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Factors that led prez to victory

US President Barack Obama confounded political logic by triumphing over a sluggish economy to win a second term in office. Here are some of the keys to Obama's win over Republican Mitt Romney.

Updated on: Nov 08, 2012 02:42 AM IST
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US President Barack Obama confounded political logic by triumphing over a sluggish economy to win a second term in office.

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A grueling and often unpleasant campaign yielded, in the end, a decisive victory, built on the strong foundations laid down months ago by his crack campaign team.

Here are some of the keys to Obama's win over Republican Mitt Romney.

The economy was just good enough
The economy, despite tepid growth rates and high unemployment, was not bad enough to doom Obama, and he appears to have finally received belated credit for halting the slide into a second Great Depression.

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