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November 7, 2012
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Obama Wins 2nd Term
c o n t i n u e d f r o m front
land, M assachusetts, New Jer­
sey, Rhode Island, V erm ont and
the District o f Columbia.
The vote Tuesday m arked the
end o f a grueling race. For Obama,
the election is the last time his
name will appear on a ballot, or so
he claims. For Rom ney, the elec­
tion closed out a nearly six-year
run for the presidency. The Re­
publican nom inee ran unsuccess­
fully in 2008.
O bam a’s 2012 cam paign slo­
gan was forward! The race was
different from 2008, when Obam a
ran on a lofty m essage o f change
and leveraged voter dissatisfac-
tion with the G eorge W. Bush
adm inistration — and particularly
the war in Iraq - to defeat Repub­
lican nom inee John M cCain.
T h is tim e a ro u n d , e a c h
candidate's cam paign m essage
was bound to the state o f the
econom y, having suffered a re­
cession shortly before O bam a
to o k o ffic e . R o m n ey a rg u e d
forcefully that O bam a failed to
deliver the kind o f econom ic re­
bound that typically follow s a
dow nturn.
The Republican nom inee ac­
cused the president o f throwing
m oney at the problem w ith a
poorly designed stimulus, and then
abandoning the issue altogether
to focus on passing Obam aCare.
Rom ney argued that the health
care law, along with countless
regulations and an allegedly anti­
business attitude, all com bined to
stand in the way o f a full-throated
recovery.
Issues like the Libya terror at­
tack and the threat from Iran's
nuclear program brought foreign
p o lic y in to the m ix, but the
econom y rem ained central.
But O bam a argued all along
that, despite the slack in the sys­
tem, the country was m oving in
the right direction. He pointed to
recent econom ic reports, includ­
ing Labor Departm ent data show ­
ing the jobless rate falling below 8
percent for the first time since he
took office, as signs that the
e co n o m y w as im p ro v in g and
would get better over time.
He w a rn ed th a t R o m n e y ’s
agenda — which he described as
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W ells Fargo is also donating $1 million, which
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Contractor Certification Workshop
Certification is the first step to working with the
State of Oregon as a contractor. To learn more, the
public is invited to learn about working with the state,
the procurement system and the Oregon Minority,
Women and Emerging Small Businesses certification
process at a workshop hosted by the Office o f Equity
and Inclusion at the Multnomah County Board Room,
501 S.E. Hawthorne Blvd., on Friday, Nov. 16 at
9:30 a.m. Space is limited. Email Helen Hoang at
helen.h.hoang@state.or.us to register.
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tax breaks for the rich and give­
aways to corporations — would
only reprise the "failed" econom ic
policies o f the prior adm inistra­
tion which he claim ed led to the
recession.
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