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Americans hand Obama a second term, challenges await
President Barack Obama won a second term in the White House on Tuesday, overcoming deep doubts among voters about his handling of the U.S. economy to score a clear victory over Republican challenger Mitt Romney.
Americans chose to stick with a divided government in Washington, by keeping the Democratic incumbent in the White House and leaving the U.S. Congress as it is, with Democrats controlling the Senate and Republicans keeping the House of Representatives.
Romney, the multimillionaire former private equity executive, came back from a series of campaign stumbles to make it close after besting the president in the first of three presidential debates.
The 65-year-old former Massachusetts governor conceded in a gracious speech delivered to disappointed supporters at the Boston convention center. He had called Obama to concede defeat after a brief controversy over whether the president had really won Ohio.
“This is a time of great challenge for our nation,” Romney told the crowd. “I pray that the president will be successful in guiding our nation.”
He warned against partisan bickering and urged politicians on both sides to “put the people before the politics.”
Obama scored impressive victories in the crucial state of Ohio and heavily contested swing states of Virginia, Nevada, Iowa and Colorado. They carried the Democrat past the 270 electoral votes needed for victory in America’s state-by-state system of choosing a president, and left Romney’s senior advisers shell-shocked at the loss.
The nationwide popular vote remained extremely close.
Obama, America’s first black president, won by convincing voters to stick with him as he tries to reignite strong economic growth and recover from the worst recession since the Great Depression of the 1930s. An uneven recovery has been showing some signs of strength but the country’s 7.9 percent jobless rate remains stubbornly high.
Obama’s victory in the hotly contested swing state of Ohio – as projected by TV networks – was a major step in the fight for the 270 electoral votes needed to clinch the White House and ended Romney’s hopes of pulling off a string of swing-state upsets.
Obama scored narrow wins in Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa, Pennsylvania and New Hampshire – all states that Romney had contested – while the only swing state captured by Romney was North Carolina, according to television network projections.
Romney initially delayed his concession as some Republicans questioned whether Obama had in fact won Ohio despite the decisions by election experts at all the major TV networks to declare it for the president.
The later addition of Colorado and Virginia to Obama’s tally – according to network projections – meant that even if the final result from Ohio were to be reversed, Romney still could not reach the needed number of electoral votes.
While Obama supporters in Chicago were ecstatic, Romney’s Boston event was grim as the news was announced on television screens there. A steady stream of people left the ballroom at the Boston convention center.
THE SAME PROBLEMS
At least 120 million American voters had been expected to cast votes in the race between the Democratic incumbent and Romney after a campaign that was focused on how to repair the ailing U.S. economy.
The same problems that dogged Obama in his first term are still there to confront him again.
He faces a difficult task of tackling $1 trillion annual deficits, reducing a $16 trillion national debt, overhauling expensive social programs and dealing with a gridlocked U.S. Congress that kept the same partisan makeup.
Obama’s Democrats held their Senate majority – taking hotly contested Republican-held seats in Massachusetts and Indiana – while the Republicans kept House control.
Democrat Claire McCaskill retained her U.S. Senate seat from Missouri, beating Republican congressman Todd Akin, who stirred controversy with his comment in August that women’s bodies could ward off pregnancy in cases of “legitimate rape.
Democrats gained a Senate seat in Indiana that had been in Republican hands for decades after Republican candidate Richard Mourdock called pregnancy from rape something that God intended. Democratic congressman Joe Donnelly won the race.
In another high-profile Senate race, Democrat Elizabeth Warren, a law professor who headed the watchdog panel that oversaw the government’s financial sector bailout, defeated incumbent Massachusetts Republican Senator Scott Brown.
Former Maine Governor Angus King won a three-way contest for the Senate seat of retiring Republican Olympia Snowe. King ran as an independent, but he is expected to caucus with Democrats in what would amount to a Democratic pick-up.
Florida Democratic Senator Bill Nelson easily beat back a challenge from Republican congressman Connie Mack to win a third term, while Democratic congressman Chris Murphy beat Republican Linda McMahon, a businesswoman who had served as chief executive of a professional wrestling company.
Democrats were also cheered by several state referendums. Maryland voters approved same-sex marriage, the governor said, and a similar measure in Maine appeared on track to pass as well – marking the first time marriage rights have been extended to same-sex couples by popular vote.
