A bluer America

American voters have returned President Barack Obama to office in an election far closer than it need have been. Mr Obama’s Republican opponent, Mitt Romney, was handicapped by the radical, reactionary views that currently dominate that party. Mr Romney was also handicapped by his divisive record as a successful private equity executive, and because of the not unfair impression that he found it impossible to sympathise with – or even understand – the “47 per cent” of America less fortunate than the half to which he himself belonged.

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