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Category: History & Society
Date:
November 6, 2012
Participants:
Barack Obama
Joe Biden
Mitt Romney
Paul Ryan
Key People:
Chris Christie
Herman Cain
Rick Santorum
Paul Ryan
Gary Johnson
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American voters went to the polls on November 6, 2012, to determine—for the 57th time—their country’s president for the next four years. Incumbent Democratic President Barack Obama’s reelection bid was, from the outset, expected to be closely contested as the United States faced a number of challenges, most notably a struggling economy. After tumultuous primaries, Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts, was nominated by the Republican Party as its presidential candidate. On election night, television networks and media organizations projected a wide victory in the electoral college for Obama; the results of the popular vote, however, proved to be much ...(100 of 662 words)

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