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Why Republicans should have won the election
THE FIX | How shifting demographics across the country left the Republican Party fighting the last political war in 2012.
Dan Balz
Obama’s reelection, by the numbers
THE TAKE | On Tuesday night, as much as anything, numbers told a story of how President Obama won a second term despite a climate that had long favored Mitt Romney and the Republicans.
Dan Balz
Can the same president build a new landscape?
THE TAKE | After a long and arduous campaign, a newly reelected President Obama confronts his next challenge: binding together a deeply divided nation and turning from campaigning to governing.
Dan Balz
After election, a time to ask, ‘What if?’
THE TAKE | Politics, like so much in life, can be haunted by questions of what could have been.
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