{"id":26353,"date":"2012-11-07T14:28:59","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T14:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=26353"},"modified":"2012-11-07T14:28:59","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T14:28:59","slug":"president-barack-obama-defeats-romney-to-win-re-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=26353","title":{"rendered":"President Barack Obama defeats Romney to win re-election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-20233064\" target=\"_blank\">President Barack Obama defeats Romney to win re-election<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\" target=\"_blank\">BBC News<\/a><br \/>\n2012-11-07<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">President Barack Obama<\/a> has been re-elected to a second term, defeating Republican challenger <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mitt_Romney\" target=\"_blank\">Mitt Romney<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>America&#8217;s first black president secured more than the 270 votes in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Electoral_College_(United_States)\" target=\"_blank\">electoral college<\/a> needed to win.<\/p>\n<p>In his victory speech before supporters in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chicago\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago<\/a>, Mr Obama said he would talk to Mr Romney about &#8220;where we can work together to move this country forward&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Obama prevailed despite lingering dissatisfaction with the economy and a hard-fought challenge by Mr Romney&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-20233064\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Barack Obama defeats Romney to win re-election BBC News 2012-11-07 President Barack Obama has been re-elected to a second term, defeating Republican challenger Mitt Romney. America&#8217;s first black president secured more than the 270 votes in the electoral college needed to win. In his victory speech before supporters in Chicago, Mr Obama said he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,6,26,20],"tags":[8597,9240],"class_list":["post-26353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-new-media","category-politics","category-usa","tag-bbc-news","tag-mitt-romney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}