Section 60 is reserved for military personnel who have lost their lives while fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq. Jill Biden, and the Biden family wave to the crowd as confetti rains down following the President's election night remarks at McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois, November 6, Washington Convention Center in Washington, D. The fair celebrates the student winners of a broad range of science, technology, engineering and math STEM competitions from across the country.
President Barack Obama listens through a door in the Green Room of the White House as Lilly Jay relates her experience as a sexual assault survivor during the launch of the "It's On Us" campaign, a new public awareness and action campaign designed to prevent sexual assault at colleges and universities, in the East Room, September 19, President Barack Obama talks on the phone with pastors who offer a birthday prayer during a call in the Oval Office, August 4, Vice President Joe Biden reviews his remarks with President Barack Obama before the Vice President announces that he will not be a candidate in the presidential campaign, in the Oval Office, October 21, Earlier in the day, North Korea conducted an artillery attack against the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong.
First Lady Michelle Obama waves before heading home after addressing the first four-year graduating class at the University of California, Merced in Merced, California, May 16, Obama delivered the commencement address after students made good on her challenge to do , hours of service in exchange for a graduation speech.
Piolin has one of the top radio shows in the country. First Lady Michelle Obama and Dr. The event was part of the launch of Joining Forces, a national initiative to support and honor America's service members and their families. First Lady Michelle Obama, Dr. Jill Biden, and Gen. During the event, a report was unveiled outlining opportunities and best practices for states to better support military spouses serving in professions with state licensure requirements.
First Lady Michelle Obama is picked up by U. The center supports wounded, ill, and injured troops, their families, and caregivers, as well as local active duty troops.
The event, hosted with the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, showcases the talents of students from schools participating in Turnaround Arts, a program to improve schools and increase student achievement through arts education. First Lady Michelle Obama delivers remarks to military children and families during a preview screening of a Veterans Day episode of Disney's "Doc McStuffins," that explores the emotions children face when a parent is deployed, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building South Court Auditorium, November 10, Honoree Al Green stands at right.
First Lady Michelle Obama hosts local students for a special reading of Dr. Daughters Malia and Sasha, Marian Robinson, and Bo, the Obama family dog, joined the President and First Lady on the balcony for the national anthem before participating in the activities on the South Lawn. Memorial in Washington, D. Roberts, Jr. John's Church in Washington, D. His margin of victory was down slightly from , making him the first president since Woodrow Wilson to be reelected by a smaller majority than in his first election.
Also disappointing to Obama, the House of Representatives remained in Republican control, by a margin to to Even though twenty-three of their seats were on the ballot in compared with only ten for the Republicans, the Democrats actually gained two seats in the election, raising their majority in the upper chamber to 55 to Still more important for the long term, Obama ran best among those groups in the electorate that were growing most rapidly: young people, single people, nonreligious people, Latinos, and Asian Americans.
Despite his victories, Obama began his second term with a very limited mandate. His campaign's one-word theme was content-free—Forward! The one specific issue Obama did stress on the campaign trail—his continuing desire to raise taxes on wealthy Americans—bore fruit one month after the election, when Congress voted to raise the marginal income tax rate from But during the campaign, he deemphasized other issues that were important to him but politically risky, including immigration reform, climate change, and gun control.
As in , voter turnout was considerably lower in than it had been two years previously: 34 percent in the lowest in a national election since compared with 58 percent in Because midterm electorates tend to have a higher concentration of the older and more conservative white voters who tend to favor Republican candidates, the Democrats were likely to suffer.
Adding to their disadvantage in the Senate elections was that Democrats held 21 of 36 seats on the ballot in , seven of them in states that Obama had lost to Romney.
Republicans gained nine seats in the Senate elections, the largest gain for any party since , and took away control of the chamber from the Democrats with a majority. They added two to their ranks of governors, leaving them in control of the executive in 31 states. They also won majorities in ten additional state legislative chambers, giving them control of 67 of The midterm election guaranteed that Obama spent the last two years of his presidency with a Republican Congress.
Although the 22nd Amendment barred Obama from seeking a third term as president in , he was intensely interested in seeing a Democrat succeed him, especially because all of the contenders for the Republican presidential nomination promised to seek the repeal of major parts of his legislative legacy if one of them was elected. Obama did not endorse either of the leading candidates for the Democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders, but he clearly favored Clinton as the most electable and privately discouraged Vice President Biden from entering the contest for fear of dividing his supporters between Biden and Clinton.
In the fall campaign, Obama campaigned ardently in multiple battleground states for Clinton and against the Republican nominee, Donald J. Grant Rutherford B. Hayes James A. Garfield Chester A.
Roosevelt Harry S. Truman Dwight D. Eisenhower John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Bush Bill Clinton George W. Help inform the discussion Support the Miller Center.
University of Virginia Miller Center. Barack Obama: Campaigns and Elections. Breadcrumb U. The Election President Obama entered the election year with job approval ratings that were dangerously low roughly 40 percent and an unemployment rate that was dangerously high more than 8 percent for an incumbent seeking reelection.
Barack Obama Essays Life in Brief. Life Before the Presidency. Campaigns and Elections Current Essay. Domestic Affairs. America is a generous country, people of great hearts. All three of us were lucky to be the president of this country. We are both trying to come back to normalcy, deal with totally abnormal challenges and do what we do best, which is try to make a more perfect union.
One of my fondest memories of the inauguration was the grace and generosity that President Bush showed me, and Laura Bush showed Michelle. It was a reminder that we can have fierce disagreements and yet recognise each other's common humanity and that as Americans we have more in common than what separates us," Obama said.
Biden's predecessor Donald Trump skipped the inauguration, a first since Richard Nixon in If Americans loved their neighbours like they loved themselves, a lot of the division that is there in society would end, Bush says, to which Clinton adds that everybody needs to get off their "high horse" and reach out to their friends and neighbours. And I wish you well," he says. President, I am pulling for your success.
Your success is our country's success," says Bush while Clinton says he is ready to march with Biden.
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