The midterm election results are in and not many Americans are surprised by the Republican takeover of Congress due to the president’s lack of popularity among the voters. President Obama addressed the American people at a White House news conference by saying, “As president, I have a unique responsibility to try and make this town work, so, to everyone who voted, I want you to know that I hear you.”According to an article by Jeff Mason and Roberta Rampton, “Republicans captured their biggest majority in the House of Representatives in more than 60 years and gaining a majority in the Senate for the first time since 2006.” Last midterm elections, the Republicans took over the majority of the House of Representatives. Now, the Republicans have the majority of both the House and the Senate. So what does this mean? Most Republican constituents are hopeful, but gridlock is prevalent. The president went on to talk about how he is ready to move forward and work with the Republicans to find some middle ground in order to get things done in office. The new majority leader of the Senate Mitch McConnell was quoted saying, “This gridlock and dysfunction can be ended. It can be ended by having a Senate that actually works.” Only time will tell if the Republicans and Democrats in Congress will be able to “kiss and makeup” in order to start working together. President Obama says that he still intends to keep up the fight on immigration reform by using executive actions to prevent the deportation of millions of undocumented immigrants in the United States. McConnell rebutted saying that it would be like “waving a red flag in front of a bull” if the president were to take matters into his own hands for immigration reform policies. The presidential election of 2016 will be interesting to monitor, to say the least. This is due to the fact that most of the voters who turnout to vote in midterm elections are typically older, more educated, and Caucasian; thus, the young people, less educated, and more of the minorities step in to vote for the president (i.e. typically more democratically minded individuals who would probably vote for a Democrat as president). So perhaps a realignment is not in store for us just yet, but it can be agreed upon that the American people are somewhat divided.