UPDATED: Breaking news: Barack Obama, 44th president, re-elected to a second term
UPDATED: Breaking news: Barack Obama, 44th president, re-elected to a second term
UPDATE: Here's my story in today's paper:
THE SEQUEL is never as entertaining or surprising as the original.
And so President Obama - who dazzled the nation four years ago - earned a second term Tuesday by grinding out a solid, workmanlike victory on the ground, turning out just enough of his 21st-century coalition of black and Latino voters, young adults and educated professionals in enough key states to turn back Republican Mitt Romney.
Crowds in Obama's hometown of Chicago and in New York's Times Square erupted in a flag-waving celebration and danced to Aretha Franklin's "Respect" at roughly 11:15 p.m., when the major TV networks called the hard-fought race for the president. Fittingly, it was Ohio - the Midwestern, middle-of-the-road, microcosm state that sucked up so much of the candidate's time and money - and its 20 electoral votes that put the 44th president over the top.
"We're all in this together," Obama said on Twitter late Tuesday night. "That's how we campaigned, and that's who we are. Thank you."
Explaining the lack of blog posts recently, I also wrote articles about "the fiscal cliff" and other challenges of Obama's second term.
Comments (123)
Save Mitt's money!
Let the Bush tax cuts expire is a good start!— chasing history- @Wok- Do you really feel that you are talking directly to those 'talking heads' on Fox through these chat boards?— Wiseman6
- Having "rich folks pay a little bit more" will solve everything. What a laugh.— teardownthisfishwrap
- I look forward to watching Fox, listening to Limbaugh, Hannity, Giordano today. Like music to my ears.
It's time for the Republican House show some leadership and move to compromise with the president and the Senate majority so we can move this country forward. Let's pass the tax breaks for everyone but the rich. Let's put this marriage discrimination behind us. Let's stop with the insane comments about rape and stop attacking organizations that provide women's health services. Let's stop hand-wringing about how Obama is destroying the country. Let's work to reduce the huge drain of rising healthcare costs, perhaps by considering modifying the healthcare act w/o trying to repeal the whole thing. Let's work on compromise to reform entitlements. Let's stop calling some 47% of the public, the majority of whom are working poor, elderly, or disabled - "moochers."
What do you think wiseman? Ready to get this done?— Talking point sleuth - Here's a question for our much beloved Attytood "conservatives."
Those of you who went on and on with that nonsense about how the pools were "skewed" by pollsters with biased samples - are you willing to look now at how much your partisan ideology twists your reasoning so that you're blind to simple and objective reality? Do you think that arguing about simple addition and ratios and probabilities is an example of something a tad off in your thinking processes?
— Talking point sleuth - @msl- I shudder to think what the environment will be like in two years without big decisions and tough choices being made over the next two. If nothing is done before the midterms in 2014, I'm not sure that I would want to be the party 'responsible' in full to even attempt to clean up that mess...— Wiseman6
- There are certain hard realities. Republicans are relying on increasing vote share from a shrinking constituency - whites (particularly white males) - in order to maintain any political viability. Baring a decline in the economy over the next four years, that isn't going to happen. Without some major and unpredictable political developments taking place, the only way for Republicans to maintain political viability is to compromise on issues that are of importance to many women and to minorities. Otherwise, they will be holding on to an ideology that will simply not produce forward movement, but will only offer the possibility of further gridlock.
You need to throw out the extremists among your midst. You need to stop compromising - and listening to those you call "moochers." You need to alter your stance on issues like gay marriage. You need to stop relying on the hucksters who lie to you about objective reality - like the mathematics of polling.
Are you up to the challenge?— Talking point sleuth - ===]]] @msl- I shudder to think what the environment will be like in two years without big decisions and tough choices being made over the next two. If nothing is done before the midterms in 2014, I'm not sure that I would want to be the party 'responsible' in full to even attempt to clean up that mess... [[[===
Wiseman it's not clear from your statement there: do you consider the possibility that if gridlock continues, still increasing %'s of the public will blame Republicans for being obstructonist?— Talking point sleuth - Let's give full credit to the Party that was actually able to re-elect a black incumbent when there is 8% unemployment: The Tea Party.
Credit where credit is due.— Talking point sleuth - Chicago Tribune - "The median annual household income for blacks declined by 11.1 percent (from $36,567 to $32,498) from June 2009 to June 2012, according to an analysis of Census Bureau data by Sentier Research. The decline for whites was 5.2 percent and for Hispanics 4.1 percent." /// Four more years of this? And yet somehow the mindless Obama drones are rejoicing? Raising taxes will fix it though, right? Again, what a laugh.— teardownthisfishwrap
- do you know what the word "myopic" means?
you are so up Ann Coulter's rear you forget a financial collapse. and you're pushing this junk.
look at yesterday- america doesn't believe a word you say, selective reader. - fishwrap
Have you considered why, in spite of those economic realities, your candidate lost - and by the widest margin among those who have been hit the hardest, economically?— Talking point sleuth - @tps- I'm saying that if nothing gets done to address the serious financial issues before the midterms, it may get House Dems elected. But at that point it might be past the point of no return. I wouldn't want to have to be the party entirely responsible for fixing it. Dems would lose by winning. It would be like those unfortunates with homes on the Jersey shore floating in the ocean, seeking solace in finding someone to blame..
Social issues are great for dividing electorate, but they do nothing to stimulate the economy and get people working. The tone of the government message toward successful people does nothing to encourage more of them.— Wiseman6
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