Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Obama wins a second term.
Obama wins a second term.(TheHill).By Amie Parnes. CHICAGO – President Obama has won reelection to an historic second term after defeating Republican Mitt Romney. Romney conceded the race to Obama shortly after midnight, well after it was apparent that Obama had scored an impressive victory. Obama's winning total in the Electoral College is approaching a level similar to the margin he enjoyed in 2008, though his winning margins in individual states are much smaller than they were four years ago. The president has lost only two states to Romney that he won in 2008 — North Carolina and Indiana. He has won the swing states of Virginia, Ohio, Iowa, Nevada, Wisconsin, New Hampshire and Colorado. He also won Pennsylvania, a state Romney made a bid for at the end of the campaign. Obama was also ahead in Florida, where networks had yet to call the race at 12:45 a.m. Romney clung to a lead in the popular vote for much of the night, but Obama had pulled into the lead after midnight. All of the major networks projected Obama as the winner shortly after 11 p.m., declaring that he had won the key swing state of Ohio. The news was greeted with loud cheers at Obama's campaign headquarters in Chicago but with gloom by Romney's supporters gathered in Boston. A crowd of several hundred to 1,000 also gathered at the White House, some of them chanting "four more years." Several people climbed the trees out front of the White House, including one shirtless man and another holding an American flag.
Obama's first-term achievements of the healthcare law, a huge stimulus measure, a bailout of U.S. auto companies and the Dodd-Frank financial reform law had already given his presidency an historic tinge.
Obama has said that in his next term, he would like to reach a major deficit-reduction deal with Republicans and win approval of an immigration reform law. The president will be dealing with a Republican House, but Senate Democrats won enough seats early on Tuesday to ensure they would hold the majority in the upper chamber. As recognition that the election was slipping out of grasp dawned on Romney's collected supporters gathered in the Boston convention center, the room fell into an anxious silence. While the Romney campaign first tried to rally supporters, calling on senior adviser Ed Gillespie and Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) to deliver encouraging messages, the realization of the long odds soon began to overtake the room. Further depressing the mood was the decision to air Sen. Scott Brown's (R-Mass.) concession speech after he lost to Elizabeth Warren. The final blow came as Fox News projected that the president would capture Ohio, leaving Romney supporters in stunned silence. Audience members stared at video screens projecting the president's reelection, with only a low, disappointed murmur rising above the crowd.Hmmmm......May God protect Israel and it's allies.Read the full story here, more here.
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