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11/7/12

OBAMERICA: 4 more years - its all about inclusiveness and solving problems together

Michelle and Barack Obama
Obama walked on stage with his family to a cheering crowd of supporters in Chicago early Wednesday morning while Stevie Wonder’s song “Signed, Sealed, Delivered,” was piped over the sound system.

The US President had won his second term in the White House.

Obama waited for the crowd to finish chanting “four more years,” before promising them that “the best is yet to come.”

The President said the election result reflects “the belief that while each of us will pursue our own individual dreams, we are an American family and we rise and fall together as one nation and as one people.”

“I believe we can build on the progress we've made and continue to fight for new jobs and new opportunities and new security for the middle class,” Obama said. “I believe we can keep the promise of our founding, the idea that if you're willing to work hard, it doesn't matter who you are or where you come from or what you look like or where you love. It doesn't matter whether you're black or white or Hispanic or Asian or Native American or young or old or rich or poor, abled, disabled, gay or straight. You can make it here in America if you're willing to try.”

Obama also touched on the divisiveness of the campaign, saying Americans “are not as divided as our politics suggests. "We are not as cynical as the pundits believe. We are greater than the sum of our individual ambitions and we remain more than a collection of red states and blue states. We are, and forever will be, the United States of America."

The president thanked his wife, Michelle, his running mate, Vice President Joe Biden, and also congratulated his opponent Romney  on “a hard-fought campaign.”

But it's no easy task. Obama will once again face the challenge of leading the country with a divided Congress, as Democrats retained control of the Senate and Republicans maintained their hold over the House of Representatives.

The President will be tasked with turning around a sluggish economy and reining in a national debt that tops $16 trillion and a budget deficit that has reached $1 trillion.

Tuesday’s exit poll of more than 19,000 voters conducted by Edison Research for The Associated Press and the major U.S. networks found that: Just under four in 10 voters said unemployment was the biggest economic problem they are facing. Four in 10 voters said the economy is improving, while 3 in 10 said it is getting worse.

Even though Americans gave President Barack Obama a second term in office, it still wasn't clear early on Wednesday morning whether the president won the key battleground state of Florida. There Obama was still edging out Romney by about 45,000 votes, or 0.53 percentage points, out of a total of 8.27 million votes cast in Florida, with about 99 percent of the votes counted.

Maybe the major reason for the outcome of this US Presidential election is that Obama, regardless of the dire economic situation the US is facing, was awarded another 4 years for at least trying to create a more inclusive, fairer and progressive America.

An America which can focus with more urgency on the future and the challenges this represents in the area of the economy, education, health care, the environment, and alternative resources of energy.

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