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On November 6, 2012, Obama was re-elected for his second term as President of the United States. He won 65,915,795 popular votes and 332 electoral votes, with two states fewer than in his 2008 victory. In his victory speech in Chicago, he promised to "sit down with" Mitt Romney to discuss a bipartisan future for the United States. [47]
Obama sought re-election for a second term in 2012, running virtually unopposed in the Democratic primaries. His opponent in the general election was former governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney. Obama won 332 electoral votes, defeating Romney who gained 206.
All four major candidates for president and vice president went on to hold significant public office after this election. Obama served his second term as president, while Biden also served his second term as vice president and initially retired from politics but was later elected president in 2020, defeating Obama's successor, then-incumbent ...
The 2012 United States elections took place on November 6, 2012.Democratic President Barack Obama won reelection to a second term and the Democrats gained seats in both chambers of Congress, retaining control of the Senate even though the Republican Party retained control of the House of Representatives.
After winning re-election by defeating Republican opponent Mitt Romney, Obama was sworn in for a second term on January 20, 2013. During this term, he condemned the 2013 Snowden leaks as unpatriotic, but called for more restrictions on the National Security Agency (NSA) to address privacy issues.
After all, he's predicting that President Obama will cruise to reelection in 2012. However, Fair has a good track record of predicting presidential outcomes based on his
Won 41 percent of the vote in West Virginia for second place, [6] [34] [35] [36] qualifying him for several delegates, which the West Virginia Democratic Party stripped due to his lack of a delegate slate. [37] Filed with the FEC to run as an Independent candidate on October 10, 2012. [38] WV 73,138 (0.89 percent overall) [6] Jim Rogers Born 1935
Q: Why can't Obama run again? A: The majority of U.S. presidents have only served two terms.The rule against a third term was informally instituted by President George Washington, who openly ...