November 7th, 2012
05:51 PM ET
Foiled WH arrival plans According to multiple WH aides, White House staff planned to assemble on the South Lawn to greet President Obama as he returned this evening but the arrival has now been changed due to weather, as pool has noted. POTUS will arrive by motorcade instead of chopper and that means only a limited pool of reporters get to see him come in and staff members who were looking forward to welcoming him home, no doubt with cheers, will not get to do so. Fair to say some disappointed folks here at the White House.
November 7th, 2012
12:10 PM ET
Analysis: Obama's new Democratic majorityWashington (CNN) - If you want to understand the historical magnitude of President Obama's re-election victory, start with this fact: He lost the white vote by 20 points. In 1988, Mike Dukakis lost white voters by 19 points. He was crushed in a 40-state landslide. Obama's victory is a testament to a changing America. The president won a second term in the face of a weak economy by reassembling the bulk of his 2008 coalition: Hispanics, African-Americans, younger voters and single women. Mitt Romney's support was older, whiter, and more Protestant than the president's - a faded shadow of a time gone by. It also bore a striking resemblance to Sen. John McCain's coalition four years ago.
November 7th, 2012
12:03 PM ET
'Time for governing:' Obama's re-election puts 'forward' to the test(CNN) - Democrats are collecting spoils beyond what many predicted, Republicans are licking wounds after a bruising battle, and the country is waking up to the mix of euphoric celebration and bitter disappointment that accompanies the long-awaited end of the election. But in the lightning speed world of today's politics, the hours since President Barack Obama's re-election victory have allowed the conversation to shift - from what happened to what's next. "Tonight you voted for action, not politics as usual," Obama said in his rousing victory speech after winning all or virtually all of the key swing states - only Florida remains unknown - in a sweeping electoral victory and decisive popular win. 
November 7th, 2012
12:00 PM ET
Obama to return to the White HouseThe president will return to the White House from Chicago at 5:30 p.m. ET. |
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