Rejuvenated Obama reelected as president after bruising campaignPosted in Articles, Barack Obama, New Media, Politics/Public Policy, United States on 2012-11-07 15:52Z by Steven |
Rejuvenated Obama reelected as president after bruising campaign
The Washington Post
2011-11-07
David A. Fahrenthold
Barack Obama was elected to a second presidential term Tuesday, defeating Republican Mitt Romney by reassembling the political coalition that boosted him to victory four years ago and remaking himself from a hopeful uniter into a determined fighter for middle-class interests.
Obama, the nation’s first African American president, scored a decisive electoral college victory by stringing together a series of narrow wins in hotly contested states. Of the election’s seven major battlegrounds, he won at least six…
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