Vice President Joe Biden doesn’t seem to be trying too hard to keep his intentions of running for President in 2016 a secret, but it won’t be an easy run especially since he’s starting his bid four years too early and his own flaws aren’t even his biggest obstacle.
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Hillary Clinton made the list of Barbara Walters’ “Most Fascinating People of 2012″ and, of course, her political future was one of the many topics the two women discussed.
Clinton has already said she will step down as Secretary of State early next year, but will she run for President in 2016? Here’s what Hillary told Barbara:
After winning Tuesday night’s re-election bid, President Barack Obama sent out the following e-mail to supporters thanking them for their contributions to his campaign before giving his acceptance speech.
In the email he said:
I’m about to go speak to the crowd here in Chicago, but I wanted to thank you first.
I want you to know that this wasn’t fate, and it wasn’t an accident. You made this happen.
You organized yourselves block by block. You took ownership of this campaign five and ten dollars at a time. And when it wasn’t easy, you pressed forward.
I will spend the rest of my presidency honoring your support, and doing what I can to finish what we started.
But I want you to take real pride, as I do, in how we got the chance in the first place.
Today is the clearest proof yet that, against the odds, ordinary Americans can overcome powerful interests.
There’s a lot more work to do.
But for right now: Thank you.
Barack
Many political pundits called it, Tuesday night’s election hinged on Ohio. It was the Buckeye state that pushed President Barack Obama over the 270 electoral votes needed to win a second term in the White House.
As the night wound down, Mitt Romney’s chances of beating Obama kept looking slimmer and slimmer until just after 11pm when NBC News projected that the President had, in fact, been re-elected.
“We’re all in this together,” Barack Obama tweeted as he thanked supporters.
Beyond the Presidency, Democrats held on to their majority in the Senate as Republicans maintained theirs in Congress.