In addition, Wisconsin Democratic congresswoman Tammy Baldwin became the first openly gay U.S. Senator, defeating Republican former governor Tommy Thompson.
21 Comments on "Americans hand Obama a second term, challenges await"
Arthur on Wed, 7th Nov 2012 7:52 am
If you look at what happened to the US under the Obama administration, one would have expected a sound defeat of Obama, based on his dismal performance. It did not happen. Bill O’Reilly (who I otherwise do not have in too high regard, to put it mildly) said it right: “the white establishment in this country has become minority”. And so it is. Blacks and Mexicans will ‘vote racist’ anyway. And there are enough poor whites, single moms, homos, unemployed, disabled, university nerds, jews… to make sure that the GOP will never win an election again, considering the shifting demographics. The US will morph into the next Brazil, with corresponding geopolitical and economic impact, that is not much. At some point the white GOP voters (nearly 100%) will realize that political activity (like voting) for the GOP is futile as the party will never win again. From that moment on the GOP will become the (nucleus of a) white separatist party and could try to secede middle America from the union. And if the USA by that time has not morphed into a new USSR, they could even succeed, but the zionist rulers will do everything to prevent that from happening.
For the short term I am sort of glad Obama won, as it increases the chances that war with Iran will be postponed, possibly even indefinitely, as the Dems are controlled by the Israeli left. With Romney war would have started in the first week after his inauguration, the total puppet of Netanyahoo and the neocons that he is. This will buy Europe time to construct even more pipelines to Russia and continue the installation of renewables and thus create facts that will enable us to escape from the zionist prison called the West by 2020 at the latest.
BillT on Wed, 7th Nov 2012 8:21 am
If the Republicans ran a viable candidate, they might have won. Romney was a joke, and then paired with what’s-his-name, the deal was made. Like the last election where the team was similar. No intention of winning.
Romney could not take down the Middle Class without a riot or revolution. Obama can and, I am afraid, will in his next 4 years. After all, he has proven that he can write Executive Orders and bypass Congress and the Constitution.
Either way some things are certain:
1. Much higher unemployment
2, Much higher inflation
3. A $25+ trillion national debt
4. More war and possibly a big one
5. A police state America.
No? Tell me why…
PrestonSturges on Wed, 7th Nov 2012 10:57 am
The obnoxious conspiracy douche bags killed the GOP, and for that we thank you.
dsula on Wed, 7th Nov 2012 12:42 pm
If you keep on immigrating the 3rd world you end up becoming one. No surprise there.
BillT on Wed, 7th Nov 2012 12:50 pm
Actually, the problem is the Banking Cartel, not the immigrants. US citizens, with the exception of the Native Americans, are ALL immigrants. My family immigrated in 1734 from Germany by way of Austria. When did yours emigrate?
dsula on Wed, 7th Nov 2012 1:08 pm
Exactly BillT. The way that out-of-control Europeen immigration turned the nation into essentially a copy of Europe 200 years ago, so does the latest out-of-control immigration of Mexicans and Africans turn the nation into? Mexico and Africa! Is that good or bad? What do I know, it’s simply change. But expecting German efficiency and productivity from a nation that starts to look more and more like africa and mexico, that might not be realistic, no matter the president.
actioncjackson on Wed, 7th Nov 2012 1:14 pm
The end of easy oil will be the great equalizer, and since there isn’t much of nature left to turn to, we’re all fucked anyway, even though most of you will be dead before then. I’ll most likely be around though unfortunately. So fuck this political bullshit, it’s meaningless. Fuck the bankers and their fiat credit ponzi scheme and fuck the land destroyers. And fuck all the ignorant poor people procreating like rabbits demanding shit. It’s very clear our predecessors sold us out so they could live like fucking kings, and I hate everyone buying into their plan and smiling. Game over.
Arthur on Wed, 7th Nov 2012 1:53 pm
“Actually, the problem is the Banking Cartel, not the immigrants.”
History teaches us that if you put groups of different identity on one territory, you are asking for trouble. Not in times of economic prosperity, but in times of economic downturn. Germans/Jews, Jews/Palestinians, Serbs/Croats/Bosnians, Kurds/Sunni/Shi’ites, Syria, Lybia, Ruanda, etc., etc., all tribal. Has nothing to do with morals but everything with power. Put two football teams on a pitch and they are going to compete to see who is the strongest, not who is the most ‘tolerant’. The ‘Rise of the Angry Whites’ has already started with the very white Tea Party, but it still does not want to be identified as white. Not yet, is just a matter of time and ongoing economic erosion. And this is why the breakup of the US will be much more violent than that of the USSR, where ethnicities were largely distributed in more or less ‘pure homelands’ that could easily break away (Baltic states, Belorussia, Georgia, Ukraine), with the exception of Chechnya, which was a very bloody and messy affair, because it was part of Russia, Moscow could not afford to let that go.
