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President Barack Obama stands on stage at the election night party Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012, in Chicago. Obama defeated Republican challenger former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. (photo credit:AP/Carolyn Kaster)
November 7, 2012, 11:33 am
Obama victorious despite the shadow of difficult times
After leading the country during high unemployment and the most serious economic strife since the Great Depression, president given 4 more years in the White House
By Steven R. Hurst
David Harris, the president of the National Jewish Democratic Council, speaking to a British journalist outside the NJDC bus in Charlotte N.C., Sept. 3 (photo credit: Ron Kampeas/JTA)
November 7, 2012, 11:16 am
Obama wins big among Jews, with 69%-30% victory over Romney
Despite millions of dollars spent and unprecedented grass-roots work by Republican Jewish groups, exit polls of Jewish voters show only slight decline in support for Democrats
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Barack Obama in New York, September 21, 2011 (photo credit: Avi Ohayon/GPO/Flash90)
November 7, 2012, 10:58 am
For Obama and Netanyahu, four more years of mutual dislike and suspicion? Not so fast
The two leaders are unlikely to suddenly become best buddies, but history has defied conventional wisdom more than once about which US presidents are good or bad for Israel
By Raphael Ahren
US Ambassador to Israel, Daniel Shapiro, at a conference in Jerusalem, September 6, 2011 (photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90)
November 7, 2012, 10:10 am
Will second-term Obama get back at Netanyahu? Not a chance, says US ambassador
President is a strategic, not emotional thinker, says Dan Shapiro; calls Palestinian UN bid 'a mistake'
By Elhanan Miller and TOI staff
US President Barack Obama delivers his victory speech in Chicago, Wednesday Nov. 7 (screen capture: Channel 2)
November 7, 2012, 9:29 am
Full text of Barack Obama’s victory speech
US president thanks all those who helped get him reelected and seeks to begin healing a nation divided by politics
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, waves as he gives his concession speech at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center on Wednesday, November 7, 2012 (photo credit: AP Photo/Don Emmert, Pool)
November 7, 2012, 9:06 am
Romney: ‘This is a time of great challenges’
GOP presidential candidate strikes note of bipartisanship in concession speech
President Barack Obama speaks at a campaign event at City Park in Denver in October (photo credit: AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
November 7, 2012, 8:30 am
Obama powers to re-election after history’s costliest campaign
At the end of a nasty and close race, Americans choose the president they know over the businessman they don't
By David Espo
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach. (photo credit: Courtesy)
November 7, 2012, 8:05 am
Jewish candidates fail to unseat Democrats in New Jersey and Ohio
Democrats Lois Frankel and Alan Grayson win big in Florida
An illustrative image of a joint session of US Congress in May 2012 (photo credit: Lawrence Jackson/White House)
November 7, 2012, 7:31 am
Obama wins but Washington remains unchanged
If president cannot end gridlock, his second term will be reduced to veto threats, empty promises, end runs around Congress and legacy-sealing forays into foreign lands
By Ben Feller
President Barack Obama outside a campaign office on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
November 7, 2012, 6:48 am
Reelection appears certain for Obama
With projected win in Ohio, president's stay in the White House seems assured
By David Espo
A voter heads to a polling place in New Jersey on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, as Americans choose their next president. (photo credit: AP)
November 7, 2012, 4:58 am
Race tight, but Obama looking good
President leads in Northeast, Romney in Midwest -- but several swing states still too close to call
By David Espo
Voters check in before casting their ballots under a tent at a consolidated polling station for residents of the Rockaways on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, in the Queens borough of New York. (Photo credit: Jason DeCrow/AP)
November 7, 2012, 2:15 am
In states hit by Sandy, voters insist on finding ways to polls
'A lot of people died for the right to vote, so we better exercise it'
By Beth Fouhy and Maryclare Dale
Five Jewish women at the Bagel Tree cafe in Delray Beach said they firmly support President Obama's re-election. (Ben Harris/JTA)
November 7, 2012, 1:26 am
Florida’s much-discussed Jewish voters finally have their say
They mostly favor Obama, but on one topic, they all agree: They're ready for this election to be over
By Ben Harris
Behind a sign barring loaded firearms in the building, people stand in line to cast their votes on Election Day at a precinct at the Wake County Firearms Education and Training Center in Apex, N.C., Nov. 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
November 7, 2012, 12:29 am
The battle for the Jewish exit poll begins
Even before voting was over, Democrats were challenging how Republicans count Jewish votes
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Speaker John Boehner presents his ID at a polling station in Ohio, Tuesday (photo credit: Al Behrman/AP)
November 6, 2012, 10:59 pm
Polling stations across the US report voting problems
Tens of thousands complain of complications and errors, including from battleground states of Florida, Pennsylvania and Ohio
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