President Barack Obama and Vice-President Joe Biden were re-elected Tuesday night, defeating Republican challenger Mitt Romney and his vice-presidential running mate Rep. Paul Ryan.
NBC News called the presidential election for Obama around 11:15 EST. The president sent a message on Twitter at 10:14 saying simply, "This happened because of you. Thank you."
The Obama campaign won the most expensive presidential race ever, with both parties raising about $2.6 billion. The race was filled with negative campaigning on both sides, from President Obama attacking Romney’s business experience with Bain Capital to Romney lambasting Obama’s handling of the economy.
The race tightened during the final months of the campaign, with gaffes and surges from both candidates. After a weak performance after the Republican Convention, Romney surged following Obama’s listless performance after the first presidential debate. Nevertheless, the president cemented a lead in battleground states heading into Tuesday’s election.
It was a surprise to no one that Obama carried his homestate of Illinois.
That's "government spending" too, but in any case, we can't cut our way to prosperity. How about raising revenues by having Billionaires come back from their decade long Tax Holiday so they can start investing in their country again?....If Tax Cuts for Billionaires created jobs, as conservatives want you to believe, we'd be SWIMMING in jobs by now. Isn't that painfully obvious? Beyond that, G.G, who do you want to cut?...Veterans?...Senior Citizens?..The Disabled? How about we cut the greedy, right wing crap instead?.
Would you care to offer an explanation for how state funded pensions, which also existed in the 50s and 60s, have led to an erosion in the median income for blue-collar workers?
It was not a good time, politically speaking, for the Dems to put forth a budget in 2010. It was not a good time, politically speaking, for them to do it in 2011-2012, heading into another election cycle. Now? President Kardashian is locked in. No more campaigning.. no elections for two years. Maybe the Senate can make the tough decisions now. Raise taxes? cut the military? cut money out of FEMA, etc? unpopular decisions need to be made for the benefit of our grandchildren. This can is too big to kick down the road any further.
Good grief, NS, where did you learn to whine that way?...Please tell me you're not over the age of twelve, because you sound like someone of the age of Ten! Your little rant is so full of absurdities, I haven't time to address them all.. "Obama made people despise Mitt Romney"??..Excuse me..He "made" him? Gee, apart from the excellent case that could be made that he did it all by himself, I had this crazy idea that Mitt, being all "presidential" and all, was at least a Grown Man...Is there something ELSE we don't know about him?. Sorry, NS, but this one is all but hysterical...Apart from what I've already mentioned, you need to learn that no one can "make" anyyone dislike anyone else. Consider that Romney, with all his lies and dollars, couldn't "make" America hate the president. I give him an 'A" for effort and all, but he DID fail in the undertaking. Good God, The Sour Grapes and "sore loser" mentality on this forum is almost frightening...You're whining, and blaming, and bawling like kids..Please..Grow up!
You say the "feeloaders" voted for Obama?...That's funny, because this "freeloader" and her spouse are college graduates, live on the North Shore, have a shared income WELL into six figures, and, by the way, pay TWICE Mitt Romney's Tax rate. Now how does that compare to YOUR lifestyle, AU? I'm betting you're not even close, and by the way, we all know that your use of "freeloaders" in this case really means "Blacks on welfare". Too bad you lack the gonads to just say it.
Lets give facts here_ I pay 30% in taxes, contribute to 4 charities, employee 50 people with roughly 30 families...I GIVE MORE THAN I TAKE... Oh... and none of my extended family sleeps with anyone of the same sex or has anythng not resembling a traditional 2 parent family.... Your turn..fill in the blanks because anyone who lives in kenilworth either earned there money of which they s/b proud or they inherited it which isn't a bad way to go through life either...see I'm not a jealous person like you. Well...lets see your stats...care to back off the kenilworth claim? Do you take more than you give? And maybe the people here in this little discussion will know to ignor your little quips. "just sayin"..prove you have the background to be in this forum or just go away and continue to mooch off the gov't
You won the election because your base is unfortunately growing and that's not a healthy sign for any prosperous Country. I say to you this....if you do pay taxes....and you see a nice little tax increase in your mail soon...drop me a note and maybe I'll take your interview for a job to help pay for it!!!! 4 more years of this fool and you'll all realize that socialism is death to any Country that aspires to be great instead of mediocre....Have a nice weekend - I will!
But lets set some records straight: Obama said Bush was unpatriotic for running up a 4T deficit in 8 years while he ran up a 6T deficit in 4. Obama said he would leave Medical Marijuana to the States, while he directs the Attorney General to enforce the banking laws and uses the IRS to audit the Dispensaries, effectively making it impossible for them to operate. Lets see whats happens in CO and WA with legalization. Obama used a Drone Strike in Yemen to kill Anwar al-Awlaki, he was a US citizen and born here, he was entitled to a trial of his pears according to the Constitution before he can be killed for Treason. The information to get UBL was gotten by water-boarding and the Hunt for UBL began way before Obama became President.....that's right Torture, and another thing Obama said he was vastly against. Gitmo is still open..... Shall I go on?
I wouldn't trade my intelligence, values, or education for every dollar you might own.
What killed the econemy was policies to get every American in a home regardless of if they could afford it. Plain and simple. We have changed nothing rates are lower than ever and banks are still out of control. Only problem is investors are not a dumb to buy the crappy debt. Nothing makes an econemy grow faster than low taxes. Just think about it, lower taxes equal more money to spend. Only problem is we have out of control govt spending so they have you fooled into thinking they know how to spend your money better than you do or you don't pay federal tax so you don't care.....