TIKIMAN on Wed, 7th Nov 2012 1:56 pm
If anyone here votred for Obama, then you are a stupid asshole and you will reap what you sow…
Arthur on Wed, 7th Nov 2012 2:20 pm
Presstitute Bill O’Reilly hitting the nail on the head: “The White Establishment Is Now The Minority”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZXzTOqs9eM
Under blacks and mexicans there are no ‘swingers’, all secure democratic votes. That’s 30% and growing with every year. The bill for all the entitlement goodies is largely going to be funded by white working class GOP voters. They will have a huge incentive to break away from this scheme. It will take some time to sink in, but at some point in say Montana, local republicans will remember that secession is constitutionally legal and will start to act upon it. Look, if even Flamish people or Scottish or Catalans or northern Italians want to break away, why not Euro-Americans? Wait and see.
Secession means:
– no longer having to send your children into wars for Israel
– no longer having to keep all sorts of (ever growing) ‘minorities’ financially afloat
– getting rid of debts of the empire by stealth, by abandoning the dollar and replace it with the Montana-dollar (exchange rate 1:10 for instance)
– close the border and impose tariffs and give Montana local industry the chance to recover.
This btw is perfectly in line with the coming new reality of resource depletion, where globalism and global trade will be largely a thing of the past.
actioncjackson on Wed, 7th Nov 2012 2:46 pm
It doesn’t matter…
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-11-06/it-doesnt-matter
Beery on Wed, 7th Nov 2012 3:31 pm
Obama has been a disappointment to progressives, but when Romney picked Ryan, I think it motivated progressives to turn out for Obama anyway.
Beery on Wed, 7th Nov 2012 3:33 pm
As long as the Tea Party nutcases have a hold on the Republican Party, a majority of Americans will be too scared to vote Republican.
PrestonSturges on Wed, 7th Nov 2012 4:44 pm
>>My family immigrated in 1734 from Germany by way of Austria. When did yours emigrate?
About 1780 and I’m white christian, so I was rather psyched up to question the ethnic purity of wingnut neighbors if they’d won đ
DC on Wed, 7th Nov 2012 5:30 pm
The corporations have spoken, and by the magic of the decidedly UN-democratic ‘electoral college’, Obama-brand Spoke-model is the clear choice. His affable, lofty rhetoric and perfect family are much better from a marketing perspective, over his vulture capitalist Romney and evil sidekick. While the corporations were completely at ease with a company-liquidating semi-billionaire, they felt his fuck-the-poor platform might have made them have to recall some the US empires troops from overseas to calm things down in the homeland had he be chosen to ‘win’.
But with Obama, they have to such worries. Hes a near-perfect neo-con in liberals clothing.
Arthur on Wed, 7th Nov 2012 5:32 pm
Here is what will happen if Obama will continue as before:
http://www.futuretimeline.net/subject/images/us-debt-graph-2020.jpg
Only the harshest austerity measures could stop this. Massive inflation is the (more likely) alternative.
Ksi on Wed, 7th Nov 2012 11:42 pm
Arthur, you cockroach racist,
These “poor whites, single moms, homos, unemployed, disabled, university nerds, jews” as you put it, are AMERICANS just like you. As well as blacks and latinos. Who the fuck are YOU to decide who the country belongs to?
The GOP never DESERVES to win again. Party of scum.
And you are a fine piece of dogshit yourself. Tell your mom I said hi. And take your racist bullshit and punch it up her asshole.
Arthur on Thu, 8th Nov 2012 9:58 pm
Ksi tries to maintain ‘high moral standards’ while shouting down everybody in the most vulgar language imaginable.
“These âpoor whites, single moms, homos, unemployed, disabled, university nerds, jewsâ as you put it, are AMERICANS just like you.”
