power to make sure they keep public cars in a good order and making sure they are used as it was intended by the government.

 “The Road Safety Act No. 30 of 1973 gives authority to the ministry of works to register and to keep informations of all public cars which will be given number starts with JW,PT,ST and DFP while MT was added in to The Road Traffic Rules, 2012,”He referred to the documents.

Dr Ndunguru stated that it is not the first time for the ministry to conduct such operation saying that it has ready happen in past years and good number of people was arraigned to the court.

“In between 2002 and 2004 the operation was conducted where 21,000 cars, motorcycles and machines were caught, so we have experienced the operation before,” he stated.