{"id":26357,"date":"2012-11-07T15:52:26","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T15:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=26357"},"modified":"2012-11-07T19:52:48","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T19:52:48","slug":"rejuvenated-obama-reelected-as-president-after-bruising-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=26357","title":{"rendered":"Rejuvenated Obama reelected as president after bruising campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/decision2012\/rejuvenated-obama-reelected-as-president-after-bruising-campaign\/2012\/11\/07\/9443cfac-28d6-11e2-b4e0-346287b7e56c_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Rejuvenated Obama reelected as president after bruising campaign<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Washington Post<\/a><br \/>\n2011-11-07<\/p>\n<p><strong>David A. Fahrenthold<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama<\/a> was elected to a second presidential term Tuesday, defeating Republican <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mitt_Romney\" target=\"_blank\">Mitt Romney<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>Obama, the nation\u2019s first African American president, scored a decisive <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Electoral_College_(United_States)\" target=\"_blank\">electoral college<\/a> victory by stringing together a series of narrow wins in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Swing_state\" target=\"_blank\">hotly contested states<\/a>. Of the election\u2019s seven major battlegrounds, he won at least six&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/decision2012\/rejuvenated-obama-reelected-as-president-after-bruising-campaign\/2012\/11\/07\/9443cfac-28d6-11e2-b4e0-346287b7e56c_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&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":[12660,12661,9240,2875,2581],"class_list":["post-26357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-new-media","category-politics","category-usa","tag-david-a-fahrenthold","tag-david-fahrenthold","tag-mitt-romney","tag-the-washington-post","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26357","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=26357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}