Umm yeah… and the Croats and Serbs and Bosnians were all YUGOSLAVS. And Kurds, Sunni’s and Shi’tes were all IRAQIS and Huttus and Tutsis were al RUANDANS. Yet for some reason, deeply mysterious to you, they decided to shoot and cleanse each other to pulp. Somehow your theory stinks. But you know what, why don’t you import another hundred million Somali’s, just to prove that you are not a racist and turn them into fine AMERICANS.lol …for the amusement of the rest of the planet. Your country is finished, but you just do not realize it yet. Do not worry, you soon will find out. The next Rodney King/Zimmerman incident will attract ‘nationwide attention’, just like in Britain last year or worse. The next ‘spring’ could very well be in the US.
P.S. I see you are new here, welcome to the forum A… uhm Ksi.
“The GOP never DESERVES to win again. Party of scum.”
This ‘scum’, that generates most of the taxes for all ‘the unkempt’ WILL never win again. And you think that once they realize that, they will stay within the system, regardless, and pay for al these… AMERICANS.lol for all eternity? I do not think ‘the scum’ will be that foolish. Here is a whimpy American bringing it to the point:
http://www.ramzpaul.com/2012/11/americans-no-longer-control-usa.html
Arthur on Fri, 9th Nov 2012 10:55 am
As usual good ‘ol Pat agrees with me.lol
http://www.vdare.com/articles/is-the-gop-headed-for-the-boneyard
Nothing in this universe is made for eternity and this applies to the American political system as well. A multi-party system will last as long as no single party can dominate the scene, but these days are over now for America. Reason: changing demographics. Even if the GOP will be able to find a Herman Cain somewhere, who is able to keep two sentences in his head, like Obama or ms Rice or Colin Powell or dr Huxtable.lol, the voter masses will not be fooled and vote for the ‘Gimmy Dat’ party anyway, even if headed by a grey la Hillary. GOP support for yet another amnesty will finish the job completely, adding another few million voters for the Dems.
Bye-bye Euro-America. Deep in their hearts they hate the development but they cannot say so, because society (media, government, judiciary) will brand you as ‘racist’, and racist = Hitler = gas chambers. Do not want to go there. Euro-America is outmanouvered on the political chessboard. What to do in such a situation? Stop playing the game. Rollover the chessboard. But the new huddled masses and their zionist masters will not allow cash cow Euro-America to escape. After all, is not whitey being the new slave some form of historical justice? That will be the story that is going to be told. A big tragedy is in the making here. Think Russia in the early years of the revolution. Expect a lot more emigrees in the coming years, who will try to escape the coming events as nobody could escape the USSR after the revolution.
Ann on Sun, 11th Nov 2012 2:05 am
History repeats itself. Unfortunately, we’ve raised two generations of young people who know nothing about the way our government is supposed to work. The public schools don’t teach Civics any longer, and we have a deplorable number of young adults who can neither write, read, or work math problems. They play with their iphones and comnputers, and are more intrigued with video games than with the real world. They have no idea about hard work. Here in TX, more than half of the people (in TX) are Hispanic, and a lot of them don’t speak English. They work, but they send their money back to Mexico. We taxpayers are mandated to give them free schooling, free medical care, and free housing. They are not Americans, yet we support them. I think we’re truly headed for a financial cliff,and it will be a steep fall off. We’re like Germany in the 1930’s or Russia before the revolution. Im waiting to see who Obama is going to try to blame this go around. Young men did a lot better back when the military draft existed. They knew what was expected of them, and they came back home with a responsible attitude. Our country is more divided than I’ve ever seen it, and I’m over 70 years old. I think if we haave another war, I’m afraid it will be a racial civil war.
Ksi on Sun, 11th Nov 2012 4:02 am
“Ksi tries to maintain âhigh moral standardsâ while shouting down everybody in the most vulgar language imaginable.”
Fuck you, dogshit. You get the language you deserve.
“Umm yeah⌠and the Croats and Serbs and Bosnians were all YUGOSLAVS. And Kurds, Sunniâs and Shiâtes were all IRAQIS and Huttus and Tutsis were al RUANDANS. Yet for some reason, deeply mysterious to you, they decided to shoot and cleanse each other to pulp. Somehow your theory stinks.”
Thinly veiled racism disguised as pseudo-intellectual bullshit. I am sure the native Americans think the same of you and your ilk.
“P.S. I see you are new here, welcome to the forum A⌠uhm Ksi.”
P.S. How quaint. Go fuck yourself.