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From January 3 to June 5, 2012, voters of the Democratic Party chose its nominee for president in the 2012 United States presidential election.President Barack Obama won the Democratic Party nomination by securing more than the required 2,383 delegates on April 3, 2012, after a series of primary elections and caucuses.
Incumbent President Barack Obama won the nomination unanimously at the 2012 Democratic National Convention and was re-elected as president in the general election by defeating Republican nominee Mitt Romney. As expected for the incumbent president, Obama won every primary election, but faced more difficulty than projected. Fifteen additional ...
Independent candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Florida, 2010; Announced his candidacy October 26, 2011. [15] Paid $8,125 for ballot access. [16] Had his strongest showing in the Oklahoma primary, where he won 6.36 percent of the total. Suspended his campaign in April 2012 prior to the Texas primary. [17] NH, [18] MO, OK, LA, TX
By the end of March 2012, Obama's lead over Romney had narrowed to approximately 2.4% (46.6–44.2) nationally. [78] An August 2012 CNN/ORC poll found that Obama led Romney 52% to 45%. [79] A Fox News poll conducted nearly the same time placed the two candidates 49% to 40%, with Obama in the lead. [80]
Obama's vote total was the fourth most votes received in the history of presidential elections (behind Obama's 2008 victory and both major candidates in 2020) and the most ever for a reelected president. The 2012 election marked the first time since 1988 in which no state was won by a candidate with a plurality of the state's popular vote.
By JON C. OGG The election has come and gone: On Tuesday, President Obama won a second term, and the balance of power in Congress didn't shift too much either way. Now, the many investors who were ...
American Catholics: A History of the Roman Catholic Community in the United States (Oxford University Press, 1981), puts politics in context of social history. online; Heyer, Kristin E., Mark J. Rozell, and Michael A. Genovese, eds. Catholics and politics: The dynamic tension between faith and power (Georgetown University Press, 2008). online
Joe Biden – Roman Catholic [124] Biden is a lifelong Catholic, with Reuters describing his religious beliefs as "well-known and documented". [125] Catholic social teaching has been cited as a major influence on his political views. [126] In 2008, he was reported to regularly attend Sunday Mass at St. Joseph on the Brandywine in Greenville ...