Obama's Fractious Campaign Creates Toxic Environment For Bipartisanship By Victor Davis Hanson

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Investors Business Daily:

Barack Obama won a moderately close victory over Mitt Romney on Tuesday. But oddly, nothing much has changed. The country is still split nearly 50/50. There is still a Democratic president, and an almost identically Democratic Senate at war with an identically Republican House, in a Groundhog Day America.

Obama's win did not really reflect affirmation of his first term, given that the president made only halfhearted efforts to defend ObamaCare, the stimulus, huge Keynesian deficits and his attempts to implement cap-and-trade.

So if there is a second-term agenda, even Obama supporters don't quite know what it will be

Unlike the hope-and-change campaign of 2008, Obama this time around ran on the theme that George W. Bush had been awful and Mitt Romney would be far worse — spending almost $1 billion to brand the latter as a veritable felon who callously let people suffer without health insurance.

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Given what we know oh Obama's background, and how he ran his 1st administration....what leads people to believe he has any interest in working with Republicans?

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As many on our side say - bipartisanship is caving in to their agenda - not combining the two. I am afraid that he won't be bipartisan but we will. If the electorate is evenly split and they are representing US, then they SHOULD represent us by not caving to their definition of 'working together'.